Corporacin Universitaria Minuto de Dios

Licenciatura en Idioma Extranjero Ingls

Lesson Plan
Teachers name
Juan Sebastian Guevara H.
Danna Melissa Peralta
Grade
Class Level
4th -5th

Class length
115 mins

Date

Topic

Intermediate

Scanning articles!

Learning objective

Nr of session
2
Language
Skills
Reading

Personal aim

1.

Students will be able to identify the main

features of an article by means of the scanning
strategy.

Materials and Resources1

http://whatilikedthemost.foroactivo.com/
http://www.examenglish.com/FCE/writing_an_articl
e.html
https://bubbl.us/
https://wideo.co/en/login

1.

I will guide Ss through a

scaffolded series of steps which
will guide them to use the
strategy in a different kind of
text.

Bibliography
Article:
http://www.timeforkids.com/co
ntent/tfk-top-stories-10-27-16

Anticipated problems (linguistic,

behavioural, situational)
1. Students might get confused with the
applications features and steps.

Planned Solutions

Learners expected output

Ss will identify keywords in a different kind
of text.
Ss will find answers, about a text, in a fast
and precise way.

Learners expected comprehensible input

Ss will have information about how to find
answers, in a different kind of text, in a fast
and precise way

Stage

Tim
e2

Interacti
on

Opening

15

T-Ss

1.

Students can watch the next tutorial

videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=FCHGTpm6_Zo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=RI9etUiR224 or write to the teachers
mails during the corresponding week.

Detailed description of Activities, Procedures,

Teaching techniques, Grouping, Materials, and
Instructions script3
Ss visit the next forum. There, they are supposed
to write about what they liked the most about the
last reading (Dinosaurs). As they did in the last
lesson, they have to log in by means of their user
names and passwords. Also, Ss have to include
their email addresses
http://whatilikedthemost.foroactivo.com/

Advisors
comments

Attached the materials used in this lesson: hand-outs, flashcards, tests, etc.
Set the time in not more than 10 minutes for each activity, not for the whole stage.
3
Do not use a single paragraph for describing the whole stage. Instead number each activity of the
stage and describe it thoroughly.
2

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Licenciatura en Idioma Extranjero Ingls
Presentati
on (Pre)

30

Guided
practice
(While)

20

Ssmateri
al

1. Ss are going to use the scanning strategy in a

different kind of reading: The article. As a first
step, they have to write the main characteristics
of an article in a mind map. For that reason, the
next tools are needed:
A. To find information about what an article is:
http://www.examenglish.com/FCE/writing_an_a
rticle.html. Ss are supposed to find the main
characteristics of this kind of text.
B. To create the mind map: https://bubbl.us/ (Ss
create their own accounts and watch the
suggested tutorial of needed).
Name of the reading: Lady libertine turns 130!
Scanning steps:
Identify the keywords in the questions
Find the keywords in the text
Answer.
By means of the main steps of scanning, Ss scan the
article Lady libertine turns 130 (Found in
http://www.timeforkids.com/content/tfk-topstories-10-27-16). First, in a piece of paper, Ss
circle the keywords in the next questions (Keywords,
in this case, are NAMES-DATES-NUMBERS AND WH
QUESTIONS)
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.

Where is the libertine statue?

When is her birthday?
What does it represents?
How tall is the statue?
What is planned for the statue?

Second, Ss read the text and find the keywords (Or

similar words) in the text. Finally, Ss answer the
questions (Piece of paper) by using the information
obtained with the keywords.
Task (post)

30

The answers are showed in a video that Ss design by

means of the next application:
https://wideo.co/en/login (Ss create their own
accounts and watch the suggested tutorial of
needed).
There, Ss are supposed to show creativity and the
information obtained in the previous step.
The video is uploaded to

Assessmen
t

20

Each one of the Ss receives one of their partners

videos (Via email. It is sent by the teacher who
received the information in the forum). They have to
check if the answers are correct or not, and if the
video shows creativity and the kind of keywords
needed. Corrections and right answers score are sent
to the teachers email in a word doc.

Corporacin Universitaria Minuto de Dios

Licenciatura en Idioma Extranjero Ingls