Lesson Plan Template for Content-Based Instruction

Teachers Name: Lauren Caldwell, Naomi Phan Date: 6/13-19

Grade/Class/Subject: High school, 1st/2nd grades Time Period: 50 minutes
Unit/ Topic: Captions Lesson Title: Caption Contest!

Content Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will (know and do):
The students will be able to come up with quick creative captions for pictures, in the correct tense for the question
asked.

Language Objectives:
Form
Function
(grammatical term and/or example, eg. Past Tense: The boy went to
(in ing form, eg. Retelling a story )
see his grandfather;)
1) -ed form, as well as irregular past tense verbs. Past Tense: What did the gray cat do to the orange cat?
Telling what happened before the action in the
picture.
2) -ing form. Telling what is currently happening in Present Tense: What is the dog thinking right now?
the picture.
3) The words will, and next. Telling what will happen Future Tense: What will happen to the lion next?
after the action in the picture.
Review Vocabulary New Vocabulary Signal Words
(vocabulary that may need to be taught or
(previously taught vocabulary that students likely (new vocabulary to be explicitly taught that is
emphasized that link concepts in meaningful
need review of) critical to an understanding of the content)
ways, such as conjunctions and time markers)
Past, present and future tense. Caption. First
Creative. Next
Water buffalo. Last, but not least

By the end of the lesson, students will (do X function using Y form with Z vocabulary):
By the end of the lesson, students will tell what happened in the picture, using past tense in the caption that they made.
By the end of the lesson, students will tell what is happening in the picture, using the present tense in the caption that they made.
By the end of the lesson, students will tell what will happen after the action in the picture, using the past tense in the caption they
made.

Special Cross-Cultural Considerations: Include here anything relevant to culture that you will either incorporate as
part of your lesson or that you need to be attuned to in terms of your students background to ensure a lesson that is
culturally responsive.
We know that the girls like cute animals, so we included a lot of cute animal pictures. We wanted to somehow
include K-dramas or K-pop, but we were afraid that they would get too excited and not be able to focus on the lesson
at hand.
Materials: Include here all the materials that you need, including textbook titles and the page numbers you will
refer to.

Powerpoint, laminated pictures, sticky notes, sticky tabs, white board, white board markers, video, and STICKERS.

Lesson Sequence: This may be adjusted as necessary to accommodate unique lesson plan features. For each
step, explain what the teacher will do, the expectation of what the students will do, and how long the stage should
take.

I. MOTIVATION: Describe how you will build content background and introduce the specific language functions/forms that
you will target.

TIME: ___5 minutes___________

The teacher will(specifically what the teacher does)
Explain what captions are and the rules for the game.
Also, asking students if they can define certain words, as
well giving the students a chance to say certain words by
asking them to repeat.
The students will (specifically what the students should do
in response to what the teacher does)
Listen intently to what the teacher is saying, define the words
the teachers ask them to, and repeat the words they are
asked to.

Formative Assessment (How will you gauge whether or not students are connecting to the background the teacher is providing?):
Asking the students to define certain words to gauge how much prior knowledge students have on the subject. Also,
asking them to repeat the words to make sure they understand what is being said.

II. PRESENTATION: Describe the specific techniques you will use to make your presentation of new content and linguistic
material comprehensible to students, to provide opportunities for interaction through appropriate questioning, to engage learner
strategies, and to assess whether or not students are getting it.

TIME: ____7 minutes__________

The teacher will(specifically what the teacher does)
The teacher will give examples for what the students
should be doing in the activity, and then ask if the
students can do the same thing with different pictures.
The students will (specifically what the students should do
in response to what the teacher does)
The students will give their ideas for the captions for the
pictures we show them on the board.

Formative Assessment (How will you gauge whether or not students are comprehending/using the targeted language forms as
presented?):
If the students can come up with captions for the pictures we show them, then they understand what we are asking
them to do.
III. PRACTICE/APPLICATION: Describe the activities you will use to allow for meaningful practice targeting the lessons
objectives, the learner strategies you will engage, and the formative assessment you will provide to gauge whether or not
students practice is moving them along closer to the target)

TIME: _____30 minutes_________

The teacher will(specifically what the teacher does)
The teacher will show the students the pictures and
ask them to come up with captions in groups, then ask
the students to go around the room and read their
caption aloud. Repeat two more times. During the
thinking process, the teachers will also go around and
help groups that are having trouble, as well as check
their sentences for grammatical correctness and tense.
The students will (specifically what the students should do
in response to what the teacher does)
In groups, students will come up with captions, and then
go around the room reading them aloud. Students will ask
any questions they have in order to get the sentences
correct. Repeat two more times.

Formative Assessment (How you will gauge whether or not students practice is moving them closer toward achieving the objective
in a meaningful way?)
Walking around and checking the students sentences, as well as having them read their sentences aloud.

EXTENSION: Describe the student-centered activities you will use for students to further apply language skills toward
greater mastery of the targeted content and language objectives, either independently or with a group. This should be an
opportunity for developing higher-order thinking skills and using language in communicative ways.

TIME: ____8 minutes__________

The teacher will(specifically what the teacher does)
The teacher will ask the students to vote for their
favorite caption under the picture assigned to their
table for voting.
The students will (specifically what the students should do
in response to what the teacher does)
The students will vote on their favorite caption without
voting for themselves.

Summative Assessment (Describe the ways in which you plan to determine whether or not students achieved the content and language
objectives for the lesson. Be specific in terms of not only what the students will do to demonstrate their knowledge and skills, but how you will evaluate
what they produce.):
The students casting their votes for their favorite captions in our summative assessment. We think
that being able to vote shows that they understand what happened in the class up until that point.