Lesson plan

LESSON PLAN FORM

Name: Yonatan Acero Ruiz Institution: Center of City: Acacías

interests UNAD

Date: November 24 Time: From 10:00 am Length: 2 hours

-12:00 pm

Grade: First Age: 20- Level: Elem/Pre-int CEF level: A1/ A2

semesters of LILE. 45
Communicative purpose of the lesson: What will learners be better able to do by
the end of the lesson?

 Students are able to listen to a song and understand the main idea.

 Students also are able to speak about the context of some pictures.

 Students are able to learn new vocabulary to describe a picture.

What skills: (speaking, listening, reading, and writing) will you practice?
What language (grammar, vocabulary, functional expressions) will you focus
on?

 To play a video about how to describe a picture for helping the students to
improve their listening skill.

 To study a list of vocabulary for describing a picture.

 To write some sentences about the description of some pictures to improve

writing and reading skills.

 To describe and speculate about some pictures to practice the speaking

skill.
Standard(s): Copy here the appropriate standards from the National standards
booklet (note the competence Nos.)

• Solicito a mi profesor y a mis compañeros que me aclaren una duda o me

expliquen algo sobre lo que hablamos. 2, 3.

• Mantengo una conversación simple en inglés con un compañero cuando

desarrollo una actividad de aula. 1, 2

Topic: What the lesson is about (e.g. Shopping)

Description

Materials: List any worksheets you use and pages from other books (e.g.
Hadfield, J. 1990. ‘Elementary Communication Games’. Nelson. Page 24.).
Include copies of your materials with the plan.

Useful vocabulary for describing

Class profile (50 - 75 words) Describe your students (For how long have your
students been learning English? What are the things that interest them? etc.)

 They are students from first semesters of LILE that have been studying
English for 1 or 2 years around, they have an A1 and A2 English level. On
the other hand, they have showed interest to improve their learning skills, so
they want to learn some strategies and methods to apply in English classes.
How this lesson will meet their needs? What do the students know in order to cope
with your lesson? How is this lesson connected to the previous one and to the
next? (50-75 words)

 This lesson will help students to improve their four skills, students know
useful vocabulary to express their ideas and they are able to learn new
vocabulary because they are able to describe a picture. So, this lesson is
linked with the last and next lesson, because they have studied in different
tenses and they will be able to speak, listen, writing and reading developing
different activities improving their knowledge for the next class.
Personal aims: What aspects of your own teaching will you develop in this lesson?

• To develop an equitable class according to the students´ participation.

• To create an enjoyable class making students feel comfortable.

Connection to other subjects in the school curriculum (e.g. Social studies)

Natural sciences

Social sciences

Complete Sections A, B, C & D as appropriate, depending if you are focusing

on grammar, function, vocabulary and/or skills in your lesson

A. Skills lessons

Complete this section if your lesson is to develop reading, listening, speaking or

writing

Skill to develop

Writing

Speaking

Reading

Listening

Type of text (e.g. describing some pictures)

Description and speculation of some pictures using strategic sentences.

B. Vocabulary: Complete notes below on you will focus on

Vocabulary item (note How will you clarify meaning?

spelling and
pronunciation)

Balloon Image
 Image
Horse saddle

Image
Sunset

Image
Castle

Image
Helmet

Image
Pumpkins

C. Language Analysis page: Complete this section if you are focusing on grammar or
function

Substitution table for the grammar/function: Write here at least two examples of
model sentences in the form of a substitution table.

On the right in my view point

Describing on the right, There are two men wearing

red jackets.

Speculation in my point of view maybe they are siblings.

Meaning of the grammar/function: What use are you focusing on in this lesson?

Present, present continuous, past, past participle, present perfect, past perfect,
present perfect continuous tenses for describing a picture.

Checking meaning: write here concept questions or a timeline you will use to
check meaning

To make meaningful supports for students (students write and read the description
of some pictures)

What do you think about thinking and speaking in English describing a picture at
the same time?

Highlighting pronunciation; What do you need to highlight? (Contractions, stress

etc.)

 Sentences stress in some words.

  The correct use of some irregular verbs in past tense.

D. Anticipated problems. Complete this section for all lessons:

Anticipated problems Planned solutions

Include problems of: Meaning, Form,

Pron, Management

 Students don’t have a general  Give some important tips to

idea about how to describe a describe a picture.
picture in an orderly manner.
 Share a vocabulary sheet to use
while students make a description.

 Most of the students describe  To show them other useful and

the pictures using basic and technical words for improve their
common vocabulary. vocabulary for describing a picture.

 Students forget to use the  Remember frequently the

vocabulary for describing a importance of using the vocabulary
picture. for describing a picture.

Stage Time & Aim Procedure

Interaction
(Teacher and student activity)

The aim of What the teacher says What the student says
the stage and does and does.

Warm up To improve (the teacher pays Ok, teacher.

some abilities attention to the students´
(5 mins) for teaching explanation about a topic Teacher, I didn´t catch the
English. chosen by themselves) last word.

To improve
students´
speaking, The objective of this class
writing, is to improve the
listening and listening, writing, reading
reading and speaking skills.
through You’re going to learn
 Goals pictures some tips to do a picture (Students listen to the
descriptions. description and you’re goals for the class to
5 mins going to improve your understand the dynamic
To give some vocabulary about this of the activities and to
tips to the one. increase their interests).
students about
how describe a Finally, you’re going to
picture. show at the end of the
class through a test your
To improve the learnt knowledge about
students´ the topic.
vocabulary.

To give some (Students watch the video

ideas through a and write some
video sentences and share
explaining how them).
describe a
picture. First of able, I am going In this picture I can see
to play a video about how on the left a big tree, in
To encourage describe a picture. the middle of the picture
students to see there is a car, etc.
and to write Then I will show you
some different pictures for each (After to study the useful
Presentation1
sentences one of you and you will vocabulary for a picture
5 mins describing a write and share some description, students
picture. sentences describing describe and speculate
your own picture. about some other
To practice the pictures).
reading skill After that, I will give some
reading some tips through a vocabulary In the picture there is a
features about sheet to review and to landscape with some
a picture. improve your knowledge. animals, in the
background there are
To learn new some clouds and in the
vocabulary for foreground there is a
describing a river. Besides, I am going
picture. to figure out what are
happening in this
picture…….
 After to share the
previous description, you
are going to describe I understood the dynamic
some other pictures but but I don’t know how to
in this time you have to say some words.
To improve describe the pictures as What can I say delantal?
speaking and soon I show you.
listening skills (After to clarify the
through the I will give you some meaning of some
description of possible unknown words unknown words, students
Presentation 2 some pictures. about each picture and start to describe and to
don’t forget to use these speculate about some
5 mins To evaluate ones and the previous pictures).
students´ vocabulary for describing
learning a picture. “I can see in this picture,
through a test. two men in a bus stop,
Finally, I have design a maybe they are waiting
test to evaluate your the bus to go to work”.
knowledge about the
study topic “describing a
picture”. Have a good
luck.

To give a clear Say to the students to Students write and read

example of write and read some the sentences about the
Demonstration what students sentences describing a picture.
10 mins have to do picture.
“I can see in this picture,
two men in a bus stop,
maybe they are waiting
the bus to go to work”.

Watch the video.

Look at the picture, write

and read your sentences
about the picture
Instructions So that the description. In this picture I can see
students know Review the sheet with the on the left a car, on the
5 mins what to do. right I see a bus stop and
vocabulary for describing
in the middle I can see
 the picture and try to use two men.
it and your descriptions.

Take the test, please. 15

minutes, go.

Activity To show Teacher monitors Students watch the video.

students what
60 mins is the dynamic After 10 mins. ‘Stop!’ Now Then, they write and read
of the activity. let’s start¡ who wants to their description about the
start? video.

Ask one child to describe

and speculate about a
picture.
Feedback To provide Could you describe and
 Describe and
feedback speculate about this speculate about this
15 mins picture?
picture.

(s) He makes a Yes, I could. No, I couldn

description and a ´t.
speculation of a picture.

Conclusions To give some Students paid attention to The activity was

suggestions the explanation and interesting and I think we
10 mins about the followed the given improved our listening,
description of instructions using the writing, reading and
the pictures. vocabulary for describing speaking skills because
a picture. to describe and to
speculate about a picture
They must try to speak force us to think and to
more fluency and to use speak in English.
suitable vocabulary for
describing a topic.

SELF EVALUATION FORM

(Please complete all parts of this form after teaching your lesson)
1. Were your lesson aims achieved? What evidence can I show to prove this?

Since my viewpoint, I think students achieved the aims of the class because they were
able to describe some pictures in two minutes bearing in mind the most relevant ideas
and they made a good use of the useful vocabulary for a general description of a
common image. There are some videos where some students describe some pictures.

2. Were your personal aims achieved? What evidence can I show to prove this?

Yes, I gave students different explanations about how to describe a picture, I played a
video, then I described a picture like an example, I gave them some tips to use useful
words for describing a common picture and they showed have learnt, I noticed they
were interested in the topic, thus, they made a good description of different images. as a
conclusion I think I achieved my aims.

In the previous videos you can watch the description of some picture by the students.

3. Which stages and activities went well? Why did they go well? Give evidence!
First of all, they were able to write a paragraph for describing the first picture. Then
they did a description of the last pictures because they understood the explanation and
the general idea of the topic. Then, they used a useful vocabulary and supposed about
the situations expressed by each picture. After that, they most of them showed their
learning describing with fluency other pictures.

4. Which stages and activities did not go as well as they could have? Why not?
Give evidence!

Although I knew most of the students were going to make some mistakes in the
description of the first images, and they also were not going to use most of the useful
vocabulary for the descriptions. Their first descriptions surprised me, because they
started to describe those picture in a disorder way, they didn’t follow the instructions by
the video and didn’t use at least two useful words seen in the explanation so finally, I
had to remind them how and when to use them.

5. What areas in your teaching would you like to work on in future lessons?

I would like to work on in the writing and listening skills because they showed some
mistakes in their grammar and I noticed that they didn’t know some important words of
the video that facilitated the understanding of the general idea of this one.

Probably I will develop a test where they have to watch some videos and they have to
write a paragraph talking about what they had watched, and they also will have to write
the description of some images with coherent ideas.

6. How can I learn about the areas which I want to improve?

Something important to bear in mind is that if I want to learn about specific areas and
improve about them. First I have to create some aims and to focus in them, I have to
think how I am going to achieve those objectives and to know the reasons which I am
doing that effort.

I consider necessary spend more time practicing and developing some activities about
that specific area. Therefore, its important maintain myself in the learning zone and
avoid to be in the performance zone that many times the last one makes losing time.