Time and length of lesson 9am - 10am, one hour Pre-intermediate Level of class (eg Beginner) Number of students 12 8-10 years old taking part in a 6 week summer school Make-up of the class (eg age, Multi-national strength / weaknesses, Mixed abilities (not same knowledge of vocabulary and grammar) nationalities, mixed abilities) Aims of the lesson Students will learn weather vocabulary Secondary aims of the lesson Students will be able to: ask about the weather describe the weather Anticipated difficulties 1. Students don’t know weather vocabulary beforehand. 2. Shy student. 3. Sleepy student. 4. Students take longer time for the activities. 1. Strategies to overcome 1. When I planned the lesson plans for the 6 weeks of the summer school, I difficulties included reference to some weather related words. 2. I will pair a shy student with someone extrovert. 3. In case there is a sleepy student, I will try to energise the class with some stretching exercise. 4. Regarding time, I wouldn’t disclose how much time is allocated for each activity. In worst case scenario, I will cut the cooler activity.
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Materials to be used Whiteboard Flashcards: https://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/sites/kids/files/attachment/ flashcards-weather.pdf Worksheet: https://www.teach-this.com/images/resources/whats-the-weather- like.pdf
Timing Stage / Procedure Interaction Reason for doing the
activity 5 minutes Warmer T-S To check the level of Ask students what season vocabulary knowledge of they like best and see if they the students and to elicit can explain why. If certain some of the vocabulary vocabulary words come up, write them on the whiteboard. 10 minutes Presentation T-S To introduce the vocabulary Introduce your weather of the lesson to the students related vocabulary using and for them to start weather flashcards. Drill practise the pronunciation these new words using and use of them choral repetition first and then call on students to say them individually. 10 minutes Practice S-S For the students to practise Divide students into pairs. using the words they have
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Give each student a just learned and for the corresponding worksheet. teacher to make sure that Tell the students not to the students understand the show their worksheet to vocabulary their partner. Ask the students to look at the pictures and complete the sentences with the weather words from the box. When the students have finished, check the answers with the class. 20 minutes Production S-S Students are given the Focus the students’ chance to have simple attention on the chart. Tell dialogue on the topic, using the students that they are the vocabulary they have going to complete the just learned with the goal to missing information in the fill in the chart. chart by asking and answering questions and discussing with their partner. Go through the example questions on the worksheet with the class. Check whether the students
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know how to answer the questions by reminding them of the structure used in the sentences at the first exercise. The students then ask and answer questions and complete their charts with the missing information. When the students have finished, they compare their charts to check if they have the correct answers. Lastly, they should share with each other in which city they would prefer to go for holidays and why. 10 minutes Cooler S-S This activity acts as closing Students ask and answer the of what the students have questions in the Exercise C already learned. from the worksheet with Additionally, students their partner. Also, teacher practise what they’ve reminds them to use Past learned in previous lesson. Simple and Continuous. 5 minutes Next Steps T-S This is a homework acts as a
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The students are given reminder about what they homework to note down the learned weather for each day of the week.