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LESSON PLAN
Theme: Globalization: Wise consumption
Length of Class: 90 min
Number of students: 30

Language Focus:
Grammar

Vocabulary

Functions

Other

Skills: Approaches Followed:

Reading Co-Teaching

Listening Communicative Approach

Writing Project Based Learning

Speaking PPP

Active Learning

Task Based Learning

Problem Based Learning

Other

Aims

Main aim: By the end of the lesson students will be able to exchange information
on shopping traditions in Colombia, the United Kingdom and the United
States.

Subsidiary aims: • To practice using language appropriately making decisions in a

formal context.

• To choose and use language for a specific context.

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Performance indicators:

Knowing: Recognizes vocabulary about consume, fashion, needs.

Doing: Produces a simple, structured and argumentative text about consumerism

from previous written references.

Being: Recognizes some features about responsible consumerism.

Learning to learn: Remembers new language, uses familiar words as they are similar in sound
or meaning to the new word.

Timetable fit and assumed knowledge:

(How does this lesson relate to previous and following lessons according to
the curriculum? what do learners need to know in order to cope with this
lesson?)
This is the first class in a series of lessons for module 4 regarding sensible shopping and consumerism. Students
have recently worked on simple past tense and will focus on present perfect tense during the follow-up lessons.
In this lesson, students will learn about shopping traditions in the United States and the United Kingdom and will
compare those traditions with the ones we have in Colombia. Students will also practice vocabulary associated
to shopping as well as present perfect tense by expressing their shopping habits

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Content:

(lexical, grammar, pronunciation, discourse, sociolinguistic / intercultural)

Lexical: a. shopping vocabulary: shopper, price, cool, comfortable, old-fashioned, price, wardrobe
b. Useful expressions: I really need new…I need to change my…I only have… It is/ they are old-
Grammar: fashioned and…
Expressions for oral presentations: Our presentation is about…. / We chose this …because / We
found out that… / We consider….is interesting because….
• Present perfect: This tense has different uses:

a. It is used to express something that started in the past and continues in the present.
E.g: My family has always bought the Christmas presents Bogota.

b. We can also use it to talk about experiences.

E.g: Have you ever been to France?

c. It is also used to talk about things that are unfinished – unfinished states and unfinished
time periods:
E.g.: I have lived here since I was five

Affirmative Form Negative Form Interrogative form

I I I
You You you
We + have + verb in We have +not + verb p.p Have + we + Verb p.p ?
They past participle They They
He He he
She + has + verb in She+ has+ not + verb p.p Has,+ she + Verb p.p ?
It past participle It it

Pronunciation: Pronunciation patterns for regular verbs.

Base form verb Past tense Pronunciation

Want Wanted
/Id/
End Ended
Hope Hoped
Laugh Laughed
/t/
Wash Washed
Like Liked
Play Played /d/

Discourse: • Express opinions.

Sociolinguistic / • Learning through interaction

Intercultural:

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Anticipated problems: Planned solutions

Students might lack motivation to accomplish the activi- Encourage students’ participation by getting them
ties proposed. involved with vocabulary exercises development.
Encourage students by getting them involved in games to
elicit participation

Students may have difficulties to understand instruc- Verify students’ comprehension by being consistent while
tions. giving every instruction.

Verify students’ comprehension by asking them to

rephrase instructions before doing the activities.

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Warm up

Total Stage
timing (5 min)
GRADE

Stage aims To get students motivation to develop the activities.

Chinese whispers.
Teacher tells the students to make groups of ten people each. Teacher tells the students to line up and sit on the floor. Teacher explains the students the activity: chinese Time and
Procedure whispers: they are going to pass a message the teacher is going to give the first student in each group, by whispering. Interaction
The message has to go through the entire group until it gets to the last person, once it happens, that student comes to the board and writes what he or she got, after
three rounds the group with the highest score wins.
5 minutes
Key words: T-S
shopper, price, cool, comfortable GW
WC

Lead in

Total Stage
timing (10 min)

Stage aims To introduce new vocabulary and make students familiar with it

Teacher shows a set of flashcards and asks students to match them with some words related to shopping.
Key words: shopper, price, cool, comfortable, old-fashioned, price, wardrobe
Time and
Procedure Interaction
Using the previous vocabulary, students brainstorm all words they can associate to shopping (food items, technology tools).
Then, they compare answers with a partner in order to make their list bigger. Volunteers are asked to write their lists on the board. 10 minutes
T. helps the class to clarify meaning and work on pronunciation. T-S
PW
S-S

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Reading Task

Total Stage
timing (25 min)
GRADE

Stage aims To improve reading skills

Pre-reading
Teacher writes the following questions on the board and asks students to talk about them in pairs and then share answers with the class reporting what his/her partner
Time and
Interaction
Procedure said.
Have you bought a new cell phone recently?
Have you changed your bike for a new one recently? 5 minutes
Have your parents or you ever bought anything online?
PW
Students are asked about the images they can see, so they can infer what the content is about. WH

While-reading
Students are given a text about shopping in the United States and shopping in the United Kingdom.
Students work on exercise 1. They have to scan the reading to highlight and list words they know or cognates that can offer them a clearer idea about the text. Once
they have identified these words, they can make assumptions about the content.- Exercise 2. 10 mins
Then, students work on exercise 3. Teacher checks answers with the class. T-S
Answer key: a- F b- F c-F d-T e- F Individual
S-T
Post- reading W-C
Students are asked to write a short e-mail to a friend telling him/her about the shopping traditions Colombians have had during the last years. Teacher provides them
with some examples:
E.g.: Colombians have invested lots of money in technology during the last year
Students get into groups to read their written productions in order to compare shopping traditions in USA and UK, they read about it in the text and their written
production about Colombia.
10 mins
Finally teacher asks students to share their ideas with the class.
Individual
GW
WH

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Creative task

Total Stage
timing (40 min)
GRADE

Stage aims To allow students use their ideas to express shopping traditions in Colombia

Teacher needs to arrange a space of time for students to be able to work in the school computers lab.
Time and
Interaction
Procedure Students are divided into groups (3 / 4 people) and they have to choose a region in Colombia in order to find out some information about shopping and other traditions
(food, parties, etc.) for celebrations.
Students are given 20 minutes to do the research on the Internet and then create a poster or a visual aid to share a short presentation about their findings. 20 mins
Teacher monitors students work and encourages them to use the language and vocabulary revised in the lesson along with these useful expressions for their presentation: GW 3 / 4
Our presentation is about…. / We chose this …because / We found out that… / We consider….is interesting because…. T monitors

Classroom is set into stands / stations, so students can do a carrousel walk to get to know the shopping traditions in different regions in our country. Students are asked
to make some notes about positive things they like from their partners’ presentations. 20 mins
GW 3 / 4
WH
T monitors

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Closure

Total Stage
timing (10 min)
GRADE

Stage aims To provide students with feedback

Teacher asks students to give their positive comments about their partners’ presentations. Then, he sums up all the events done, recalls the most outstanding presentations. Time and
It is also time for the teacher to bring back areas to improve regarding language use or pronunciation. Interaction
Procedure
10 mins
T- Wh

Materials Needed

1. Computer’s lab reservation,

2. Copies of worksheet 1,
3. markers,
4. Bristol paper,
5. scissors, etc.

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Worksheet 1

Shopping traditions: the excuse to buy

A. Shopping in the United States

Americans 1. have lived / have celebrated Black Friday since 1932. It is the day after Thanksgiving Day in the US.
It 2. has been / has had the biggest shopping day of the year ever since because many shops offer low prices
on many items. Since 1932, shops 3. have opened / have closed their doors at 5.00 a.m. Hundreds of customers
come in quickly to buy Christmas presents. In recent years, shoppers 4. have chosen / have visited to shop online
because they don’t like the crowds.

B. Shopping in Colombia
December has always been a time to go shopping in Colombia. However, Colombians 5. have started / have
learned to forget some Christmas traditions because they 6. have done / have become a consumer society. In
the past they prayed to baby Jesus in the “novena” and sang carols. Today these traditions 7. have increased /
have diminished because new generations think that Christmas means going shopping.

C. Shopping in the United Kingdom

In the UK, people 8. have always spent / have always celebrated Boxing Day. It is the day after Christmas Day,
on 26th December. Boxing Day 9. has left / has been an important day for post-Christmas shopping. Many
shoppers spend the night and early morning waiting in queues to get into the shops and buy items at lower
prices. Traditionally, British people 10. have always watched / have always rented football and rugby matches on
this day.

MEN. (2016). Way to go- 8th grade student’s book.Retrieved November 02, 2018

1. Scan the reading to highlight and list words you know or cognates connected to the topic of shopping

2. Imagine what the text is about using the words you have highlighted.

3. Read the text and then write T –True / F- False for the following statemens:
a. Items are expensive during the Boxing day. _________
b. New generations in Colombia keep christmas traditions alive. _________
c. Black friday and Thanksgiving occur the same day. _________
d. Boxing day is also a day to watch football matches. _________
e. Shopping has diminished in Colombia during Christmas time. _________

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References

MEN. (2016). Way to go 8th grade students book. Shopping traditions: the excuse to buy. Bogotá. Richmond.
MEN. (2016). Pedagogical principles and guidelines suggested English curriculum. Bogotá.
MEN. (2016). Suggested curriculum structure 6th to 11th grade. Bogotá.
https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/es/intermediate-grammar/present-perfect

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