Lesson plan 4

Teachers: Estela Braun & Liliana MontserratStudent teachers: Urbizu Paola & Schneider Morales AyelénSchool: N°2Course: 4° BTimetable: Thursdays 15:55 to 16:35 (40 minutes)Textbook/booklet: noneDate: 19th SeptemberTopic: Animals

Aimso to teach verbs of actiono to teach can/can’to to provide children with oral inputo to improve the students’ writing skills

Objectiveso to be able to name the different adjectives in Englisho to be able to write sentences with the structure “It is...”o to be able to describe animals

Activities

Activities Type of interaction

Macroskills Timing Materials

Activity 1: Activating prior knowledge (adjectives “tall-short, big-small, ugly – beautiful” by asking the students questions and showing flashcards “Is the elephant small?” “Is the giraffe tall?”

Whole class Listening/speaking 5 minutes FlashcardsBlackboard

Activity 2: The teacher will divide the class into groups of 4 members each. Then, she will give each group a card with an animal so as to write a description/riddle of

Group work Writing / speaking

10 minutesExample written

on the board

Flashcards

it, taking as a model the example done first by the teachers.Activity 3: Students will read the description out loud and the rest of the class has to guess what animal it is. After that, each group will stick it on the walls.

Whole class / Group

workReading /

speaking /listening7 minutes Flashcards

Activity 4: The teachers will act out the verbs related to

abilities/action (swim, fly, walk, run

and jump) using a can/can’t structure (“The rabbit can

jump”). Meanwhile the assistant teacher will write the words on the board and put

under them the animal from the

example.

Whole classListening / speaking 5 minutes Flashcards

Blackboard

Activity 5: the teacher will write four sentences with can/can’t with the help of the children. Then the pupils will be asked to copy it on their notebooks

Whole class Reading /listening /speaking

7 minutes Blackboard

Example riddle (activity 2): It’s grey. It’s big.

It’s tall. It’s beautiful.

Answer: elephant