Erasmus + project HR

1. 1st LESSON PLAN – Time
Created by Ivan Fremec and Mirna Prusina
UNIT: TIME
SUBUNIT: Prepositions of time
Age group 13-14 years old
Time: 90 minutes (two periods)
Resources/Materials:
 PowerPoint presentation
 computers (with Python)
 beamer
 Android smartphones with
QPython app
 paper sheets with instructions
New grammar: prepositionsof time (in,at,
on)
Learning outcomes:
Pupils should be able to:
1. use the correct preposition of time in an English
sentence
2. tell precise time in English
3. comprehend basic classroom language
4. follow the teacher’s instructions
5. create an Android app which can be used for
teaching prepositions of time in English in a fun
and interactive way
Time Procedure
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Introduction
The teacher tells the pupils that today’s class will be divided into two
parts. In the first part they will be learning about the prepositions of
time in English and in the second one they will be applying their
knowledge by creating Android apps for young learners of English
and to help our Erasmus+ guests in another project.
Motivation
The teacher shows the pupils pictures of clocks and tells them to say
whatever comes to their mind when seeing this. The students give
answers (clocks, numbers, calendars, date, time...).
Main part
The teacher gives the theoretical language overview using
PowerPoint on how to tell precise time in English and when to use
the expressions past, quarter past, half past, to, and quarter to.
After the first theoretical part on how to tell precise time in English,
the students are given an exercise. They have to write the exact time
that each of the clocks on the PowerPoint presentation is showing.
They are given two minutes of time for this exercise, and then we
check it in a way that the volunteers come to the teacher’s computer
and write the correct times.
After that, the teacher explains the prepositions of time to students
using the PowerPoint presentation. For example, at is used when
talking about specific time, on is used when talking about dates, days
of the week, and special days, and in is used when talking about
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years, parts of the day, months, and seasons.
Students are then given an exercise in which they have to choose the
correct preposition. They are given one minute to look at the
sentences in the PowerPoint presentation and fill in the blanks. We
check the answers in a way that the volunteers come to the teacher’s
computer and fill in the blanks.
Then follows the main part of the lesson: programming. The main
part of the lesson consists of programming in Python programming
language in four teams, each with a specific task regarding time. The
teacher divides students into four teams, each with one team leader.
He assigns each team one task regarding the usage of prepositions of
time and telling the precise time. The teacher instructs pupils to
install QPython app, which allows for the code to be read and
executed on Android smartphones, and which can be found on
Google Play.
The teacher explains the tasks.
The name of the first task is “Hard time with prepositions of time”.
The team has to write a program which will, using the loop with logic
conditional and employing functions if and elif, put preposition in in
front of the names of months and seasons, preposition on in front of
the names of the days of the week, and preposition at if you enter
time using numbers in decimal notation.
The name of the second task was “Help them to tell time”. The team
has to write a program which will, using the loop with logic
conditional (while) and function if, help the young learners of English
to tell time. The time has to be entered in the form x.xx, which means
two decimal places with numbers from 0 – 60 that represent minutes.
The name of the third task was “Solving the time zones issues”. The
team has to write a program which will, using functions gmtime and
strftime, extract only hours, minutes, and seconds from time. Then,
they had to define a function which will give the exact time in each of
the countries participating in D.E.A.R. project, according to their
time zone.
The name of the fourth task is “When to work and when to party”.
The team has to write a program which will help the students and
teachers from another Erasmus+ project who are visiting our school
next month to know when are classes in progress, and when are
breaks, in a way that if they enter time in the decimal form, the
program tells them that.
The teacher gives the instructions and the programming starts. If the
students have some difficulties, the IT teacher is always ready to
jump in.
After the groups finish coding, they present their work to the rest of
the class and copy the code on the QPython webpage to see if the
code works on Android phones. The page translates the code into QR
code, which is then scanned by the camera on the smartphone and can
be executed on any Android phone. When the students finish their
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3. apps, they are instructed to go to Google Play and to download MIT
Companion to their Android phones. Then, they create QR codes for
their apps and scan them with phone cameras, which starts the apps
on their smartphones.
Individual work
5’ Evaluation:
Kahoot
At the end of the lesson, the students play a quiz on Kahoot. The quiz
contains questions from the language part of the lesson, as well as
some questions about the functions the students used during the
programming. The students log in with the password given by the IT
teacher and in the end we declare a winner.
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