This lesson plan is for a 6th grade English class in Argentina and focuses on environmental awareness. The plan includes watching a video and song about helping the environment as a warm up. Students will then do a matching exercise while listening to the song again. They will also present posters they created in a previous class using "should" and "shouldn't" to give advice about caring for the environment. The lesson closes with an introduction to a guest teacher from the US who will share about his uncles' work in clean energy and allow students to ask questions to learn about environmental efforts in his home country.

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PRACTICE II, DIDACTICS OF ELT and Practicum Primary School
level.
Adjunto Regular a/c Prof. Estela N. Braun (2017).
PRACTICAL 15: The Intercultural Project
LESSON PLAN: How environmentally friendly are you?
STUDENTS’ PROFILE: 6th grade, beginning level of English language proficiency. State
primary School. Two classes a week, 40 minutes each. There are twenty five students in
each of the classes.
Students’ age: 11-12 years old.
TIMETABLE: Mondays and Thursday, from 15.45Hrs. – 17.25 Hrs.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
By the end of the lesson students will be able:
 To recognize the power of human beings over the environment as well as the importance
of preserving the Planet Earth.
 To learn ways of helping the Planet.
 To use the modals SHOULD and SHOULD”NT to give advice about helping the Planet.
 To learn vocabulary about the environment.
 To learn actions related to helping the Planet.
 To write sentences about actions to help the Planet.

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 To create posters about environmental awareness.
 To become aware of the existence of other languages and cultures.
 To value their own culture and share it with others.
 To develop intercultural relations that can overcome stereotypes and prejudices towards
other languages and cultures.
Skills to be emphasized:
 Listening
 Reading
 Speaking
 Writing
Language:
• Active vocabulary: Specific vocabulary about environmental awareness, such as:
World – turn off – tap – recycle – paper – unplug – switch off – lights – green group –
plant – tree – charity.
• Grammar: Should/shouldn’t.
Materials: Projector, computer, audio system, photocopies, cardboards, colour pencils, etc.

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CLASS
ROUTINES:
 Greeting with the usual phrase “Yellow, red, green and blue, hello teacher, how are
you? I’m fine, and you? We are OK, thank you.” repeated by the students, teacher
and trainees.
 Writing down the date on the blackboard.
 Asking students about how they are on this day and if there is anybody absent.
Timing: 3 minutes
WARM UP
The students will be introduced with the topic ‘Environmental awareness’ by watching a
video and listening to a song called ‘It’s up to me and you’. After watching the video, the
trainees will ask them some questions so as to reflect upon the video, such as: ‘What is the
video about?’ ‘What should we do to help the environment?’ ‘Have you done any of these
activities?’.
• Type of interaction: Teacher – students.
• Macro-skills: Listening and speaking.
• Timing: 8 minutes.
• Materials: Projector, computer, audio system.
DEVELOPMENT
First activity:
Secondly, students will be given a photocopy with a matching exercise in with they will
have to join the first part of a sentence with its corresponding second part, while listening
the song for a second time. The activity will be done individually and checked orally and
all together.
Example: ‘Take a shower, don’t have a bath’

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• Type of interaction: Students individually.
• Macro-skills: Listening, reading and speaking.
• Timing: 6 minutes.
• Materials: Projector, computer, audio system, photocopies.
Second Activity:
In groups of four (4), students will present a poster on environmental awareness that they
made using the grammatical structures SHOULD/SHOULDN’T. This poster would have
been completed in the previous class. Students will give advice and suggestions on how to
take care of the environment, following the examples provided by the trainees. In the
poster, students will have to write three (3) sentences using SHOULD and three (3)
sentences using SHOULDN’T expressing what Argentinean people do to help the
environment. In this activity, the students can use information from the video to write the
sentences.
Example: ‘We should separate litter’ – ‘We shouldn’t throw litter on the street’.
• Type of interaction: Group-work.
• Macro-skills: Writing.
• Timing: 8 minutes.
• Materials: Cardboards, colour pencils, etc.
CLOSING UP
To finish with the class, students will be introduced to John, a teacher working as a mentor
for university students in Practice II. He will show them a presentation about two of his
Uncles who work in clean energy, so as to compare what people do in his country (USA) to
help the environment. Students will participate in this cultural exchange by engaging in the
presentation and by asking questions to John about his country.
• Type of interaction: Teacher – students.
• Macro-skills: Listening, reading, and speaking.
• Timing: 15 minutes.

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• Materials: Projector and computer.
APPENDIX
WARM UP ACTIVITY
Link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ianhDDSqOtk
DEVELOPMENT – FIRST ACTIVITY