Lesson plans Primary

1. TALLER DE PRACTICA DOCENTE 2016
Trainees' name: Gabriela Lema
Practicum level: 2nd (Primary)
Group: 4th form
Date: August 10th
Lesson 1
Topic :Chores, adverbs of frequency, simple present
Yesterday we had lesson 1.
I think that my students enjoyed the lesson very much, especially the song ...
On Aurelia's suggestion, by the end of our class, I told my students that we are
going to write e-mails to new pen friends -instead of e-postcards-. I also changed
the addressee since, fortunately, a couple of hours before the lesson, a friend of

2. mine who lives in Australia sent me an e-mail to confirm that two of her friends
(who also live in Australia) would love to exchange e-mails with my students . I
prefer to work with them (instead of working with her 9 year old daughter) because
-we already had an experience with kids this year
-one of her adult friends lives on a farm and the other has a vineyard (both cases
provide us with excellent opportunities to put the language we have been recently
dealing with into practice)and they seemed to like the idea of connecting with "real
people" again soon.
TALLER DE PRACTICA DOCENTE 2016
Trainees' name: Gabriela Lema
Practicum level: 2nd (Primary)
Group: 4th form
Date: August 16th
Lesson 2
Topic :Chores, adverbs of frequency, simple present, penfriends around the
world
Last Tuesday we developed Lesson 2. Although I had booked the Computer Lab in
order to do the activities there, the person in charge of the place sent me an email
in the morning apologizing for the fact that the Lab was going to be used for a
teachers´ training course. So… I decided to do the activity in my classroom and,
instead of writing e-mails, my students wrote traditional letters (they seemed to
enjoy the activity anyway).
I divided them into groups of 4 and I asked them to write a first draft, then I
checked it with them, we made some corrections (I preferred not to highlight all
their mistakes because I did not want to disappoint them, we focused on the ones
that could create confusion) . Then, they wrote the final version on a piece of white
paper, using a black marker because I was going to scan it and send it. (Between
September and November we are going to be working with some kids from a
School in the USA and, in that case, we will have the opportunity to incorporate
e-mails exchange.)
One day after this lesson, I used the smart TV set that we have in our classroom to
show my students the e-mail that I had sent to Richard and Werner ( in which I
attached their letters and drawings), they looked really happy.
Group 1:

4. Group 2:

5. Group 3:
Group 4:

7. TALLER DE PRACTICA DOCENTE 2016
Trainees' name: Gabriela Lema
Practicum level: 2nd (Primary)
Group: 4th form
Date: August 22nd
Lesson 3
Topic :Past tense and Shakespeare´s life
Last Monday we had our Lesson 3. As I had predicted, the kids participated
enthusiastically and demonstrated that they had already acquired some knowledge
about Shakespeare's life. Regarding the ​past tense (that was revised, not
presented), they seem to understand it, some of them could really put it into
practice but some of them still tend to use the infinitive form if I am not in front of
them pointing to some poster or reminding them that they are expected to use the
past tense because, in the case of Shakespeare, he is not alive. I know from
previous experiences as a 4th form teacher that the acquisition of the past tense
will take a long time, some students will struggle with it not only during 4th form,
but also during 5th and even 6th . But, of course, it doesn't mean that we have
stop presenting it and using it in 4th.
They could understand the use of the comma to contrast an affirmative clause with
a negative clause (we will need to recycle it from time to time) and by the end of
the lesson-as the teacher they were going to have after the lesson was absent- our
class was longer than usual, so I had time to encourage them to create their own
drawings (to be exhibited during the Art Week). They did wonderful things! I will
include some of them below (exactly in the way they produced them, without
corrections of grammar/spelling mistakes).

9. One thing I noticed about my own performance was the fact that when I showed
the pictures to my students, I could not avoid using t​he ​present continue​s ​(since ,
when we describe pictures, we usually use this tense). So , looking at the picture I
tended to say “ look, what is he doing here? Yes, driving a taxi” but then I helped
them to produce a final sentence like “he did not drive a taxi, he wrote plays”.
I know that my use of both tenses was “natural”, because this is what we usually
do , when we observe someone in a picture we describe him/her using the present
continues because the picture shows him/her doing something. But I wish I could

10. say something like “did Shakespeare drive a taxi?” in order to put the interrogative
into practice too.
TALLER DE PRÁCTICA DOCENTE 2016
Trainees' name: Gabriela Lema
Practicum level: 2nd (Primary)
Group: 4th form
Date: August 23rd
Lesson 4
Topic :Listening comprehension /Shakespeare´s life
I recorded and uploaded this lesson.
The kids seemed to enjoy the video and participated actively in all the activities.
However, I noticed that the activity I included below was too difficult for them
As the information was not complete, they were finding it too hard to guess the
verb to fill in the circled parts, so I decided to mix the second step ( which required
to listen in order to fill in the blanks) with the first . In some cases, having the
second blank completed , helped them to guess the first one.
Although this part of the lesson was a little bit difficult, most of the kids enjoyed
having a challenging activity .

11. TALLER DE PRÁCTICA DOCENTE 2016
Trainees' name: Gabriela Lema
Practicum level: 2nd (Primary)
Group: 4th form
Date: August 24th
Lesson 5
Topic :Shakespeare´s daily routine
The day we developed this lesson five of my students were absent because they
had a tournament (which had been canceled and was postponed).
When some students go to a tournament the others (the ones who stay at school)
tend to be a little “ lazy”, they ask questions like “can we have break during the
whole afternoon?, please, we are only eight (or ten, or twelve…).”
That´s why I decided to adapt some exercises in order to work with the class as a
whole most of the time (since, of course, the students who stay at school are
expected to work as usual).
It may be said that it was a successful lesson. The students enjoyed the “curious”
details about Shakespeare's life (they loved the old furniture he used as a toilet ,
and they could not believe that Shakespeare drank beer for breakfast!)
We also had time to start comparing/contrasting the author’ s life with our lives (a
topic that was going to be developed more deeply in lesson 6)
TALLER DE PRÁCTICA DOCENTE 2016
Trainees' name: Gabriela Lema
Practicum level: 2nd (Primary)
Group: 4th form
Date: August 25th
Lesson 6
Topic :​Simple present , Compare and contrast Shakespeare’s daily routine and our daily
routine.
I started lesson 6 encouraging some students to recycle concepts that we had
seen in lesson 5 (recycling work is always desirable but this time it was essential
because some kids had been absent -they were taking part in a tournament
outside the school-) . The kids in charge of recycling the topics we had seen, took
their task seriously enough, providing the others with the information they needed
in order to be able to participate actively in lesson 6.
I noticed that we could use the “inconvenience” (having some kids who missed a
class) in order to create a real context in which the interaction among students was
necessary. And the kids made good use of it.

12. All the students participated actively in the activities. One of them seemed to find it
hard to concentrate on the task, so I asked him to sit next to me and he could
manage to work better.
As a result of the lesson, we produced new material (comparing and contrasting
Shakespeare’s life with our lives) that will be exposed in our traditional Art Week
(we are working on the boards for the exhibition, I´ll upload pictures once they are
ready) .

17. ART WEEK 2016
4th B
THE TEMPEST