1. Practice II: Didactics of ELT and Practicum at Primary School Level
Aimé Huarte
Florencia Pérez
Lesson Plan N°1
27/07/2017
School N°25 “Granaderos de San Martin”
Course: 6th “B” and “D”
Teacher: Jorgelina Rodriguez
Timetable fit: Mondays and Thursdays from 16.05 to 17.30
Class Description:
Students are between 11 and 12 years old. They are 20 students in 6th “B” and
17 students in 6th “D”. The class starts after the break.
Most of the time they speak in Spanish but they manage to identify and use
English words appropriately. When they have to work in pairs, they may need
the guidance of the teacher as regards grammar structures of the language but
most of the class is able to work on their own. Students participate actively
during English classes and the last unit they have seen was “healthy and
unhealthy food”.
Lesson aims:
As teachers we’ll try to:
Focus on macro skills (speaking and writing) considering learners’ ages to
acquire language.
Use multisensory approach to favor learners’ motivation and acquisition of
language (video and flashcards).
Introduce vocabulary related to sports: those practiced in groups or
individually.
Introduce Olympic and Paralympic Games notions.
Objectives of the lesson:
During the lesson students are expected to:
Revise and activate the vocabulary related to sports: football, baseball,
hockey, basketball, ice skiing, skateboard, boxing, karate, etc.
Revise, activate and classify sports into extreme, Olympic and ordinary
sports.
Introduce Olympic and Paralympic notions
2. Practice II: Didactics of ELT and Practicum at Primary School Level
Aimé Huarte
Florencia Pérez
Language:
Lexis: vocabulary about sports.
Functions: identifying and classifying different sports. Introduction of Olympic
and Paralympic games notions.
Routine: (5’)
We are going to post on each of the classrooms a sheet of paper colorfully
designed by us with some threads hanging where we are going to put each of
our students ‘ names ( with a clip). Every time they enter the classroom, they
will have to pick up their names and hook them up on their aprons. Before we
leave the classroom, they have to put them back so they can pick them up next
class.
“1, 2, 3, silence please” (make use of it whenever the teacher/pedagogical
partner sees it necessary)
Breathing activity. Since one of the classes starts after the break, we will invite
our students to stand next to their desks and imagine they have a balloon inside
their hands. They are going to inhale and when they exhale, the balloon is going
to be a little bit bigger than before. We are going to repeat this procedure three
times and at the end, we will imaginary pop the balloon.
Warm up:
Introduce the new vocabulary. (10’)
Introduce the new sports first through visual aids. Stick the flashcards randomly
on the board.
Watch the video “The Athlete Machine”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0jmSsQ5ptw
Body of the class:
ACTIVITY 1: (10’)
Orally, number the sports in the order in which they appear in the video.
3. Practice II: Didactics of ELT and Practicum at Primary School Level
Aimé Huarte
Florencia Pérez
Ask students:
Do you practice any of them?
Would you like to practice any of them? Why?
What is your favorite sport?
What sports don’t you like? Why?
(It is likely that our students will answer most of these questions in Spanish but
we will provide them with English input)
ACTIVITY 2: (10’)
Likes and Dislikes. Students will have to form groups of four in order to answer
a survey. Each of them will have to complete a photocopy with ticks or crosses
depending on their answers.
