This lesson plan is for a beginner level English class for 11-year-olds focusing on pets. The lesson will introduce vocabulary for common pets like cats, dogs, frogs, and rabbits through pictures, a video, and a domino game. Students will practice recognizing and naming pets, as well as describing their appearance. The teacher will assess comprehension through miming, gestures, and having students point to or say pet names. The lesson follows a routine of greeting, warm-up, presentation, development, and closure activities to engage students and reinforce the target vocabulary.
1. I NSTITUTO DE FORMACIÓN DOCENTE CONTINUA
LENGUAS VIVAS BARILOCHE (A-052)
TALLER DE PRÁCTICA DOCENTE
Student: Gieser Leticia
Período de Práctica: Nivel Primario
Number of Students: 36
Institution: Colegio Cavagnaro
Adress: Calle 70 – N° 2753
Age: 11 years old
Level: Beginners
Lesson plan: a class
Date: August, 3rd
Time: 40’ (11.10 a 11.50hs)
• Teaching Points: The Pets (cat – frog – fish – rabbit – parrot – dog )
• Aims: During this lesson, learners will be able to…
Identify and name different pets that they have.
Develop their listening skills by listening and song and watch a video.
To deepen their understanding of commands/instructions while developing
their macro skills as well.
• Language Focuses:
LEXIS FUNCTION STRUCTURE PRONUNCIATION
Con formato: Inglés (Estados Unidos)
2. REVISION Colours, big, small,
long, short, blond
Describing
people`s
Appearance
Who is it? Who’s
this?
It’s…
S/he’s got…
S/he hasn’t got
Sound /∫/
NEW Pets: (cat – dog –
frog – fish – rabbit –
parrot – hamster -
snake)
Recognizing
pets
Talking about
them
What’s this?
What colour is it?
It’s….
Is it big? Small?
Smile /æ/
• Teaching Approach: The lesson is based on the Natural Approach, and organized trough the
PPP procedure (Harmer, 2010).
• Materials and Resources: pictures about the different pets made on cardboard with different
colours. A Domino game about pets in a big piece of cardboard. Video (pets song) –
• Pedagogical use of ICT in class: in this lesson, a video will be used to introduce the pets and
exposure of the students to the teaching point. Activities organised through the use of
audiovisual materials enhances language learning and acquisition.
• Seating arrangement: students will be sitting in a circle on the floor in order to facilitate
visual contact and interaction within the group. At some points in the lesson, they’ll move
around the class.
• Possible problems /difficulties and their possible solutions during the class: children may
want to watch the video again, but the teacher will say that she has a surprise for them.
• Potential problems students may have with the language: students may find it hard to
produce the chunk ‘it’s a dog…’ however, the teacher will try to encourage them. If they can’t
do it or don’t understand, they may use: dog…cat…
• Assessment: what will be assessed and how: the teacher will check students’ comprehension
by miming, doing gestures and watching if they perform the actions or not. Encourage them
to produce the new vocabulary. If they get shy, the teacher will check they can recognize the
items by saying (showing a picture about the topic) is it a square? To sts answer just ‘yes – no’.
Routine: 5’
I’ll get into the classroom and greet students: ‘Hello!, how are you today?’ EA: ‘Hello!’
I’ll ask to students that to listen and we’ll sing the hello song:
‘This is the way we say hello, say hello, say hello,
This is the way we say hello to you…’ (It repeats twice)
Transition: well done kids! Now let’s look what I have here…the teacher will have a picture about her
cat (kitty) and her dog (Umma).
3.
4. Warm – up 5’
‘Look! Can you see that? This is mi little cat Kitty. She’s got long dark hair. She’s got green eyes and
she is very funny!
This is my dog Umma. She is very big. She has got short brown hair. She’s got a long nose and brown
eyes. I love it! Have you got any animal?
Presentation 10’
I’ll stick the pets’ pictures on the board and the teacher will ask to students if they have some animals
in their houses.
‘Marti, have you got any pet?’ She will show the pictures in case she won’t understand, and she will say
that pet is what you can have in a house. ‘Lucas, and you?’ EA: yes/no and probably they will say their
pets.
When they finish to speaking about their pets, the teacher will play the next video to understand
better the meaning of pets:
https://youtu.be/pWepfJ-8XU0
In it they will watch different pets and the structure ‘I’ve a…’
Comentado [A1]: You can introduce the term pet.
Comentado [A2]: You should give them a clear purpose for
watching.
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5. Transition: ‘ok, do you like the video?’ sshhh 1…2…3… silence please! (She will use this chant to keep
calm the children).
Development 15’
Activity 1 - 10’
‘Look, I’ve got some flashcards to share with you!’ The teacher will show different flashcards about
animals and she will encourage to students to repeat. ‘Look, what’s this?’ EA: it’s a dog… (The teacher
will encourage to say the names of animals that they know or watch in the video.
Then the teacher will stick (mixing them) the flashcards on the board and their names (turning them
down) and she will add another same flashcards to play a memo test with the whole class on the
board. While the students turn down every flashcards, they will have to say: it’s a …
Flashcards:
Comentado [A3]: You should include the words in this domino,
so that they are exposed to the spelling of the animals´ names.
6. Activity 2 – 5’ Worksheet
Guess who…?
The teacher will give to students a photocopy where the students will have to guess understand and
identify who the number that corresponds is.
Transition: ‘ok kids, in this activity you have to write the number in the box according to what is it’it
is
Write the number. Who is it?
1. I have got long hair. I have got blue eyes and pink nose. Who am I?
2. I have got black eyes and a big nose. I am white and brown. Who am I?
Comentado [A4]: It is not guessing. It is reading and identifying.
Comentado [A5]: The question should be Who am I?
7. 3. I have goy blue eyes. My nose is very big and orange and I have got blue eyes. Who am I?
Closure 5’
The teacher will play again the video, but in this case they will listen to it and when they hear the
animal sound they will have to imitate. So here, the teacher will say: ‘ok, we worked a lot! So now
listen and imitate the animal sound when you hear’, in case they won’t understand, she will imitate
the animal as in the video.
Transition
‘Ok, now, let’s sing the good bye song’
This is the way we say good bye, say good bye
This is the way we say good bye to you… (it will repeat twice).
Lesson plan
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Observations Lovely lesson! Hope my comments and suggestions are useful.
Best,
Aure