In spite of the nerves and pressure I felt because of being observed by Estela, this was one of my favourite classes. All the children were involved in the activities and I think they enjoyed the lesson very much.

1. PRACTICE II, DIDACTICS OF ELT
LESSON PLAN N º5
Teachers: Prof. Estela N. Braun, Prof. Vanesa Cabral, Prof. Luján Ramos, and ETA
Fulbright John Brakke.
Trainees: Mara Barbieri and Mariel Matta
School: School N°6 “Dr. Ricardo Gutierrez”
Courses: 5th grade C & D
Textbook: “Howdy Friends” Level 1, Santillana
Date: August, 17th 2017 from 13:15 to 14:50
Topics: Bugs, Numbers and There is/are
Classes: N° 9 & 10
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
 Revise vocabularyaboutbugsandtheirbodyparts,school subjectsand daysof the
week
 Recognize numbersuntil100
 Work inpairs to solve atask collectivelycreatingafinal producttobe sharedwiththe
class
 Produce a short writtendescriptionof abug
ROUTINE
Singinggreetingsong“Yellow,red,greenandblue.Helloteacher,how are you?”.Giving
studentsbudgeswiththeirnames.Writingthe date onthe board.
WARM UP
The teacherwill askstudents toopenthe bookon page 26 to solve activity9*: poem “Creepy
bugs”.First,she will playthe audiofile.Thenshe will explainthe activityand correctthe
activityonthe board. She will copythe numbersformthe activitythatdo notappearin the
poemand will askstudentstosaythose numbers.She will alsowritethose numbersin
ordinaryspelling.Finally,she willaskstudentstoreadthe poemaloudaltogether,one stanza
perrow.

2. TYPE OF INTERACTION:teacher– students
MACRO-SKILLS:listening,readingandspeaking
TIMING: 10 minutes
MATERIALS: blackboard,textbook,CDandCD player
DEVELOPMENT:
First Activity:
The teacherwill give anenvelopecontaininganimage of half of a bug to eachstudent.Then
studentswill have tofindthe otherhalf of theirbuginone minute,withouttalking.There will
be twelve bugs.Afterfindingthe otherhalf,studentswill have togoto the board andfind
anotherenvelopewiththe name of theirbug.Thisenvelope will containone triangularflag
and piecesof paperswiththe namesof the bodyparts.Studentswill have toglue the two
halvesof the bugson the flag,to formthe image,write the name of the bugat the topof the
flagand finally,stickthe namesof the bodypartsdrawinganarrow to show what itpointsat.
Once theyfinish,theycome tothe boardand “weave”the flagina string. Whenall students
have done so,we will have a bugbuntingthatwill be hangedonthe wall.
TYPE OF INTERACTION:students –students
MACRO-SKILLS:reading
TIMING: 15 minutes
MATERIALS: envelopeswithimagesof the bugs,envelopeswithflagsandname of bodyparts,
string
Secondactivity
In pairs,studentswill have towrite,intheirnotebooks, three sentences describingthe bug
that theyworkedwithusingthe structures “tobe”, “has got” and “can”. If time allowsit,
studentswill readaloudtheirsentencestothe restof the class. In anycase, teacherwill
correct the sentencesindividuallyineachstudents’notebook.

3. TYPE OF INTERACTION:students –students
MACRO-SKILLS:writing
TIMING: 8 minutes
MATERIALS: blackboard,textbook,CDandCD player
Third activity
For those whofinishthe previousactivitiesfaster,the teacherwillhave awordsearchgame
containingthree familiesof words:school subjects,daysof the weekandbugs.(The firsttwo
are vocabularyitemsfromthe previousunit).Afterfindingthe twelve words,studentswill
have to classifythemina chart accordingto the word familytheybelongto.
Thisactivitywill be assignedashomeworkforthose whodonotfinishitinclass.
TYPE OF INTERACTION:students individually
MACRO-SKILLS:reading
TIMING: 10 minutes
MATERIALS: handoutwiththe wordsearch
CLOSING UP:
• The teacherwill collectthe budges andsaygood-bye.
*Numbersof the activitiesdonotcoincide withthe onesinthe imagesaswe tookwiththe
picturesfroman olderversionof the bookthanthe one our studentsare workingwith.