Lesson plan

1. Lesson Plan: “Goldilocks and the three bears”
Class: 4th
grade (8- 10 year old)
Level: Beginner
Time: One or two classes
Language Exponents: Adjectives
Language Skills: Reading, Listening, Speaking, Writing
Main Aim(s)
By the end of the lesson, the students will have a clear understanding of the story and they
will acquire some more vocabulary related to it.
Personal Aims
We want the students to know the story in case they don’t, and to see how they feel
reading short stories during the lesson. In addition, we want them to understand this story
through some exercises which will help them to develop their skills.
Materials
Computer, beamer and headphones.
Anticipated Problems
1. Some students may have problems with some vocabulary.
2. Some students may find the story a bit boring.
3. Technology may fail.
Possible solutions
1. Teachers will explain all the vocabulary the students don’t understand.
2. Teachers will try to engage students with the story by asking more personal
questions and inviting them to think what they would have done in a situation like
the one presented in the story.
3. Teachers read the story varying pitch and volume so that students are caught in the
narrative and understand it.
PROCEDURES

2. 1) Warm-up activities:
a- Teachers ask students personal questions such as Did your parents punish you for
doing something bad? Or something dangerous? What was it? Do you think it was good
what you did? Would you do it again? (5-10 minutes)
b- Teachers present the students with the title of the story to see if they know it. If they do,
he/she asks them to say something they remember about it. If they don’t, the teacher asks
them to try to guess what could happen. (5 minutes)
2) While reading:
a- Students watch a video where the story is read aloud. http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=Oaw-d3r_gIc (5 minutes)
b- Teacher re-reads the story with the students and clarifies unknown words. At the same
time, he/she asks questions to check the students’ understanding of the story. (10
minutes)
c- Students solve a practice worksheet of the story where they have to match and order
the sequence of the story. (10 minutes)
3) Follow up activities:
a- Students write about their favorite part of the story and draw the scene.
c- Students propose a different version of the story by, for example, changing the food, or
the animals involved or even the main character.
b- Ask students to provide a different ending to the story. This could be done in one or two
short sentences.
c- Ask students to support their alternative endings through a drawing.
d- Students could work together with the science teacher in order to research about
bears. The way they behave, the food they eat, where they live, etc.