Class nº 12- Lesson Plan nº6

1. PRACTICE II, DIDACTICS OF ELT and Practicum Primary School
level. Adjunto Regular a/c Prof. Estela N. Braun (2017).
Teacher Assistants: Prof. Vanesa Cabral and Prof. Maria Lis Luján
Ramos. ETA MA John Brakke.
REGISTRO:
ALUMNA RESIDENTE: Valentina Monge
COLEGIO: Escuela 4. 6th Year.
DOCENTE CO-FORMADORA: Romina Cheme
Fecha: 07/09/2017
There are 21 students.
When they enter the classroom, Romina scolds a girl because she
speaks in a bad way to her and to the trainee teachers because she
was copying from the board and they were standing in front of it and
she could not see properly.
Valentina greets all the students and asks three students to deliver the
badges. All of them put on the badges, although Valentina knows most
of their names. This is very important for students. Good!!!
She asks the students who was absent last class and she gives them
the photocopy they used the previous class. She also reminds them to
take care of photocopy. Well done! They have to learn to take care of
scholar things.
She has built teacher stance quite well, she asks for silence firmly.
They check homework from previous class. She talks with them about
rights and responsibilities. She makes them become aware of them

2. Well done!!! She wants to write some answers on the board. She asks
them if they have finished copying, if she can clean the board. She
notices that some of them are still copying from the previous subject.
Good! Then she gives some instructions in Spanish “la pegan en la
carpeta así no la pierden!” You can tell them “stick it in your folder,
please!” I am sure they can understand this perfectly well, in case, you
think that they do not understood, you translate it into Spanish, but
first, you should use English!.
For the second activity, she also gives the instructions in Spanish and
she adds “vamos a trabajar de a dos”. She gives some explanation
about MUST and MUSTN´T. As they do not understand very well,
because they are filling the blanks with the symbols (X or ), she
explains the activity again with different words and examples! That´s
great!!!! Good job!
Valentina says that the activity should be solved in pairs but she gives
a picture each, different ones, so each student works with his/her own
picture, and then, they correct the activity individually too. (each
student went to the board and stuck it individually). Suggestion:
although it is an excellent TPR activity, next time, you can give one
picture per pair of students, so in this way, they will work together. Or
you can give two or three pictures to a group of students, in this way
the pictures could be less and bigger and the activity would turn more
dynamic. I observed that they were a bit bored that is why, I think you
had to stop many times your class to ask for silence. In my opinion,
they were getting bored because they were almost the whole class with
the same activity. Think! The student that stuck the first picture on the
poster, he/she had nothing to do later, so he /she had to wait for 22
more students to do the same.
Another suggestion: you may write the sentences on the board, so
all of them can copy them and learn the new vocabulary and the new
structure. Think that in a classroom we have students who are more

3. visual, others are more auditory and some others, can be graphical,
among others.
She writes on the board all the words that she thinks are new for
students. Very good! But be careful with words that are not cognates
(transparent) for example: kindness, you asked them “a qué les
suena?” the meaning of that word is not similar to the one in Spanish,
so, they are not going to find the meaning by themselves. You can ask
this for “insult” for example.
While the students are working, Valentina walks around the desks to
see if they are working or if they need some help. Very good.
They cannot finish the activity because the bell rings. They could do
the half of it. Suggestion: timing is very important, feel free to modify
any activity you planned in order to speed up the checking part or any
other part of the activity in order to finish it in the same class. You
need to be aware of the time in order to round up the class.
Your job as pedagogical partner was great, you did a great job helping
Ana when it was necessary, you both complemented very well.
Prof. Vanesa Cabral