1. Lesson plan 4
Teachers: Estela Braun & Liliana Montserrat
Student teachers: Urbizu Paola & Schneider Morales Ayelén
School: N°2
Course: 4° B
Timetable: Thursdays 15:55 to 16:35 (40 minutes)
Textbook/booklet: none
Date: 19th
September
Topic: Animals
Aims
o to teach verbs of action
o to teach can/can’t
o to provide children with oral input
o to improve the students’ writing skills
Objectives
o to be able to name the different adjectives in English
o to be able to write sentences with the structure “It is...”
o to be able to describe animals
Activities
Activities Type of
interaction
Macroskills Timing Materials
Activity 1: Activating
prior knowledge
(adjectives “tall-
short, big-small, ugly
– beautiful” by
asking the students
questions and
showing flashcards
“Is the elephant
small?” “Is the
giraffe tall?”
Whole class Listening/speaking 5 minutes Flashcards
Blackboard
Activity 2: The
teacher will divide
the class into groups
of 4 members each.
Then, she will give
each group a card
with an animal so as
to write a
description/riddle of
Group work Writing / speaking 10 minutes
Example written
on the board
Flashcards

2. it, taking as a model
the example done
first by the teachers.
Activity 3: Students
will read the
description out loud
and the rest of the
class has to guess
what animal it is.
After that, each group
will stick it on the
walls.
Whole class
/ Group
work
Reading /
speaking /listening
7 minutes Flashcards
Activity 4: The
teachers will act out
the verbs related to
abilities/action
(swim, fly, walk, run
and jump) using a
can/can’t structure
(“The rabbit can
jump”). Meanwhile
the assistant teacher
will write the words
on the board and put
under them the
animal from the
example.
Whole class
Listening /
speaking 5 minutes Flashcards
Blackboard
Activity 5: the
teacher will write
four sentences with
can/can’t with the
help of the children.
Then the pupils will
be asked to copy it on
their notebooks
Whole class Reading
/listening /speaking
7 minutes Blackboard
Activity 2
Example: It is grey
It is beautiful
It is big
It is tall
Which animal is it?