1. LESSON PLAN Nº 1
School: Bilingual
Class: 4th Form
Teachers: Espósito Florencia; Paslawski Elisa
Date: Tuesday, June 7th
Time: 40 minutes
Communicative Goal: Talking about animal’s abilities
Grammar Focus: Abilities Can (affirmative and negative)
Vocabulary Focus: General activities that animals can or can’t do.
Recycled Language: Animals: “What’s this?”; plurals (lions, elephants) and
adjectives (hot, wet…)
ACTIVATION (5 minutes)
The teacher will show the students different shapes of animals and they will have
to guess which animal it is. The teacher will ask “What animal is this one?” and
they will have to answer “It’s a/ an…”
COMPREHENSION AND CLARIFICATION (10 minutes)
The teacher will show the students the following dialogue and she will elicit the
meaning of the words CAN and CAN’T from the context:
Hello, Lion! Can you
crawl?
Yes, I CAN. Can you
run?
Yes, I CAN. Can you
fly?
No, I CAN’T. Can you
hide?
No, I CAN’T. Ok, bye
bye!
Bye!

2. APLLICATION (20 minutes)
Activity 1
Focus: Reading, Writing
Grouping Scheme: Solo
Time: 5 minutes
Brief description: Children will have to complete with can or can’t.
Name: ________________________
Complete the following sentences with CAN or CAN’T:
Elephants __________ run. They _________ hide.
Koalas __________ sleep. They _________ sing.
Gorillas ___________ walk. They _________ swim.
Tigers _________ climb trees. They _______ write.
Rhinos _________ walk. They _________ swing.
Crocodiles __________ swim. They ________ jump high.
Lions __________ crawl. They ________ fly.
Activity 2
Focus: Reading and speaking
Grouping Scheme: Two Groups
Time: 5 minutes
Brief description: The class will be divided into two groups (boys against girls).
The children will have to choose which animal they can see taking into account
the realtionship between the picture and the text. (Hot Potatoes)
file:///D:/INFORM%C3%81TICA/Hot%20potatoes/hichanimalcanyouseeinthejungle.htm
Activity 3
Focus: Reading and speaking.
Grouping Scheme: two groups
Time: 10 minutes
Brief description: The class will be divided into two groups and they will have to
match the animals with their abilities (Hot Potatoes)
file:///D:/INFORM%C3%81TICA/Hot%20potatoes/animalsmatch.htm
REFLECTION (5 minutes)
The teacher will write on the board some sentences and the children will have to
decide if they are True or False:
The lion can dance.
The elephant can’t swing.
The tiger can crawl.
Buirds can’t fly.