1. The document provides details of an English lesson plan for 5th grade students in Rio Grande, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. 2. The 40-minute lesson focuses on discussing favorite school subjects. Students will analyze a bar chart about class preferences, ask each other questions, and practice using conjunctions like "and" and "but". 3. Assessment involves monitoring students' interactions during pair activities and correcting their writing work. The lesson aims to develop students' speaking, listening, and data analysis skills through communicative exercises involving charts.

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I.F.D.C. LENGUAS VIVAS
TALLER DE PRACTICA DOCENTE
ALUMNO RESIDENTE: Ludmila Ruiz Díaz
Período de Práctica: Nivel Primario
Institución Educativa: Instituto Privado República Argentina
Dirección: Lasserre 459, Rio Grande, Tierra del Fuego
Sala / Grado / Año - sección: 5 Grado
Cantidad de alumnos: 20
Nivel lingüístico del curso: Principiantes
Tipo de Planificación: Clase
Unidad Temática: Mis materias preferidas
Clase Nº: 4
Fecha: 22 de septiembre de 2015
Hora: 10.10 a 10.50 am
Duración de la clase: 40 minutos
Fecha de primera entrega: 21 de septiembre de 2015
CLASS 4
• Teaching points: My Favourite School Subjects
• Aims or goals: During this lesson, learners will be able to…
✓ Develop thinking skills by analysing a bar chart
✓ Develop their speaking and listening skills by asking each other personal
questions
✓ Identify conjunctions AND, BUT and BECAUSE to express in the con-
text of preferences
• Language focus:
Functions Lexis Structures Pronunciation
Revision Simple Commands
Identifying and talking
about my FavouriteSub-
ject
Use ofconjunction be-
cause to express an
opinion
Adjectives used to ex-
press preferences
Imperatives listen /
read / write / stand up
Music / Science / Geog-
raphy / English / PE /
Maths / History / Art
boring / difficult / in-
teresting / exciting
Commands:
- Stand up
- Ask your part-
ner…
- Complete the
chart
Present Simple
- My favourite
subject is (Maths)
because it’s (in-
teresting)
During the
speaking activ-
ity, special
attention will
be paid to /ʤ/
as is subject

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New Understanding and ana-
lysing a bar chart
Music / Science / Geog-
raphy / English / PE /
Maths / History / Art
Wh-questions:
- What’s the
class’s favour-
ite subject?
- How many
(girls/boys)
like (PE)?
• Teaching approach: Communicative Approach
• Integration of skills: Listening mainly to the teacher and each other during an inter-
action activity (Find Someone Who), speaking to each other during the same task.
Analysing a bar chart that will be built as a whole class activity, writing by inferring
information from a chart.
• Materials and resources: board, post-its, a poster to build up bar chart, copy of a
chart to play Find Someone Who, copy of a chart to work with conjunctions, blu
tack, smiling faces stickers for correction.
• Pedagogical use of ICT in class or at home: none in this class
• Seating arrangement: Horseshoe. Students will also be standing up during a short
period of time.
• Possible problems / difficulties and their possible solutions during the class: as I
have been experiencing difficulties with timing since students take longer to per-
form activities than I had originally planned, I have designed activities that take less
time to carry out and I will provided them with copies of the charts to avoid wasting
time to copy from the board.
• Classroom management strategies: students will need to stand up and move around
the classroom during ‘Find Someone Who’ activity, as there is little room I will be
able to stand among them and monitor they are carrying the activity in L2.
• Potential problems students may have with the language: students have had trouble
identifying and differentiating conjunctions AND, BUT and BECAUSE, I will pro-
vided them with another activity for further practice.
• Assessment: I will assess students’ speaking performance by monitoring their inter-
actions while they play Find Someone Who, I will correct their writing productions
during the Bar Chart activity and also the conjunctions activity.
Routine
I will greet Ss and ask them how they are in L2 so as to let them know the lesson has started.
I will ask students what the day is and write the date on the board.
Warm-up 3’
Purpose: to recall previous lesson’s vocabulary related to school subjects as an introduction for the
next activity.
I will quickly ask students which schools subjects they can remember and write the names
on the board as I elicit the information.
I will write the following question on the board
What’s your favourite subject?
I will ask two or three students what their favourite subject is.
Transition: Great everyone! Let’s work with our favourite subjects

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Development
Activity 1 15’
Purpose: to interact with each other and sharepersonal information and reasons for their preferences
using BECAUSE
I will draw the following chart on the board
Me
Subject
Why?
I will begin completing the ‘Me’ by saying ‘My favourite subject is English, because it is exciting’
I will ask some students again what his/her favourite subjectis and ask him/her ‘Why?’
then I will provide them with more adjectives to use such as interesting, funny.
I will explain the procedure of the activity by saying ‘To complete the chart, you need to stand
up and ask your partner about his/her favourite subject’ I will also explain that they need to find
someone whose preferences are the same as theirs in order to complete the chart. I will also
say ‘Find two partners with thesamefavourite subject’
I will distribute the copies and grant them one or two minutes to complete it with their own
information before moving around the classroom.
I will be tell students they have 5 minutes to find their partners and complete the chart as I
will time and end the activity once the time is up. As the activity is carried out, I will assess
students’ pronunciation and assist them where necessary.
As a follow up, I will ask two or three students to tell me about the information they have
gathered.
Transition: Well done! Let’s organise thisinformation now. I will ask students to open their
notebooks, copy the date and glue the copy of the chart under the headline ‘Find Someone
Who’
Activity 2 15’
Purpose: to build up a bar chart about students’ favourite subjects, to understand howto read the
chart, to analyse it and write sentences about it.
I will stick on the board a poster with the bar chart1. It will look as following
1 Activity retrieved from 500 Activities for the Primary Classroom, Read Carol, Macmillan. 2007

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English Science Technology PE History Maths Art
I will give each student a post-it sheet and say ‘Write down your name on these post-it, write it
in big capital letters’
I will begin by asking students what their favourite subject is and ask them to come to the
board and place the post-it in the right column. The bar chart will be built up as students
answer and stick the sheet on it.
Once we have finished, I will say ‘Look, this class’s favourite subject is (Maths)’ and then I will
ask ‘How many girls like PE? / How many boyslike technology?’
The expected answer is that students answer these questions, I will write the answers on the
board for visual reference:
Five girls like PE
Three boys like Technology
Then, I will ask students to work in pairs and to answer the following questions (I will spe-
cifically tell them not to copy the questions, just answer them) I will stick the poster on the
wall.
1. How many girls like Science?
2. How many boys like Art?
3. How many students like English?
4. What’s the class’s favourite subject?
As students work on the questions, I will correct their productions.
As a follow up, we will check the questions with the whole class.
Transition: Excellent work! Let’s keep talking about school subjects.

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Closure 10’
Purpose: To havestudents practise the use of conjunctions by reading and inferring information from
a chart.
I will ask students to recall information about Harry Potter, Hogwarts school and some of
the subjects he attended there. Then, I will distribute the following chart form the work
with.
I will write some examples using AND and BUT to activate prior knowledge of the conjunc-
tions. I will use the bar chart in order to do so, for instance
Five students like PE and two students like Maths
Three students like Science but the class’s favourite subject is PE.
I will ask students who are Harry’s friends. At this point, I have learnt they have all seen the
films so the expected answer should be the correct one. 2
Read the chart and complete the blanks with AND or BUT
Quidditch Potions History of Magic Flying Lessons Astronomy
Harry X
Hermione X X
Ron X X
I will attempt to check everybody’s performance before doing whole class checking.
2 Picturesretrieved from
http://hermionesparkle.tumblr.com
http://www.crushable.com/2011/07/12/entertainment/watch-the-harry-potter-cast-age-10-years-in-10-seconds/
http://aminoapps.com/page/harry-potter/8194443/isabelle-black
I don’t like Astronomy, _______
I like Qudditch _____ Flying
Lessons
I like Potions _____ Astronomy,
_______ I don’t like History of
Magic.
I like Astronomy _____ Flying
Lesson, _____ I don’t like Po-
tions.

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To close the lesson, I will tell everyone they did a great job and tell them I will be seeing
them the following lesson.