1. PRACTICE II, DIDACTICS OF ELT.
LESSON PLAN Nº5
Teachers: Prof. Estela N. Braun, Prof. Vanesa Cabral, Prof. Luján Ramos, and ETA
Fulbright John Brakke.
Trainees: Mara Barbieri and Mariel Matta
School: School N°6 Dr. Ricardo Gutierrez
Course: 5th grade B&C
Textbook: Howdy Friends Level 1, Santillana
Date: August, 17th 2017 from 13:15 to 14:50
Topic: Bugs, Numbers and There is/are
Classes: N° 9&10
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Revise vocabularyaboutbugsandtheirbodyparts,school subjectsanddaysof the
week
Recognize numbersuntil100
Work inpairs to solve atask collectivelycreatingafinal producttobe sharedwiththe
class
Produce a short writtendescriptionof abug
ROUTINE
Singinggreetingsong“Yellow,red,greenandblue. Helloteacher,how are you?”.The trainees
givingstudentsbudgeswiththeirnames.Writingthe date onthe board.
WARM UP
The teacherwill askstudents toopenthe bookon page 26 to solve activity9*: poemcreepy
bugs.First,she will playthe audiofile.Thenshe will explainthe activityand correctthe activity
on the board.She will copythe numbersformthe activitythatdo not appearinthe poemand
will askstudentstosaythose numbers.She will alsowrite those numbersinordinaryspelling.
Finally,she will askstudentstoreadthe poemaloudaltogether,one stanzaperrow.
TYPE OF INTERACTION:teacher– students.
MACRO-SKILLS:listening,readingandspeaking
2. TIMING: 10 minutes
MATERIALS: blackboard , textbook,CDandCD player
DEVELOPMENT:
First Activity:
The teacherwill give anenvelopecontaininganimage of half of a bug to eachstudent.Then
studentswill have tofindthe otherhalf of theirbuginone minute,withouttalking.There will
be twelve bugs.Afterfindingthe otherhalf,studentwill have togoto the board and find
anotherenvelopewiththe name of theirbag.Thisenvelope will containone triangularflag
and piecesof paperswiththe namesof the bodyparts.Studentswill have toglue the two
halvesof the bugson the flag,to formthe image,write the name of the bugat the topof the
flagand finally,stickthe namesof the bodypartsdrawinganarrow to show what itpointsat.
Once theyfinish,theycome tothe boardand “weave”the flagina string. Whenall students
have done so,we will have a bugbuntingthatwill be hangedonthe wall.
TYPE OF INTERACTION:students –students.
MACRO-SKILLS:reading
TIMING: 15 minutes
MATERIALS: envelopeswithimagesof the bugs,envelopeswithflags andname of bodyparts,
string
Secondactivity
In pairs,studentswill have towrite,intheirnotebooks, three sentences describingthe bug
that theyworkedwithusingthe structures “tobe”, “has got” and “can”. If time allowsit,
3. studentswill readaloudtheirsentencestothe restof the class. In anycase, teacherwill
correct the sentencesindividuallyineachstudents’notebook.
TYPE OF INTERACTION:students –students.
MACRO-SKILLS:writing
TIMING: 8 minutes
MATERIALS: blackboard, textbook,CDandCD player
Third activity
For those whofinishthe previousactivitiesfaster,the teacherwillhave awordsearchgame
containingthree familiesof words:school subjects,daysof the weekandbugs.(The firsttwo
are vocabularyitemsfromthe previousunit).Afterfindingthe twelve words,studentswill
have to classifythemina chart accordingto the word familytheybelongto.
Thisactivitywill be assignedashomeworkforthose whodonotfinishitinclass.
TYPE OF INTERACTION:students individually
MACRO-SKILLS:reading
TIMING: 10 minutes
MATERIALS: handoutwiththe wordsearch
CLOSING UP:
• The teacherwill collectthe budges andsaygood-bye.
*Numbersof the activitiesdonotcoincide withthe onesin the imagesaswe tookwiththe
picturesfroman olderversionof the bookthanthe one our studentsare workingwith.
