This is the lesson plan of my class on grammar.

1. Universidade Federal
Fluminense
Instituto de Letras
Inglês VIII – Prof.ª Kátia
Valero
Matheus de Castro Ramos
Fialho
Lesson Plan
Focus: Grammar and Discourse
Analysis
Level: Basic Students
Aims: To know the signs of
Punctuation and their
different uses.
Procedure Time Rationale
1. Introduction
• Ask students what they
already know about
punctuation.
• Show them a creative
use of punctuation: The
Ad.
5’
By giving them the
idea of creative use of
punctuation, we are
building or activating
their formal schemata.
2. Tell them about Martin Luther
King and about the speech “I
had a dream”.
3. Give them the sheet of paper
with a part of the speech or to
show the text on the board and
ask them to punctuate
creatively.
4. Talk and nomeate the signs of
15’
This demonstration
focuses on the
interational content of
the message
(exchange of social
meaning). Learners
will resort primarly to
their content
schemata.

2. punctuation.
5. Show them the video, for they
see how it was really used.
6. Talk about their work and the
real use of punctuation.
1. Give them the sheet of Charlie
Chaplin and asking the
students to use their recently
learned use of punctuation,
make them punctuate that
speech properly.
2. Show them the subtitulated
video of the speech and in
group with the class
comparate their work(s) to the
Chaplin’s use.
15’
This activity fosters
the practice of a very
useful element of
discourse, the
punctuation.