1) The lesson plan is for an 8th grade English class to teach directions vocabulary. 2) Students will review exponents like "turn left" and do a worksheet with incomplete comic dialogues to practice the vocabulary. 3) As a main activity, students will individually create their own comic using 10 boxes or less, where the main character gives a friend directions to a place of their choice.

1. Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción
English Major
Teaching Practice IV
Lesson Plan # Level: Elementary
Grade: 8th grade
Age: 12-14
Date: Time: Length:
45 min
Teacher:Luciana Rojas
Student Teacher:
Valentina Espinosa
Marta Fonseca
Type of School: Public school
Aim:
At the end of the lesson students will be able to indicate to a friend
how to get to a place through a comic they will create.
Assumed Knowledge
Vocabulary related to giving directions.
Exponents: Go to the corner, Turn left, turn right, go straight, go past,
cross the street, walk around, go back, go across
Target Language:
Go to the corner.
verb+(preposition)+direction
Anticipated Problems …..and Solutions
Ss might forget the exponents and the prepositions saw in class
Aids:
Cardboard, color pencil, images, glue, etc.

2. Stages What am I going to? Instructions
What I’m going to say
Assessmen
t
Interactio
n
T-Ss;Ss-
Ss;etc
Tim
(min)
Warm Up / Lead in T greets Ss
T shows Ss a well-
known comic and asks
them if they like reading
them, what’s their
favorite one, etc.
Good morning students, how are you today?!
Today, I’m going to show you this comic, this is
my favorite, it is about a superhero, and I think
you know him, his name is Spider Man. Do you
like reading comics? Do you have a favorite
one?
Well, today we are going to work with comics, so
I’m happy you are familiar with them and you like
them.
T-Ss 5 min
PRESENTATION T and Ss review the
exponents and the
prepositions saw in the
previous class in order
the reinforce the new
knowledge
T asks Ss “how do you
say..? (exponents) and
Ss answer aloud and T
writes the answers on
the board
T shows Ss some
images which illustrate
the prepositions saw by
Ss and asks Ss to speak
aloud the corresponding
preposition.
Before we start, I want us to review the
vocabulary we saw last class. Let me see. How
do say “dobla a la derecha”? How do you say
“dobla a la izquierda”? How do you say “ve a la
esquina”? how do you say “sigue derecho”?;
how do you say “pasa por..”?; how do you say
“da la vuelta”?; how do you say “cruza la calle”?;
how do you say “regresa”?; how do you say
“atravieza..”?
Good! Congratulations, you remember all the
words.
Now, tell me, which preposition is this?
(T shows images)
Well done, know you remember most of the
words.
T-Ss
T-Ss
T-Ss
10
min
PRACTICE Ss complete a short
worksheet in a comic
format related to giving
Now, you are ready to work with this worksheet.
As we were talking about comics, you will have
to complete the dialogue that is incomplete in
T-Ss 5
min

3. directions, which will be
useful to Ss when
completing the main
task.
this comic, in the upper part there is a box with
words, so you will have to find out which word
corresponds to which part of the dialogue. All
this vocabulary is the same we are working with,
please, use your dictionaries if you need, or ask
me. Please, start!
PRODUCTION T asks Ss to create a
comic where the main
character gives
directions to a friend in
order to get to a place
chosen by the Ss,
individually
Alright, as you told me you like comics, now, you
are going to create your own comic. This comic
is going to be about giving directions with the
vocabulary you already learnt. First of all, you
are going to work individually, you can draw or
use images and it cannot have more than ten
boxes. Ok.
So, do you have to work in pairs or individually?
Can you use drawings or images?
The maximum boxes are 10 or 11?
Ok, so let’s start!
Ss-Ss 25
min