This document outlines a lesson plan for a 5th grade English class focusing on cities. The lesson aims to have students work in teams to recall places in a city, make sentences using existential verbs like "there is" and "there are", and recognize correct grammar. A variety of activities are included, like listing city places, answering questions about pictures, and matching sentences comparing cities.

1. Prácticas Comunitarias. Prácticas Educativas.
Práctica Educativa II: Didáctica Especial de la Lengua Inglesa y Residencia en
Escuelas Primarias.
Carrera: Profesorado en Inglés.
Profesor: Profesora Adjunta Regular dedicación exclusiva, a cargo, Estela
Nélida Braun.
Escuela Normal N°256 Clemente J. Andrada.
Course: 5th grade, B.
Timetable: Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays: 16.50 hs. to 17.45 hs.
Tuesdays and Fridays: 16.05 hs to 16.50 hs.
Mentor teacher: Badillo, Juliana.
Trainees: Ferreyra Valentina and Yacopini Cristian
Year: 2021.
Session October, 21th
There is, There are
Lesson Plan 4
Time: 45 minutes
Topic: Cities
Objectives:
- To work in teams to recall previous knowledge about places in a city.
- To make sentences using there is - there isn’t - there are - there aren’t.
- To assess their classmates on their grammar.
- To recognise the correct use of this existential verb.
Materials needed for the lesson
- Student’s book Hop into English 5.
- Visual support and materials designed by the teacher-students.
Routine

2. Timing: 5 minutes.
Type of interaction: all the class, teacher-students.
Makro skills: listening and speaking.
We will follow the routine ‘’How do you feel today?’’ and continue with a breathing
exercise before starting the lesson to help students prepare to get to work after their
recess.
Warm-up
Timing: 5 minutes.
Type of interaction: between students, in teams.
Makro skills: writing and speaking.
We will divide students into two teams, 1 and 2.
0. You have 20 seconds to make a list of places they can find in the city.
We will check orally, altogether. The team that has written more words wins.
First activity
Timing: 10 minutes.
Type of interaction: between students, in teams.
Makro skills: writing and speaking.
1. The team that loses will ask question with is there - are there about the picture
used in the previous class.
2. The other team will answer with yes, there is - no, there isn’t.
Second activity
Timing: 15 minutes.
Type of interaction: all the class - individually.
Makro skills: listening and speaking.
1. Listen to the teacher reading this text. Write YES if the place is mentioned and NO
if it is not. (text will be read aloud by the teachers)
Salta is the Capital city of the province of Salta. This city is
very large. People live in big houses with beautiful little
gardens and old buildings. There are enormoushills around

3. the city, and in one of them, there is a cable railway.
In Balcarce street there are many restaurants to enjoy a
music show. There aren’t any circuses or waterparks in this
city, but in each corner, there is a coffee house and craft
stores. There are also three History museums and cinemas.
It is a very clean city because there aren’t any papers on the
sidewalks.
Link to the listening activity: Listen and write YES or NO.pdf
We will check this orally.

4. 2. Follow up questions:
- What places do you usually find in a big city?
- Which places are usually missing in small towns?
- What’s your favourite place?
Close-up
Timing: 10 minutes.
Type of interaction: individually.
Makro skills: reading and speaking.
3. Match the numbers and the letters to make a sentence comparing Santa Rosa
and Salta:
1. In Salta, there are many old buildings, but
2. In my city, there isn’t a circus and
3. In Santa Rosa there is an Art Museum and
4. There aren’t any waterparks in the capital of Salta and
a. Salta also doesn’t have a circus.
b. in my city there aren’t any waterparks either.
c. in Salta there is also a History museum.
d. in Santa Rosa there are new and modern buildings.