The document outlines a lesson plan for a 40 minute English class for 5th grade students at a private school in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. The lesson focuses on introducing students to Harry Potter and discussing favorite school subjects using conjunctions like "and", "but", and "because". A variety of activities are planned, including watching a Harry Potter trailer, reading about the characters, and practicing expressing opinions about subjects.

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5I.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: 2
Fecha: 15 de septiembre de 2015
Hora: 10.10 a 10.50 am
Duración de la clase: 40 minutos
Fecha de primera entrega: 11 de septiembre de 2015
CLASS 2
• Teaching points: My Favourite School Subjects
• Aims or goals: During this lesson, learners will be able to…
✓ Develop their listening skills by watching a film trailer
✓ Develop their Creading skills by working with a paragraph related to school
subjects
✓ Identify conjunctions AND, BUT and BECAUSE related to likes and dislikes.
• Language focus:
Functions Lexis Structures Pronunciation
Revision Simple Commands
Identifying and talking
about School Subjects
Identifying Days ofthe
Week and relate them
with School Subjects
Imperatives listen /
read / complete
Music / Science / Ge-
ography / English / PE
/ Maths / History / Art
Monday / Tuesday /
Wednesday / Thursday
/ Friday
Commands:
- Read the text
and complete the
timetable
Likes & Dislikes:
- I like (PE)
- I don’t like
(Science)
Wh- Question
- When’s (Sci-
ence)?
- It’s on
(Wednesday)
Pronunciation
of words will
be practised
through repe-
tition (drilling)

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New Vocabulary necessary to
do a listening compre-
hension activity
Identifying and using
conjunctions to express
likes/dislikes
Adjectives used to ex-
press preferences
wizard / wand / owl /
broom / glasses / scar
/ quidditch (ball) /
forehead
and / but / because
boring / difficult / in-
teresting / exciting
- Harry Potter
wears glasses
and has a scar
on his fore-
head
- Quidditch is a
sport
Giving Opinions
- I like history
because it’s in-
teresting
- I don’t like
maths because
it’s difficult /
boring
Pronunciation
of words will
be practised
through repe-
tition (drilling)
• Teaching approach: Communicative Approach
• Integration of skills: Listening mainly to the teacher and ‘Harry Potter and the Sor-
cerer’s Stone’ trailer. Reading a short text about Harry Potter’s school preferences.
Speaking about their favourite subjects
• Materials and resources: a word search to review days of the week1, pictures related
to Harry Potter downloaded from the Internet2, ‘Harry Potter’s and the sorcerer’s
Stone’ film trailer3, a laptop, two worksheet assembled by the teacher, whiteboard,
blu tack.
• Pedagogical use of ICT in class or at home: laptop to show a film trailer
• Seating arrangement: Horseshoe
• Possible problems / difficulties and their possible solutions during the class: stu-
dents might get anxious because they will not be able to understand the whole trail-
er, praise will be used in order to reassure them. Timing could not work as planned,
in such a case I will assign the follow-up activity as homework.
• Classroom management strategies: as during the previous class there were two stu-
dents who did not feel involved in the lesson, during this one I will change the sit-
ting arrangement and also, as the classroom is rather small, they will have difficul-
ties in wandering around the classroom
• Potential problems students may have with the language: students might have diffi-
culties identifying conjunctions; I will provide them with more examples than the
ones presented in the reading section.
• Assessment: Listening comprehension will be assessed through a multiple choice ex-
ercise. Comprehension of reading passage will be assessed by a matching exercise.
1 http://www.kidslearningstation.com/days-of-the-week/days-word-search.asp
2 http://littlefallingstar.deviantart.com/art/Hogwarts-Crest-393666704
http://ishareimage.com/golden-snitch-flying.asp
http://eltriunfodearciniegas.blogspot.com.ar/2015/06/joanne-kathleen-rowling.html
http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Wandlore
http://coloring.com.co/tag/harry-potter-free-coloring-pages/page/3/
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eclair_de_feu.jpg
3 https://youtu.be/o8zKrA5kbNE

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Routine
I will greet Ss and ask them how they are in L2 so as to let them know the lesson has started.
Warm-up 5’
Purpose: to revise ‘Daysof the Week’ by doing a word search and talking about School Subjects
I will ask students ‘Remember the daysof the week? Which are they?’ As students say the days I
will repeat and praise them by say ‘Good!/ Great!.
I will then distribute the following word search for Ss to complete in pairs and then glue it in
their notebooks. I will show the photocopy and say ‘This is a word search, you need to find and
circle the days of week. Let’s see who is the first one to find all the days’
After Ss finish this activity I will ask ‘What subject’s on Monday?’ EA ‘(Science)’, then
‘When’s English?’ EA ‘It’s on Tuesday and Thursday’
Transition: Very good, everyone! Now, let’s talk about a different kind of school.
Development
Activity 1 10’
Purpose: to activate Ss’ prior knowledge and pre-teach key vocabulary related to Harry Potter
Before listening
I will use the following pictures in order to trigger Ss knowledge about Harry Potter and
attempt to elicit his name.
I will say ‘In this school, you need one of these ballsfor PE lessons and also one of these brooms’ as I
stick them on the board.

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In case Ss spot that it is a quidditch ball and relate it to Harry Potter, I will praise them and
go on showing the rest of the pictures. As I stick them, I will go on writing the names of each
of these so that Ss have the written from connected to the visual stimulus.
Last, I will ask Ss ‘Do you remember the name of Harry Potter’s school?’ and stick the following
picture on the board, I will write under it ‘Hogwarts School’. I will go on asking ‘What kind
of school is Hogwarts? Is it a normal school?’ EA ‘No!’ T ‘You’re right, it’s not a normal is school,
it’s a magic school! It’s a school for wizards. Harry Potteris a wizard’ Here I will stick Harry Pot-
ter’s picture and write ‘Wizard’ under it.
I will also add some physical description since it will be the topic of the following lessons
‘Harry Potter wears glasses and hasa scar on his forehead’
Transition: ‘Good! Nowwe are going to watch a video of Hogwarts school, pay attention and listen.’
I will signal my eyes and ear as I say this.
Activity 2 10’
Purpose: to watch ‘Harry Potter and Sorcerer’s Stone’ trailer and complete a multiple choice exercise
I will play the video once for Ss to watch, I will point to the pictures on the board and ask
them ‘What items can you recognise from the video? Is there a broom/ wand / owl?’ and so
on in order to check they understood vocabulary and to prepare them for the following ac-
tivity. I will distribute the following copy:

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I will tell students ‘In this activity, you have to circle the correct option. Let’s read thesentences,
who would like to read?’
Once all the sentences have been read, I will play the trailer a second time and check the
answers. Should any difference or doubt arise, I will play the trailer one more time stopping
where necessary to check the correct option.
Transition: Well done, everyone! We arenow going to read about Harry Potter’s favourite subjects
at Hogwarts school; this is his diary. Ss are familiar with the concept of ‘diary’ since they work
with in their class course book.
Activity 3 10’
Purpose: To introduce conjunctions AND, BUT and BECAUSE through a short text about Harry
Potter’s school subject preferences.
I will say ‘This is Harry Potter’s diary, let’s read about his school subjects’ I will distribute
the following passage for Ss to read.

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I will draw Ss attention to the words in bold and provide them with examples which I will
write on the board. Such as
I like PE and ICT
I like Geography, but I don’t like Match
I like History because it’s interesting
I will ask two/three Ss ‘What are you favourite subjects? Why?’ In order to elicit answers
where the use of these conjunctions are necessary.
Closure 5’
Purpose: To check comprehension of conjunctions and end the lesson.
I will ask students to open their books at page 40 and complete the writing exercise. I will
demonstrate the exercise with examples first, and then monitor and provide them with help
when necessary.
I will wish Ss a great weekend and tell them I will see them the following week.
Dear Diary,
Hogwarts School is great! It’s a school for wizards.
I have a lot of new subjects. I like Astronomy and Flying les-
sons, but I don’t like History of Magic because it’s boring. I also
like Quidditch because it’s exciting.
My favourite subject is Potions because it’s wonderful. Potions
is on Monday; my favourite day of the week!