This document provides a lesson plan for a 6th grade English class on the topic of environmental issues. The 60-minute lesson has three main parts: a warm-up where students present brochures they created on pollution problems; an activity where students survey classmates on their transportation to school and discuss conditional sentences; and a final activity completing sentences about pollution consequences. The plan outlines learning objectives, language focus, materials, seating, possible issues, and assessment. It aims to develop students' speaking, listening, reading and writing skills through interactive group work and presentation.

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TALLER DE PRÁCTICA DOCENTE
ALUMNO RESIDENTE: Barth María Pía
Período de Práctica: Segundo período
Institución Educativa: Colegio Jean Piaget
Dirección: Paseo de los carpinteros 5187, Bariloche.
Grado sección: 6° grado
Cantidad de alumnos: 26
Nivel lingüístico del curso: Intermedio
Tipo de Planificación: Clase
Unidad Temática: “Salvando el planeta”
Clase Nº: 3
Fecha: 12/08/15
Hora: Desde 15:05 hs hasta 16:05 hs
Duración de la clase: 60 minutos
Fecha de primera entrega:05/08/15
Teaching points: Environmental issues, means of transport and conditional
sentences type 1.
Aims or goals: During this lesson, learners will be able to:
 Develop their speaking skills by Describing and talking about their
brochures about environmental issues.
 Develop their communicative competence by interviewing friends.
Language focus:
Functions Lexis Structures Pronunciation
Revision Talk about
things that
we can do to
save our
planet.
Talk about
pollution
problems and
describe
them.
Smoke, noise,
chemicals,
pollution,
Earth,
environment,
rubbish, oil,
gases,
poaching,
poisonous
Future “Will”
Present
simple tense
Flood /ʌ/
Chemicals /k/

2. New Talk about
means of
transport and
the way they
affect our
environment.
CUT DOWN
(phrasal)
POLLUTE
Conditional
sentences
type 1
(If I continue
using my car
to go
everywhere,
Bariloche will
suffer air
pollution)
Teaching approach: “communicative approach” and “CLIL”
Integration of skills: I’ll integrate speaking and listening by inviting students to
discuss their opinions about pollution and interviewing their friends. I will also
integrate reading and writing kills by performing activities such as gap filling.
Materials and resources: copies, pieces of chalk masking tape, pictures. Music,
CD player, surveys, copies with the homework and sentences to complete
Seating arrangement: Students will be sitting down in groups of 4 or five
students.
Possible problems / difficulties and their possible solutions during the class:
The CD player may not work; I will take my computer to the class in case it
happens.
Classroom management strategies:
 Students may be a bit noisy or disruptive so I will write the word
“Dictation” on the board, every time that I have to say silence I will clean
on letter, if I clean the complete word students will have an spontaneous
dictation on Thursday.
 Potential problems students may have with the language

3. Students may find it difficult to understand instructions and conditional
sentences usage, I will provide them with more examples and I will repeat the
instructions.
Assessment: I’ll asses my students’ progress by helping them to understand
using posters, repetition and encouraging them to use the dictionary.
Procedure:
Routine (3’ minutes)
I’ll greet my students “hello children! How are you today?”
Then, I’ll choose my helpers, my helper boy will wear a tie and my helper
girl will wear a necklace. I’ll ask one of them to copy the date.
 Warm-up (15’ minutes)
I’ll ask different groups to present the brochures they did on Friday. “Okay
children, last class you did an excellent job! Let’s share with the other
groups your work! You will have to listen to your friends and take note of
some important ideas from each presentation. Please, group number one,
come here, can you show us the brochure? Wow! That’s great! What ideas to
help our planet did you include? Excellent! A big clap for them please” I will
repeat the same procedure with the other groups.
 Presentation (7’ minutes)
“As I’m very interested in the topic of pollution, I continued looking for ideas
in order to save our environment! I found some pictures with ideas to do it,
but I do not know where I left the papers with the ideas! Can you help me
with that please? I will play some music on for you to find them, if you find
them you’ll have to stick under the correct picture that is displayed on the
board, are you ready? Go! Let’s find them!”

4.  Development
 Activity 1 (15’ minutes)
I will say “Did you realise that in the ideas that I found there is one that is
very easy to do… I mean the one that says “use bicycles and public
transport”…that is why I would like you to do a survey to your friends. Can
you help me to interview them? Here I have a chart to complete it.
Remember to ask all of them how do you get to school? And take notes!” I’ll
ask my helpers to hand out the copies. At the end we will compare the
answers, I’ll encourage them to say “ten students get to school by bus, 6
students get to school by car, etc”
Students will draw their results in a graphic.
 Activity 2 (10’ minutes)
I will say “fantastic children! Next time that you need to go to a place think:
If I continue using my car to go everywhere, Bariloche will suffer air pollution
and If people don’t use public transport and bicycles, the city won’t be clean”. I
will introduce the First conditional. “We often use the First conditional to
talk about things that are likely to happen in the future and make
predictions, for example (and I’ll copy the sentences that I said to introduce
the topic If everyone continues using their car to go everywhere, Bariloche will

5. suffer from higher levels of air pollution and If people don’t use public
transport and bicycles, the city won’t be clean) Look! There is a real
possibility that this condition will happen. We use the PRESENT SIMPLE
tense to talk about the possible future condition (pointing to the part of the
sentence that says If I continue using my car. We use WILL+INFINITIVE to
talk about the possible future result (pointing to the parts of the sentence
that says Bariloche will suffer)” I will display the following poster in the class
to help them to remember the usage; I will also elicit more examples related
to pollution, and I will write down some of the examples on the board. At the
end students will copy the poster and examples in their copybooks.
 Activity 3 (10’ minutes)
I will say “great! Now we’ll work to complete some sentences that I found on
a blog in the Internet related to pollution and its consequences. Helpers
please come here, and help me to hand out the copies. Abru, can you read
the sentences that are inside the box? Thanks, ok now we have to complete
the sentences using the phrases that are in the box…Can you help me to do
the first one?” I’ll encourage students to do the first one all together in the
board to demonstrate the activity. “Now yes! You are ready to start! You

6. have 10 minutes to do it, you’ll have to work in pairs. We will check the
sentences orally”.
Use the phrases in the box to complete the sentences.
1- If we use our car all the time, ___________________________________________________________.
2- If we stop polluting the air, _____________________________________________________________.
3- If we waste paper, ______________________________________________________________________.
4- If we don't help now, ___________________________________________________________________.
5- If we recycle paper, ____________________________________________________________________.
6- If we go on foot, _______________________________________________________________________.
7- If we switch off the lights, _____________________________________________________________.
 Closure and homework (5’minutes) :
I will say “ouch! Look at the time! We must go home. Please put everything
away and remember to leave everything in order! The helpers will hand you
out a copy to do it as homework for next class. You will have to complete it
with your ideas”
we will save world.
it will be too late.
we will pollute the air.
we will save trees.
we will be healthier.
we will save energy.
people will cut down more trees.
Complete the sentences with your own ideas !
1- If we waste a lot of water, _____________________________________________________
2- If we use plastic bags,__________________________________________________________
3- If we use solar panels, _________________________________________________________