This document outlines a lesson plan for teaching English to 5th grade students in Argentina. The lesson focuses on vocabulary for places in a town and the structure "Is there?". The teacher will tell a story about two characters, Alex and Darren, walking through their town. Flashcards of places like the park and train station will accompany the story. Students will then practice asking and answering yes/no questions about whether certain places are in the town using the target structure. The goal is for students to recognize town vocabulary and use "Is there?" questions and short answers.

1. Taller de Práctica Docente 2015
Tutora: Prof. Cecilia A. Zemborain
Co- tutoras: Prof. Eugenia Carrión Cantón – Prof. Graciela Inés Manzur
Lesson Plans – Practicum – Second Period
I.F.D.C. Lenguas Vivas
Taller de Práctica Docente
ALUMNA PRACTICANTE: MyriamBeatriz Tielve
PEER CORRRCTION: Paula Schulze
Período de Práctica: Segundo – Nivel Primario
Institución Educativa: Instituto Juana de Ibarbourou
Dirección: Avenida Gral.Rojo 4415 – Gregorio de Laferrere - Buenos Aires
Sala/Grado/Año: 5to C – Turno Mañana
Cantidad de alumnos: 36
Nivel Lingüistico del curso: Beginners
Tipo de Planificación: Clase
Unidad Temática: Our neighbourhood
Clase N°: 1
Fecha: 13/07/2015
Hora: 8.30 – 9.20
Duración de la clase: 50´
Fecha de la primera entrega: 6/07/2015
 Teaching Points: Is there? (Interrogative form) – Short answers (Yes, there is/No,there isn´t.)
 Aims and goals:
 Duringthis lesson,learners will beableto…
o Recognize, identify and mention vocabulary connected with places in a town.
o Identify and use the structure “Is there?” in questions with “Yes/No answer.”
o Answer questions usingthe structure “Yes, there is.” “No, there isn´t.”
o Followsimplecommands whilethey aregetting organized to work.
 Language focus:

2. LEXIS FUNCTION STRUCTURES PRONUNCIATION
REVISION Greetings
Hello!
Goodbye!
The Imperative
Sit down!
Listen!
Look at!
Places in town
Market, school,
kiosk,stadium,
train station,
park,library,
church,shoe-
shop, butcher´s,
greengrocer´s.
Preposition of
place
In
-Greeting
people.
-Giving
commands and
instructions.
-Identifyingand
namingplaces in
town.
-Wh- Questions
in the simple
present
-How are you
today? I´m fine.
-Who is…?
- Where is/are…?
-Polite requests
-Let´s sit
down/look at the
board.
-Listen to your
partner, please!
-There is – There
are (affirmative
form) + places in
a town
Recognition and
use of the sounds
|ɑː| in Park
|ɪː| in
Greengrocer´s
NEW Demonstrative
pronoun
This
Places
Town
-Askingand
answering
yes/no questions
about places in
town.
-Questions with
Yes/No answer
-Is there ( a park)
in your town?
Yes, there is/No,
there isn´t.
Recognition and
use of the
existential
pronoun “there”
in its weak form
|ðər|
 Teaching approach: The Natural Approach and the PPP method. The students are expected to
interactwith the teacher and peers in a natural way.
 Integrating skills: Listeningand Speaking whilelisteningto a story and interactingwith the teacher
and partners.
 Materials and resources: The book “The Old House”- Derek Strange; Oxford University Press;1998.
Poster of a town, poster of one of the pages in the book, flashcardsof places in thetown and
photocopies with a sketch of a map.
 Pedagogical use of ICT in class: In this classtherewill not be use of ICT duringthe lesson.This tool
will beincluded in some of the followinglessonsas I have to ask permission for doingit. There is
only one television in all theschool.
 Seating arrangements: The students seat at tables in groups. There are six tables in the room and
so there aresix students in each table and the board is in frontof them. Students are expected to
get together in groups in every activity.

3.  Cooperative work: Students will work in a cooperative way while they ask and answer questions
with a partner.
 Possible problems/difficulties and their solutions during the class: It is possiblethatsome of the
students feel shy to ask and answer questions with their partners. If his happens I will sitnext to
them and encourage them in order to make them feel more confident. If any student uses L1 during
the interaction I will encouragehim/her to use L2 by modellingthe question or the answer and
usingthe technique of repetition.
 Potential problems students may have with the language: Students may not remember some
words connected with places in town, in this caseI will elicitthe word from their partners by
pointingto the pictures on the board. Another possibility is askingYes/No questions whilepointing
to the pictures on the board:“Is it a church or a market?”
 Assessment: I will assesslearners’comprehension and understandingthrough their oral
interactions,and their participation and development duringthe activities.
Routine : 5´
Purpose: to greet students and get them into a positive mood to start the lesson.
I will come into the classroomand greet the students “Hello!” EA: “Hello!” Then I will ask for a volunteer to
write the date on the board. I will givehim/her a piece of chalk and I will ask thewhole class:
T: What day is today?
Ss: Monday/It´s Monday/ Today is Monday.
T: That´s right.Today is Monday. Is itMonday the 13th or the 14th of July?
Ss: 13th of July.
T: Well done, kids!Today is Monday the 14th of July.
As this lesson is on the second period on Monday students have already written the date in L1 with their
teacher so they will surely knowwhat day itis.
I will tell the students that I will teach them a song to start our lessons:
Start the Day With a Smile
This is the way we start the day
Start the day, startthe day,
This is the way we start the day,
So early in the morning.
Firstwe smileand shakea hand,
Shake a hand,shake a hand,
Firstwe smileand shakea hand,
So early in the morning.
Then we sitdown quietly,
Quietly, quietly,
Then we sitdown quietly,
So early in the morning.

4. We listen very carefully,
Carefully,carefully,
We listen very carefully,
So early in the morning.
Source : http://www.canteach.ca/elementary/songspoems68.html - I will use the same music as in
https://youtube.com/watch?v=zoJjUHBNufY- Adapted for pedagogical use.
I will ask the students to stand up and followmy movements whileI singthe song for the firsttime. I will
singita second time so that the students can startlearningits lyrics.I will usethe same song to greet
students in every lesson. I will deal with the firsttwo stanzas in this lesson and teach the other two in the
followinglesson.I will also provide a copy of the lyrics of the song to each student so that they have itin
their folder.
Transition: Great, kids!Now we areready to startworking!
Warm up: 5´
Purpose: to activate previous knowledge and create the right atmosphere to tell a story.
In the annual plan theEnglish teacher included in this unit(Our Neighbourhood) the story “The Old House”
by Derek Strange. The students have already worked with itfrom pages 1 to 12.So I will usethe two main
characters of this story “Alex (a girl) and Darren (a boy) in my own story to provide a meaningful context. I
will startlikethis:
T: (Holdingthe book in my hands) Do you know this book? EA: Yes! (As they all knowits cover)

5. Source : http://articulo.mercadolibre.com.ar/MLA-560580443-libro-the-old-house-derek-strange-english-
today-readers-3-_JM
T: What´s its name? ( pointingto the heading) EA: The Old house!
T: Yes, kids!It´s the story about The Old House! And who are these two kids behind the wall? EA: Alex and
Darren/They are Alex and Darren.
T: Great kids!They areAlex and her brother Darren! And who´s the man in the picture? EA: Mr. Snake/He is
Mr. Snake!
T: Yes, he is Mr Snake! What´s this? (pointingto the house) EA: A house/An old house/ The old house.
T: Yes! You are right! This is Mr.Snake goinginto the Old House! But the Old House is in a town! Look kids
this a town (I will hangthis poster in A3 on the board) under this heading:
Alex and Darren´s Town

6. Source: http://www.imagui.com/a/ciudad-de-caricatura-TMdXkky6A
T: This is the town where Alex and Darren live.And today they are takingus on a tour through their town. I
will also do the mimicry of the word tour.
Transition: Are you ready? Let´s followthem!
Presentation : 10´
Purpose: to foster comprehension through a story and create a meaningful context.
I will hangon this poster en A3 on the board and I will startmy description likethis:
Source : The Old House; Derek
Strange; English Today Readers
3; Oxford University Press;1998.
“One day Alex and Darren were walkingto school across thepark. In their way to school, they walked in
front of a kiosk and Darren stopped to buy his favouritesweets. Then they walked pastthe library, the

7. market and the butcher´s. In the corner Alex and Darren stopped in the greengrocer´s to buy some apples
and some bananas to eat duringthe break at school. At lastthey arrived atschool which was next to the
train station.”
Source: I have written this story only for pedagogical reasons.
Whiletellingthe story I will hangthe followingflashcards on the board:

8. Source : Google Images-
https://www.google.com.ar/search?q=the+old+house+imagen+del+libro&rlz=1C1AFAB_enAR532AR532&es
pv=2&biw=1014&bih=628&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=BtKZVeSQKsavwATypL-
QAQ&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ&dpr=1#tbm=isch&q=estaci%C3%B3n+de+trenes+para+colorear+e+imprimir&im
grc=sS_H-HtsGdYVbM%3A
I will colour all of them and write the name of each one so that the students can see the image and the
name on the flashcard.They will bebig enough for all the students to see them. I will display thepictures on
the board and drawwith a piece of chalk the streets. I will also interactwith the students duringthe story to
check understandingand grab their attention, askingthe followingquestions:
 Where are Alex and Darren? EA: In the park.
 Are they at the butcher´s or at the greengrocer´s? EA: At the butcher´s.
 Look! Are they in the train station now? EA: No. At school.
Development : 20´
 Activity 1 : 10´
Purpose: to check comprehension while presenting the new structure.
I will work with the whole group and I will ask thefollowingquestions:
T:“Look at the pictures of Alex and Darrens´ town… Is there a park in this town?” EA: “Yes.”
T: “Yes, there is.There is a bigpark in this town. And is there a greengrocer´s in this town?” EA: “Yes.” I will
answer after them “Yes, there is.”And encourage them to repeat after me. I will writethe question and
answer on the board:
Is there a greengrocer´s in this town? Yes, there is.
T: Well done, kids!Pay attention! Is there a shoe shop in this town? EA: “No.”
T: “No, there isn´t.” And is there a stadiumin this town?” EA: “No.” I will answer after them “No, there
isn´t.” And encourage them to repeat after me. I will writethe question and answer on the board:

9. Is there stadiumin this town? No, there isn´t.
I will followwith the other shops,a boy, a girl,a woman and a man with the same procedure. Only the
above sentences will bewritten on the board.
 Activity 2 : 10´
I will tell the students that they are goingto work with the partner sitting next to them. I will hand in one
different card to each student:
Then I will ask them to write the names of places in town in their cards so as to create their own town. They
can´tshow their cards to their partners. After some minutes I will proceed likethis:
T: “Pay attention kids!You are goingto work with the partner sittingnext to you.” I will ask two students to
come to the front of the class to help me model the activity.“Juan is student A and he has his town; Maria is
student B and shehas her town.” I will ask thestudents to show their towns to the whole class.
T: “Well done, kids!” “Juan and Maria haveto guess which places there are in their partners´ towns asking
these questions.” I will model the activity encouragingJuan and Maria to ask the questions on the board and
answeringthem. I will check comprehension with the whole group, I will thank Juan and Maria and let
students startwith the activity.”
Duringthe activity I will go round the classroomhelpingshy students,facilitatingwords they don´t
remember, guidingstudents through questions,pointingat the pictures on the board and givingpositive
feedback to the different groups.I will also encouragestudents to use L2 while interactingwith their
partners.
Transition: Well done kids!You´ve worked really hard today!
Closure : 10´
Purpose: to organize the homework for the following lesson and to greet students goodbye.
Student A- This is my town Student B- This is my town

10. T: “Open your folders.Write the date on it.” (Meanwhile I will hangdown the pictures from the wall and
write the followingheading: This is my town . “Now write this heading under the date. Then stick you card
under the heading.”
I will writethe homework on the board and ask the students to copy it:
Homework :
Draw a map of the centre of your town. Includesix places and writesentences using“There is …” .You will
shareyour map with your partners in the next lesson.
T: “Goodbye, kids!It was niceto work with you today! See you tomorrow!”