This lesson plan is for a 30-minute English class for 5-year-olds focusing on colors. The lesson will introduce new colors purple, blue, green, and pink through a warm-up activity showing color cards and eliciting the names. Then students will practice identifying colored balls from bags and use them to make caterpillar pets out of cardboard rings, gluing different colored balls onto the rings for the head and tail. Finally, students will name their caterpillar pets before leaving class.

1. TALLER DE PRÁCTICA DOCENTE
ALUMNO RESIDENTE: Mariela Isabel Waldovino
Período de Práctica: Nivel Inicial
Nivel Inicial Institución Educativa: Jardín Ositos Cariñosos – Colegio Horizonte
Dirección: Coronel López 1105
Sala / Grado / Año - sección: Sala de 5 años – Turno Tarde
Cantidad de alumnos: 9
Nivel lingüístico del curso: Principiantes
Tipo de Planificación: clase
Unidad Temática: Colors
Clase Nº: 4
Fecha: 08/6/2017
Hora: 16:00 – 16:30
Duración de la clase: 30’
Fecha de primera entrega: 11/05/2014 •
Teaching points: Colours yellow, red, orange
• Aims : During this lesson, learners will be able to…
Use the introductory structure I´m
Learn color vocabulary
Recognize and identify them
Language Focus
Lexis Function Structure Pronunciation
Revision Hello!
Welcome!
I´m…
Greetings
Introducing
themselves
I´m…
What colour is
it?
/æm/
New Color
Blue, purple,
Green, pink
Carterpillar
Head, tail
Recognize four
different colors Who´s there?
What is it?
A ball
/'gri:n/

2. Teaching approach: the lesson is based on the Natural Approach, and organized through the
PPP procedure.
Materials and resources: coloured cutouts, cardboard rings, styrofoam balls, paper bags, glue
Seating Arrangement: children will be sitting in a circle on the floor in order to facilitate visual
contact and interaction within the group. For the main activity they will be sitting at the table.
Cooperative work: during the lesson they help.
Possible problems / difficulties and their possible solutions during the class: kids could not
understand the warm-up activity. I will elicit the activity repeating two times before put it into
practice.
Another possible difficulty may be that their teacher doesn´t speak English to them, only the
very basic, so they may not understand me. I will use gestures, miming and when it is possible,
images.
Potential problems students may have with the language: they may not understand the
commands or instructions in English. They may not respond to the command of the warm up
activity.
Assessment: what will be assessed and how: will be assessed the knowledge of colours during
the lesson but especially at the end.
Routine: 5’ Purpose: establish rapport
I´ll be waiting for the kids outside the classroomand Welcome them.
I´ll ask children to sit on the floor and I will use the Welcome song.
Hello, hello,
we say hello to you
hello, hello, how are you today?
Welcome friends,
welcome friends,
It`s nice to see you again.
Welcome friends, welcome friends,
It`s nice to see you again.

3. Warm-up/Presentation 5’ : Purpose: to prepare kids for the main activity
Kids will enter into the classroom and I will say
T: Hello kids! Ready to start? Let´s sit in a circle
I will hide on my back first the cutouts and then I will show them each color and say the name
of the colour
T: Now kids, look! This colour is pink, pinkkk, pinkkk (I will elicit three times)
T: What colour is it?
And I will do the same with the other colours a few times.
Practice 10´: this activity is aimed at fostering contextualized practice of the teaching points
For this activity I will have styrofoam balls painted with the colours we have learned so far.
There will be a totally of 20 balls, ten of them will be bigger and ten of them smaller.
I will put the balls in two bags and will shake it in front of the students. The bigger ones and the
smaller ones in two separated paper bags and I will say…
T: Now kids, listen! I have something for you inside these bags. You will take what it is inside of
them and name the colour.
T: Take what it is inside Pablo… What is it?? A ball, a ball, a ball
T: What colour is it?
T: Now Pablo, take what is inside this second bag again…What is it? A ball x 3 .What colour is it
Pablo?
Now, keep the balls in your pocket please Pablo.
And I will do the same with the rest of the kids, they will pick two balls from the bags and keep
them.

4. Production 10’ : to make kids work
Kids will assemble a Caterpillar with the balls they kept and rings of cardboard made
beforehand with the colours learned.
T: And now, I will present Pancho, Pancho is my pet, he is a Caterpillar! You know?? Caterpillar
x 3.
I made Pancho to play with me and now it´s up to you to make your own Caterpillar pet.

5. T: with the big ball you will make the head and with the smaller one the tail. (and I will
emphasize showing the head and the tail for them to distinguish the parts)
T: So you will glue the head and the tail to the cardboard rings to make your pet.
Closure: to foster the student´s creativity
To end this lesson and when all the caterpillars are ready, I will ask children to put a name to
their pets.
T. Now children, What´s your pet´s name? How will you call it?
Take your pets and let´s go outside the classroom. See you tomorrow!!
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Observations
You are soresourceful! Well done!
Are you planningtotell themthe storyof the veryhungrycaterpillar?Ithinkit
wouldbe great.Anyway,toconnectthislessonwiththe previousone,youmaytell
themyourcaterpillarloveseatingfruit,andelicitsome vocabularyusingflashcards
or realia.
Have a lovelylesson!
Aure