PRACTICE II, DIDACTICS OF ELT.

LESSON PLAN Nº 6

TEACHER: Estela N. Braun.

TRAINEE: Ana Belén Zabala

SCHOOL: “Quelulén” nº 246

COURSE: 4TH

TEXTBOOK: Treetops 3/ Materials provided by the teacher.

DATE: Wednesday 28th, September from 16.10 to 16.50

TOPIC: Weather – Seasons.

CLASS Nº 8.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

Students will be able to talk about the weather, asking and answering questions about it, with the provided structure: “What´s the weather like?” “It´s sunny/rainy/cloudy, etc.” With the purpose of expressing through new vocabulary what´s the weather like and which type of weather they prefer.

Students will be able to understand and produce listening, speaking, reading and writing macro-skills.

ROUTINES:

Greeting song, checking of the attendance, choosing an assistant, asking about the date and about the weather.

WARM UP:

The teacher will devote some minutes so as they can finish colouring the posters they worked with the previous class, and them each group together with the teacher help will retell the part of the story they were given.

TYPE OF INTERACTION: Students – Teacher.

MACRO-SKILLS: Speaking.

TIMING: 15 minutes.

MATERIALS: Flashcards – Blackboard - Copies.

CLIL.

RELATED DISCIPLINE: Natural Sciences.

LOTS (Lower thinking skills required): Students will be able to start recognizing and making use of new vocabulary items connected with the Water Cycle, such as: rain, vapour, snow, cloud, river – evaporation, condensation, precipitation and collection.

WARM UP:

So as to start with this project on CLIL, the teacher will present a poster on a board with the images and corresponding vocabulary of the Water Cycle, and will make questions as regards: What does that poster represent? What do they think it is about? What they can see in the poster? And in case they immediately relate it with the Water Cycle, the teacher will let them explain in Spanish what it the Water cycle about and which are the different processes it has. Once they have done this in Spanish, the teacher will present the new vocabulary connected not only with the processes but with the different aspects of nature present in the poster in English.

TYPE OF INTERACTION: Students – Teacher.

MACRO-SKILLS: Speaking.

TIMING: 10 minutes.

MATERIALS: Poster - Blackboard.

CORE TASK:

The teacher will give explanations for two listening activities, in the first one, they will have to listen and to fill in the blanks with the correct word; in the second one, they will have to listen and to match different images with the correct process. So as to solve these listening activities pupils will count with the poster of the Water Cycle on the board. If necessary the teacher will play the recording more than three times, and once students have finished, together with the teacher they will correct both activities on the board.

TYPE OF INTERACTION: Students – Teacher.

MACRO-SKILLS: Listening.

TIMING: 10 minutes.

MATERIALS: Poster –– Blackboard - Copies New Treetops 3– Audio System.

FOLLOW UP:

The teacher will give them explanations for the follow up activity, in which they will have to match the names of the different processes in the water cycle together with a short definition. Before doing the activity the teacher will read the definitions and will explain with the students’ help their meaning. So as to solve this task, they will count with the teachers’ help, with the poster and with the previous listening activities. Just in case they do not finish, the teacher will devote some minutes the following class for pupils to finish it.

TYPE OF INTERACTION: Students – Teacher.

MACRO-SKILLS: Reading – Writing.

TIMING: 10 minutes.

MATERIALS: Poster – Blackboard – Copies.

HOTS (Higher order thinking skills stimulated through the lesson plan): Students will be able to relate the vocabulary with the definitions of the different process that happen within the Water Cycle.

APPENDIX

WARM UP: Poster the Water Cycle.

CORE TASKS: Listening – Writing – Matching.

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Audios already downloaded.

FOLLOW UP: Matching the processes with their definitions.