I.F.D.C. LENGUAS VIVASTALLER DE PRACTICA DOCENTE

ALUMNO RESIDENTE: Ludmila Ruiz DíazPeríodo de Práctica: Nivel PrimarioInstitución Educativa: Instituto Privado República Argentina Dirección: Lasserre 459, Rio Grande, Tierra del FuegoSala / Grado / Año - sección: 5 GradoCantidad de alumnos: 20Nivel lingüístico del curso: PrincipiantesTipo de Planificación: ClaseUnidad Temática: Mis materias preferidasClase Nº: 4Fecha: 22 de septiembre de 2015Hora: 10.10 a 10.50 amDuración de la clase: 40 minutosFecha de primera entrega: 21 de septiembre de 2015

CLASS 4

• Teaching points: My Favourite School Subjects• Aims or goals: During this lesson, learners will be able to…

✓ Develop thinking skills by analysing a bar chart ✓ Develop their speaking and listening skills by asking each other

personal questions✓ Identify conjunctions AND, BUT and BECAUSE to express in

the context of preferences

• Language focus:

Functions Lexis Structures Pronunciation

Revision

Simple Commands

Identifying and talking about my Favourite Subject

Use of conjunction because to express an opinion

Adjectives used to express preferences

Imperatives listen / read / write / stand up

Music / Science / Geography / English / PE / Maths / History / Art

boring / difficult / interesting / exciting

Commands:- Stand up- Ask your

partner…- Complete the

chart

Present Simple- My favourite subject is (Maths) because it’s (interesting)

During the speaking activity, special attention will be paid to /ʤ/as is subject

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New Understanding and analysing a bar chart

Music / Science / Geography / English / PE / Maths / History / Art

Wh-questions:- What’s the

class’s favourite subject?

- How many (girls/boys) like (PE)?

• Teaching approach: Communicative Approach• Integration of skills: Listening mainly to the teacher and each other

during an interaction activity (Find Someone Who), speaking to each other during the same task. Analysing a bar chart that will be built as a whole class activity, writing by inferring information from a chart.

• Materials and resources: board, post-its, a poster to build up bar chart, copy of a chart to play Find Someone Who, copy of a chart to work with conjunctions, blu tack, smiling faces stickers for correction.

• Pedagogical use of ICT in class or at home: none in this class• Seating arrangement: Horseshoe. Students will also be standing up

during a short period of time.• Possible problems / difficulties and their possible solutions during the

class: as I have been experiencing difficulties with timing since students take longer to perform activities than I had originally planned, I have designed activities that take less time to carry out and I will provided them with copies of the charts to avoid wasting time to copy from the board.

• Classroom management strategies: students will need to stand up and move around the classroom during ‘Find Someone Who’ activity, as there is little room I will be able to stand among them and monitor they are carrying the activity in L2.

• Potential problems students may have with the language: students have had trouble identifying and differentiating conjunctions AND, BUT and BECAUSE, I will provided them with another activity for further practice.

• Assessment: I will assess students’ speaking performance by monitoring their interactions while they play Find Someone Who, I will correct their writing productions during the Bar Chart activity and also the conjunctions activity.

Routine I will greet Ss and ask them how they are in L2 so as to let them know the lesson has started. I will ask students what the day is and write the date on the board.

Warm-up 3’ Purpose: to recall previous lesson’s vocabulary related to school subjects as an introduction for the next activity.I will quickly ask students which schools subjects they can remember and write the names on the board as I elicit the information.I will write the following question on the board

What’s your favourite subject?

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I will ask two or three students what their favourite subject is.

Transition: Great everyone! Let’s work with our favourite subjectsDevelopment

Activity 1 15’Purpose: to interact with each other and share personal information and reasons for their preferences using BECAUSEI will draw the following chart on the board

Me

Subject

Why?

I will begin completing the ‘Me’ by saying ‘My favourite subject is English, because it is exciting’I will ask some students again what his/her favourite subject is and ask him/her ‘Why?’ then I will provide them with more adjectives to use such as interesting, funny. I will explain the procedure of the activity by saying ‘To complete the chart, you need to stand up and ask your partner about his/her favourite subject’ I will also explain that they need to find someone whose preferences are the same as theirs in order to complete the chart. I will also say ‘Find two partners with the same favourite subject’ I will distribute the copies and grant them one or two minutes to complete it with their own information before moving around the classroom.I will be tell students they have 5 minutes to find their partners and complete the chart as I will time and end the activity once the time is up. As the activity is carried out, I will assess students’ pronunciation and assist them where necessary.As a follow up, I will ask two or three students to tell me about the information they have gathered.

Transition: Well done! Let’s organise this information now. I will ask students to open their notebooks, copy the date and glue the copy of the chart under the headline ‘Find Someone Who’

Activity 2 15’Purpose: to build up a bar chart about students’ favourite subjects, to understand how to read the chart, to analyse it and write sentences about it.I will stick on the board a poster with the bar chart1. It will look as following

1 Activity retrieved from 500 Activities for the Primary Classroom, Read Carol, Macmillan. 2007

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English Science Technology PE History Maths Art

I will give each student a post-it sheet and say ‘Write down your name on these post-it, write it in big capital letters’I will begin by asking students what their favourite subject is and ask them to come to the board and place the post-it in the right column. The bar chart will be built up as students answer and stick the sheet on it. Once we have finished, I will say ‘Look, this class’s favourite subject is (Maths)’ and then I will ask ‘How many girls like PE? / How many boys like technology?’ The expected answer is that students answer these questions, I will write the answers on the board for visual reference:Five girls like PEThree boys like Technology

Then, I will ask students to work in pairs and to answer the following questions (I will specifically tell them not to copy the questions, just answer them) I will stick the poster on the wall.

1. How many girls like Science?2. How many boys like Art?3. How many students like English?4. What’s the class’s favourite subject?

As students work on the questions, I will correct their productions. As a follow up, we will check the questions with the whole class.

Transition: Excellent work! Let’s keep talking about school subjects.

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I don’t like Astronomy, _______ I like Qudditch _____ Flying Lessons

I like Potions _____ Astronomy, _______ I don’t like History of Magic.

I like Astronomy _____ Flying Lesson, _____ I don’t like Potions.

Closure 10’Purpose: To have students practise the use of conjunctions by reading and inferring information from a chart.I will ask students to recall information about Harry Potter, Hogwarts school and some of the subjects he attended there. Then, I will distribute the following chart form the work with.I will write some examples using AND and BUT to activate prior knowledge of the conjunctions. I will use the bar chart in order to do so, for instanceFive students like PE and two students like MathsThree students like Science but the class’s favourite subject is PE.

I will ask students who are Harry’s friends. At this point, I have learnt they have all seen the films so the expected answer should be the correct one. 2

Read the chart and complete the blanks with AND or BUT

Quidditch Potions History of Magic

Flying Lessons Astronomy

Harry X

Hermione X X

Ron X X

I will attempt to check everybody’s performance before doing whole class checking.

2 Pictures retrieved fromhttp://hermionesparkle.tumblr.comhttp://www.crushable.com/2011/07/12/entertainment/watch-the-harry-potter-cast-age-10-years-in-10-seconds/http://aminoapps.com/page/harry-potter/8194443/isabelle-black

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To close the lesson, I will tell everyone they did a great job and tell them I will be seeing them the following lesson.

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