ALIANZA CULTURAL URUGUAY – ESTADOS UNIDOS

SAMPLE LESSON PLAN LAYOUT

Teacher: Stephanie Sbarbaro Course Level: Beginners

Lesson Goals: By the end of the class, students will
have learnt new vocabulary and practiced their
reading, writing and speaking skills.
Group Profile:
Group of 16 students, with ages between 18 and 36
Background (or Assumptions): class formed by true
beginners, and false beginners.
Materials: Board,16 normal size copies and one amplified
copy of Gary Larson’s comic without the dialog and
thoughts bubbles, the comic strap’s text bubbles, images of
people expressing different feelings, cards with the names of
the feelings.
Homework: Students will have to draw their own comic
strap portraying a similar situation to the one shown on
Larson’s strap.
Anticipated problem: the false beginners may get a little
anxious.
Possible Solution: Give the false beginners more
challenging tasks.

Stage *Objectives Timing Skill Interaction Procedure

and/or
Strategies
to identify and 10 min Reading – Class group The teacher divides the board in 2 parts,
assimilate new listening – work then sticks the images that represent the
vocabulary speaking different feelings in one side of the board,
WARM UP and, on the other side, sticks the names of
those representations. The students try to
guess which picture corresponds with
which name and put them together.
To practice 5 min speaking group work
The teacher asks the students to ask their
partners: “how are you?” and the partner
has to answer using the new vocabulary
Act. 1 PRE- READING and vice versa. In the mid-time the teacher
starts sticking the comic images and the
text bubbles on the board.
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To practice 15 min Reading- Pair work The teacher asks the students to get in
listening - groups of 2 and gives a copy of the comic
speaking strap without the text to each group, then
asks the students to read the bubbles of
Act. 2 WHILE-READING text on the board. Then explains that they
have to match the bubble with the correct
image. The correction of the activity is
made in group.
To demonstrate 10 min Speaking – Pair work The students have 5 minutes to write
reading listening – down, an answer to the question: “How
Act. 3 POST-READING comprehension reading - does Tarzan feel about his presentation?”.
skills writing Then take turns shearing the answers with
the class.
To apply the 5 min Writing Individual Students will have to draw their own comic
new vocabulary reading work strap portraying a similar situation to the
CLOSURE: Homework To practice one shown on Larson’s comic strap.
writing and
reading.
* S.M.A.R.T: Objectives must be: Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, Timed. (Use infinitives to describe
objectives. Bloom’s Taxonomy can help you with “action verbs”)