Lesson Plan Format 2018-II

Lesson Name: Work and Leisure Lesson Number: Four

Institution: Centro Cultural Colombo Americano
Pre-service Teacher in Charge: Miguel Mejía Flórez
Grade: Level Four
Date of implementation: September 11th, 2018 Time of the class: 4 hours

RATIONALE:

This fourth lesson plan deals with a review and revision of the Simple Present
tense with main verbs different from BE. The students in this group already
studied this topics and are expected to produce statements to describe their
routines, and the everyday activities that are customary for them and their
families. They will be using the Simple Present tense to describe routines of
workers and people in their jobs.

One aspect of this target grammar that requires more practice is the use of the
3rd Person Singular conjugation. Another issue that poses a challenge for
students is to structure questions and use auxiliaries correctly. In this lesson,
the students will do a mingling activity to practice this questions.

As an assessment activity, the students will have the opportunity to talk about
artists and celebrities of their interest, by creating a short interview they will
present in open class.

TOPIC: Simple Present Tense

OBJECTIVES: By the end of the lesson,

Communicative: Level Three students in the Access Scholarship Program

will be able to create a short interview to a classmate, using Wh questions
and Yes-No questions to talk about daily routines.

Language: Students will be able to clarify the word order for information
and Yes-no question that use auxiliaries, with a speaking activity.

Learning: Ss will be able to apply note-taking and brainstorming with a

classmate, as preparation for a writing task.
INTRODUCTION
Activities Time Materials
Activity 1 20 minutes No additional
materials are
Warm up: necessary for this
“Make me say YES” warm up activity.

For this speaking game, the students are

divided into two teams (boys and girls).
The idea is for the teams to ask Yes-No
questions with Do.

Example: Do you have coffee everyday?

The class will be divided into boys and

girls. A member of each team will come
to the front. The girls will ask questions
to the boys, and vice versa. The students
in the front will be changed after a
round of questions. At first, the teacher
won’t tell the class that the team will get
point for each affirmative answer they
get from the representatives for the other
team. They will have to figure it out.
Once they have guessed why they are
getting points, the team to complete 5
points first is the winner.

Activity 2: 20 minutes Copies from

The teacher tells Ss that they’re going to additional activities.
do an activity to review of 3rd person English in Common
singular conjugation. 2. Teacher Resource
Book
Students will work in pairs complete a
sheet with sentences by choosing the Link
logical verbs to complete from a word
bank. The teacher elicits from Ss what
kind of subjects are in these sentences,
and clarifies that the subjects are all 3rd
person singular, so ss will have to use
the verbs accordingly.

After 10 minutes, the students come to

the board and the verbs in the correct
forms. The verbs are corrected, and the
T does with a short choral repetition.
Then Ss work in pairs to reinforce
pronunciation.
PRESENTATION
Activities Time Materials
Activity 1: 20 minutes English in Common
2 Student’s Book.
(Activating prior knowledge) Page 17
Link
The teacher asks students to cover a
word box from the introductory warm up
page for the unit and has Ss look at the
photos and discuss with a partner what
the people are doing. The teacher directs
students to match the activities in the
word box to the photos. Answers are
checked in open class. Then Ss match
the activities to the time of day. In the
end students stand up and find out
what time their classmates do those
activities.

Activity 2: 15 minutes
English in Common
The teacher introduces new vocabulary: 2 Student’s Book.
An all-inclusive vacation (a vacation Page 18
where everything is arranged for you) Link
The T asks students to look at the two
advertisements and decide which one is
an advertisement for an all-inclusive
vacation and which for a job. Students
check answers in pairs and then with
the class. The T asks students if they
would like this type of vacation. Explain
that this job is called “a vacation rep.”
Students are asked to look at the photos
in the ads and match them to the words.
Students compare answers in pairs and
then with the class.

Then the teacher reads the ads out loud

and has students practice pronunciation
Activity 3: 25 minutes English in Common
2 Student’s Book.
The T tells the class that they are going Pages 18-19
to listen to an interview of the routine of Link
Jenny, a vacation rep. From a list of 10
activities, they have to check the 8
activities that are mentioned in the
audio. Ss check answers with a partner
and then with the class.The teacher
directs students to look at Jenny´s
datebook. Play the audio again. Ask
students to listen and complete the
datebook by filling in the times and
activities mentioned. Then the T asks Ss
to create their own entries, focusing on
their daily routines.

Activity 4: 10 minutes
English in Common
The teacher asks students to look at the 2 Student’s Book.
audio script and complete the a Page 19
grammar box. The teacher writes some Link
questions and answers on the board.
Ask students: What do you notice about
the different answers to the questions?
(Some are Yes/No, and some have more
information in the answers.) The teacher
direct students to a Reference section in
their coursebook and read in pairs the
examples.

The teacher reinforce the structure:

WH + AUXILIARY + SUBJECT + VERB?

What does your sister do?

PRACTICE (Controlled Practice)

Activities Time Materials
Activity 1: 15 minutes Students workbook
activity. English in
The teacher asks Ss to work on practice Common 2 Page 10
exercises from their additional exercise Link
workbook, on questions in simple
present. Once the have complete the T
asks the students to compare their
answers by reading the dialogues out
loud. Then the T calls on students to
share the answers out loud and the
teacher has students to offer correction
in open class if necessary.

Activity 2:
(Speaking and mingling activity to 30 minutes Teacher made
reinforce questions in simple present) material.
Envelopes with cut
The teacher divides the class into groups out questions.
of 4 or 5 students. Then hands out An example here:
plastic envelopes with cut out Wh Link
questions inside. The questions are
written in cardboard of different colors.
The teacher explains that the students
have organize the scrambled questions
according to the colors. Once the
questions are unscrambled, the teacher
walks around o check word order. When
the questions are correct, the teacher
asks a couple of members of the groups
to stand up and go to the other groups.
The groups interview the visitors.

After some time the envelopes are

exchanged, the activity is repeated and
the students who remained in the group
now go to the other groups to be
interviewed by their partners..

PRODUCTION (Free practice)

Activities Time Materials
Activity 1: 20 minutes. No additional
material is
(Activity Connected to final Project) necessary for this
activity
The teacher has students make two
columns: (1) my working day and (2) my
day off, and write the various activities
and times they do things, noting any
differences. Then ask them to compare
the two. For example: On work days I
get up at a quarter past seven, but on
my day off I get up around ten.

Students are asked to stand up and

mingle and take notes of which students
have similar routines as theirs.
 EVALUATION (Feedback)
Activities: Time Materials

Activity 1 20 minutes *Computers

(Online game) *Internet connection
The teacher will take the students to the Link for Kahoot
school’s media lab and students will game
play online grammar on the “Kahoot” Link
website.
Students will sit at the computers in Sample Questions
pairs and will answer the indirect, Link
multiple choice questions displayed
with a projection. The teacher will tell
them that they have be quick because
they will score more points for
answering as quickly as they can.

Activity 2 30 minutes Extra sheets with

(Listening and Speaking doing listening activity.
interviews) Link

The teacher tells Ss that they are going

to watch a video of an interview to a
rock star, in order to complete a
listening comprehension task. The
teacher hands out copies of the
listening task. Ss listen and mark the
statements as True or False, based on
the interview.
Then the teacher asks Ss to listen again
for further questions.

In the end students are asked to come

up with a group of questions to create
an interview in which they act out that
they are their favorite singers or artists.

References:

Saumell, M.V; Birchley, S.L. (2011). English in Common 2. White Plains :

Pearson
Saumell, M.V; Birchley, S.L. (2011). English in Common 2 Workbook .
White Plains: Pearson