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PRÁCTICA DOCENTE III

ENTREGA DE PLANIFICACIÓN

ALUMNO PRACTICANTE: María Laura Estrella

Año y sección: 2° “B”

Nivel lingüístico del curso: Upper Elementary- Lower Pre-intermediate
Cantidad de alumnos: 31

Tipo de Planificación: Clase

Unidad Temática: Past Continuous
Clase Nº: 16
Duración de la clase: 40 MINUTES

Fecha de la clase: Friday 23rd August

Fecha de entrega de la planificación: Monday 19th August

Learning Aims

During this lesson, learners will be able to:

- use the adverbs, adjectives and past continuous from previous lessons to talk about
their own pictures.
- Predict what a text is about based on its elements (title and picture)
- Improve their reading skills by understanding the general idea of a text
- Look for specific information in a text.
Language Focus

LEXIS FUNCTIONS STRUCTURE

R Polite, rude, easy, fast, Describe how something To take a good photo you
E quietly, rude, happily, is done need to stand quietly for a
V creatively, good, bad, well. long time.
wildlife Describe how something X was standing… I was
N was done and what was taking..
E happening at a certain time
W in the past
Materials
COMPUTER
TV
WORKBOOK (ENGLISH PLUS 2 SECOND EDITION)

Procedures

(7 minutes)
Greetings
Call attendance
Write the date on the board.
Complete the classroom book.

(5 minutes)
I’ll show the students the picture below, which is mine and tell them about it. What I
was doing when I took it, and how I did it. Then, I will show them the videos of me
feeding the iguanas and how one of them actually bit my hand instead of the piece of
bread.

IMG_4826.MOV IMG_4827.MOV

Transition Comment: “Now, I’d like to see your pictures and hear how you took them
and what you were doing. Any volunteers?”

(10 minutes)
I’ll ask the volunteers or random students to show their photographs and give their short
presentations. If they need help, I will guide them with questions like: what were you
doing? What was the animal doing? Were you standing up or sitting?

Scaffolding Strategies: I won’t force students to do this activity as I know that it can be
a bit intimidating. If no one offers, I’ll ask the most extrovert students to go first, not the
best though, so as not to discourage the others. I’ll guide through questions, making
emphasis on the tenses and the vocabulary.

Transition comment: Now, we are going to read about a famous photograph. It is a

selfie, but what is special about it is that a monkey took it of himself. Open your
workbooks on page 36.

Activity 1. Reading for gist. (3 minutes)

The students will read the text to get a general idea on their own. I’ll say: “Read the text
once quietly. At this time, don’t focus on vocabulary. We’ll go back to it in a while. Just
read and try to get a general idea of what the text is about”.

Transition comment:
“Now, we’ll read the text again together and focus on some words. OK?”

Activity 2: Comprehension check (10 minutes)

We’ll read the text again together. At this point I’ll only correct pronunciation of (1)
words which are commonly used, and they should know by now, such as “was”,
“monkey”, etc. and (2) new words like “wildlife”.
After reading the text, I’ll tell the students “get together in pairs and do the true or false
exercise”. I’ll ask them to tell me why the sentences are false.

We’ll do exercises 3 and 5 together and then, I’ll ask them to write the answers to
exercise 4 in their folders. If we don’t have enough time, I’ll assign exercise 4 for
homework.

Scaffolding strategies: we’ll read the text slowly. I’ll check that the students who read
are clear and comprehensible. I’ll praise each student after they read to make them feel
more confident about speaking English and participating in class. I won’t focus on
pronunciation unless the word is common, new or completely unintelligible and
impeding.

Lesson plan Excellent Very Good Good Acceptable Needs

component 5 4 3 2 improvement
1
Visual
organization
Coherence and
sequencing
Variety of
resources
Stages and
activities
Scaffolding
strategies
Language
accuracy
Observations