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Teachers Name: Walter Alvarenga Level: Low Beginner # of Students: 4-6 Date: 28 April 2014

Action Points from previous teaching:
(Based on your own reflection, and feedback from
trainers and peers, what are two things that you will
try to do in this lesson to help your own learning as a
teacher?)
1. I will continue being very enthusiastic to create good rapport with students.

2. I will use more visuals to help visual learners.

What skill and content are you teaching? (Check
the main lesson focus; also provide details / list of
items)
Culture
Grammar/Vocabulary
Speaking Listening
Reading Writing

Simple Present tense: Affirmative statements first and third person singular

Vocabulary: get up, brush my teeth, take a shower, have breakfast, watch TV, listen to music,
check Facebook

Main Objectives:
(What do you want the Ss to be able to do with the
new material that they couldnt do before?)
(there might be subsidiary objectives. Feel free to
include them.
SWBAT: use 4-7 expressions about their morning routine in order to talk about their morning daily routine in a mingle
activity.

Assumptions:
(What do your students already know what can they
already do in relation to todays lesson?)
I know / expect that my students are familiar with

The seven verbs listed above
Words added as the complement of the verbs

Challenges/Opportunities for Teaching:
(What will be new for your students? What aspects
of the lesson do you anticipate they might find
challenging / difficult?)
Simple present
Change from first to third person singular (change in the verb)

Solutions for challenges:
(How will you avoid and/or address these problem
areas in your lesson?)
In order to remedy/avoid these potential challenges I plan to

Present the third person verb ending in a different color to stress its usage
Practice pronouncing sounds through drilling and pair sharing

Assessment:
(How will you assess to see that Ss are ready to
move on to the next stages of the lesson or have
reached the final learning objective?)
I will be able to hear the students describing their short morning routine without adding time expressions.
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Time
Framework
ECRIF
And stage objectives
Activity, Procedure/Steps- describe the essence of the activity
What will the Teacher say/do? What will the ss hopefully say and do?
Focus: S;
S-S; T; T-S
Materials/Aids
VAKT
5 Encounter
Activating schema


1. Activity or task:
Tell a partner verbs in present tense.





T S
S- S

Visual/kinesthetic

Teacher:
Ask students to work in pairs and brainstorm
actions (with complements if possible)in
present
Ask students to write the actions and
complements on the board
Students:
Talk with their partner.
Write the actions and complements on the
board.

5 Encounter

Eliciting Grammar
FOWSAK

2. Activity or task:
Telling a partner
T S Auditory
Teacher:
Ask students to tell a partner the actions they
perform in the morning


Students:
Tell a partner the actions they perform in the
morning (based on what they have on the
board)


5 Encounter

Present Grammar
3. Activity or task:
Mime
T S
S S

Kinesthetic/ Auditory

Teacher:
Write on the board the expressions get up,
brush my teeth, take a shower, have breakfast,
watch TV, listen to music, check Facebook
Have students mimic the expressions
while they repeat. Do the same three
times.
Ask students to practice in pairs, one
saying and the other one performing
and then change roles.
Elicit third person by changing
sentences on the board
Students:
1. Perform all actions together with the
teacher.

2. Work with partner performing some
sentences



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5 Clarify

4. Activity or task:
Compare first and third person singular in examples on the board
T S
S S


Auditory/Visual
Teacher:
Write three example sentences on the board
Ask students to provide ideas from the
classmates
Student:
Ss provide ideas from their classmates

5 Clarify 5. Activity or task:
Transformation Drill
T S Visual/Auditory

Teacher:
Write this sentence on the board and drill with
changing the subject so that students practice
third person singular I get up at 6 am.
Students:
Students repeat the sentence using the correct
subject and verb form

5 Remember 6. Activity or task:
Paragraph creation
T - S Visual
Tactile
Kinesthetic
Teacher:
Ask students to go one by one to the board and
write a sentence and say it at the same time,
and the next student continues.
Start the paragraph by writing and saying My
father gets up at 4:00 am.

Students:
Write sentences that continue the paragraph
Say the sentence out loud


5 Remember 7. Activity or task:
Circle routine
Tactile
Auditory
Teacher:
Ask students to sit making a circle
Be part of the circle to model the practice
Ask students to say one action they do in the
morning (Use a ball to take turns)
Students:
Say activities they do in the morning
Continue a routine in third person singular
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Model the beginning of a routine in third person
singular

5 Internalize 8. Activity or task:
Four corners
S - S Audio
Kinesthetic
Teacher:
Place names of members of the family in the
corners of the room
Ask students to walk around the classroom and
stop in each corner to tell a partner the
persons morning routine
Students:
Stand up and walk around the classroom
Stop in the corners to talk with a partner about
a morning routine



5 Internalize 9. Activity or task:
Tell someone elses morning routine
S-S

Tactile
Kinesthetic
Auditory






Teacher:
Ask students to stand up and get a picture from
the ones in the classroom
Ask them to take it and go to a corner to
prepare the persons morning routine
Ask them to add any information like name,
age, etc.
Students:
Stand up and get a picture
Individually, prepare the persons morning
routine
Say it in open class

5 Fluency 10. Activity or task:
Mingle activity
S - S Audio

Teacher:
Ask students to stand up and ask and answer
the question What do you do in the morning?
Ask students to share what a partner does.

Students:
Stand up and ask and answer the question
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