Lesson Plan (with feedback)

Practicum I
Date: 09-11-2016
In service teacher: Juan Pablo Vargas G.
Grade level: 6 A.
School name: Jos Joaquin Florez H.
Topic: Everyday activities
(Present simple)
Level: Elementary
Number of students: 43
Lesson Length: 2 hours
Aims:
Students can share with their partners their daily
routines/habits.
Produce sentences in the present simple affirmative.
Lesson Objectives: By the end of this lesson students will be
able to:
Express simple routine activities
Prior Knowledge: Some simple actions, e.g. having a shower, doing
homework, getting up, listen, read, watch, clean, sleep, play, wash,
walk, run, etc.
Timi
ng

10
min

Learning & teaching

strategies

Aims and key teaching Equipm

points
ent/reso
urces
1. Warm up and /or The purpose of this
review
activity is to refresh
some of the verbs they
Start the lesson
already know.
of giving some
commands using daily Procedure: The teacher is
activity verbs they
going to say loudly some
already know.
verbs and as soon as
they hear them, students
Ask students to close
have to act them out. For
their eyes, then, I say a example: Read
They
verb and they act it
act as if they are actually
out.
reading.

*You say the verb,

learners respond by
showing the action.
*You act out the action,
learners respond by
saying the verb.

Learners practice with a

partner, one person does
an action and the other
person says the word.
I write the actions on the
whiteboard

2. Presentation
Introduction:
Introduce an action
Pick up a book and
pretend to read it. Ask
your students what am
I doing. Theyll say,
Youre reading a
book. It doesnt matter
if they answer in
Spanish.
30
min

The aim of this activity is

to introduce the topic
(present simple) in an
unconscious way.

Markers
And
Images

Tell your students, I

study every day. Make
a list of the things you
do every day as a
routine:
I get up at 5 am

Teacher uses more

I do exercise every examples to illustrate the
target structure better.
morning

I watch TV at

night.
Introduce the third
person singular with a
presentation about
some of the activities
their favourite

Go around the class and

have students tell you
what they do every day
or what some of their

celebrities do in their

habits are.

everyday lives. With

The objective of this

activity is to personalize
Sentence
learning
s to
correct

the picture pasted on

the whiteboard I
proceed to write some
sentences about the
celebrities
Brain Storming
activity: The teacher is
going to ask some of
the students what they
do every day and write
on the whiteboard.
Now that you have
examples of first and
third person is when
you do the elicitation
work with your
students. Through
some questions, you
lead them to conclude
the diferences in form
of those sentences and
the reasons why.
Activity: Students are
going to be given some
sentences
per table
and they will have to
find the conjugation
mistakes and correct
them.
Finally,
they
rewrite them in the
small whiteboards and
read them to the whole
class.

Teacher
gives
a
conclusion, clarifies and
explains some common
errors.
This activity helps to
check students
understanding of the
topic introduced

Markers

20
min

3. Practice
Teacher asks one
student to come out
and pick a card (it has a
verb in it and a
complement in order to
create a full sentence).
First I provide the
example, then, The
student is requested to
act out the action
written on the card.
(E.g. Get up in the
morning at 5 am; I go
to the school at 6am,
etc.)

The aim of the activity is

to guess what he or she
does every day
challenging the students
to produce a full
sentence and providing
them with some practice

The rest of the students Repetition can help

are requested to guess students to memorize
the sentence pattern.
what that particular
student does every day.
Students are required
to tell in the following
way:
E.g. Camilo gets up at 5am.

Students chorally
repeat the sentence
pattern.
4. Production

Cards
with the
actions

20
min

Pair activity: in
couples, they are going
to tell each other what
they do every day (at
The purpose is to further
least three sentences). reinforce what was
I am going to give them taught.
the question to ask for
their partners info. E.g.
A. What do you do
every day?
B. I wake up every day
at 5, I go to school at 6,
I watch TV at night.
I am going to pick
randomly some
students to tell me what
their partners do every
day.

The aim of this activity is

to practice the third
person singular.

5. Consolidation/cl

osure

20
min

Tic tac toc: Teacher

gives the ball to one of
the students, then I
start saying tic tac until
toc, the student who
holds the ball is
expected to stand up
and tell the whole class
what he or she does
every day, say, I go to
school every day..
The rest of the students

The purpose of this

activity is to add fun to
the lesson so that the
students can enjoy and
learn.

Reinforce what was

taught before.

Ball

are required to tell

what that particular
student does every day
in the following way: He
goes to school every
day.
.
Anticipated
Problems and
solutions
Exceptions
If students ask for
examples those verbs|
Go-goes
Catch-catches
Watch-watches
Kiss-kisses
Fix-fixes
Buzz-buzzes
Do and Does.
Have and has.

Exceptions in verbs with

endings in o ch sh
ss x z
For verbs that end in a
consonant + Y we
remove the Y and add
-IES
Study-studies
Marry-marries
Worry-worries
For verbs that end in a
vowel +Y we just add S
Play-plays
Enjoy-enjoys
Say-says

Annexes:
Correction Activity:
I gets up at 5 am every day.
I speaks English every day.
You plays soccer on Saturdays
She like chocolate and cheese for breakfast.
He work in a restaurant on the weekends.
Images:

Presentation third person according to their favourite

character: James R. and Karol Sevilla.