Week 3 ESL Lesson Plan

1. Administrative stuff:
Ask the students which of them are new (or dont have a
folder) and give any new student a folder to keep.
Have them write their name on the folder in
permanent marker.
Give the Welcome questionnaire to new students.
Collect any questionnaires students from last week have
completed at home and stick them in the back of the left
pocket in the blue teacher folder
2. Preview content:
Tell them that they are going to:
Take a little practice quiz to review material from
the past week
Learn how to say the time, days of the week, and
the verbs to begin, to end, and a couple of
different events
Practice using that vocab in complete sentences
3. Write practice quiz on the white board (encourage them to copy
the quiz then fill in the answers so they have both to review
later):
Traducen:
1. Yo quiero ir a la playa.
2. Ella le gusta el perro.
3. Tenemos dos nios.
4. Tu eres amable.
5. El es muy alto.

Give them about 5 minutes or so to complete the quiz then go

through and write the answers in English in a different color
marker on the board. Ask them if they know the answer first
and let them tell you before you write it if they do.
4. Present material: defining temporal boundaries
Use one color for English and one color for Spanish
Draw this scheme on the board:
 1 (one) - uno Monday
2 (two) - dos (lunes)
3 (three) - tres Tuesday
It begins Morning
4 (four) - cuatro (martes)
(empieza) (por la manana)
5 (five) - cinco Wednesday
OR at 6 (six) - seis oclock on (miercoles) Afternoon
It ends a la(s) 7 (seven) - siete el (por la tarde)
Thursday
(termina) Evening
8 (eight) - ocho (jueves)
(por la noche)
9 (nine) - nueve Friday
10 (ten) - diez (viernes)
11 (eleven) - once Saturday
12 (twelve) - doce (sbado)
Sunday
(domingo)

Explain to them (in Spanish) that they can pick something

from each box as a formula to make a sentence about
when something begins or ends.
Explain that in order to verbally express a time that is not a
whole hour, you simply say the hour and the minutes in
succession. For example 3:15 is simply three fifteen
compared to tres Y cuarto/quince.

5. Present material: list of common, short events that have specific

a time limits
Ask them to help me think of every day events that may
start and end at a certain time. They will give all the ones
they know in English, which you should write in the board
in Spanish and English (different colors), but then
encourage them to give ones they dont know in English so
that they can learn a new word and then add that to the
list in both languages.
Try to make the list about 5-7 items long. Examples:
The appointment la cita
The meeting la reunion
The class la clase
The party la fiesta
The wedding la boda
The test/exam el examen

6. Nuance (matiz)
 Briefly explain (in Spanish) that when the subject of any
verb is a thing, not a person the subject pronoun
(pronombre sujeto) is it and the verb is conjugated in the
he/she form.
Make sure they understand that that is why we say it is
at the beginning of a sentence where the subject is a
meeting, or wedding, or some kind of an event instead of a
person.
Point out that its the same in Spanish: empieza and
termina are both conjugated in the el/ella form

7. Practice
Tell them that I will be going to write some examples on
the board for everyone to translate aloud together:
1. La reunin empieza a los cinco y termina las seis
y media por la maana el lunes.
The meeting starts at five and ends at six thirty
(6:30) in the morning on Monday.
2. La fiesta termina a la medianoche el viernes.
The party ends at midnight on Friday.
3. Quiero ir a la boda. Empieza a las cuatro de la
tarde el domingo.
I want to go to the wedding. It starts at four in
the afternoon on Sunday.
4. Tengo una clase. Termina a las dos y diez de la
tarde los martes.
I have a class. It ends at two ten (2:10) in the
afternoon on Tuesdays.
8. Wrap up
Ask them if they have any questions at all or if there is
some type of sentence like this that they have trouble
thinking of.