LESSON PLAN 12 LESSON: Living comfortably

Teacher: Duaa Abdelrahman Ali Subject: English

Grade: 9 Unit: 3 Date: 6/11/2019

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SKILLS AND UNDERSTANDING

Students will be able to:

 Recognize the new vocabulary.

 Read and identify specific information in a simple text.

Link to prior learning: Students will need to be familiar with the following:

 Students are familiar with some vocabulary (for example: light, cool, camel, goat, conditions).
 Students are familiar with UAE weather conditions.

21st Century Skills: Students will be able to enhance the following skills :

 Critical thinking and problem solving when they will answer the oral questions using the
written text.
 Communication and collaboration, when they work in groups.

Key vocabulary: Estimate, Whole Number, Rounding

Climate, ventilation, traditional, air conditioning, dry, tent, palm fronds, coastal, windtower.

Common misconceptions for learners: Ways of identifying and addressing these

misconceptions:

 Use repetition.
 Memorize and pronounce the new
 Explain meaning and provide definitions.
vocabulary correctly.

Resources/equipment needed:

Learner book (page), smart board, video, PowerPoint, pencils, pictures.

UNIT: LESSON: Estimating TASKS/ACTIVITIES

Resources & Time Starter (10 minutes)

Teacher Will: Students Will:

 Greet students.  Listen to the teacher
5 Minutes  Explain the rules to them instructions or rules.
(each group will have a small  Watch the video.
black board that teacher will
use to manage students. If
the students misbehaved,
they will get a red point of
dot. The group that has lower
number of the red points will
be the winner at the end of
the lesson).
 Show them a video to
introduce the topic of the
lesson.
Resources & Time Main activities (30 minutes)

Teacher Will: Students Will:

 Introduce the topic of the  Answer the teacher questions.
30 Minutes lesson by asking them  Focus and listen to the teacher
questions related to the video explanation.
(for example, from the video,  Give examples.
what do you think our lesson  Open their learner books and work as
will be about for today? groups.
About which climate do you  Finish on time.
think we are going to talk  Discuss and answer the teacher
about? Can you tell what the questions.
usual weather conditions of
UAE are? Why do you think
it is very hot here in UAE?)
 Explain the new vocabulary
using pictures with providing
definitions and examples.
 Ask students to give more
examples.
 Ask students to open their
learner books, read the text
and answer the questions in
activity two (page 50) as
groups.
 Give them 5 minutes to
finish.
 Discuss the answers with
students.
 Differentiation activities (Support): Learners answer the easy questions
(questions that requires short answers, for example, what do you think our lesson
will be about for today? Can you tell what the usual weather conditions of UAE are?)

Differentiation activities (Stretch): Ask these learners some critical thinking

questions. For example, why do you think it is very hot here in UAE?. In addition,
the game that I will implement in the post stage will be challenged because
they only have 30 seconds to think about the correct word and select it.
Moreover, divide them into all the groups, so they can support the lower
students.

Differentiation activities (Support): Use pictures, definitions and examples

to explain the new vocabulary to aid their comprehension process.

Resources Plenary (5 minutes)

Teacher Will: Students Will:

 Jumble up the word cards of the
5 Minutes new vocabulary in a pile in the
middle of class.
 Call the definitions or sentences
and ask students to discuss as
groups about the word for 30
seconds and choose one student
to select the correct word.
 Discuss the answers with them.
Homework -
 Discuss as groups about the
correct word and choose only
one student to select the word
(each time another student go
and select).
 Discuss the answers with the
teacher.

Learning styles catered for (✓):

Visual Auditory Read/Write Kinesthetic

Assessment for learning opportunities (✓):

Observation Student self- Oral questioning Peer assessment

assessment

Quiz Student presentation Written work and Verbal feedback

feedback

The video that I will present in the pre-stage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10Jzw1hjOv4
Reflection:

The topic of the lesson was "living comfortably", which was an introduction for a writing lesson,
where students will be required to write an essay about the buildings in the UAE in the past and
present. I taught grade nine students and the lesson was in the classroom. The lesson objectives
were to recognize the new vocabulary, to read and identify specific information in a simple text.
I started the lesson by explaining the rules of the positive reinforcement strategy. Then, I showed
the students a video to introduce the topic of the lesson. After that, I began explaining the new
vocabulary with providing some examples and pictures. Thence, I asked them to open their learner
books to read a text about UAE climate and buildings and identify some information to answer
the questions about the text. At the end, I played a game with students to check their understanding
of the new vocabulary.

I had many strength points in this lesson. Firstly, I presented a video to engage and attract students'
attention. Visual aids like pictures and videos are enormously powerful weapon that can be used
to engage students in the classroom (Ferlazzo, L. 2012). Secondly, I differentiated the activities
according to students learning styles and abilities. Weselby, C (2014) clarified that professional
and successful teachers differentiate activities, strategies and instruction to meet students' needs.
Thirdly, I applied an effective, interesting and amazing game that students really liked and
enjoyed. Students worked as groups in which they needed to listen to the definitions I said and
select the correct word card of the new vocabulary from the mixed cards on the table. I
implemented this game because I believed that it would improve students kinetically, cognitively,
linguistically and socially. Fourthly, I used the small black board to record students' behavior and
its influence on students was obvious. Students were quiet and behaved politely to avoid receiving
any red point and get a candy.

On the other hand, I had some areas, which need to be improved. First, I took a long time to
explain the new vocabulary because I gave more than one example for each word, which was
unnecessary. In addition, I did not applied writing activities because this lesson was an
introduction for a writing lesson. Therefore, in my future lessons, I will try to manage my time so
I do not take a long time on explaining unnecessarily things. Moreover, I should implement some
writing activities because our focus in this semester are writing and grammar.