Lesson Plan

Date: September 1st ,2010 Level: 8th grade from

primary
Skill: Reading

Expected Outcomes: Students will be able to read a text and answer

different questions.

Resources: A short text (a biography)

Time Comments

Introduction 5 Teacher introduces herself and explains the

minutes importance and the aims of the class.

A brief introduction about the different kinds

Core of the 10 of texts and a review of what they already
Class: minutes know about reading comprehension.
Pre-stage

15 Students are asked to read a short text about

While-stage minutes a famous singer (Britney Spears). Students
have to mark the word that they don’t know.

10
minutes Teacher asks students some questions about
Post-stage the text and gives the meaning of some
words.

5
Closing: minutes
Students are asked to read aloud the text.
 Lesson Plan

Date: September 8th,2010 Level: 8th grade from

primary

Skill: Reading – Speaking

Expected Outcomes: Students will be able to understand short dialogues

through reading and listening, as well as they will be capable of creating
their own dialogues.

Resources: Study guide containing images and dialogues

Time Comments

Introduction 15 The teacher says good morning to the students

minutes and calls the roll.

Checking students’ previous knowledge about

dialogues by asking them whether they have
read or written them before. Let students know
Core of teh that the current unit will be about dialogues and
Class: 15 that they will have the opportunity to create
Pre-stage minutes their own. (Talking to students in English first
and then in Spanish)

Presenting students the study guides with the

pictures and the dialogues, before starting with
While-stage the activity, vocabulary will be checked, and
35 then related to the pictures.
minutes Students are asked to match the pictures with
their corresponding dialogues (the picture that
suits better to the dialogue), this way
understanding will be checked.
Post-stage

20 Check activity by reading the dialogues aloud

minutes and doing the matching also aloud. Answer
Closing: students’ questions and explain meaning of the
dialogues if necessary.

10 Ask students whether they liked the activity or

minutes not, whether they understood. Find out what
they would change in the activity. Ask them to
say aloud the new vocabulary.
 Lesson Plan

Date: September 8th, 2010 Level: 8th grade from

primary

Skill: Reading – Speaking

Expected Outcomes: Students will be able to recognize the vocabulary and

read a short dialogue.

Resources: A short dialogue.

Time Comments

Introduction 5 The teacher greets the students and calls the

minutes roll.

Core of teh Teacher talks about the previous class and

Class: 10 makes review of the dialogues and the
Pre-stage minutes vocabulary.
Students are asked to work in pairs and teacher
provides them a short dialogue that they have
to read.

While-stage
15minute
s All the students have to read the dialogue with
their partners in front of the class.

Post-stage
Students are asked to make sentences with the
10 vocabulary that they extract from the dialogue.
minutes
Closing:
Students are asked to say aloud the new words
they learned and their meaning without looking
5minutes at their copybooks.
 Lesson Plan

Date: September 10th, 2010 Level: 8th grade from

primary

Skill: Reading – Speaking

Expected Outcomes: Students will be able to understand a short text and

answer some questions.

Resources: A worksheet containing a short text and different kinds of

questions.

Time Comments

Introduction 5 The teacher says good morning to the students

minutes and calls the roll.

Checking students’ previous knowledge about

short texts by asking them if they know the kind
Core of teh of text they are going to read or whether they
Class: 10 have read or written them before. (Talking to
Pre-stage minutes students in English first and then in Spanish)

Presenting students the worksheet. The teacher

reads all the questions and alternatives aloud in
While-stage front of the class before starting with the
15minute activity, vocabulary will be checked.
s Students are asked to do the worksheet using
their dictionaries if they need.

Post-stage Check activity by reading the answers aloud.

Answer students’ questions and explain
10 meaning of the some words if necessary.
minutes
Closing: Ask students whether they liked the activity or
not, whether they understood. Find out what
they would change in the activity. Ask them to
5minutes say aloud the new vocabulary.
 Lesson Plan

Date: September 22nd, 2010 Level: 8th grade

Skill: Speaking

Expected Outcomes: Students will be able to give and follow instructions.

Resources: A memory game (Vocabulary)

A Gameboard (“Just do it!”)
Dice or a coin
Tokens

Time Comments

Introduction 15 The teacher says good morning to the students

minutes and calls the roll.

Checking students’ learning by asking them

Core of the what they remember from the last class,
Class: 15 checking vocabulary with a memory game that
Pre-stage minutes they have to play in groups of four students.

Presenting students the imperative form by

giving them some instructions. Teacher gives
some orders to her students and then students
give different orders to the teacher using the
While-stage imperative correctly, students have to give the
20minute teacher examples of some instructions they
s already know,
e.g.: “Close your book. Take out your pencil.”

Post-stage Students are asked to play the snake game,

which is called “Just do it”. In the game board
30 there are some instructions that students have
minutes to give and follow.
Closing:
Ask students whether they liked the activity or
not, whether they understood. And ask them to
10 give some of the instructions that they already
minutes learned playing the game.
 Lesson Plan

Date: September, 24th Level: 8th grade from

primary

Skill: Reading

Expected Outcomes: Students will understand short texts and learn about
different traditions.

Resources: whiteboard

Time Comments

Introduction 5 The teacher calls the roll.

minutes

Core of the A little talk about traditions, ask students what

Class: 10 celebrations and tradition they know, and what
Pre-stage minutes they consist of. Ask them what is their favorite
one. Students are told that the text they are
about to read is about traditions around the
world.

While-stage Silent reading of the text while the teacher

15 writes on the board some vocabulary to help
minutes students’ understanding of the text

Post-stage Students are encouraged to say the general

idea of the text and to give some details about
10 what they read. They are also asked to give
minutes their opinion about the traditions they read
about and about how they are celebrated.
Closing:
Students are asked to underline verbs which
are in Present Simple.
5
minutes
 Lesson Plan

Date: September 29th , 2010 Level: 8th grade from

primary

Skill: Reading- writing (Present Simple sentences)

Expected Outcomes: Students will be able to recognize Simple Present

sentences and determine when to use the verb with and without a _s

Resources: whiteboard
A worksheet and a word searching game about routines.

Time Comments

Introduction 10minute Teacher gathers students makes them go into

s the classroom, tries to make them be quiet and
say good morning.

Core of the An oral explanation about the activity. Teacher

Class: 15 asks students what they usually do and what
Pre-stage minutes their routines are. Teacher can give her daily
routine as an example.
While-stage
20minute Students work in pairs searching specific words
s about the routines in a word searching game.
Students have to look up the words on the
dictionary.
Post-stage
After finding the necessary words in the
30minute dictionary, teacher giver students a list of verbs
s and a worksheet with questions in order to use
Closing: the correct form of the Present Simple, using
the final “S” if is necessary

15 Students are asked to write creative sentences

minutes using two pair of verbs (forget- forgets, lie lies)
and feedback is provided, and any possible
answer is answered.
 Lesson Plan model

Date: September, 30th Level: 8th grade

Skill: Reading – writing (short answers)

Expected Outcomes: Students will show their reading comprehension and

understanding of Present Simple through a study guide.

Resources: A short text (Garfield)

A graded study guide with activities

Time Comments

Introduction 5 The teacher calls the roll.

minutes

The affirmative, negative and interrogative

Core of the forms of the Present Simple are written again
Class: 20 on the board in order to refresh students’
Pre-stage minutes knowledge. They are asked to give more
examples.
Students are asked to answer some questions
and repeat the sentences that the teaches
gives them as examples

While-stage
20 Students are provided with a study guide of
minutes reading comprehension about a text of Garfield
where they have to use the Present Simple and
they have to complete. While teacher monitors
students.
The study guides are collected and then
checked aloud in front of the class and
Post-stage feedback is provided

35
minutes Students are asked to complete a worksheet in
which they have to be able to put their
Closing: knowledge into practice. This is a graded study
guide.

10
minutes Students are asked to say aloud the vocabulary
 learned in this session.

Lesson Plan

Date: October 1st ,2010 Level: 8th grade from

primary

Skill: Reading

Expected Outcomes: Students will show their reading comprehension

Resources: a graded study guide with activities regarding the text

“Traditions around the world”

Time Comments

Introduction 5 The teacher calls the roll.

minutes

Core of the A quick reading to the text, which was read the
Class: 10 class before, and vocabulary is reinforced by
Pre-stage minutes writing it on the board just like the class before.
Students are told that the guide they are about
to do is marked.

While-stage Students are provided with a study guide of

20 reading comprehension about the text and they
minutes have to complete it. While teacher monitors
students.
Post-stage
The study guides are collected and then
5 checked aloud in front of the class and
Closing: minutes feedback is provided.

Students are asked to say aloud the vocabulary

5 learned through the text.
minutes
 Lesson Plan

Date: October 13th, 2010 Level: 8th grade from

primary

Skill: Reading – Speaking

Expected Outcomes: Students will be able to create a daily routine and

present their work orally in front of the class.

Resources: whiteboard
Card-Images.
copybooks
Time Comments

Introduction 5 The teacher says good morning to the students,

minutes calls the roll and writes the date on the board.

Core of teh A brief reminder about the previous class.

Class: 10
Pre-stage minutes

Teacher asks the students to work in pairs.

After that, teacher gives different images to the
While-stage students, which they have to use to create a
15minute daily routine, sticking these images on a piece
s of paper or card.

Post-stage Every couple has to show their work in front of

their classmates.
10
Closing: minutes
Teacher asks students to clean up the
classroom before they leave.

5minutes

Lesson Plan

Date: September 13th, 2010 Level: 8th grade from

primary

Skill: Reading – Speaking – listening – Writing.

Expected Outcomes: Students will be able to recognize the auxiliaries Do

and Does.

Resources: Whiteboard
Copybooks
A study guide

Time Comments

Introduction 5 The teacher says good morning to the students,

minutes calls the roll and writes the date on the board.

Teacher makes a review of the Simple Present

tense and asks students about what they
Core of teh remember of the previous class and they are
Class: 10 asked to make sentences with the present
Pre-stage minutes simple, in the affirmative form.

Teacher writes on the board the number of

While-stage sentences in the affirmative form which
15minute students have to write on their copybooks and
s they have to put them into Negative and
Interrogative form in order to use the correct
auxiliary. Teacher checks the sentences of the
game and their mistakes orally in front of the
Post-stage class.

10 Students are asked to complete a study guide

 minutes about the Present Simple.
Closing:

Teacher makes a review about the new

5minutes vocabulary from the study guide.

Lesson Plan

Date: October 20th, 2010 Level: 8th grade from

primary
Skill: Speaking, Reading and Listening.

Expected Outcomes: Students will be able to recognize the auxiliaries Do

and Does

Resources: Radio (song)

A short text (biography) with reading comprehension
questions.
Whiteboard
Copybooks.
 Time Comments

Introduction 10 Teacher says hello to the students, she calls

minutes the roll and writes the date on the whiteboard.

A brief reminder about the present simple

which were taught the class before, with
Core of the 15 examples provided. Students are told that
Class: minutes they have to complete a study guide about a
Pre-stage famous singer in which they are going to use
the present simple.
Teacher makes a review of the simple present
tense and asks students about what they
remember of the previous class and in which
situations they can use the present simple.
30
While-stage minutes Students are asked to read and complete a
short text (a biography) with the correct form
of the present simple. After reading the text,
they have to answer the questions about it.
Answers are checked in front of the class in a
collaborative way.
20
minutes
Post-stage Students are asked to listen to a song and
complete the lyrics with the correct word.

15
Closing: minutes Teacher checks the new vocabulary from the
song. Gives some examples and students have
to repeat the words and make sentences.

Lesson Plan

Date: September 20th, 2010 Level: 8th grade from

primary

Skill: Reading - Speaking

Expected Outcomes: Students will be able to recognize, create and correct

sentences in the Present Simple.

Resources: Whiteboard /Markers

Word-Cards
 A Gameboard, tokens, dice and forfeit cards. (Simple Present
game)

Time Comments

Introduction 5 The teacher says good morning to the students

minutes and calls the roll.

Teacher makes a review of the simple present

Core of teh tense and asks some questions about it.
Class: 10 Students are asked to create sentences in the
Pre-stage minutes present simple tense with some word-cards that
teacher gives them.

Students are asked to pay attention to the

While-stage instructions of the game that they have to play.
15minute Teacher asks students to form groups of four
s people and gives them a game set (a game
board, tokens, dice and forfeit cards). They
have to play the game in English.

Post-stage Teacher checks some of the sentences of the

game and their mistakes orally in front of the
10 class.
minutes
Closing:
Students have to practice the new vocabulary,
in order to do this, they are asked to match the
5minutes words in English with the correct meaning in
Spanish.

Lesson Plan

Date: October 27th,2010 Level: 8th grade

Skill: Reading – writing -Speaking

Expected Outcomes: Students will work with the vocabulary about

“Halloween” and they will be able to create sentences with them.
Resources: Different materials

Time Comments

Introduction 5 The teacher says hello and writes the date on

minutes the board.

Core of the
Class: 15 Teacher makes a review about the words that
Pre-stage minutes students were taught the previous class
(Halloween text) and they have to create
sentences with them or give the meaning of the
words.
Teacher writes on the board some Halloween
quotes, in order to give students an example of
While-stage what they have to do.
5minutes

Students are provided with all the materials

that they need to make the poster or the card.

Post-stage
55
minutes
Students work in groups in the elaboration of
their projects.
Closing:

10
minutes Teacher asks the students to clean up the
classroom before they leave.

Lesson Plan

Date: October 29th,2010 Level: 8th grade

Skill: Reading – writing -Speaking

Expected Outcomes: Students will work with the vocabulary about

“Halloween” and they will be able to show their work to their classmates.
Resources: Different materials

Time Comments

Introduction 5 The teacher says hello and writes the date on

minutes the board.

Core of the
Class: 10 Teacher makes a review about the words that
Pre-stage minutes students have learned. Teacher gives some
examples of sentences in which their can use
that words.

While-stage
5minutes Teacher shows a poster or a Halloween greeting
card to the class in order to give them an
example of what they have to do.

Post-stage
20minute All the groups show their work in front of the
s class. (graded activity)

Closing:
Teacher makes a review of the vocabulary of
5 this session.
minutes

Lesson Plan

Date: November 5th, 2010 Level: 8th grade from

primary

Skill: Reading – Speaking - writing

Expected Outcomes: Students will be able to remember Halloween

vocabulary (which is going to be part of the next text) and to answer a
number of questi9ons appropriately.
Resources: A short text
The whiteboard

Time Comments

Introduction 5 The teacher says good morning to the students,

minutes calls the roll and writes the date on the board.

Teacher makes a review of Halloween

Core of teh vocabulary. Students have to complete some
Class: 10 sentences written on the board with the words
Pre-stage minutes from the vocabulary.

Teacher gives a short text to the students,

which they have to read and answer the
While-stage questions (true or false, questions, matching
15minute vocabulary). Teacher gives the instructions and
s reads the text with the students.

Post-stage Once students finish answering the text

questions, the same questions are read aloud
10 by the teacher, so that students can give the
minutes answers, like a way to know how well students
Closing: are prepared to take the test of the next class.

Teacher collects the worksheets and tells the

5minutes students to clean up the classroom before
leaving.

Lesson Plan

Date: November 10th, 2010 Level: 8th grade from

primary

Skill: Reading – Speaking -Writing

Expected Outcomes: Students will put into practice some of the contents
that they previously learned.

Resources: The test.

Time Comments

Introduction 5 The teacher greets the students and calls the

minutes roll. The date is written on the board.

Teacher asks the students to be quiet and gives

Core of teh them the test.
Class: 10
Pre-stage minutes

Students have to take the test (This test consist

of four parts based on a short text which
While-stage students have to read before, questions about
15minute the text, true or false, vocabulary and creation
s of sentences)

Post-stage The tests are collected and teacher calls the roll
with them again.
10
minutes
Closing: Pending posters are shown in front of the class
to be graduated.

5minutes

Lesson Plan

Date: November 12th, 2010 Level: 8th grade

Skill: Reading – Writing – Listening- Speaking

Expected Outcomes: Students will be able to understand the use of “Will”

and they are going to be able to put it into practice.

Resources: Power Point (about the use of “Will” for future sentences.)
White board- Markers.

Time Comments

Introduction 5 The teacher starts by greeting the students and

minutes writing the date on the board.

Core of the Students are told the instructions and

Class: 10 objectives of the class. Teacher gives a short
Pre-stage minutes introduction about the future tense and when is
used (teacher gives some examples in Spanish).

Students are shown a power point about the

While-stage future simple and the use of “Will”, they have
15 to take notes.
minutes

Post-stage Students are asked to create affirmative,

negative and interrogative sentences using
10 “will” orally, they are immediately given
minutes feedback by the teacher.

Closing:
Ask students whether the contents which had
been already taught are clearer now. Ask them
5 to clean up the classroom before leaving.
minutes

Lesson Plan

Date: November 17th, 2010 Level: 8th grade from

primary
Skill: Reading – Writing- Speaking

Expected Outcomes: Students will be able to put into practice the use of
“Will” and predict situations.
Resources: Power point
Strips of paper with questions
A text (story)

Time Comments

Introduction 15 Teacher gathers students makes them go into

minutes the classroom, tries to make them be quiet
and greets them. Teacher writes the date on
the board.

Core of the 15
Class: minutes A brief reminder about “Will and Won’t” which
Pre-stage were taught the class before, with examples
provided. The power point that was shown last
class is shown again in order to review some
contents.

25
While-stage minutes Students are asked to pick up a strip of paper,
in which teacher gives them different
questions about the future. They have to
understand what they say and some of the
students are going to ask their questions to
the fortune teller that teacher is going to show
them, and then the fortune teller have to give
them their answers. Before doing the fortune
teller activity, teacher needs to teach students
new vocabulary like crystal ball, fortune teller,
20 etc. and asks students what a fortune teller
Post-stage minutes does or questions like Have you ever been to a
fortune teller?

Students are asked to read a short story, with

an open ending, after reading they are going
to write 3 predictions about what happen next.
15 Teacher goes around the classroom to help
Closing: minutes individual students and check that students
are answering properly.
Some of the predictions are read loudly and
teacher gives feedback if is necessary.

Students give their opinions about the class.

Teacher asks students what new words they
learned.
Lesson Plan

Date: November 19th Level: 8th grade from

primary
Skill: reading- listening
Expected Outcomes: Students will be able to identify the use of Will
and verbs.

Resources: A study guide

Time Comments

Introduction 5 Teacher greets students and writes the

minutes date on the board.

Core of the Students are old objectives and instructions

Class: 10 of the class.
Pre-stage minutes Students are reminded of the vocabulary
taught the previous class and they are
reminded how to use “will” in future
sentences.

While-stage 10
minutes Students are introduced some new words
related to the text they are going to read
Post-stage and they are asked to read the short text
15 loudly.
minutes

Students read the text individually and

answer the questions. The text has a many
Closing: sentences in which “will” is used, and
5 students have to recognize them.
minutes
Students are asked to check the answers
and the new vocabulary.

Lesson Plan

Date: November 24th, 2010 Level: 8th grade

Skill: Reading – Writing – Listening- Speaking

Expected Outcomes: Students will be able to create read, understand and

create sentences with new vocabulary of Christmas and put them into
practice in a Christmas greeting card.
Resources: White board- Markers.
Different material (to create the greeting cards)

Time Comments

Introduction 5 The teacher starts by greeting the students and

minutes writing the date on the board.

Core of the Teacher writes the new vocabulary on the

Class: 10 board; all the words have a sentence as an
Pre-stage minutes example.

Students are asked to create their own

While-stage sentences with some of the words that they
15 learned.
minutes Some of the sentences are checked by the
teacher orally.

Post-stage
Students are asked to create a representative
10 sentence and use it as a Christmas message
minutes which is going to be part of a Christmas
greeting card that they are going to make.
Closing:

Ask students whether the greeting cards

5 activity has been a good experience for them.
minutes Students are asked to clean up the classroom
before leaving.