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Licenciatura en Idioma Extranjero – Inglés

First Micro-teaching of teaching grammar

Teacher’s name Class length Date Nr of session

Laura Camila Pinilla Castiblanco 20 minutes October, 2
Ian Yanick Lopez Acosta Monday 26th,
2020
Grade Class Level Topic Language aspect
and or skill
6th Grade A1 Sports and Activities Teaching grammar
Previous lesson summary Next lesson topic
It doesn’t apply. We chose a topic from The alphabet
the education curriculum for Colombian
students.

Learning objective Personal aim

1. Students will be able to form sentences with
the verbs “go, play and do” by identifying on
their daily routine
2. Students will be able to differentiate the
meanings of the verbs shown above.
3. Students will use the learnt verbs through an
interaction in pairs.
4. Everyone will learn in an inductive way
information about how we can express
activities and sports.
5. About the cognitive levels, they will develop
a domain of comprehension, application and
analysis.
1. We will expect that students learn the use of
the verb go
2. We will expect that students learn the use of
the verb do
3. We will expect that students learn the use of
the verb play
4. We will expect that students produce
sentences using the correct form of verbs
shown into class
Our expectation is that students have an
active participation, the central idea is that
they have the motivation to participate and
also develop the activities proposed for the
micro.teaching. So, they will have a positive
learning about how they can use the verbs
correctly when we talk about sports or
activities that are practiced.

Materials and Resources1 Bibliography

● Slides with the context that will be applied in ● https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1lgJa

our micro-teaching. UFO15ABnDU-QciYS25yMSsh-
● A practical text about favourite sports and jq2PHqPkgQSLbQI/edit?usp=sharing
activities written for children around the ● FAVOURITE SPORTS AND ACTIVITIES
world.
● A little activity for practicing the use of the ● https://quizizz.com/join?
verbs in the platform “Quizizz”. gc=1661659&from=challengeFriends
● An instrumental and amazing song for ● https://www.youtube.com/watch?
motivating them to participate in the little v=tvlmlpNcppo
activity. ● https://padlet.com/laura_pinilla_c/r3s1bb901
1 Attached the materials used in this lesson: hand-outs, flashcards, tests, etc.
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● A padlet for realizing a communicative 35pqb0a

practice in pairs with the help of photos. ● Platform “Microsoft teams”.
● Chat emoticons.

Anticipated problems (linguistic, behavioural, Planned Solutions

situational)
1. There may be students who will need us to 1. T is going to explain the activities step by
repeat the instructions. step in a most comprehensible way.
2. The student doesn’t pronounce well or add 2. T is going to provide a dynamic, friendly and
some letters to the words. participative environment during the class.
3. Problems with pronunciation for the letters 3. Listening and repeating a lot of times until
and vowels that have an union and learning new words.
accentuation.
4. Problems with internet connection and
technological sources.
5. Problems with the use and management of
the platforms.

Learner’s expected output Learner’s expected comprehensible input

● Learn the correct use of the verbs “go”, ● Think about a type of sport or activity.
“play” and “do” for talking about sports or ● Associate the context with the verbs.
activities. ● Describe the topic.
● Identify the differences among the verbs,
● Gain new vocabulary through the activities
shown in our micro-teaching.

Advisor’
Detailed description of Activities, Procedures, Teaching
Name of the Tim Interacti s
techniques, Grouping, Materials, and Instructions
activity e2 on comment
script3
s
T-Ss Here you describe how the activity will be developed To put
SPORTS 20 (Teacher- feedback
AND min students) We will apply an inductive method to teach grammar called for the
ACTIVITIES utes PPP (Presentation, Practice and Production) divided so: task
Ss-Ss about
* T (Student- PRESENTATION sports
i student) and
m ● Warm- up: We will do an interaction Ss-Ss about activities.
e their favourite sport or activity (2 min) -Recogni
● Favourite sports and activities: Everyone must ze the
o read the 5 comments made for children around the learning
f world about their favourite sport or activity during process
the week. Ss will find the verbs such as “go”, of each
t “play” and “do” into each comment. The idea is student
h understanding the differences among these verbs and help

2 Set the time in not more than 10 minutes for each activity, not for the whole stage.
3 Do not use a single paragraph for describing the whole stage. Instead number each activity of the stage and describe it
thoroughly.
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e when you are talking about sports or activities in them to

a specific context. (6 minutes) improve
a the
c PRACTICE English
t level.
i ● Activity in the quizizz platform: Ss will enter the - Realize
v Quizizz platform with the due name. Here, they will an active
i find 10 sentences. Everyone will select or write the class for
t correct verb for each one. The objective is learning
identifying which is the correct verb used to talk of the
the different kinds of sports or activities. (5 min) central
topic.
PRODUCTION - Create a
real
● A blackboard virtual: A padlet for uploading context to
photos of important people each SS. They must do do an
an interaction in pairs. The idea is producing a easier
conversation with short questions and sentences for explanati
practicing the vocabulary about sports. (7 min) on about
the new
* What is your approach to teach? Inductive or deductive? topic.

Our teaching approach will be inductive. Ss will have the

capacity to complete each one of the activities with the
vocabulary and a correct grammar about sports and
activities without the grammatical explanation.

Evidence of the Vocabulary and pronunciation you planned before doing the activity

Vocabulary aspect (verbs,

Meaning
adjectives, adverbs, Concept Check Questions
(and ways of conveying it)
idioms, etc)
Verbs: Go,Play,Do Do: to perform, take part in, or achieve In this part, students are
something asked questions to verify
Nouns: Golfing, Warm-up, that they are learning and
Badminton, Snowboarding, Play: to take part in a game or other understanding what is
Hockey, Aerobics, Video organized activity being explained to them
games, Crossword,
Swimming, Yoga Go: to travel or move to another place For example:
Students
Techniques for teaching
vocabulary: ● Aerobics, crossword... with the verb What's your name?
do: it doesn't require an element to be How old are you?
- Lexical games. practicing. It can be practiced What's your favourite sport
- Lexical grammar. outdoors. (take part in, or achieve or activity?
something) How long do you practice
Techniques Practice: ● Soccer, video games... with the verb your favourite sport or
Quizizz. questionnaire, play: It requires an element to be activity per week?
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Active Reading, Sorting, practicing or to take part in a game.

Conversation ● Swimming, golfing... with the verb go: Teacher
Sports or activities end -ing, It
Methods for practicing requires a specific place to practice. What is his/her name?
(to travel or move to another place) How old is he/she?
- Variable practice. What's his/her favourite
- TPR (Total physical sport or activity?
response) How long does he/she
- Read texts practice his/her favourite
sport or activity per week?
Approach to language
learning
● PPP (Presentation, What is your approach to
practice and teach? Inductive or
production) Teacher deductive?
explains, students Our approach is inductive
and teacher because students have a lot
practicing and of examples in all the
students realize an passing of the class with
autonomous work specific explanations.
● TBL (Task based
language learning) Is the work mainly
The activity has a Student-centered?
constant review by The teacher gives the
the teacher. explanation and shows
examples of each topic and
Techniques for teaching the teacher helps with the
grammar process of the student
while they are doing the
● CLT activities keeping in mind
(Communicative the examples shown above.
language teaching as
an approach).

Pronunciation Aspect Meaning Concept Check Questions


Sounds, stress, linking,
elision, weak or contracted
forms, intonation?
Do: /du/
Play: /pleɪ/
Go: /ɡoʊ/
Golfing: /ˈɡɑːl.fɪŋ/
Warm-up: /ˈwɔːrm.ʌp/
Badminton:
/ˈbæd.mɪn.tən/
Snowboarding:/
ˈsnoʊ.bɔːrdɪŋ/
Hockey: /ˈhɑː.ki/
Aerobics: /erˈoʊ.bɪks/
Video games: /ˈvɪd.i.oʊ
ˌɡeɪms/
Crossword: /ˈkrɑːs.wɝːd/
Swimming: /ˈswɪmɪŋ/
Yoga: /ˈjoʊgə/
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(and ways of conveying it)
A young teenager in 6th grade doesn’t have Concept check questions
the capacity for understanding a phonetic
transcription. Everyone learns in visual, Do you have a favourite
spoken and interactive ways. Accordingly, the sport or activity?
best way for learning to pronounce the sports Did you understand the
or activities with its due verb but not the most comments seen in the text?
orthodox is the “AUDIOLINGUALISM Do you understand how
METHOD”. It’s based on listening and you must access the
repeating. As a teacher, the student needs questionnaire?
practice and more practice, they repeat in Do you understand the
group and individual as many times as previous instructions?
necessary each word for learning the correct
pronunciation with different ways. (It applies
if the student doesn’t know the correct Inductive as an approach
pronunciation) For instance: based on the development
- Extra tasks. of abilities in a classroom,
- Spoken text. it’s a specific strategy for
- Virtual platforms. teaching.
They in this class are going to learn how to
pronounce correctly the sports and activities
with its due verb in the English Language, so
a great strategy will be when we show them
the answers or correct their communicative
interaction.