LESSON PLAN #1                                                                                                           Date: 18th of March,2003                                      

                                                               name of student                                            semester

                                                                    Jutta Schulz                                                            6                                                             eb= exercise book, wb= workbook, (...)= time I need

 Topic/Tasks/Skills:

- story: “Bad luck for Arnold”, days of the week

Learners / Classroom teacher / School:

1st class/ 3rd set/ Mr. Zabgerl/ HS Pfunds

 

Main aims:

-          Spelling and pronouncing the days of the week

-          Checking understanding, “What do they (really) know? What have they saved? (jigsaw, song)

Personal training focuses:

-          Getting to know each other

-          Names of LL

-          Establish classroom routines/ rules in classroom (teacher as authority)

Language focus:

Time “indicators”: days of the week

(new vocabulary, revision of structure, awareness raising for new structure, contrasting usage, etc.)

Preparation:

Bag, materials (hobby), jigsaw „Bad luck for Arnold”, sheet “days of the week”, poster: “days of the week”, contract (“Verhaltensvereinbarung”)

 

step/ time

skills

inter-action

materials

procedure (what the teacher / learners do)

content of tasks / exercises       //      transitions (links)

intention / rationale / reason for choosing task,

interaction, material, etc.

comment (pre/post) / anticipated problems +

possible solution

1 (10)

S, V

T- C/I

Bag, objects, (bb)

-          Lead- in activity: bag in which are real objects representing my hobbies, I tell LL a little bit about me

-          LL have to introduce themselves (I am…, my name is…), LL tell me about their hobbies: then gesture + name, I try to learn them by heart!

- getting to know each other

 

2 (5)

L, V, Sp

T-C

Poster: days of the week

-          Days of the week: T describes them in words, LL have to point at the right poster

-          LL hear the days (oral)

-          LL see the words (spelling)

 

3 (15)

R, V

G (6/7)

jigsaw

-          Story: p.46/47 “Bad luck for Arnold” -> jigsaw, 2 groups of 6/7

-          Every LL gets a piece of the text (red/green group):

-          1. Is it at the beginning or at the end of the text?

-          2. LL stick sentences together

-          Monitoring jigsaw reading without interfering

-          demonstrate with one group

-          DISCIPLINE: work out a contract with LLs!

4 (10)

L, V

I

Days of the week- sheets

-          LL listen to the song

-          Every LL gets one sheet and has to stand up when they hear “their word”

-          Working with the “days of the week”

 

5 (10)

V, Sp

I

Sheet “days of the week”

-          Homework, time- filler

-          LL bring letters into the right order

-          Fun

-          spelling

 

Next lesson, time left

S, Sp

T-C

bb

-          hang- man (crocodile, Wednesday, bananas…)

- fun, belonging to topic

 

My wishes

 

 

 

-          “s” – rule (like/ don’t like), p.48 Nr. 6

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Individual / (changing) Pairs / Groups of 4 / Class / Teacher // I-T / P…/T-C / etc.      //    Listening / Reading / Speaking / Writing / Vocabulary / Grammar // L+R / S+W/ etc.

role cards / activity cards / pictures / flash cards / posters / notebooks / blackboard / OHP / textbook ex.3, p.15+tape/ etc.