Mini lesson plan 2011

• Express the free time activities you know• Recognize some common free time activities• Identify some common free time activities• Recognize useful expressions to tell others about your free time activities• Discuss your free time activities.• Express the free time activities you do on weekends• Review what you learned today in class

• Warm up activity• Activity 1: Introducing free time activities• Activity 2: Matching exercise• Activity 3: Sample Language Structures• Activity 4: Free time activities Discussion• Activity 5: The handkerchief game• Wrap up activity

Purpose of the activity: Express the free time activities you know.

Instructions:• Answer the following question:What do you do in your free time?

Purpose of the activity: Recognize some common free time activities.

Instructions: • Take a look at the following free time activities and repeat after the teacher

• Play video games• Watch TV• Go to the movies• Listen to music• Play soccer/basketball/baseball• Go to dance• Read a book• Surf the net

Instructions: • Show your card if it matches with the free time activity that the teacher says•Say the activity that is on the card when you see the picture

Purpose of the activity: Identify some common free time activities.

1. Play video games

2. Watch TV

3. Go to the movies

4. Listen to music

5. Play soccer/basketball/baseball

6. Go to dance

7. Read a book

8. Surf the net

Purpose of the activity: Recognize useful expressions to tell others about your free time activities.

Instructions: • Listen to the teacher expressing her free time activities using the following sample language structures

• What do you do in your free time?• I __________ on weekends.• I __________ at night.• My friends and I __________ on Saturdays.• Every Friday night I _____________.• I like to _________ on vacations.

Purpose of the activity: Discuss your free time activities.

Instructions: • Work in pairs.• Imagine you just met this person and discuss with him/her the following question: “What do you do in your free time?”•Use the sample language structures given before

Purpose of the activity: Express the free time activities that you do on weekends

Instructions: • Stand up•Make two lines•Memorize the number the teacher will asign you•When you hear your number, grab your group´shandkerchief•Run around your group until you drop thehandkerchief where it originally was•If the opposing group drops the handkerchieffirst, you will express the free time activities that you do on weekends

Purpose of the activity: Review what you learned today in class.

Instructions: • Answer the following questions:

What did you learn today? Give examplesWhat was something easy?What was something difficult?What would you change in this class?