Lesson plan 3

Teachers: Estela Braun & Liliana MontserratStudent teachers: Urbizu Paola & Schneider AyelénSchool: N°2 Course: 4°BTimetable: Thursdays 15:55 to 16:35 (40 minutes)Textbook/booklet: noneDate: 12th SeptemberTopic: Animals

Aims to teach adjectives to expose students to the use of the verb to be in present simple to provide children with oral input to improve the students’ writing skills

Objectives to be able to name the different adjectives in English to be able to write sentences with the structure “It is...” to be able to describe animals

Activities

Activities Type of interaction

Macroskills Timing Materials

Activity 1: Activating prior knowledge. Fill in the blanks a/an related to animals, colours and school objects.

Individual Writing 5 minutes Blackboard

Activity 2: Explanation of adjectives “tall, short, small, big, beautiful, horrible” using animal flashcards. The teacher will prompt answer through some questions such as “Is the elephant small?”

Whole class

Listening/speakng

5 minutes FlashcardsBlackboard

Activity 3: Complete the sentences using the adjectives from the box. “The snake is...” Then the teacher will give the correct answers on the board.

Group work

Writing 10 minutes

Blackboard

Activity 4: The students will have to listen to the description of an animal and they have to guess what animal is.

Whole class

Listening 7 minutes Flashcard

Activity 5: Flashcards game. Two groups will compete to see who picks first the animal with the characteristics the teacher mentions. (I want you to pick a... giraffe! I want you to pick a... gray animal!)

Groups Listening 10 minutes Flashcards