English Class Lesson Plan

Giving directions and locations

Level: Basic

Age: children, young and adults

Time: 1h 30 min. per day.

Teacher: Lilian Melvi Camara Chura

Headings of the lesson

Main Aim: To understand and demonstrate the use of prepositions – by asking

about and giving locations, by asking for and giving simple directions – as accurate

as possible through the use of TICS.

Sub Aim: To focus on grammar functions / structures, language and vocabulary

development.

Personal Aim: To motivate students to participate and work through an integrated

skills framework all through the use of technology in ESL.

Language Input: Make effective use of the taught vocabulary, grammar functions

and structures (by employing the appropriate prepositions, the correct sequence

words in giving directions, and imperatives).

Skills:

The students are acquainted with audio-visual equipment used in real-life

classroom settings.

They are capable of asking about and giving locations as well as of asking for

and giving simple directions.

Most of them can interact in the target language, however with lapses in the L1.

Anticipated Problems: The students may have problems with the use of power

point, you tube videos.

Material/Aids: Use of power point slides and short video extracts focusing on the

use of prepositions of location and direction. The use of videos with Camtasia with

prepositions for revision. Supplementary material for further practice.

Procedures

Stages Time Focus Brief Description of activity Purpose/aim of activity

Pre-TaskT- SsT -SsS-S

Tell students play a video song and that they will have to identify what the lesson is going to be about.

Give students a sheet of paper. Inform students that they will have to fill the blanks in order to remember the content of the video song

Inform students that this video song will help them to practice the key vocabulary words and phrases needed for certain tasks.

Students must briefly introduce the topic.

To arise students interest.

To generate their background knowledge on prepositions of place and direction.

TaskT-Ss Students’ attention is

attracted via the Camtasia short video in order to introduce them to the theme

To enhance a real-life and communicative purpose for

Ss

T-Ss

and vocabulary bank.

Students note down as many prepositions they can hear and/or recall as possible.

Teacher elicits responses through peer interaction (some definitions are given in the L1).

With the help of the power point slide and tutorials students practice certain prepositions of place.

Students watch a 2nd short video in their classroom. Students must point out where they are seated for practicing prepositions. They take turns. For further practice, the teacher asks them to give all the possible locations of their seating in their classroom.

interaction.

To involve students in real-world tasks and expose them to authentic language in order to be used outside the class.

Post-TaskT-SsT-SsS-ST-Ss

.The teacher summarizes all the taught prepositions with the help of the power point slides – which are also distributed to the students to provide them with the opportunity of review at home.

Students are asked to draw

Improve their self-confidence in speaking.

Improve their oral skills through pair-work interaction and turn-taking without teacher

a street map where they select and highlight several locations as reference points to be used in the activity assigned for homework.

Based on their sample map (that is show in the teacher’s blog) they are asked to write down 4 short dialogues where A asks for directions and B gives directions. These directions can also be practiced verbally in a role play to develop fluency and confidence in speaking – with student A giving directions from the map and student B tracing the path onto a blank version of the same map.The teacher tests students’ knowledge on prepositions of direction and location.

intervention.

To give opportunities for contextualized their own reality.To express their own ideas.