LESSON PLAN

Subject : English (as a Foreign Language) Grade : 3 English Level: BasicMaterials : Songs & the ‘fill-in-the-gasp’ taskContent : Vocabulary and cultural customs

related to the animals in the farm.

GOALS OBJECTIVES

Students will be able to:

Increase vocabulary related to animals in the farm.

Acquire an interest of every part in farm.

Interact with other children and carry out better teamwork.

After learning and practice this lesson plan, students will: Acquire listening strategies. Write new words related to the farm and translate into their language. Pronounce correctly these words. Make sentences using the new words learned.

ANTICIPATORY SET(10 minutes before lesson)

Introduce them the topic through questions that they will be able to answer based on their ownexperience about a farm :

Have you ever visited a farm? What animals did you see? What's your favorite farm animal? How does it sounds?

ACTIVITIES & REQUIRED SET

Pre – Listening : Old MacDonald (twice)(3 min.)

Fill in the gaps (listen the song again)(5 min.)

Peer Correcting (write the words in the board)(10 min.)

Sing the song together(5 min.)

Look for the song’s vocabulary (10 min.)

Observe the spelling and the pronunciation of each word. (during the correction of the fill in the gasps)(10 min)

DIRECT INSTRUCTIONS

We share out the lyrics of the song. We give them some time to see the pictures and read the text. Then, we explain them that: We are going to listen ‘Old MacDonald had a Farm’. We ask them to be really attentive to the rhythm because we will sing it all together. Once the song has been listened, they will realize that there are some words that don’t appear in the lyrics. We will tell them that an old Macdonald has lost them and they have to help him finding these words. If not, we won’t sing the song later because we won’t have the whole song. When they have completed the song, we ask them to exchange their photocopies with a mate. They try to correct the lyrics all together. One of each pair will be the spokes person. In case of errors: the teacher tries to get students to self-correct.

Well, Old …….. had a farm, ee-i-ee-i-oAnd on his farm he had a ……., ee-i-ee-i-oWith a moo-moo here, and a moo-moo thereHere a moo, there a moo, everywhere a moo-mooOld Macdonald had a farm, ee-i-ee-i-o

Old Macdonald had a ………, ee-i-ee-i-oAnd on his farm he had a ………, ee-i-ee-i-oWith a baa-baa here and a baa-baa thereHere a baa, there a baa, everywhere a baa-baaOld Macdonald had a farm, ee-i-ee-i-o

Well, ………. Macdonald had a farm, ee-i-ee-i-oAnd on his farm he had a ……….., ee-i-ee-i-oWith a cluck-cluck here, and a cluck-cluck thereHere a cluck, there a cluck, everywhere a cluck-cluckOld Macdonald had a farm, ee-i-ee-i-o

Old Macdonald had a farm, ee-i-ee-i-oAnd on his farm he had a ……….., ee-i-ee-i-oWith an oink-oink …………, and an oink-oink thereHere a oink, there a oink everywhere an oink-oinkOld Macdonald had a farm, ee-i-ee-i-o

MacDonald

Cow

Farm

Goat

Old

Chicken

Pig

Here

SKILLS• The four skill (listening, writing, reading and

speaking) are developed with these activities.

STRATEGIES • Listening for specific information • Following instructions • Memorizing (the rhythm of the song, the

vocabulary, the meaning of the words) • Using visual clues as aids to meaning

Pronunciation

LEARNING STRATEGIES

RELATED THEORIES• Behaviourist:

they are repeating the song, memorizing it. • Interactionist:

they are interacting with the teacher and the students.

Metacognitive • Hypothesising • Comparing • Self-correction • Reviewing

Cognitive • Using visual & audio clues as aids to meaning• Evaluating

Socio-affective • Peer correcting

METHOD OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING

• Most of our lesson plan’s characteristics are related to “The Direct Method”: No translation is allowed. Use of pictures to guess meaning. Self-correcting. Direct association of words’ meaning with the target language. Getting students to self-correct. Fill-in-the-blank exercise.

• Another characteristics of different methods: - Audio Lingual Method- Cooperative Learning: they work in pair or groups. They can learn how to work the other children (interaction).- Multiple Intelligence

ASSESMENT AND FOLLOW UPWe will carry out a Formative Assessment throughout the Lesson Plan. Some aspects that will be worth, the student…

- is motivated - participates in the task- understand the task - interacts with other students - presents their job in a organized way