Universidad Catlica de la Santsima Concepcin

English Pedagogy
Teaching Practice

LESSON PLAN (PPP)

School: San Cristobal

Class:alte3
Number of SS: 21

Date of lesson:
27/06/08

Time of lesson:
1 period

Length of
lesson:
45 minutes

Student-Teachers
name:
Matias Galvez
Gerardo Perez

Main Aim:
At the end of the lesson students will be able to about future plans for a summer holiday, orally.

Exponent(s): -What are you/we/they going to do next summer holiday?

- What am I going to do next holidays?
- What is she/he going to do next holidays?
-Im going to visit my grandmother in Chillan.
-you/we/they are going to visit my grandmother in Chillan.
-She/he is going to visit my grandmother in Chillan.

Assumed Knowledge:
-Place expressions
-Pronouns
-Vocabulary about travelling
-Time Expressions
-Wh-words

Target Language: - Wh-word + verb to be + Subject + going to + main verb + Complement?

-Subject + verb to be + going to + main verb + Direct Object + prep. Phrase.

Anticipated Problems

..and Solutions

Aids

Ss may forget to conjugate verb to be.

Give examples highlighting pronouns and

accurate conjugation of verb to be.

Pictures of different places of Chile

Ppt
videos

Ss may have pronunciation problems

Repeat the sentence given by the student

emphasising the pronunciation mistake.

Ss may forget vocabulary about travelling

Use of bilingual dictionaries for self-help

Ss may forget Wh-words

Review the content briefly before

the practice

Stages

LEAD-IN

Procedure
What I am going to do

What I am going to say

Instructions, CCQs, Feedback,etc

Skill

T asks Ss about is the time of the year T guides Ss:

Speaking
that they like the most and why.
What time of the year do you like
most? Do you like summer, winter
T asks Ss about what they usually do or fall?
for holidays.
Why is it? Is it cold, hot, fun, free
T tells Ss about his plans for the next time?
summer holiday
For me, I love summer because I
can do many things like travelling
and meeting new people. and I have
a lot of free time

Time
(min)

Interaction
T-Ss;Ss-Ss;etc

5 minutes

T-Ss

15 minutes

T-Ss

What do you do for holidays?

Do you visit other places?
Grandma's House?
Uncle's Farm?

PRESENTATION

T presents Ss new sentences where the

new structure is present in the context
of summer holidays, highlighting the
correct use of verb to be, orally.

What I am going to do for my next Speaking

summer holidays is that I am going
to visit my brother in Santiago. I am
going to shopping and go to
Fantasilandia

T checks pronunciation by modeling

Ok, what I want to do for my next
and asking Ss individually to repeat
T writes the sentences on the board and summer holidays.
underlines the structure to be taught.
Repeat after me, '' I am going to
visit my brother in Santiago''
''My brother is going to pick me up
at the airport''
T presents the structure of the future
''My brother and his wife are going
tense going to
to throw a welcome party for me''

I am going to visit my grandmother

Now Let's see
in Chillan.
We use going to we want to talk
S + verb to be + going to + verb + about actions that will be done in
the future and we have no doubts, it
.
is a plan that certainly will happen
What are you going to do next in a specific future. In this case the
next Summer holidays.
summer holiday?

Wh-word + verb to be + S + going Let's look at this, the structure:''

Subject + verb to be in the correct
to + verb + ?
use + going to +main verb and the
complement or the rest of the
T checks understanding of form, sentence.
meaning and use and pronunciation.
Let's check the sentences one by on
again and tell me if they are correct.

Now when we want to ask what

someone is going to do, we use the
following structure: Wh-word +
verb to be + Subject + going to +
main verb + Complement.
Let me check.

T asks students to move round the

room in order to find a partner (the
partner must not be his/her desk mate).
PRACTICE

Well done everyone, now I want Speaking

writing
Ss practice the new language in pairs you stand up.
for 7 minutes.
Move around and find a partner to
work with, you cannot choose your
T checks possible pronunciation and
desk mate.
grammar mistakes Ss might make

7 minutes

T-Ss
Ss-Ss

15 minutes

T-Ss
Ss-Ss

Now that everybody has a partner

talk about your plans for next
holidays.
You can use dictionaries, your cell
phone or ask me in case of doubts.
Youll only have seven minutes to
do it.

T asks Ss to plan a schedule for their

next summer holiday for ten minutes in
a dialogue
PRODUCTION

When my cell phone rings, it is

because the time is up.

Ok, now that youve practice a bit, I Speaking

want you to plan a schedule for Writing
your next summer holiday with the Reading
T gives Ss a piece of sheet with the same classmate in the format of a
instruction written down it
dialogue.
T uses CCQs to clarify the instructions

T acts as a monitor checking the Your schedule must contain the

progress
and
solving
students following aspects: -time of arriving
problems.
to the bus/train station or airport,
name of the destination, place
T spends enough time to each groups where you are going to stay in
performances.
(hotel, tend, etc), etc.

T asks volunteer to present their Youll have ten minutes to do it.

dialogue.
When the time is up, Ill ask for
Ss present the dialogue (written down volunteers to present what they
in their notebooks) in front of the class have. If there are no volunteers, Ill
choose some at random.
Use of CCQ: Do you have to work
with another classmate?
-Do you have to plan a trip?
-Are you going to plan your trip in
5 minutes?
XX can you give the instructions to
your classmates, briefly?
Well done, lets start working!
Ok, times up! Is there any
volunteer? No? so, ZZ and XX stan
up and present to your classmates
your schedule!
Good, say that again, but a bit
slowly.
T uses CCQ'S to clarify
understanding of the content.

Close-up

the That sounds better! Good job!

T asks Ss question to use the proper

tenses previously worked
Now, let's review the content!

Speaking

Do we use this tense to talk about

plans in the past? In the present? Or
are they for the future?
Do we prepare
beforehand?

these

plans

Are these plans just for holidays?

3 minutes

T-Ss

Can we use these plans for a near

future? like this month? or for a
longer period like one year?
Ok.
Now let's see XX please tell me
what are you going to do for next
holiday?
Now, YY please tell me what is he
(his/her classmate) going to do for
next holiday?
So, you can use this tense to talk
about future plans like a holiday
summer, winter, etc. travel with
your family, friends, among others!

Adapted from University of Sussex

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Practice Checklist.

Activity Checklist
YES NO

S conjugates verb to be and uses going to

YES NO

S asks questions about the topic to his/her classmate

YES NO

S answers classmates questions

YES NO

S uses vocabulary according to the topic

Production Rating Scale.

Name:

Excellent
(4)

Date:

Good
(3)

Needs
Insufficient
Improvement (1)
(2)

Accuracyx2
Pronunciation
Rage of Vocabulary
Dialogue interaction
Content

Practice Activity. Analytic rubric

(4)

(3)

(2)

Just few mistakes Just more than two more than five No
basics
terms of grammar.
mistakes.
production

Accuracyx in the speech, in basics mistakes.

2

Pronuncia Just few mistakes Just more than two Just more than No
tion

in the speech, in basics mistakes. it five

basics
terms
of does not interfere mistakes.
it production
pronunciation.
with the message
interferes with
the message
Clear expression of Repetition of two
ideas by topic or three ideas. it
words
does not interfere
with the message

The
general No
idea are not
clear,
the
message
is Production
ambiguous

A
constant One student tend to
interaction, similar talk 4 or 5 sentences
interaction opportunities of more than the other.
both

One
student No
tend to talk the
majority
of production
time, and the
other
no
explain
the
ideas, there not
interaction.

Rage of
Vocabular
y
Dialogue

Content

Just one or two Ss still keep

sentences far away general ideas in
from the context
context. it does
interfere with
message

the
the
not
the

Just
one or No
three
ideas
related to the production
content the res
of the speech is
just to going
around.