Dominika Filipek

Lesson plan Katie Grows a Bean Plant

Lesson info: Time: 45 minutes
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Main
linguistic
aim:

Day: 19.03.2015

Age range: 7-8 years

Level: second graders

To present vocabulary: vegetables, plant, jar, bean seed, tissue paper, sunlight, stem, roots, leaves, soil, pot

Main
To show how to grow a bean plant and how to take care of it.
content aim:
Objectives:

Materials:
Anticipated
problems:

Students will be able to recognize words: vegetables, plant, jar, bean seed, tissue paper, sunlight, stem, roots, leaves, soil,
pot
Students will be able to plant a bean plant an take care of it
Textbook:
Supplementary: book Katie Grows Other aids: magic box, flashcards, realia,
a Bean Plant
handouts
Students that wont be involved in jumping Solutions: give them a handout to colour
activity (one row at a time) will be bored

Stage

Activity/aids

Show

Aim

Activate

Procedure

Interaction

the teacher asks students to sit down in a

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00:02

students

students

circle and shows the cover of the book Katie

Warm up:

the first

schemata

Grows a Bean Plant; the teacher asks: What

culture and

page of a

can you see? what is this girl doing?, What is S-T

geography

book

she

reference

Katie

anything? Do you like beans?

Grows a

Show the

Timing

planting?

Have

you

ever

planted

The teacher starts up a conversation in

Bean

importance of

Polish and asks why people are growing

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Plant

plants and the

plants, what do you think why growing them is

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Pearson

purpose of

important for people and animals. The teacher

growing them

explains that plants are crucial for ecology

and living animals, without plants creatures
wont be able to live. Plants give oxygen to
the ecosystem which is in the air and without
air we wouldnt breath. Plants give creatures
food and shelter.

Give students

the aim of the

lesson
Give basic

Explain that they are going to learn how to

plant a string bean plant.

Explain there are different types of string

information

beans. They differ in colour and size.

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about string

Explain that string bean is classified as a

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beans

legume /le.jum/ which in Polish means

rolina stronczowa. Ask them whether they
know where string beans are grown? show
them on the map countries which are the
biggest producers of string beans, inform
that the bigger producer of string beans are
China, Indonesia, India and Turkey. Teach

Vocabulary
presentation

showing

to familiarize

names of those countries in English.

the teacher choses randomly objects from the T Ss

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00:25

objects

students with

magic box and says: What have I got in the

and

the vocabulary

magic box? The teacher picks randomly

words

and drill new

objects from the box and says their names.

repetition:

words

The teacher asks students to repeat those

vegetables,

words in funny voices and then troughs a ball

plant, jar,

to individual students and asks them to Ss T

bean seed,

repeat those words changing intonation, pich

tissue

and timbre. The teacher repeats those words S - T

paper,

using funny voices, presents to be a mouse,

sunlight,

ghost.

stem,

roots,
leaves,
soil, pot
Vocabulary

whats missing

practice

game?

to practice
words

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The teacher asks students to put a flashcard T-S

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on the board. The teacher says: come here,

find the sunlight. If necessary she asks
follow-up questions. Where is it? Is it a Ss-S
sunlight. Put it on the board. The teacher
involves

students

in

checking

whether

students found a correct picture.

The

teacher says that it is time for a game. The

teacher explains that they have to remember Ss-T

introduce

the order of those pictures and asks them to

global reading

close their eyes. The teacher takes one card

of new words

from the board and hides it. The teacher

says: open your yeas. Whats missing ?

Show students
written form of
words.

Show students written form of new words,

ask them to take imaginary pictures of those
words and ask them to repeat those words.

Ss-T

00:30
00:35

Show those words really quickly and ask

them to raise their hands and read those
words. Ask individual students to match
those words with the pictures which are
already on the board.
Production

Saying

To practice new

coloring, model the activity, place flashcards

words
To practice new
words and

(according to rows). Say each group that they

make them

are going to listen to the recording and their

produce them

job is to move and stand next to the object

words

Provide students with handouts with

on the floor, divide students into 3 groups

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that they hear.

S-T

The teacher says that she needs a volunteer.

Ask a child to close his eyes and touch the
object that the teacher provides. The teacher
says: whats this? The teacher involves
students in checking whether students found
a correct picture.

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Practice

Planting a

bean plant

To teach

students how to

The bottle with water, plastic container or a

plant a bean

jar, sticker with an empty place for a name of

and take care

the student. Model the planting actions ask

of a plant

students to do the same. Provide students

with stickers and ask them to write down

their names on the sticker.

Ask in Polish how they should take care of
their plants. Say that they have to water the
plant and put it in a sunny place. Ask them to
observe the plant and to take photos of them

To show

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Provide students with necessary materials.

every other day.

The teacher asks students how should they

students how to

take care of plants. The teacher sums up the

take care of

conversation and say that each plant is

plants

different and needs different care. The

teacher informs students that they are going
to learn about planting string beans. The
teacher elicits that in order for the plant to
grow they have to water the plant and put it
in a sunny place. Ask them to observe the
plant and to take photos of them every other

Ss-T

day. Explain that soil contains minerals and

nutrients which plants need. Water, sunlight.
The teacher asks questions doing the actions
should we but the bean in that place ( dark)
no because its dark Jak czsto powinnimy
podlewa fasolk? Inform them that all
Homework:

handout