Subject Methods

Student’s name Osvaldo Mammino

Teacher’s name: Gladys N. Baya
Deadline June 6th, 2008
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PLANNING

Year 1st
Level Beginners
Number of students in class 18
Book suggested Abbs, B. - Freebairn I. (2006) Longman New Snapshot elementary
Lesson Unit 3 “I never drink coffee” SB p. 20
Seating Arrangement In rows of four - (front-faced)

ASSUMED KNOWLEDGE Present simple Affirmative negative and interrogative

present simple with question words
There is /are
Prepositions of place
Vocabulary related to family members, countries and
nationalities, colours, etc

TEACHING AIMS By the end of the lesson the students will be expected to
talk about pop star’s daily routines and recognize the
use of frequency adverbs.

TYPE OF AIMS

Topic aims Learners know about a celebrity’s life (About everyday life and
routines)
Learners talk about their own routines
Grammar aims Learners practise the simple present tense connected with routines
Learners are introduced to the use of frequency adverbs in connection
with daily routines
Communication aims Learners listen, read and talk about routines
Vocabulary aims Routines and Frequency adverbs. Learners are able to identify verbs
or actions related to everyday routines through different activities
Function aims Talking about everyday life
Learners learn something about other people’s daily routines

Skill aims Learners read about a day in the life of a singer

Ask and answer questions about her life (routines) and other celebrity’s life
Pronunciation aims Learners read a passage about a singer (Jennifer Lopez ). They do
it individually, the T elicits pronunciation and intonation while
reading.
Cultural aims Learners read about a day in a life of a famous person from other
culture and another country connected to her own life, what she does
in her free time, likes, dislikes, etc
Recognition aims Learners revise what they do every day
Group dynamics aims Learners share what they do every day (in pairs) Asking
questions to each other about their routines
Organizational aims Learners read about other people’s routines and ask and
answer questions among themselves. Then they are asked
to write about their own routines by using frequency
adverbs.

SKILLS INVOLVED Reading

TEACHER’S STUDENT’S EXPECTED WHY?

ACTIVITY
Warm up: The T Sticks
some photographs of pop
stars on the B and asks
questions to the learners
about their life
INSTRUCTIONS
Well class these are some
photographs of people you
know. (points at one of the
photographs and ask “Who
is he? How old is he?
Where is he from?, etc
Integration The T now
isolates one of the
photographs on the board
And writes three questions
About the photograph
ACTIVITY
The students answers the
questions orally and
individually
S1 answer “he’s Luis
Miguel”
S2 (raising his hand) He is
Forty, etc
Students copy the
questions on their folders
and then they check their
answers (class as a whole)
To introduce the Ss in to a
topic (5 minutes)
To revise some concepts
from previous classes
To tune them into L2
To identify the character in
the photograph
To revise question
formation from previous
classes
(5 minutes)

INSTRUCTIONS
Ok class, I will copy three Maria reads the answer, the
Questions about the rest of the class check their
woman in the photograph answer by doing self
and you are going to correction
answer them in their
folders ok?
Now take a red pencil and
you do self correction,
Please Maria read the first
answer
Teaching moment
Presentation
Pre reading : T asks the
students to open their
books on P. 20 in their SB,
shows some pictures of
Jennifer Lopez to the
learners and asks questions
to the learners in order to
predict what they are going
to read
Open their books and look
at the photograph. They
answer the questions the T
asks to the class
To introduce the Ss into the
topic through an oral task
(class as a whole)
To remind Ss familiar
words relevant to today’s
lesson
(5 minutes)

INSTRUCTIONS
Now class. Close your
folders and open you SB’s
on page 20. Don’t look at
the passage, see the
photograph, Who is she?
Is she an actress? What
nationality is she? What’s
her job? etc
Ss answer the questions
guided by the teacher
Ss 1 says “Jennifer Lopez”
Ss 2 and 3 say She is forty
S4 says “No nene, She is
twenty four, etc

Presentation (in context)

While reading The T gives Ss Look at the handout and To give Ss a purpose for
the learners a handout with carry out the activity reading
reading activity they have (task assignment)
to do. (10 minutes)
T gives instructions about
how to deal with the
activity

INSTRUCTIONS
Well kids, I will give you Learners look at the (the task is carried out)
this copy about the handout and complete the
lesson…It’s similar to the paragraph with the words
one you have in your in the box
books, you see? But I
erased 12 words from the
passage and I want you to
complete these paragraphs
with these words in the
box. I give you five
minutes ok?
ok now class Let’s see.. S 1 starts reading “What’s (Checking comprehension)
Alicia can you start a typical day for J lo?..... To provide exposure to L2
reading? While Alicia The class check the words
reads you check your in the paragraph
anwers ok? Pablo, go on S 2 goes on reading etc
reading, etc
Post reading T divides the Ss work in groups of 4 and (task assignment)
class in groups of 4. Each carry out the activity 10 minutes
group have an envelope
with words. They have to
make three sentences
connected to what they
read about Jennifer lopez’s
life

INSTRUCTIONS
Now class let’s leave the The Ss get together and (the task is carried out)
books for a moment, get develop the activity
together in groups of four. I
give you these envelopes
and I want you to find
three sentences about J.
Lo’s life among these
words ok? five minutes…

Isolation of teaching
point
Systematization Ss read the sentences and (checking comprehension)
The T now asks S in the look at the board To set example of
group to read the sentence sentences they read in the
and write the sentence on text and arouse Ss’s interest
the B leaving a blank on To exposure to L2
the sentence. T before hand To pre teach “always,
have copied three words never, etc”
ALWAYS 100 % (10 minutes)
SOMETIMES 60 %
NEVER 0 %
T complete the sentence on
B with the adverb of freq.
INSTRUCTIONS To encourage Ss recognize
Now let’s see…Carlos. can Ss read “Jennifer gets up at the use of the adverbs
you read one of the seven o’clock every day”
sentences? Ok now let’s Ss says “always”
see…look at these
percentages, Does she
sometimes get up at seven?
Yes Daniela? Good of you,
now let’s read another
sentence Pedro, can you
read? etc .
The T elicits the student’s
answers
Production and practice
(controlled activity)
The T gives Ss a handout
with and exercise to
complete the sentences
with adverbs of frequency
To ensure comprehension
Ss look at the handout and of instructions
listen to the teacher’s
instructions

INSTRUCTIONS To check global comp.

Well class, there are 5 Ss ask what they are going
minutes left, I give you this to do with it, T clarifies the
copy, for you to complete instructions
at home with the correct
adverb we saw today. Next
class we are going to check
this. Ok?

Round off To anticipate what they are

Ok class remember this Ss shouts “Siiiiiiiiiiiii” going to do next class and
Handout for homework and because they love having create expectations to the
please, bring a photograph games in class learners
of a person you admire
most it can be a sport man,
an actor, what you liked
most because we are going
to play a game next class

END OF THE PRESENTATION

How the lesson goes on

In this part of the lesson The teacher will introduce the adverbs of frequency by
correcting with the whole class the sentences that are on the posters about Jennifer
lopez. The T will try to make Ss understand the use of these frequency adverbs by
establishing a parallelism with the adverbs of time (they know the use of the adverbs )
Example From Monday to Friday ……………… USUALLY
Every day …………………………….. ALWAYS etc,etc

BOARD SYNOPSIS

Integration moment
Who is this woman? What’s her name?
What nationality is she? Is she from Italy?
Is she a doctor? What’s her job?

Systematization SOMETIMES 60%

J Lo never………goes out all the time ALWAYS 100%
jennifer…always….gets up at seven o clock every day NEVER 0%