TASK BASED LEARNING

PLANNING
SUBJECT: METHODS II
TEACHER: Gladys Baya
STUDENT: Osvaldo Mammino

Course: 1st year

Learner’s age: 13
Seating arrangement: In pairs and in rows of 4
T seating at the front
Book suggested: 2003 OUP, Geraldine Mark & Ben Wetz Adventures elementary

Lesson Unit 4 SB pages 36/37

Lesson Aims The students will explore the topic of the elements and natural
disasters
By the end of the lesson the students will be able to write
a report for a newspaper or a magazine about natural disasters.
The learners will write a report in three paragraphs , taking into
the use of connectors
The learners also will also include in their report what
happened before, during and after the disaster.
They will be expected to use past continuous simple past and
natural phenomena vocabulary

Assumed Knowledge Present simple

Have got
Simple past of Be
Irregular verbs
Vocabulary areas: activities, jobs at home, forms of
communication

INTRODUCTORY TASK
The learners work in pairs of three this time and at this moment of the lesson The T
gives instructions to the learners about what they are going to do for a final task:
- They are going to become journalists
- They have to think of a name of a newspaper or magazine
- Each member of the group have to think of writing a report about a natural phenomena
disaster
- The T gives them the opportunity to choose what they would like to write (A blizzard,
tornado, An earthquake, a volcano eruption, etc)
- The report must contain what happened before, during and after the disaster.
Once they finish their reports, they share them with the class. The teacher conducts the
class monitoring them and giving them positive feedback as regards their productions.
The learners do peer correction guided by the teacher

PRE –TASK
The teacher starts the lesson by showing the learners photographs of different natural
disasters. The learners describe the pictures guided by the teacher who introduces new
words or phrases related to natural phenomena.
Now the teacher assigns a task by telling the students to open the books on p. 36/37 and
in pairs they read the text and answer the questions on a separate sheet of paper. The T
also assigns the learners to underline words or phrases in the text that are unfamiliar to
them. The T also put emphasis in underlying the simple past simple of be (they know it
from previous lessons) and verbs that take the ing form. The need to recognize actions
related to past continuous tense.

TASK
The learners carry out the task which is monitored by the teacher. The T let the learners
to work on their own, the learners have the opportunity to work on the language by
themselves.
After the pre task the T gives feedback to the learners focusing on error analysis and
language mistakes with the class (peer correction). The learners work cooperatively and
becoming active participants.
The teacher now asks the words or phrases that were unknown to them and write them
on the board. The words or phrases are discussed with the class and then the learners
take down notes. Now the teacher produces an example in connection with the past
continuous tense, and asks the learners to produce and example related to a natural
disaster, example The helicopter was flying around the area of the disaster. The T shows
the difference of was and were related to this tense by giving two examples on the board
and let them think of the difference between the two of them. After the presentation of
the grammar pattern the T goes back to the text of the lesson and asks the learners to
mark the lines that indicates what happen before, during and after the volcano eruption.

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LANGUAGE FOCUS
The teacher gives feedback to students and focuses on language mistakes. While doing
this, the teachers gives Ss positive feedback taking into account the relevant mistakes
the students have to cope with. The moment of practice is carried out by the students
through different exercises assigned by the T who acts as a guider and monitoring them
as much as they need. When it is necessary the T clarifies the doubts by guiding them
when carrying out the exercises.