FOURTH CLASS

DATE: Friday, April 5^th, 2013

OBJECTIVE: By the end of the lesson SWBAT introduce famous people using the vocabulary, actor, model, singer, cartoon character, (sports) player, and TV star (others might be included as well) using the grammar structure this is… he is /he`s…she`s/ she is. 

The fourth class was designed to teach vocabulary. The students had to be able to recognize the different professions. I was a little bit eager. Maybe the vacation gap influenced the performance in both, students and I.  The second part of the class had a variety of activities. Most of them were kinesthetic. I counted with the same quantity of students. I t was a good number for working in groups. However, they were plenty of them who where new in the class. These people did not show enough management of the topics. The schema was not opened at the time the practice started.  Some others arrived some minutes before my intervention started. I asked them to count one and two with the aim to divide the class. As soon as they were in groups I displayed the handout with scramble words. It was a challenge for some of them, however for some other it was not that complicated.

ACTIVITY 1. WRITING –SPEAKING.

INSTRUCTIONS: PUT THE FOLLOWING WORDS IN ORDER.

1-TORAC=                              5- SART- VT=
2-TRESSCA=                          6-ENTNIS- EAYRPL=
3-IESNGR=                             7-CRCSOER- EAYRLP=
4-DELMO=                             8-TOONCAR-TERCHARAC=

ACTIVITY 2

Tic tack toe was designed to be the following activity. I was decided like to follow the stream of the class. When I was designing the class, I took into account the possible famous people that students could know. Previously, they were in touch with the vocabulary. I expected they all had an approach with it. In this opportunity, they had to identify the image, with the name that was presented beforehand. Some of the accurately identify the professions. For some other students was more challenging. During the activity, I realized that some students were did not manage the vocabulary. Originally, I had decided to draw question marks in specific places with the idea to make them to answer the questions. However, at the time I did it, no one of them selected the questions in the tic tack toe square.  

In the third stage the students had to show whether they had got the information or not. It was a filling blanks activity.  They the classmate supports because it was an activity developed in pairs. Later, they had to compare with the classmate. After that they shared the answer aloud. Some of them did it perfectly.  Some others struggled at the time they did the activity. As a matter a fact, I think that I could have provided better and clearer instructions. I also consider that I am able to manage and the class. I also want to add that I consider myself capable to improve more and more in the teaching field. If I could change something, I would prevent the possible incidents we have  at the time each activity is in process.

                                                                       

SAMPLE OF THIRD ACTIVITY

INSTRUCTIONS: Complete the spaces in blank. Example: This is my­ basketball coach.                                                                                                              My School Welcome to my school! My name is Joseph McArthur. _____ is my English class. I like my English class. This _____ my English teacher, his name is Ronald Watson This   ______ Katherine, my best friend. This is my Mathematics ___________. His name is Francisco Gonzalez. _____ is _____ Science teacher. _____ _____ the Director. She is a serious person. Her name is Ms. Anna Clarkson. This is _____ soccer _____. I love soccer. I play soccer on Saturdays. This is _____ bag. It is a very big and heavy bag!

Sample of planning the fourth class: Friday, March 29^th, 2013

 UNIVERSIDAD DON BOSCO

FOURTH LESSON PLAN FOR TEACHING PRACTICUM II,

By Carlos Melara

OBJECTIVE:  By the end of the lesson SWBAT introduce famous people using the vocabulary, actor, model, singer, cartoon character, (sports) player, and TV star (others might be included as well) using the grammar structure this is… he is /he`s…she`s/ she is. 

STAGE	ACTIVITY	Type of learner	MATERIALS	TIMING	Aim of the activity
WRITING---SPEAKING.
WARM UP-PRACTICE	Ss are divided into two teams, T writes on the board a set of unscrambled letters to form a word from the vocabulary. The team will yell DONE when they finish, creating the environment of a competition. The activity continues till the two teams have the seven words. Then, they use the structure to form a sentence per word (Individually). TOONCAR TERCHARACT CARTOON CHARACTER. TORAC  ACTOR                  DELMO MODEL  GERSIN SINGER                CCERSOR YERPLA   SOCCER PLAYER                  NNISTE YERPLA TENNIS PLAYER	VA.	Pieces of papers./Board	10’	To get ss practice the vocabulary and the grammar structure.
PRACTICE	Ss play Tic tack toe. There are papers with questions on each space of the tic tack toe If they answer the question correctly they fill the space. If they answer it incorrectly, they do not have the right to put the X or the O in the space. These are the question. -Who is your favorite soccer player? –Who’s this actor? --Who is your favorite singer?  -who’s this singer? -Who is your favorite actor?     -who’s sport player? -who is your favorite actress?  -who’s this model? -who’s your favorite cartoon character?  -who`s this cartoon c.?	V.K.T	Board/ pictures/ X and O made by paper	10’	To practice The structure.
PRODUCTION	Ss get in pairs. They are given a short conversation with some blanks. They fill in the blanks. They practice the conversation and some ss say the conversation. Then, they create a new conversation using new famous people’s names (The ones they want). They practice in the same pairs, then, they share.	VA	Photocopy	10’	To practice the structure in a written and oral manner.