NINTH CLASS: Friday, May 17th, 2013

GRAMMAR LESSON

OBJECTIVE:  By the end of the lesson SWBAT. Tell how many family member they have by using has and have when completing the chart with their own information and their classmates' information.

                  

The first activity was a warm-up. The activity was designed to help me identify the students rapidly. It is necessary from the very beginning of the class to get the students relax. Before this activity, I felt optimistic about the result that I wanted to achieve. I was sure about the activity, because it was very well designed. I was conscious about the importance of this activity to the class. During the task they worked as good as I expected. I took the opportunity to check their skills when I asked them spell their classmate's name. I realized that they were really into the working mode. After this activity I noticed that I was a very nice warm-up to present in the first class. Honestly, I felt relieved because of the effectiveness of this activity. To present this activity in the future, I would bring color bond paper for them. They would match the classmate with the color of the paper they received.

Activity 2: Sample pictures 

The second activity was divided in parts. First, I wanted to know the students' prior knowledge. I decided to start the second part giving to each of the students a set of colored papers. Each set of papers had a scrambled sentence so they can make sense out of it. Later, they shared the sentence with their classmate. Second, I showed them the chart with the structure. Intentionally, I omitted the subject "they" from the chart with the idea to ask them to do a sentence using the subject previously mentioned just in case the students had not questions about the structure. Effectively, It was a nice technique, omitting one subject with the aim to know whether they got the topic or not. Third, they did a sentence using this structure. After this activity I noticed that the usage of colorful papers in the material helped a lot to catch students' attention. To improve this activity, I would include more structures. It would be useful for the students to know how to create a question using the structure. Another important aspect to highlight could be, to include the negative structure for doing sentences.  I would add this arrangement not only in the chart but also in the pieces of papers.

At the time I was designing the third and the fourth activity, I thought about the possibility to 

present different materials. I wanted to show the students interesting material.  I decided to bet

 on visual learners this time. I decided to use a "fill in the blanks" activity because of the level of

 the students. During the task the interaction was promoted in each of the parts of the activity

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  The activity was totally centered on students as the rest of the activities. They reacted very 

well. They finished the activity and they answered the questions bellow till the moment I asked 

them to do it. After this activity I was sure that the objective was achieved. If had to do the same

 activity again, I would add more information to the chart, therefore, more questions to the 

second part. Another aspect to change would be adding a conversation at the beginning.

 Indeed, it could bring the possibility to ask more opened questions giving the possibility to

 share more information

The final part of the class was intended to students to produce the grammar point. Before this stage, I decided that it was appropriate to develop this activity   the usage of a box to fill in their information. I felt optimistic about the possibility to reach my objective. It was important to promote interaction among them; therefore they were working in pairs for this activity when I monitored their work. During the activity, the students worked very well. Indeed, I was surprised because of the students’ performance.  I asked them compared their answers and to ask about the classmate's information.  After the class I felt pleasant because the activity was very effective. To do this activity in the future, I'd rather to include more than one chart. The idea is to persuade the students to ask the questions to more than one classmate. 

 UNIVERSIDAD DON BOSCO

NINTH LESSON PLAN FOR TEACHING PRACTICUM II,

By Carlos Melara

OBJECTIVE:  By the end of the lesson SWBAT. Tell how many family member they have by using has and have when completing the chart with their own information and their classmates' information.