LESSON PLAN 4
Date & time:
06.03.2008
30 min
The class:
size & composition:
18 students; 3 years old; 8 girls and 10 boys;
level:
Beginners (first year of learning English, 5x30 min per week)
Coursebook:
Cookie and friends
Subject:
Boys and girls.
Aims:
Ø students are able to name the main characters of the book;
Ø students are able to say simple greetings and answer the questions using “Yes” or “No”.
Ø students are able to listen and participate in children’s songs, dance and movement;
Ø students are able to understand simple instructions in English;
Language content:
Ø present simple greetings: hello, bye-bye;
Ø words describing the sex of Cookie and Lulu- boy and girl;
Ø classroom language- stand up, sit down, stretch, skip, jump;
Personal aims:
Ø to give every child opportunity to play and talk in English;
Anticipated problems:
Ø difficulties with discipline- 18 children, some of them have never participated with English lesson;
Materials:
Ø big “treehouse”- green tree with doors, where cat and kangaroo lives;
Ø Cookie puppet
Ø CD “Cookie and friends”
Ø Lulu’s poster
Ø flashcards- Cookie and Lulu, boy and girl;
Ø a copy of picture boy and girl, crayons;
Stage
Procedure
Time
Form of work
Materials
Warm-up
“Hello song”- the teacher with puppet is singing a song and students are singing with him.
The teacher mime voice of the cat saying “Hello” to every child. Students say “hello” and give him hand or hug.
2,5 min
Whole class
Individually
Cookie the puppet
CD with “Hello” song
Presentation
The teacher sits with children in a circle near to treehouse. He is revising what they know about. He says :“Lulu the kangaroo” and he points the poster, then he points Cookie puppet and says “Cookie the cat”. He asks several questions about characters e.g.: “Cookie the cat?” and point to Lulu, “Lulu is the cat?”. Children say “No” or “Yes”.
The teacher uses the puppet to say “I am Cookie, I am the boy”. Then points several children and says “Boy”. Then he shows Lulu poster and he says: “This is Lulu. Lulu is a girl” and he points several girls saying “Girl”.
10 min
Treehouse;
Cookie puppet
Lulu poster
Practice
The teacher shows flashcard with boy and girl. He says “boy” and “girl”.
Game “Girls and boys”- the teacher show students flashcard with boy or girl and says e.g. “Girls stand up”, “Boys- wave”.
Students are sitting at the tables. The teacher gives them photocopy of girl and boy. He asks them: “Colour the boy”, “Colour the girl”. He points to boy or girl on pictures every child and asks “Boy or girl? Yes, this is boy, no, this is a girl”
Whole class, individually
Flashcards:
boy, girl
Crayons, worksheets
Production
They are sitting in the circle. The teacher hides flashcard with boy and girl and asks “Where is a girl? Children are looking for it.
The teacher asks: “boy?” and show the flashcard. The children are saying “Yes” or “No”.
5 min
Flashcards
Closing
“Bye, bye” song
The teacher uses the puppet to encourage children to say “Bye, bye” to new friend.
The teacher signs a song, students are listening.
Cookie
CD with song “Bye, bye”
1. Were the aims of the lesson achieved? Why/ Why not?
Yes, they were achieved. New children were participated with songs and games.
2. What were the most effective parts of the lesson?
The most effective parts of the lesson were songs and games. Children like to sign and play with each other.
3. What were the least effective parts of the lesson?
The least effective was colouring.
4. Were there any anticipated problems? How were they dealt with?
There were some problems with discipline when there were songs. I have choose the most active child and named him my right hand. Then I gave him some work to do e.g. to put crayons on the tables.
5. What aspects of my teaching do I need to improve? How will I improve them?
I should work with children who are new and don’t want to sing a songs or play with others.
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