General content:
Teacher: Nataly Pinto
Lesson plan tittle: comprehension of the short story ”The Landlady”
Unit plan topic: identification of past perfect, present perfect, past simple, past continuous and the order of the events of a story.
Grade level: third grade of a secondary school(11 grade)
Class period length: 90 minutes
Date: April 28th
Learning Objectives:
What should students be able to do at the end of the lesson?Is there alignment with course objectives?
Students will be able to distinguish past perfect, present perfect, past simple ,past continuous.
Students will be able to demonstrate knowledge of the proper forms of past perfect, present perfect, past simple, past continuous by writing one sentence for each one.
Students will be able to demonstrate correct usage of the past perfect, present perfect, past continuous and past simple.
Instructional procedures:
How will I gain students attention?
Pause and create suspense by looking around before asking about what I am drawing.
Alternating physical and mental activities.
Increasing the novelty of lesson by using films, tapes, flash cards.
Teaching students self-monitoring strategies.
Using a soft voice to give instructions.
Keeping lesson consistent and clear.
Making eye contact and smile at the students.
Checking with the student about how he or she is progressing with an assignment
Giving brief specific praise about the student ‘s work or behavior for example:” I really like to see you how carefully you are doing the exercises.
Inviting students to summarize the main point of the classroom.
drawing different events about landlady showing interest about the class, involving with the students, being actively engaged with the activity for students.
How will I recall prior relevant information?
Beginning the lesson with a springboard activity, an anticipatory set, ice breaker, launcher, bell ringer, or exploratory activity designed to motivate students to think that something interesting, something good is going to happen helping them to recall prior learning.
information exploration activities that help students experiences, discover, learn concepts and build skills.
Students involvement activities that include practicing with feedback, solving problems, and creating projects.
Closure/transition activities that draw conclusions and help students transfer ideas to new learning situations.
Materials needed
How will I present new material?
In this activity I will use slide projector which the students have to watch the film of this short story “ Landlady” , I will use Microsoft paint to draw, in this way I will show to the students different draws about the events that occur in the story and they have to guess what I am drawing.
Announcements:
How will I elicit performance?
Actively building on their prior knowledge and cultural perspectives.
Reaching outcomes through metacognition or self-monitoring of learning and thinking.
Including games for the activities that makes more interesting the class for the students , the activity consists in: I start giving instructions to the students about a short story “The Landlady” and I start doing draws about the events that occur in the story which students have to guess what the teacher is drawing for example:
Teacher: What I am drawing?
Class: a man
Teacher: yes but what is he doing?
Class: he is looking around
Teacher: no, no exactly (continuing drawing).
Class: he is walking around a strange city
Teacher: yes but now what is he looking for?
Class: His house
Teacher: no
Class: a place to stay
Teacher: yes, and now what does he see?
Class: a notice
Teacher: yes but more than a notice an……………..
Class: invite notice
Teacher: yes and now what does it happen?
Class: a lady…….a lady opening the door.
Teacher : yes and what does he see inside of the house?
Class: a living room………….and…..
Teacher : yes but what more?
Class: cosy living room with a warm fire and animals.
Teacher: but what do the animals look like?
Class: they look alive.
Teacher: yes and now what is she like?
Class :she has………….she has red fingernails and……..
Teacher: what about her habits?
Class: she has strange habits.
Teacher: yes and now what does he realize?
Class: about……………about two boys…….two missing boys.
Yes that is right , excellent¡
After that the students will watch a movie according to the short story and they have to find examples of past perfect, past simple, present perfect and past continuous, making up one sentence for each one.
How will I assess performance?
Giving examples of different events of a story for a greater comprehension, so the students through interesting materials will develop a greater understanding.
Reinforcing the abilities of the students and that they can invent sentences with the verbal times.
To Implement interesting materials for students to create a greater attention.
Get involved with the students in the activities.
Drawing for an order of the events in the story , assessing in this way a comprehension of the order of the events.
With listening and visual materials , so the students have to understand verbal times and they have to be able to find sentences in the past perfect, present perfect, past simple and past continuous and establish the differences between them.
How will I enhance retention? Homework assignment
Giving assignment : the students will have to do interesting activities , they have to build a similar story about the landlady.
They have to draw different images about a similar story , in that way the students will understand the order of the events.
In the story which they will have to write, they have to use verbal times so they will have a greater comprehension, about the differences between verbal times.
They also will have to identifying verbs, nouns and adverbs.
Then the students will have to present the story in front of the class through draws and the rest of the class will try to guess the events, establishing an interaction in the class.
Test questions ideas from today’s objectives.
Reading Comprehension test of the short story which the students have to understand the order of the events .
A test which students will have to identifying by matching, multiple choices, true or false verbal times and where they can invent sentences using the verbal times using their imagination.
An oral test where they can pronounce correctly the words .
A listening test, which the students develop their understanding.
A writing test : It consists in a questionnaire which the students develop their comprehension about the differences between verbal times.
checklist:
Did the students know my objectives?
Yes , firstly the students had the knowledge of the objectives of the class, including comprehension , understanding, develop of their skills, comprehension of the difference between the verbal times, creation of sentences using verbal times, demonstrating correct usage of the verbal times , analyzing information an communicative findings.
Did the students actively engage with new materials?
Yes, the students got engaged with new material because for them the materials were entertained and interesting, the materials used were useful for the participation of the students in the class, capturing the attention of the students through draws, using paint to create draws.
Did the students work together on a task?
The students participated working together, showing interesting about the class, they worked together trying to guess what I drew about the sequence of the events of the” The Landlady”. After that the students worked together finding sentences with the verbal times and then they worked together trying to create sentences for each verbal time.
Did students get feedback on their performance ance?
Yes, they got a really got feedback because the students found the activities very interesting, comprehensible, including listening comprehension, visual comprehension, analyzing information and communicative findings. The students reacted with enthusiasm, with interest and with attention being concentrated about the class, that helped to the students to demonstrate interesting about every class and to demonstrate enthusiasm and participation, building an optima environment.
What is a Syllabus?
- SYLLABUS - CHARACTERISTICS -
- Comprehensive: List what is to be taught
- Content items or processes
- Ordered / Sequenced
- Explicit objectives
- Time schedule
- Approach or methodology
- Recommended materials
- Public document
A syllabus is a document that a professor writes and distributes to provide students with an overview of a college course. The syllabus is usually distributed on the first day of class. It contains several parts:
- The course title and meeting times
- The name of the professor and his/her contact information
- Expectations and attendance policies
- Topics and chapters covered
- Test dates
- Other relevant dates
- Grading policy
- Required texts and other supplies
Questions about Vocabulary: Nataly Pinto-Yasna Roa
I think the most popular techiniques are translation,definition and description. That's the way students understand the meaning of a word also is the biggest part of learning a second language.
2) Are there techinques that are particularly appropiate for the presentation of certain types of words?
Of course, a clearly example of this is Description because here the student can express aspects, features, characteristics, animals,places,etc. It's a good way to teach new vocabulary and also is a good technique to use.
3) Are there techniques which are likely to be more, or less, appropiate for particular learner populations (young-adult-beginner-advances, different backgroung cultures)?
Yes absolutely because as teachers we have to consider the different cultures, ages,etc. For example if we teach to a boy of 6 or 7. A picture or a book it will more interesting and easy to understand than a definition.That's why we have evaluate what is appropiate for every situation.
4) Do you, as an idividual, find that you prefer some kinds of techniques and tend to avoid others? Which? And why?
I prefer Illustrations, is useful for kids because we can capture their attention easily and it's more interesting to learn. Also synonyms, hyponyms and antonyms are the most common techniques that teachers use. But in my opinion Translation is the less effective ,because for the students it's boring and they just don't learn at all.
