UNIVERSIDAD DE LA SALLE

FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS DE LA EDUCACIN

LICENCIATURA EN LENGUA CASTELLANA, INGLS Y FRANCS
PRCTICA PEDAGGICA INVESTIGATIVA
LESSON PLAN N. 06
DATE LESSON IS TAUGHT: March 29th - LOCATION OF LESSON: LAUREANO GOMEZ
2014
1. TIME ALLOTTED:
9:00 a.m. 12:00 p.m.

2. LENGTH OF LESSON:
2.5 HOURS

NUMBER OF STUDENTS: 14

REASON FOR THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TIMES 1 AND 2

REST FOR 30 MINUTES

STUDENTS CEFR LEVEL: BASIC 1

LESSON AIM

Students will be able to express feelings and describe persons with basic characteristics

GUIDING CONTENTS

Ask and give basic personal information on their home, possessions and people they know.

LEARNING OBJECTIVE(S)
SEQUENCING

By the end of this lesson, the learners are able to use shapes, colors and personal characteristics.
In the previous lesson the students worked with personal pronouns and personal information.

ASSUMED KNOWLEDGE

Learners are able to use their personal information.

ANTICIPATED DIFFICULTIES
1.

Students may lose their concentration

easily

2.

Students do not understand the topic

proposed.

ANTICIPATED SOLUTIONS
1. We can catch their attention using each name and a word like Julian stop
when he does not attending and he receives a penance like spell a word. In the
same way with the others. At the end of the session, the students who pay
attention receive a sticker. We can ask the student to finish first an additional
task like helping other partners.
2. We can evaluate the students with co-evaluation while we explain the topic.

PROCEDURE
1. Warm Activity
We have some paper on the board, each one of these
papers have the name of a color written with a marker of
a opposite or different color (for example we write white
with a black marker) and the students should speak

MATERIALS
REQUIRED
Cards
Tape

AIM

KIND OF
INTERACTION

Students
are Whole group
challenged
to
think fast and
train their brain
with the conflict

DURATION
20 minutes

aloud and express the name of the color with the word is
written, not the word. The students who do it faster is the
winner.
2. Activity: We cut 6 different easily recognizable
paper shapes: Orange stars, yellow circles, red
squares, green ovals, purple squares, and blue
triangles. We tape paper shapes to the floor. We
divided the class in two groups the red one and the
blue one, they are identify with a red circle and a
blue square in their t-shirts.
After that and we say simple commands like: Reds:
Jump from one side to the other only touching one
color/shape. And Blues: jump 2 shapes to the right

between names
and colors.

Shapes

Students
are Two groups
challenged
to
improve the use
of colors and
shapes.

30 minutes

3. Activity: We divide the course into two groups, all

members go to the board and try to write as fast as
possible the sentence that the teacher says. If the
student who finish first write correctly his sentence,
gives his/her group a point. The group with more
points than the other is the winner.

Marker

Students
are Two groups
challenged to use
the
vocabulary,
pronouns, colors
and shapes to
create
basic
sentences
and
practice
their
listening ability.

30 minutes

4. Activity: Students are provided with some

newspapers and magazines. With them, they try to look
for different kind of people (talking about appearance).
With the pictures they should make a photographical
parallel in order to compare people and adjectives.
Example: Cut out two men, paste in the notebook a tall
man picture and in front of this, paste a short one. Under
each picture, write the adjective.

Magazines
Newspaper
Colors
Markers

Students are able Individual

to
know
new
different
words
that are useful to
usual issues like
describing
or
talking
about
people.

30 minutes

5. Change your mind: We practice with the students

Pictures

Students are able The

whole 30 minutes

the personal characteristics using the colors and shapes

that they learned in the previous activity. We have
pictures from magazines. We put pictures of different
people on board and we say: My friend has (short,
brown) hair, he is (tall) and he has (green) eyes"
Everyone should try and guess which picture we are
describing. They should describe their friends and family
members according their homework.
6. Homework: Draw carefully to your teachers and next
class you have to bring a description of them.

to
understand group.
some commands
visually
and
orally.

Notebook

Students
are The
challenge
to group.
create a simple
description
by
their own using
what they learn in
class.
N.B.: http://www.housingaforest.com/shape-hopscotch/
http://www.eslkidstuff.com/lesson-plans/pdf/describing-people-lesson-plan.pdf

whole 10 minutes

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