Lesson plan
Class # Date: / /
Theme: Family
Goal
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Enable
students to talk about different types of family.
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Specific objectives
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Students
will:
be able to describe
their family;
discuss different sort
of nowadays family;
use new vocabulary
related to the theme;
practice and produce
language using quantifiers;
practice reading skill.
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Procedures
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Warm up:
Students play
a game: dancing chairs. The chairs are
numbered according to the number of students in the class. They make a circle
and teacher play a song. When the music stops, students take a sit, the
student who is sit in the chair #1 starts the game. S/he should speak a word
related to the word LOVE (eg); the next cannot repeat the word and take more
than 5”, otherwise s/he is eliminated. The last is the winner.
Lead-in:
Teacher takes
notes on the board of some of the words elicited in the game. S/he asks students which is the purest kind
of love. Probably, students would answer maternal
love, until get to the theme of the lesson: Family. Then until you get to the topic of the lesson, and
teacher add the word Family – in
case it has not been said.(Whole class
work)
Listening and
discussion (option A):
Pre-listening
Teacher asks students to work
in pair discussing their concepts
of family. Teacher gives support helping students with doubts about
vocabulary.
Listening
Students watch the video paying
attention to the different kinds of families presented.
Post-listening
Students still work inpair
and answer the following questions:
How could you describe
those kinds of family?
Are they the same?
Do you think your family could be in a TV program like that? Why?
How is your family?
Reading
(option B):
Pre-reading
Teacher asks students if they have contact with different sorts of
family structures. (Whole class work)
Answers are elicited.
Reading
Students start the reading aloud, then they are provided with
pictures of different kinds of family and their respective concepts. Students
should match the pictures with the texts. Each pair should read aloud to the
whole group.
Post-reading
Students should discuss in groups
of three or four the following questions:
Is your family like any
kind above? Which one?
How is your family like?
Do you have a
large or small family?
How many people are in your family? Who are
they?
Grammar point(Quantifiers):
Presentation
Teacher elicits the answers of students (both in case of option A
or B) and put them on the board. To introduce the topic, teacher asks
students questions like:
Who has a family?
Do you live with your
family?
How many of you live
with your parents together?
Who has sister(s)?
Who has brother(s)?
Who has both [sister(s)
and brother(s)]?
Who has a big/small
family?
Who has a twin
brother/sister?
and so forth.
According to students’ answers, teacher writes on the board
sentences such as:
All students have a
family.
Nearly all students live
with their families.
Many/a lot of students
live with their parents.
Some students have
brother/sister(s).
A few students have a
big family.
No one has a twin
brother/sister.
Students are encouraged to realize that the sentences have in
common and how they differ. According to students’ answers, teacher draw by
the side of those sentences a vertical line. In the top of this line, teacher
writes 100%, in the bottom 0%. Students, inductively, realizes the topic of
Grammar, and that it has to do with quantity.
Practice
Teacher provides a picture of a big family. Students should
practice the use of quantifiers describing people in this photo.
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Timing
7’
2’
5’
3’
12’
2’
10’
8’
15’
6’
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Material and equipment
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Notebook/computer;
Projector/datashow;
Speakers;
Music;
Vídeo< http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeX4SfsC9ws>;
Text;
Markers;
Board.
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Production for assessment
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Extra class activity (production):
Students pretend to participate
in a promotional contest and the winner gets a trip with the whole family to
Praia do Forte. To participate, candidates must respond creatively, using as
many quantifiers as possible, the following question: What is your idea of a
"perfect family"?
Anticipating content to next class:
Students should solve the riddle and search about the new
vocabulary in this activity.
On a sunny Sunday a family gathers
for lunch. The following people are present:
one grandfather;
one grandmother;
two fathers;
two mothers;
five children (including men and
women);
four grandchildren;
two brothers;
two sisters;
three sons;
two daughters;
a father-in-law;
a mother-in-law;
and a daughter-in-law.
But
there weren’t so many people as it seems. How many people were there, and who
they were?
Answer:
They are 8. The grandfather and the grandmother are both a father and a
mother and a father-in-law and a mother-in-law. They have a son who is
married to a woman (the daughter-in-law). This couple has 4 children, who are
4 grandchildren. 2 are girls (the two sisters) and 2 are boys (the two brothers).
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Assumptions
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Vocabulary related to family
members, such as mother, father, brother, sister;
Use of simple present;
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Anticipating problems
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Vocabulary and pronunciation
from the resources;
Discussion related to prejudice.
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