LESSON PLAN

                                                                                                          

Timing: 50 minutes

Main Goal: By the end of the class, students will be able to make questions to use when they meet a new person, they'll learn how to use some useful questions to interact with the teacher in class, to reflect upon learning a foreign language and to know how they will be assessed during the period of training.

Skills: Speaking and reading  

Topic: Getting to know people and useful classroom language

Prior knowledge: students have learned how to make simple questions.

Materials: Slips of paper with a list of questions with examples of answers and white board.

 

STAGE	OBJECTIVES	TEACHER’S PROCEDURES	TIMING
1   Presentation and warm up	Activate their schemata by using questions that we make when we meet a new person.   Getting to know students names and peculiarities.   Stimulate students’ skill to talk, to read and to work in pairs asking and answering questions.	Teacher introduces himself by saying his name, age, likes and dislikes and asks students to do the same. And then, in Portuguese, the teacher asks what are some questions that we usually make when we meet a new person trying to contextualize it by giving real examples. The teacher hands out to students a paper with as many questions and answers as possible in English and writes on the board when necessary and for exercise he asks students to work in pairs using the given questions with their personal answers and then the teacher asks them to say five peculiarities about their classmate.	30
2   Learning/reviewing helpful sentences to use in the class.	Students will learn useful and basic questions to take their doubts in the class process, such as: How do you say.... in English?  What does it mean? How do you spell.....? Could you repeat it please? (Could you say that again?) Teacher, can you explain that again? And teacher presents basic instructions such as: Open your book, close your book, turn to page number.., for homework, work in pairs etc. .	Teacher tells students they should use these useful sentences just in English throughout the classes and starts writing some of them on the board by inducing them to remember how to construct such sentences and to infer their meaning avoiding direct translation.	10
3   Reflections on the importance of learning a new language.	Students will reflect on the importance and the utility of learning English by raising awareness of the many beneficial aspects that a foreign language can provide.	Teacher starts asking them why learning English is so important in order to establish a dialog about the value of acquiring a new language by showing them some of its good advantages.	5
4   Explanation about the assessment process.	Explain about the assessment and the importance of assiduity, commitment, punctuality and participation.	Teacher explains how students will be evaluated throughout the class and talks about the importance of assiduity, commitment, reinforces the need to bring the book, tells they will be evaluated everyday when they bring their homework done, asks them to read the text and for homework they should mark words they already know in a given text.	5