LESSON PLAN TEACHING WITH SONGS

TOPIC ONE SUBJECT: TEACHING ENGLISH LESSONS WITH SONGS.

LESSON PLAN Performance Objective: By the end of the lesson students will be able to understand the use of songs, video and movies for ESL. COURSE: ENGLISH 3

Segment

Level: LOW INTERMEDIATE

Description of Activities

GROUP: 3 B

Didactic resources

Materials

teaching

Printed material

Understanding differences between child and adult pronunciation process

Ppt presentation.

Projector

Understanding how sounds are perceived by adults

Team work

1.- Ice breakers.

Using ice breakers in class

2. Introduction

Differences between child and adult foreign language learning.

The brain process

3. pronunciation

4. sounds

computer

Video

Printed material

5. words and intonation

Main concerns for adult learners

Pair work

Board printed material notepads

Understanding motivations, acquisitions and learning.

video Projector

6. adult learners and their characteristics and learning abilities

7. listening

worksheets

Listening levels.

Songs. Lyrics.

Videos.

workbook

Listening skills Listening principles music and songs 8. Listening materials.

types of rhythms

9. activities

Some activities to apply in the classroom.

Team work

Notebooks.

TOPIC TWO: READING SKILLS

SUBJECT: PRESENT CONTINUOUS

LESSON PLAN

Performance Objective: By the end of the lesson students will be able to apply effective reading techniques.

COURSE: ENGLISH 3

Segment

Level: LOW INTERMEDIATE

Description of Activities

GROUP: 3 B

Didactic resources

Materials

Time

1.- Ice breakers.

Using ice breakers in class

45 min

2. Warm up and /or preview

Short readings(2)

a) uses previously learned content to begin a new lesson,

Reading short stories

3. Preview.

Read titles. Look at pictures (if there is any). Read a few of the first sentences the first paragraph. Read first line of other paragraphs. Read the sentences of the last paragraph.

Focusing students attention to English language structures.

Printed materials 1 hr

Printed materials Ppt presentation

Projector

Short readings

speakers

1hr.

4. Predicting Focusing student attention on the lessonasking questions, using visual. Stating the objective, relating the objective to previous learning.

3. Scanning Practice is guided through materials and may be whole group, small group, pairs, or individuals. Instructor models each activity, monitors progress and provides feed back.

4. Looking for unknown words and new meanings for sentences Opportunity to see the application of new knowledge. Practice is guided by material

5.- Skimming for patterns or organization.

Opportunity to see the application of patterns, that will help students with

Predicting the contents of the reading by using pictures. With the above information, students will predict what happens next.

Team work

Students practice scanning important data (numbers, dates, etc) and then write them board and in their workbook.

Pair work

Students will underline the unknown words, find their meaning and try to understand their application on the context.

Team work

Students will look for patterns like cause-effect, comparison and contrasts, etc.

Team work

Notebooks, notepads

board

45 min

1 hr

notepads

Notepads

90 min

Notebooks dictionary

Workbook notepad

45 min

reading and writing skills.

6. Application/Closure An activity that requires students to apply new knowledge to their own lives or a new situation.

Conduct a classroom discussion on what the short reading was about.

Team work 30 min

TIME TABLE FOR TWO WEEK COURSE SUBJECT: TEACHING ENGLISH WITH SONGS. WEEK 1 Monday

9-10:30 Using ice breakers.

Introduction

10:35 -12:00 Differences between child and adult foreign language learning.

1:00- 2:30 The brain process: lateralization

Tuesday

Understanding differences between child and adult pronunciation process

Examples of strong accents, broken English and other issues.

Adults as a specific ESL learning group.

Wednesday

sounds

Understanding how sounds are perceived by adults

Learning sounds different from the native language

Thursday

Words and intonation.

Main concerns for adult learners

Language learning abilities for adult learners. Intonation patterns

Understanding adult motivations, acquisitions and learning.

Listening levels.

Listening materials

Some activities to apply in the classroom

Friday

Listening skills

WEEK 1 Monday

9-10:30

10:35 -12:00

Pronunciation techniques

1:00- 2:30

Using ice breakers.

Reading short stories

Understanding the contents.

Introduction

(2)

Tuesday

Read titles. Look at pictures (if there is any).

Read a few of the first sentences the first paragraph. Read first line of other paragraphs.

Read the sentences of the last paragraph.

Predicting the contents of the reading by using pictures

. With the above information, students will predict what happens next

Wednesday

Reading another kind of printed material:

Students practice scanning important data (numbers, dates, etc)

Discussion about the importance of scanning for reading

Magazine

and then write them board and in their workbook.

comprehension

Reading another short story

Students will underline the unknown words, find their meaning and try to understand their application on the context

Students will write sentences extracted form the story in order to understand the meaning.

Then they´ll use the same sentences to write a short text.

Students will look for patterns like causeeffect, comparison and contrasts, etc.

Students will change the pattern of the reading

Group discussion about the impact of the pattern in a short story.

Newspaper An article with technological information

Thursday

Friday

TOPIC

CONTENT AREA

Use of social forms

LT, LLP, PE, LC

Learning in a group

LA, LC

Function of the Common European Framework LA, LC, LLP, LT, PE of Reference Which are the different learner types

LLP, LC

The four skills

LA, LLP, LT

Speaking activities

LT, LA, LLP

How do we draw up a lesson plan?

LLP, PE

How do I present a grammar structure?

LT, PE

Micro-peer teaching

LT, PE, SA

Different types of exercises in language classrooms

LA, LT, LLP

Using pictures in a language classroom

LT, PE, LLP

Feedback rules

PE, SA

Pronunciation training

LA, LT, PE

Learning strategies and learner autonomy

LLP

Difficult classroom situations

LT, PE, SA

Progress tests

LT, LLP, PE, SA

The use of media e-learning / blended learning

LT, PE

Intercultural learning

LC, LA