Introduction
This lesson is about 4 different topics because in each class, we try to repeat previous topics and there is also a new topic introduced in each lesson. For this lesson, we are going to use in class different technological tools where we can practice the topics in a more interactive way, where students can see images, hear sounds, watch videos and have a bigger approach to multimedia content in order to see how much their motivation increases. We have previously studied about present simple wh-questions, parts of the body and animals. The new topic for this lesson is "likes and dislikes".
CONTENTS.
- Review of present simple-wh questions
- Parts of the body
- Farm animals
- Likes and dislikes
OBJECTIVES:
- Students practice asking information questions.
- Students recognize the parts of the body in english.
- Students name farm animals.
- Students express their own likes and dislikes about general activities.
Task
1. Students will use different multimedia tools like watching a youtube video about farm animals
2. Ss play a flash-game in the computer and tablets called “sentence monkey” where they have to slide the correct wh word to complete a question. They have to understand the rest of the question and the answer in order to complete with a wh word.
3. The teacher reads to ss some answers of questions without telling the questions. Ss have to figure out which is the question according to the answer given.
4. Ss play a flash game in the computer and tablets called “your amazing body” where Bert, from Sesame Street is going to ask them questions like: “What part of the body does Bert use to walk?” and they have some options to choose where they can see the image and the name of each part of the body and have to click on the right one.
5. Two ss will take turns to go in the front of the class and command instructions to play Simon Says where the others have to point different parts of the body.
6. The teacher will explain the use of words to express likes and dislikes: love, like, don’t like, hate + verb-ing. The ss will watch some slideshows in the computer with images of food and activities where they can practice this structure orally.
7. Students are going to receive an invitation on facebook from the teacher where they can go to a link that is going to direct them to a blog created by the teacher where they can practice some exercises about english grammar and vocabulary in the form of interactive games. Students are going to do theses exercises at home for reviewing what they have seen in class.
Besides, part of this step is to start using the application Doulingo, where the teacher is going to create a group for the class and she can see the progress of each student.
Process
1. OBSERVING: Students will watch a video about an animals song.
REAPEATING: Students will repeat the song and will try to learn it.
2. PLAYING: Ss play a flash-game called “sentence monkey” where they have to slide a word to complete a question.
READING COMPREHENSION: Students have to try to understand the rest of the question and the answers given.
3. LISTENING: Students listen to some answers of questions given by the teacher.
ANALYZING: Ss have to figure out which is the question according to the answer given.
4. READING AND LISTENING: Ss listen and read questions like: “What part of the body is used to walk?”.
SELECTING: Students select from a series of images the correct part of the body for answering the questions.
5. GIVING INSTRUCTIONS: Two ss will take turns to go in the front of the class and command instructions to play Simon Says where the others have to point different parts of the body.
6. GETTING INFORMATION: Students hear an explantion about the use of verbs like: love, like, don’t like, hate + verb-ing.
USING NEW INFORMATION: The ss will watch some slideshows with images of food and activities where they can practice the new structure.
7. PRACTICING ONLINE: Students practice at home in a blog with interactive exercises.
Students start using the Duolingo application, where they can see their progress in their english language learning.
Evaluation
Students will be graded with a test the next week after this lesson. They will be graded with a flash game that has all the content about parts of the body, animals, food, and verbs or activities. And they will be graded with another flash game about wh words.
They will be graded also with the use of the blog the teacher created and the use of the Duolingo Application. The Duolinguo application has gives the chance to let the teacher see the progress of their students, it is call dashboard.duolingo.com and is specially designed for schools.
Conclusion
As a conclusion, the students will be interviewed in order to know their opinion about the exercises in the computer and tablets during the class and how did they feel with the use of a blog and the Duolingo application to learn english.
Similar exercises will be developed further in the following classes and the use of the blog will keep functioning with more exercises, games, activities, videos and other material that supports the contents of the course.