Lesson Plan- Intercultural Project
- 1. Monge,Ana Valentina Morán,Ana Belén 1 PRACTICE II, DIDACTICS OF ELT and Practicum Primary School level. Adjunto Regular a/c Prof. Estela N. Braun (2017). PRACTICAL 15: The Intercultural Project LESSON PLAN: How environmentally friendly are you? STUDENTS’ PROFILE: 6th grade, beginning level of English language proficiency. State primary School. Two classes a week, 40 minutes each. There are twenty five students in each of the classes. Students’ age: 11-12 years old. TIMETABLE: Mondays and Thursday, from 15.45Hrs. – 17.25 Hrs. LEARNING OBJECTIVES: By the end of the lesson students will be able: To recognize the power of human beings over the environment as well as the importance of preserving the Planet Earth. To learn ways of helping the Planet. To use the modals SHOULD and SHOULD”NT to give advice about helping the Planet. To learn vocabulary about the environment. To learn actions related to helping the Planet. To write sentences about actions to help the Planet.
- 2. Monge,Ana Valentina Morán,Ana Belén 2 To create posters about environmental awareness. To become aware of the existence of other languages and cultures. To value their own culture and share it with others. To develop intercultural relations that can overcome stereotypes and prejudices towards other languages and cultures. Skills to be emphasized: Listening Reading Speaking Writing Language: • Active vocabulary: Specific vocabulary about environmental awareness, such as: World – turn off – tap – recycle – paper – unplug – switch off – lights – green group – plant – tree – charity. • Grammar: Should/shouldn’t. Materials: Projector, computer, audio system, photocopies, cardboards, colour pencils, etc.
- 3. Monge,Ana Valentina Morán,Ana Belén 3 CLASS ROUTINES: Greeting with the usual phrase “Yellow, red, green and blue, hello teacher, how are you? I’m fine, and you? We are OK, thank you.” repeated by the students, teacher and trainees. Writing down the date on the blackboard. Asking students about how they are on this day and if there is anybody absent. Timing: 3 minutes WARM UP The students will be introduced with the topic ‘Environmental awareness’ by watching a video and listening to a song called ‘It’s up to me and you’. After watching the video, the trainees will ask them some questions so as to reflect upon the video, such as: ‘What is the video about?’ ‘What should we do to help the environment?’ ‘Have you done any of these activities?’. • Type of interaction: Teacher – students. • Macro-skills: Listening and speaking. • Timing: 8 minutes. • Materials: Projector, computer, audio system. DEVELOPMENT First activity: Secondly, students will be given a photocopy with a matching exercise in with they will have to join the first part of a sentence with its corresponding second part, while listening the song for a second time. The activity will be done individually and checked orally and all together. Example: ‘Take a shower, don’t have a bath’
- 4. Monge,Ana Valentina Morán,Ana Belén 4 • Type of interaction: Students individually. • Macro-skills: Listening, reading and speaking. • Timing: 6 minutes. • Materials: Projector, computer, audio system, photocopies. Second Activity: In groups of four (4), students will present a poster on environmental awareness that they made using the grammatical structures SHOULD/SHOULDN’T. This poster would have been completed in the previous class. Students will give advice and suggestions on how to take care of the environment, following the examples provided by the trainees. In the poster, students will have to write three (3) sentences using SHOULD and three (3) sentences using SHOULDN’T expressing what Argentinean people do to help the environment. In this activity, the students can use information from the video to write the sentences. Example: ‘We should separate litter’ – ‘We shouldn’t throw litter on the street’. • Type of interaction: Group-work. • Macro-skills: Writing. • Timing: 8 minutes. • Materials: Cardboards, colour pencils, etc. CLOSING UP To finish with the class, students will be introduced to John, a teacher working as a mentor for university students in Practice II. He will show them a presentation about two of his Uncles who work in clean energy, so as to compare what people do in his country (USA) to help the environment. Students will participate in this cultural exchange by engaging in the presentation and by asking questions to John about his country. • Type of interaction: Teacher – students. • Macro-skills: Listening, reading, and speaking. • Timing: 15 minutes.
- 5. Monge,Ana Valentina Morán,Ana Belén 5 • Materials: Projector and computer. APPENDIX WARM UP ACTIVITY Link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ianhDDSqOtk DEVELOPMENT – FIRST ACTIVITY