Materials Project

Lesson Plan

Teacher: Jennifer Davis

Observer: Luke
Date: 15 June, 2009, 6:00pm
Class Level: Elementary
Room:
Expected Numbers:

Context: Vocabulary
Focus (theme): Sports/Dallas Sports Teams
Teaching Aids: Sports pictures, Dallas Team Logos, Text/Questions, Word Search, Ball

Learner Objectives: To understand, identify, and correctly pronounce sports-related

words.

Personal Aims: To clearly explain each activity. To speak very little.

Anticipated problems for students: Difficulty with text. Difficulty understanding activities.

Solutions: Offer help reading the text if necessary. Explain slowly and clearly on each
activity, go through an example each time.

Anticipated problems for teacher: Nerves, fidgeting, speaking too much.

Solutions: Begin lesson while seated. Take a deep breath, focus on observing.

Procedure Phase Timing Interaction

1. Miming: Hand out pictures of different sports to Engage 7 S-S

each student, having them act out their sports one-
by-one for the rest of the students to guess.

2. In pairs, discuss your favorite and least favorite Engage 5 S-S, S-T
sports and why. Feedback.

3. In pairs, match the Dallas team logos to the Study 3 S-S

sport. Feedback.

4. Read the text, then in pairs, answer the Study 10-12 S-S
questions about the text. Feedback.

5. In pairs, complete sports verbs word search. Study 5-7 S-S

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Procedure Phase Timing Interaction

6. Toss the ball. Whoever it lands on has to tell us Activate 10-12 S-S, S-T
their favorite Dallas sports team, and why. Then
least favorite, and why. Then, favorite team in the
world, and why.