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If You Had Been There " Lesson
If You Had Been There " Lesson
LESSON PLAN
I. BASIC INFORMATION:
1.1. School
II. CAPACITIES:
Text Comprehension Identify the use of third conditional for talking about things
that didnt happen in the past.
SPECIFIC CONTENTS
TECHNIQUES
CAPACITIES
COMMUNICATIVE LINGUISTIC
FUNCTION GRAMMAR
Third conditional Showing
Asking and Affirmative form Cards
talking If clause
Class
about + main clause
situations Talking about the past. If+ past participation
that didnt perfect Speaking
happen in + would /
Activity
the past. . could +
present perfect Individual
NOTIONS VOCABULARY work
Group work
Events
Identify the Information related to A play Free
use of third different activities and Writer participation
conditional past perfect. Campsite
for talking Enjoy
about things Commit
that didnt Weather
happen in Gate
the past. Crash
Dark
Medicine
TOPIC
Write
sentences SITUATION
using third
conditional. Exchange information
ACTIVITIES
STEPS FOR THE TEACHER FOR THE STUDENTS RESOURCES TIME
INTRODUCTION
2
M Greet the teacher.
Teachers voice
Greets the students.
A S S E S S M E N T
O Students voice
Pay attention to the
T Greeting Markers
Introduces herself.
teacher.
Board
I
T board.
10
I Gives students a piece of Look the
O paper with a dialogue and flashcards. Flashcards
asks students to read it Teachers voice
N Introducing the
new language individually.(appendix 1) Listen to Students voice
teachers
Asks two volunteers to read instructions
T
Asks students some question
Identify the
I about the dialogue.
verbs and the
Explains the vocabulary.
V
tense of them in
A Ask students to identify the the sentences.
sentences in black and asks if
T
they know the form of this Say the topic.
I
sentences.
O Pay attention to
Asks students make a role
the teacher.
N
play with the dialogue.
Asks about the topic.
Sticks the title on the board.
M
O
T
DEVELOPMENT
I 8
V Explains the use of the third
A conditional and the form
T Pay attention to the Flashcards
using the sentences in the
I Teachers voice
dialogue. teachers
O
explanation. Students voice
N Explains the third conditional
DESCRIBING Wall chart
giving students more
THE NEW Markers
examples. Answer questions
KNOWLEDGE
Asks students to make 5
examples of third conditional
Participate as
individually and applying it in
volunteers.
their lifes for example what
would happened if they
hadnt an important choice in
their lifes.
Correct these sentences and
asks some volunteer to read it
in front of the class.
8
Tells students to form 4 Teachers voice
Work in group.
groups of 8 members. Participate actively Students voice
CLASSROOM
in the game
TRANSFER Gives them pieces of paper Piece of paper
following the
with sentences of third instructions. with a game.
conditional and they have to
tell the sentences one by one
and the last student have to
write the sentences correctly
on the board and the group
which has the most sentences
correctly is going to be the
winner.(Appendix 3)
FAREWELL Thanks the students for their Listen to the teacher Teachers voice 2
V. CHART VALUE
VALUES ATTITUDES
Responsibility Shows interest about the topic during the
whole class.
Cooperation Participates in class working with her
partner and with the teacher.
Respect Shows respect to the ideas of her
classmates.
VI . EVALUATION:
No mistakes. 18-20 A
VII. OBSERVATION GUIDE:
Some mistakes. 15-17 B
VIII. BIBLIOGRAPHY
Press
Longman
Cambridge Press.
http://www.nbuv.gov.ua/portal/soc_gum/VKPI_fpp/2005-3-2/03_Glebova.pdf
APPENDIX 1
Dialogue
Peter: Well, there was also a book festival and some famous writers gave talks. Joanne Rowling
was there!
Peter: Well, you could have listened to her talk if you had come with me. Anyway, what did
you do at the weekend?
Steven: I went camping with Ron and Dave. It was great fun and we had a good time, too. We
also met some French students at the campsite. We got on very well and they even invited us to
visit them in France! If you hadnt gone to England, you could have met them, too!
4. - If Peter had gone camping, he would have met the French students.
APPENDIX 2
Name: Grade: .
Date:
2. If the hotel hadnt been so expensive, we would have stayed / stayed / will stay there.
4. I would have visited / would visit / will visit him if I had known that he was in hospital.
5. If you didnt leave / hadnt left the door open, the dog wouldnt have eaten our lunch.
6. The holiday wouldve been / was / would be great if the weather had been better.
If he _______________________________________________________
If it ________________________________________________________
She ________________________________________________________
He _________________________________________________________
If ___________________________________________________________
D. Look at the pictures and the prompts and write Sentences with third conditional.
APPENDIX 3
Game
Instructions:
Student reads the sentences individually and tells it to his/her partner who is next to
him/her in his/her ear.
Then it continuous until the student receives the sentences and he/she writes it on the
board and the group which has the most sentences correctly is going to be the winner.
Sentences:
INTRODUCTION
This theoretical support is meant for fourth grade students of I.E.E RAFAEL
NARVEZ CADENILLAS high school with the topic If you had been there...
To make this lesson plan, the Communicative Approach is used. Moreover the
educational techniques that were considered the most useful in English class and
teaching aids that will be used in the whole class following the parameters of the
method applied.
I. DISCUSSION OF CONTENTS:
Use:
Form:
If Diana had come on the trip, she might have enjoyed herself.
....Each person has an individual profile of characteristics, abilities and challenges that
result from learning and development. These manifest as individual differences in
intelligence, creativity, cognitive style, motivation, and the capacity to process
information, communicate, and relate to others. The most prevalent disabilities found
among school age children are attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, learning
disability, dyslexia, and speech disorder. Less common disabilities include mental
retardation, hearing impairment, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, and blindness.(2)
(1)
http://www.cmu.edu/teaching/solveproblem/strat-cantapply/cantapply-
01.html(May,18th,2012; 8: 40 am)
(2)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/educational_psychology#learning_and_cognition(May,18
th
,2012; 9: 40 am)
....Two fundamental assumptions that underline formal education systems are that
students retain knowledge and skills they acquire in school, and can apply them in
situations outside the classroom. But are these assumptions accurate even though
students report not using the knowledge acquired in school, a considerable portion is
retained for many years and long term retention is strongly dependent on the initial level
of mastery. (3)
(3)
http://www.infed.org/biblio/b-learn.htm
In terms of learning, according to James Hartley (1998) four key principles come to
the fore(4):
Activity is important. Learning is better when the learner is active rather than
passive. ('Learning by doing' is to be applauded).
Repetition, generalization and discrimination are important notions. Frequent
practice - and practice in varied contexts - is necessary for learning to take place.
Skills are not acquired without frequent practice.
Reinforcement is the cardinal motivator. Positive reinforces like rewards and
successes are preferable to negative events like punishments and failures.
Learning is helped when objectives are clear. Those who look to behaviorism in
teaching will generally frame their activities by behavioral objectives e.g. 'By
the end of this session participants will be able to...'. With this comes a concern
with competencies and product approaches to curriculum.(4)
______________________________________________________________________
___
(4)
Hartley, J. (1998) Learning and Studying. A research perspective, London:
Routledge.
______________________________________________________________________
(5)
DOUGLAS BROWN, H. Teaching by principles: An Interactive approach to
Language pedagogy. Longman (2001)
LANGUAGE THEORY(6)
5. TECHNIQUES
Asking questions: the teacher has to be graded, going from very easy to more
difficult answers. The asking questions helps to the teacher control the class to
keep the attention of the whole class, to give the students a chance to show their
knowledge. (7)
Dialogues: You want your class not only to understand dialogues but also to
absorb and reproduce what they contain, whether in terms of acting out or
improvisation. If you have a large class, you will need to use dialogues with six
or seven characters so that you can involve more students at a time.(7)
Giving and following instructions: this simple but valuable communicative
activity is used in moment of working with the language. (7)
Pair work and group work questions: Students practise the new language item in
two's or three's, the teacher at a distance ready to assist as necessary. This
provides an almost natural situation for exchanges such as questions and
answers, suggestions and reactions, opinions and arguments, etc. (8)
Role playing and improvisation: Acting out dialogue has already been
mentioned. Acting in language learning is valuable because we are all, perhaps,
actors when speaking another language; because it accustoms students to perform
in front of others, which is what they have to do outside the classroom; because it
helps them to overcome the nervousness which this entails; because it gets them
speaking expressively in a situation, and thus makes them more aware of stress
and intonation in speech;
Peer correction: Students are encouraged to help another student when he or
she is in difficulty. It is important that any help is good in a cooperative way, not
a competitive one. (9)
Checking: Teacher is guiding the correction of students work, providing
feedback as an activity rather than within another activity.(9)
LARSEN FREEMAN, Diane; Techniques and Principles in Language Teaching.
(7)
6. TEACHING AIDS
o Teachers voice :
The teachers voice is an important teaching aid. One of the first
requirements of good teaching is good voice projection. The
teacher needs to be heard by all the students. (9)
o Body language:
The use of hands, arms, face and any part of the body can
effectively in several ways to help the students communicative.
(9)
o Worksheets:
Worksheets allow teachers to measure the students learning. A
worksheet teacher can contain different kind of exercises
according to the content of the lesson. (9)
o The board:
Many boards are still chalk based, but white boards (which use
marker, pens) are also common. (9)
o Pictures :
Specifically, pictures contribute to interest and motivation; a
sense of the context of the language and a specific reference
point or stimulus.
o Wall charts:
They are used to presenting structures. They can be changed
and moved in an easy way. (9)
o Sticky tact:
A sticky substance which is used for joining things together
permanently, produced from animal bone and skins or by a
chemical process. (9)
(9)
BROWN, Douglas H. Principles of language learning and teaching. Fourth
Edition - Pearson Education 2000.
7. EVALUATION
Formative Evaluation: Formative evaluation is a method of judging the work
of students while they are doing different activities. Formative evaluation
focuses on the process. The purpose of a formative evaluation is to validate or
ensure that the goals are being achieved and to identify the difficulties of the
learning. (10)
8. DISCUSSION:
The lesson plan is presented inside a real context by introducing the
communicative method and taking into account one of the most
important psychological principles which promotes contextualization and
motivation to what is going to be taught. The principles that are related
with motivational and affective factors say that the expectation in the
students ensures greater interest in the topic and the quality of the
learning process.
Another very useful principle applied to this class stage has been the one
related to the context learning since the students can get elements
received into meaningful information through the interaction in the social
and learning environment.
9. CONCLUSION
Learning is better when we as teachers let students to be active rather
than passive, from a cognitive learning, the individual learns by
listening, watching, touching, reading, or experiencing and then
processing and remembering the information.
Motivation is a crucial factor in the class because it permits an immediate
change in the students behaviors and a positive attitude during the
learning process thats why its necessary to use useful techniques in the
class which can promote students participation.
Teachers must provide students opportunities to communicate their
ideas, their emotions and to develop a communicative competence.
The techniques and teaching aids are useful for maintaining the attention
of students during the class and for making them to participate.
The evaluation is a useful tool for the teacher to know the students
weaknesses and capabilities.