Direct Method Lesson Plan

Lesson Plan Title: MY BODY

Objective: At the end of the class,Students will be able

to identify some common body parts.

Standards: National Foreign Language Standards

Addressed:

Communication – Standard 1.1: Students

engage in conversation, provide and obtain
information, express feelings and emotions,
and exchange opinions.

English Language Development Standards:

ELD 2.1.2

(B) Express basic needs, feelings, and

information on familiar topics using simple
sentences.

Common Core Anchor Standards:

Comprehension and Collaboration, (1)
Prepare for and participate effectively in a
range of conversations and collaborations
with diverse partners, building on others’
ideas and expressing their own clearly and
persuasively

ACTFL Proficiency Level Expected Novice

Scaffolding: Chart paper the size of each student

What are you doing to make your lesson Body worksheet

comprehensible for students? (Modeling, Prior
Body Parts Song for Kids video by ELF
Knowledge, Graphic Organizers, etc.) Explain
learning
specifically different things you are doing in your
lesson to reach your students. See this resource
for more detail. Also see resources posted in
Week 4 in Canvas..

Lesson Snapshot: Students are going to listen to a song to help

them review their body parts.
New Vocabulary:
Key terms:
New Structures (grammar forms)
Chest

Hands

Review & Warm up:
(5-10 min)
What came before this lesson? Explain in detail
what students will do and teachers will do.
Presentation (10 min)
(Teach the Material)
Present the topic in an engaging way with visuals
and written support. Get the students involved.
This is NOT a lecture. This is an interactive
presentation of lesson content.
Practice (Guided Practice)
This can be drills and other activities where
students do pair work and practice a
conversation- substitution drills work well.
Example activity: information gap activities
Production (Independent Practice) This is where
the students do communicative activities, in the
target language, using the principles they have
just been taught.
Example activities: Role plays, ranking activities,
Formative Assessment (Assessment during
lesson)
How will you assess that learning is taking place
DURING the lesson itself? What will students do
to show you that they have met the objective
during the lesson?
This should DIRECTLY assess the lesson objective.
Feet
Head
Arm
Review body parts with the students. Go
over parts that you feel weren't gone over in
the body part song. Introduce the body
tracing activity to the students
The teacher draws an image of a human body
on the board with parts labelled.
Teacher teach the parts and ask students to
call the words after him.
Have a student trace you on a piece of paper
and help you label your body parts. Display
you outline and review each body part—head
, arms, legs, chest, hands, and feet—with the
students.
Have students work in pairs and trace each
other. Once they have traced each other,
have them label their bodies.
How will you assess that learning is taking
place during the lesson itself?
Students have been able to complete the
Body worksheet.
Summative Assessment
How will you assess that the objective has been
met? This might be a test at the end of the unit or
a project.
Teacher Collects the worksheet once they're
done working. Review it to assess their
understanding.
Display students' work on the walls of the
classroom.