LESSON PLAN

1. INTRODUCTION
- greet the students
- introduce the method that will be used during the lesson
- ask everyone to keep their microphones on for the entire duration of the lesson, unless they
have some sort of background noise

2. WARM-UP
- show the students pictures/flashcards of various everyday objects, then of the rooms
typically found in a house
- wait for them to say the words they recognize outloud, and do NOT offer explicit praise; at
most, repeat the word they said before moving onto the next picture

EXAMPLES:

 rooms: kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, living room, hall

 objects: bed, book, table, ball, chair, box, desk, closet, table, wall, door, window
 words: in, on, under, next to, in front of, behind, between, around

3. VOCABULARY INTRODUCTION
- present a document with all the new vocabulary words written on it
- point to each word and wait for the students to say it outloud
- point to additional words (the, in, on, under etc.) and create longer chains of words (eg. the
bed in the room, the book on the table), expecting the students to say each word as you
point to it

EXAMPLES:

 the bed in the room

 the book on the table
 the ball under the chair
 a box under the bed
 a desk between the bed and the closet
 the chairs around the table
 the wall next to the bed
 the door on the wall
 a window next to the desk
 the rooms in the house
 a carpet on the floor
 the sofa in the living room
 the sink and the shower in the bathroom
 the table in the dining room
 the bed in the bedroom
 the chair in the hall
 the toilet in the bathroom
 the fridge in the kitchen
4. DRAWING
- draw various objects in relation to one another (sketchtoy)
- wait for the students to guess the words outloud
- draw additional things to help them guess if they’re struggling

EXAMPLES:

 a ball under a chair

 a book on a table
 a window next to a door
 a sofa on a carpet
 a desk between a closet and a bed
 a box and a book on a bed
 a ball in front of a fridge

5. CUISENAIRE RODS (if there’s enough time)

- use an online cuisenaire rods tool to create a floor plan
- tell the students what it is and wait for them to label each room according to their
imagination
- use more rods to represent the furniture in each room and wait for the students to name it
outloud

6. EVALUATION
- ask the students to each write down a sentence using at least 3 of the words they learned
today
- ask the students to read their questions