Teaching writing, listening and speaking

Camila Barrera

November 26, 2012

Introduction

In this work I’m going to present part of the topics seen in my practicum. My experience was in a municipal school which has 2 careers: food and tourism. I had 2 classes: first and second medio. In these classes there are students from different schools: for that reason the level of English in the class is very varied. It makes difficult at the moment to design the lesson plan.

In these courses I could identify and work 2 units: in second medio unit 4 “whatever you do or make, do it and make it well” and second medio unit 5 “music-songs and words”. To plan these units I had to adapt them to their careers (in the case of second medio). Fortunately, one of the main topics was jobs and careers so I could help them to think about what they are going to do.

In this work we have the necessary materials to practice 3 of the 4 main skills to develop the English language. Any person could apply these activities because there are very well explained. Here we have the 3 main steps to guide our activities: pre, post and while.

Teaching Writing

Lesson Plan 2nd Grade

Topic: unit 4: “Whatever you do or make, do it and make it well!”Task: Write a recipeText type: Descriptive textWord limit: 150 wordsAudience: anybody that want to eat a sandwich

Date Content Objectives/skills Activities/Strategies Resources

November 12, 2012

Vocabulary

Words related to giving and following instructions.

Use of language

Present simple

Values Help and

respect other people.

To create instructions

Pre-writing The students will answer when they have to follow

instructions and why they sometimes have to follow instructions.

The students will have to see some pictures and follow the instructions and put them in the correct order.

The teacher will give to the students some vocabulary to create the instructions. Each student will have to read a word from the vocabulary given and define the word in English.

While-writing The students will have to create a recipe: they will have to

write the ingredients and create the instructions for different steps about images related to how to do a Perfect Ham Sandwich. They have to see the images and create and write the ingredients and the instructions.

Post-writing The teacher will show the pictures projected in a power point

and the students will write some of the instructions that they have created. All the students will add part of their instructions to create more complete instructions.

Worksheet Projector Marker

Purpose: to learn to crate instructions

Lesson Plan 7th Grade

Task: Write a text describing a place to go on holiday.Text type: Descriptive textWord limit: 150 wordsTopic: Unit 2: “Welcome to my country”Audience: people who want a place for holidayPurpose: To describe a place for holiday

Date Content Objectives/skills Activities/Strategies Resources

November 12, 2012

Vocabulary Words related to

describe a place.

Use of language Past simple and

future.

Values Help and respect

other people.

To express opinion

To promote a place

To describe a place

Pre-writing The teacher will show a picture about a place and they will

have to describe it orally. Then the teacher will show the description about the same place.

While-writing The students will have to choose their favourite a place in

which they have stayed on holidays and promote it to other people go to this place. They will have to describe it and argue why they chose this place to go on holidays (they can use dictionary)

Post-writing A voluntary student will read his or her text in front of the

class and the rest of the students will have to tell if they would go to that place or not and tell them why.

Paper Pencil Dictionary

Teaching Listening

Lesson Plan 1st Grade

Topic: unit 5: “Songs – music and words”Task: Circle the words listened in a song in a worksheet.Listen type: songTime limit: 3:24 minutesAudience: Students

Date Content Objectives/skills Activities/Strategies Resources

November 12, 2012

Vocabulary Vocabulary

related to the song.

Use of language Can/ can’t/

could

Values Respect other

classmates and people.

To recognize listened words.

To discriminate words.

Pre-listening The students will have to make predictions from a picture of

Adele and answer the next questions orally: What does this woman do? Do you know her name and nationality? Can you mention some of her most famous songs?

While-listening The students will have to listen to a song from Adele “Rolling

in the deep” Then they will have to recognize and discriminate 20 words

from 30 words given in a worksheet. They have to circle them.

Post-listening The teacher will ask to the students for the words, so the

teacher will say the word and the students will answer if the word belongs to the song or not.

Radio Worksheet pencil

Purpose: To understand what we listen.

Lesson Plan 7th Grade

Topic: unit 1: “welcome, friends”Task: listen a conversation and complete a chartListen type: conversationTime limit: 3 minutesAudience: students in the classroom

Date Content Objectives/skills Activities/Strategies Resources

November 12, 2012

Vocabulary Vocabulary

related to plans

Use of language Going to… to

express future actions

Values Self-discipline

To distinguish information between one speaker and other.

Pre-listening The students will have to make predictions with 2 images

about 2 men having a conversation. The students will have to predict what they think they are talking about.

While-listening The students will listen to a conversation about 2 friends

that are talking about their plans for next summer. They will have to take. They will have to distinguish what

they are talking about to complete a chart with the plans of speaker 1 and the plans of speaker 2.

Post-listening The students will complete the chart on the

whiteboard and all of them will correct if there are any mistake.

Radio Speakers Worksheet

Purpose: Complete a chart with the needed answers taken from the listened conversation.

Teaching Speaking

Lesson Plan 1th Grade

Topic: unit 5: “Songs – music and words”Task: role-playSpeaking type: interview

Time limit: 4 to 6 minutesAudience: Classmates and teacher

Date Content Objectives/skills Activities/Strategies Resources

November 12, 2012

Vocabulary Vocabulary

related to music.

Use of language Indirect

questions Present simple

and past simple.

Values Respect Courtesy

To interpret an interview

Pre-speaking The teacher will show an interview to the students as an

example. Then the teacher will interview with no more than 3 students as another example.

While-speaking The teacher will give a pattern to the students can do the

interview. The students will have to do a role-play in pair, doing an

interview. One of them will be a singer (whichever they want) and the other one will be the interviewer. It must be done in front of the class.

The other students will take notes about the best questions that they consider from the classmate’s interviews.

Post-speaking The students and the teacher will select the best questions

from the interviews done. Then they will create a new interview with the best questions.

Notebooks Pencils Projector Speakers

Purpose: Learn to do an interview

Lesson Plan 7th Grade

Topic: unit 1: “welcome, friends”Task: Make a conversation in front of the classSpeaking type: conversationTime limit: 4-6 minutes

Audience: the students into the classroom Date Content Objectives/skills Activities/Strategies Resources

November 12, 2012

Vocabulary Vocabulary

related to activities on weekend

Use of language Use of going to

Values Respect

To argue decisions

To express plans

Pre-speaking

The teacher will talk about his plans for next weekend and then he is going to ask to the students: what are you going to do next weekend? The students have to give general ideas like: I’m going to go to play football with my friends.

While-speaking

The students will have to express in a conversation in front of the class about what they are going to do next weekend. They can practice it before the conversation to establish the topics that they are going to talk about. (they have to do 15 interchanges at least) they have to argue why they do these kind of things.

Post-speaking The whole class is going to organize the perfect weekend on

the whiteboard, like a conclusion from all that they have listened from their classmates.

Whiteboard Marker

Purpose: Have a common conversation

Conclusion

As a conclusion I can say the most difficult part was fins and create the appropriate activities to follow the main topic, the required skill, the vocabulary, use of language and find a variety of objectives mainly. In these lesson plans I have used different methods like communicative language teaching,