Lesson Plan nº 4 - teaching english through short stories - "the lazy bear"

1. PRACTICE II, DIDACTICS OF ELT.
LESSON PLAN Nº 4
TEACHER: Estela N. Braun.
TRAINEE: Ana Belén Zabala
SCHOOL: “Quelulén” nº 246
COURSE: 4TH
TEXTBOOK: Treetops 3/ Materials provided by the teacher.
DATE: Monday 12th
, September from 16.10 to 16.50
TOPIC: Weather – Seasons.
CLASS Nº 5
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
• Students will be able to talk about the weather, asking and answering questions
about it, with the provided structure: “What´s the weather like?” “It´s
sunny/rainy/cloudy, etc.” With the purpose of expressing through new vocabulary
what´s the weather like and which type of weather they prefer.
• Students will be able to understand and produce listening, speaking, reading and
writing macro-skills.
ROUTINES:
• Greeting song, checking of the attendance, choosing an assistant, asking about
the date and about the weather.

2. WARM UP.
The teacher will present on the board different images with vocabulary of animals that live in the
forest and that hibernate. Then she will ask them why is it that those animals are sleeping, and if
they know what hibernation implies. If necessary she will ask the questions in Spanish
TYPE OF INTERACTION: Teacher – students.
MACRO-SKILLS: Speaking.
TIMING: 10 minutes.
MATERIALS: Flashcards - Blackboard.
DEVELOPMENT:
 First Activity:
The teacher will show a video about a story in which different animals pass through the process of
hibernation all along the four seasons. The story is called “The lazy bear”. After they watch the
video the teacher will ask them which animals are present in the video, which is the one that
sleeps more than the others, in which season does the bear sleeps, and in which seasons do the
other animals sleep, etc. If necessary she will ask the questions in Spanish and so as to answer the
questions students will count with animals’ and seasons’ flashcards.
TYPE OF INTERACTION: Teacher – students.
MACRO-SKILLS: Speaking –Listening.
TIMING: 10 minutes.
MATERIALS: Flashcards – Video - Projector – Audio system – Flashcards.
 Second Activity:
The teacher will give copies to the students with two sets of exercises they will have to solve
according to the video. In Exercise A), pupils will have to match the images with their
corresponding vocabulary and in Exercise B), they will have to choose the correct answer. So as to

3. complete the activities students will count with the presented flashcards, with the teacher’s help
and if necessary the video will be shown again.
TYPE OF INTERACTION: Teacher – students.
MACRO-SKILLS: Speaking – Reading – Listening.
TIMING: 15 minutes.
MATERIALS: Blackboard – Copies – Video – Projector – Audio System – Flashcards.
Third Activity:
The teacher will give copies to the students with one activity in which they will have to cut four
images of seasons and paste them in their corresponding box. So as to do the activity they will
count with the seasons flashcards presented on the board and with the teacher´s help if
necessary. Once they have finished, they will check all together and in case they do not finish the
exercise in class, it will be assigned as homework.
TYPE OF INTERACTION: Students individually – Students as a group.
MACRO-SKILLS: Writing – Speaking – Reading.
TIMING: 10 minutes.
MATERIALS: Blackboard – Flashcards – Copies.
CLOSING UP:
• The teacher will assign the last activity as homework just in case students do not
finish it in class.
• The teacher will collect her material and say good-bye.

4. APPENDIX.
 Animals – Seasons Flashcards:
HAMSTER. SQUIRREL.
BEAR. RACOON.

5.  First activity: watching the video of the story “The lazy bear”.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiBrfsqo_1Q

6.  Second activity: exercise A) matching the images and vocabulary – exercise B) choosing
the correct answer.

7.  Third activity: Cut and paste the images with their corresponding seasons.
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