LESSON PLAN
TOPIC: How is my room?
GRADE: Language institute
LEVEL: I (A1.1 CEFR)
TIME: 1 hour
GOAL: Learning to use simple prepositions of place.
TASK 1: Drawing my partner’s room and following directions.
Functional objectives:
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SS will describe rooms by stating the location of objects within them.
Linguistic objectives:
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SS will use prepositions of place to describe the location/position of objects.
Subject-matter objectives
-
Ss will practice the vocabulary of objects in the room.
(Inter)cultural objectives
-
Ss will share what their room looks like.
CONTENTS
Functional
Dialogue
Descriptive
indications
Linguistic
Content -facts
Intercultural aspects
– critical thinking
in, on, under, next Drawing of their Description of their
to, behind, in front room and Video room.
of, between.
with images
METHODOLOGY
TASK 1:
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Activity
Interaction
Objective
Time
1
Pre-task
Students make (or repeat if they’re still
not confident) sentences about the
monkey’s location
T-SS
To activate ss’s
previous
knowledge
10 min
3
While-task:
A) The students will get in pairs. They
will seat back to back. Student A will
write a description of their room and say
it to student B. Student B will draw their
SS-T
S-S
- Ss will practice 20 min
the vocabulary of
objects in the
room.
partner’s room without looking at the
description and then check if the drawing
matches their partner’s real room.
- SS will use
prepositions
of
place to describe
the
location/position
of objects.
The assistant will be attentive to any
doubt the students might come up with.
B) The assistant draws a living room on
the board and gives papers with the image
of an object to each student
mj.
Then, the assistant will describe the
location of each object in the living room
and the student who has it will stick it in
the right place.
4
Post- task:
Corrections will be made asking other
students if they think the locations are
right.
To finish, students will play a memory
game to use prepositions of place in a
more competitive activity
RESOURCES
Warm up 1:
Ss
recognize the
prepositions of
place, and
vocabulary of the
house.
S-S
S-T
15 min
SS
will
use 15 min
prepositions
of
place to describe
the
location/position
of objects.
Task B:
Put the cat under the table
put the cushion on the sofa
put the lamp between the sofa and the chair
put the plant on the left of the sofa
put the bag on the right of the sofa
put the newspaper on the chair
put the tissues in front of the sofa
put the candle on the table
put the keys under the chair
put the painting above the chair
put the remote under the sofa
Post-task 2: Concentration game
https://youtu.be/f2MkzbUpt-c
Projector
Paper sheets
Whiteboard