LESSON PLAN 1 – Graham Wheeler
Class level
Classroom
Lower
In the classroom of
Road to Argentina
Progress expectation
I am expecting my students to have learned the various ailments, parts of
the body, and examples of remedies that are used to help. The students
will be able to construct sentences based on these. They will also have
learnt basic grammar in order to explain how, where, and how often the
remedies are to be applied.
Talking about ailments and remedies
Ailments and Remedies
Firstly my intention is to teach the class different types of ailments,
remedies and associated grammar so that they are able to communicate
effectively with themselves and to doctors, or others. I would also like them
to have learnt enough vocabulary so that they can talk about various parts
of the body, not just the normal standard ones.
The class will have learnt names of the different parts of the body, and that
of typical ailments most commonly paired by these parts. They will be able
to communicate this with grammar, and have the ability to express this
information if they should be talking to a doctor or between friends.
My understanding of the class, their level of English is that they do not have
much vocabulary of the related topic, other than the obvious Latinate words
we have borrowed in English. However the remedies are mostly English
rooted words so I think this lesson will be valuable to them, and a good
mixture of words they might already know, whilst introducing new ones.
Cutting edge textbook and the white board. I will photocopy relevant pages
to use as handouts, and for exercises to do once they have learnt the
vocabulary. The white board is mainly used for the initial brainstorm, and
for learning and explaining new vocabulary.
To assess the amount the class has learnt, I will ask them first to write five
sentences after the brainstorm and grammar session. Following that they
will complete an exercise from the textbook, and then we will go through
the answers together so that I can correct them if needed. Questions that I
will be asking will have to check they have understood the idea of what the
lesson is about. For example; Do you take Paracetemol for an infection?
Do you put a bandage on your head if you have a broken foot?
I feel the lesson went according to plan, there were a few who found it hard
to understand some of the ailments, but was quickly fixed. On the whole I
rarely adjusted the plan, only to spend a little extra time with individuals
who needed it. The material I had prepared for the class was in mind of
their level and only had minor problems, explaining grammatical issues. I
think the class enjoyed the topic. They often went off on their own
conversations debating. The class displayed good attention, giving me the
impression they were interested. I allowed talking as long as it’s relative to
the topic. There was no need to use the native language of the class, there
were no issues that couldn’t be explained in simpler English or by spending
more time on it. As always in a group, there are confident and shy people,
but none to an extreme. I would recommend to future teachers the use of
images and gesticulations to ease the job of explaining ailments and
remedies. I think the class went well because I focused on keeping it very
basic and structured, as to not go off on wild tangents.
Subject
Topic
Aim
Objective
Knowledge assumed
Material & equipment
Learning assessment
Post lesson notes
Lesson date
Lesson duration
12/02/2014
55 minutes
Tasks
Phase Duration
1
15 minutes.
Topic
Brainstorm on
ailments and
remedies
Teacher activity
To display on the
white board the
ideas and
Student activity Resources
To say examples White board
to the teacher of
ailments and
thoughts of the
students.
To go through
with the class
basic grammar, I
have, I have to,
and the use of to
take/to put
To set task and
observe
remedies
2
10 minutes
Basic grammar,
starting
sentences
3
5 minutes
Class exercise
4
5 minutes
Check the
sentences
To take one or
more sentences
from each group
and correct them
or to explain them
5
10 minutes
Speaking
exercise
6
10 minutes
Brief recap
Get them in pairs Pretend to be
to pretend to be patient and doctor
patient and doctor talking about
ailments and
remedies
Go through with To answer
the class and ask questions and
concept check
say anything they
questions
have not
understood fully
Students who attended
Name
Jorge, Juan,
Ignacio, Pedro,
Manuel
Age Level
40 + Lower
Notes
Work through
White board
with the teacher
of the ways to
start talking about
ailments and
remedies
In pairs they are
to write 5
sentences from
the topic
To give teacher
sentences