Lesson plan 1

Date: October 2, 2009 Level: Second grade of high school

Skill: Speaking and writing

Expected Outcomes: Students will be able to express themselves in English to talk about what they did for Halloween,
making use of the structures they learned during the unit.
Students will be able to make written comparisons using long and shorts adjectives.

Resources: board, markers, dolls, exercises guide.

Time Comments
Introduction

Classroom Setting 5’ Students arrive at the classroom and have to look for their aprons and put them
on.
Morning prayer 5’

Take roll call 3’

Every Monday morning the students pray for their personal intentions.

Core of the class

Review (speaking) 15’

New Unit Introduction:
“Describing the world”
Adjectives introduction:
Comparatives
superlatives
Adjectives rules
(comparatives and
superlatives):
 Y-end adjectives
(happy)
 Short adjectives (thin)
 Long adjectives
(comfortable)
 Irregular adjectives
(good)
 As clean as
Students will be asked what they did for Halloween in order to practice the
contents of the unit IV before moving to the next unit. Example: Did you go to any
party? How many of you wore a costume? How many candies did you get?, etc.
5’
Students will be told what the next unit will be about and what contents we will
study. Students will be told about the objectives for this particular session.
7’
The teacher will bring 3 Barbie-dolls (two females and one male) with different
characteristics. The teacher will compare the dolls in order students can predict
the way of making comparisons. Example: Sara is taller than Katie; Steve is the
strongest.
4’ Explanation of adjectives comparisons by giving examples and setting
grammatical rules.
4’
4’
4’
4’

15’ Exercises will be given a guide to practice the contents by filling in a dialogue and
Exercises writing short sentences according to some pictures.

10’ Students will be asked their answers to check if they understood the lesson; and
Exercises corrections their own mistakes will be taken to clarify any doubt and to explain what was
wrong (correct answers will be written on the board). Some of the students will be
evaluated with a “summative” grade for their work in class.

Closing
5’ We will make a summary (all together) of all what we learned during the lesson, in
Summary order to clarify any doubt about the content.

Name: Paulina Rojas González

School: Colegio Carlos Cousiño