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Lesson 1 1-Presenting material and exploiting characters to familiarize learners with the material (the pre-lesson step) teacher

r presents the comic strip by visual aids on the board and asks learners if they understood it, who the characters are, what the comic trip means, why it is funny or not, and what teenegers laugh at nowadays. 2-Exploiting material to engage learners in funny activities before presenting grammar section (the while- lesson step) Communicative task; focus on meaning: comprehension, interaction and production. `Tell the story Teacher will cut up a set of the pictures from a comic trip and will give it in separate frames to learners (in groups) to re order the story. Learners may not show the pictures until theyve arrived at logical order through describing them. Share the production orally Using another comic strip, teacher will remove the last picture of the strip and students (in groups) may think of an ending. The different groups will vote for the best ending through a slot-filler activity, teacher will ask learners to match a series of sentences provided under each picture in a new comic strip. Communicative final task of the lesson (the post-activity in the lesson) Learners in pairs, will choose a comic strip they like most and complete a guide chart. They will also use the following questions to interpret the facts they are asked by compleiting the chart What makes your character special? What can she/he do? What does she/he like ? What are her/his interests and ambitions?

Lesson 2 Strategies teacher will use: Volume and repetition, to make learnes produce or perceive examples of grammar structures Success-orientation: to encourage self-confidence, interest and motivation (as a wider pedagogical implication) Topic Nouns as Subjects in a sentence; verbs as Predicate Pre-lesson task: a Task Based Learning through multiple choice based on meaning and giving opinion. Teacher presents a new comic strip and has a feedback session with learners, talking about character, setting, meaning and so on After that, learners will guess the possible topics; Lucy being the Big Sister Charlie Brown has a serious chat with Lucy Lucy is a Feminist While- lesson step: Strategies, emphasizing and repetiton as enabling activities. The teacher gives worksheets with some concepts to learners, accordingly Teacher will divide the class into As, Cs and Bs, which will work on different comic trips highligthing nouns and verbs; subjects and predicates. Learners will work in groups and when they`ve finished they will share their work with the others to peer-correction. Finally, one representative of each group will share the solutions in front of the whole class, may be using the board as a source to correct themselves in their worksheets. The table to be completed will be : Nouns Verbs example of subject & predicate

Final Task of the lesson:

Learners will have pictures that belong to different comic trips to re order to find their sense. Homework to do. Lesson 3 The pre-stage in the lesson. Topic: The four kind of senteces sistematically,as always, the teacher presents a new comic trip in order to make learners exploit the characters and so on, for example: what learners know about the new character, who her friends are, how old she is ... The while-step in the lesson Teacher an learners interact, discussing about possibilities of actions presented in the comic strip Learners write true or false, If false they write the correct one: Mafalda is playing tennis Mafalda likes her neighbour Mafalda is drawing a funny joke on the wall Finally, Mafalda tries to be nice to her old-lady neighbour After that, the teacher hands out worksheets showing examples and explanation of the four kind of sentences In a new task, with new material learners will work on: highlighting common and proper nouns; finding out declarative sentences and writing them down on their notebooks, explainig the reason for their choices. Working on another comic strips, learners will guess time, context and characters. Then, they will find out examples of ;declarative, interrogative, imperative and exclamatory sentences, explaning the tips they`ve used for working out the examples The Final step in the lesson First, individually, learners will order pictures to find sense on the comic strip ; Then, they will look at one picture only and guess what the character is thinking (they may use background information on the strip) Finally, in pairs, learners will change the structure of the sentences into the right way, paying attention to the pictures in the new strip

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