SEVENTH Lesson Plan

Lesson Name: __Family members verb to be___ Lesson Number:

__7_________
Institution: _____Colegio Gustavo Morales Morales________
Student-Teachers in Charge: __Javier Alejandro Landinez Segura____
Grade: _Eighth Graders__ Date:__10/29/16____ Week: ___7_____

Introduction:
The lesson will be about family members vocabulary; using also the verb to
be to refer to them. Different exercises will be developed to learn about this
useful topic, making sentences in oral and written ways, combining them with
practice activities, diverse games and warming up activities.
Rationale:
This lesson is necessary because for students it is very useful to review and
learn vocabulary related to the family members, in addition of a review of the
verb to be as a useful tool to express correctly with this vocabulary category.
This lesson will be very useful and important for students, because if they
develop all its activities in a correct way, they will also be able to include
them in their normal English classes at school and even in their daily routines.
Methodology:
The communicative Language Teaching method was chosen for this lesson;
this, because I want to have a very meaningful communication among the
students. In this method, communication involves the integration of different
language skills, and it also involves the process of trial and error. Total
physical response will also be used; as it is useful to ask students to act or
move when they listen to different orders or actions.
Resources:
Whiteboard and marker, notebook or a sheet of paper, worksheets with
activities, videos and songs with the necessary vocabulary and a pen or a
pencil
Objectives

Communicative: Students will be able to use in short

conversations, the vocabulary about family members, using
also all the subject pronouns and the verb to be.

Language: family members vocabulary in addition with the

verb to be, will be used throughout the lesson.
Learning: Students will learn the lesson through practical
Type of
Activity
Warm Up

exercises, songs, videos and flashcards

Description
Song: the family members song (available in Youtube; the
web address is in the bibliography). The song is showed once

15 min

to the students in the TV to make them be familiarized with it.

Then the key words that are content in the song are written in
the whiteboard. After that, students should sing it with the
help of the lyrics. Finally, the students have to sing the song,

Transition

but without using any lyrics

What family members do you know in English?

10 min.
Getting

I start by showing a picture to the students where there is a

Started

family tree; here students have to identify some important

15 min

family members. I give the opportunity to all the students to

participate in the activity, solving doubts if there are any. I
give some time to the students to get the most of words; but
when they dont know or dont have anything else to say, I

Transition

help them a little by saying the missing words.

What family members live with you in your house?

10 min
Formal

I give a photocopy to each student with a complete list of the

presentatio

family members. After that I ask them to circle the words they

already know and that are familiar for them. In the same

15 min

worksheet there is a picture of a family tree where they can

see and understand the topic in a better way. Besides this, I
write some sentences on the whiteboard like: He is my father,

Transition

she is my sister, he is my son, etc.

What family members dont live in your house with you?

10 min
Practice

I give the students some worksheet with exercises related to

the topic, where they have to match columns or number the

30 min

correct family member. I also give some sentences where

they have to fill in the blanks with the correct words, giving
correct guidance and answering all the questions that might

Transition

appear.
What family member do you love the most?

10 min.
Controlled

At this point, some more worksheets are given to the students

Practice

with several exercises to solve. These exercises include

matching, underlining, circling, or completing with the

30 min

appropriate word in multiple choice sentences. Some

crosswords and a word search are also given to guarantee
that the vocabulary and the grammar expression taught were

Transition

correctly learnt.
Who is your fathers brother? Who is your fathers sister? Who

10 min.

is your mothers father? Who is your mothers mother? Who is

your brothers son?

Outcome

Students take their notebooks or pieces of paper and write all

the family members that they have now in their heads. They

20 min

also have to make their own family tree, including the most
important family members they have.

Transition

Who is your fathers son or daughter who is not your brother

10 min.
Final

or your sister?
Students have to say, in front of their classmates, who they

Assessment

live with. Taking into account the vocabulary and expressions

that have just been studied. They also have to mention the

20 min.

family members that do not live with them. At the end of the
exercise, they have to mention what family member they love

Homework

the most.
Students are asked to find some more words related to the

Assignment

topic that are not very familiar or easy to say; besides that,

5 min.

they are asked to study everything that was done during the
class.

Bibliography:
Video, Family members song, retrieved from.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_WQEw13TCo on October 26th, 2016.

Worksheets - -family members, retrieved from

https://en.islcollective.com/resources/search_result?Vocabulary_Focus=Family

on October 26th, 2016.

Appendixes:

Find the words below

in the grid to the left.

aunt

grandmother

niece

brother

husband

sister

cousin

in-law

uncle

father

mother

wife

grandfather

nephew