Informative data

Institution: Unidad Educativa Thomas Jefferson

Subject: English

Grade: 4th grade

Hours: 07:40am to 08:00am (1 hour)

Main teacher: Lcda. Pamela Cedeño

TEFL Objectives

For this class the objectives are the following:

 Learn new vocabulary about “Gadgets” by using the textbook in order to use the new
terms in simple sentences using “let’s… and how about…?”
 Use comparative adjectives to make sentences in order to let students use this
grammar structures to compare two items or things by their characteristics.

Methods and Strategies

1. Total physical response.

2. Natural approach
3. Communicative approach
4. Visual Scaffolding
5. Cognate Strategies

Anticipatory set

To engage students’ attention, the first activity is going to be about showing them some flash
cards with the images of the gadgets and ask them about “What is this?” and let them
participate rising their hands in order and help them using cognates to understand the
vocabulary meanings.

Main teaching input

This class is going to be developed in the following way:

1. The anticipatory set will be done to catch students’ attention (Visual Scaffolding)
2. The warm up activity is going to be about pointing some things in the class and ask for
children’s help to name them and after they do it, they are going to be told that those
things are called gadgets. (communicative approach)
3. Children are going to name the gadgets they see in the flash cards and name them
using another flash card with the name of each gadget (Visual Scaffolding and Cognate
Strategies)
4. Once the students have discovered all the vocabulary using flash cards, they are going
to be asked to pronounce each gadget and look for similar pronunciations in Spanish to
confirm the meaning and understanding of each word. (Cognate strategies and natural
approach).
5. Each word with a similar pronunciation in Spanish is going to be written in a chart
pasted on the white board, then all the children will be able to look and repeat if they
want to remember. (Visual Scaffolding)
 6. Children are going to be taught about some differences in some characteristics
regarding to the gadgets they have previously learned by giving some aleatory
adjectives to them so they can compare using comparatives (Visual Scaffolding)
7. To end the lesson, students are going to be asked to compare two objects from their
desktops with the vocabulary learnt. (natural approach)

Modelling

1. Flash cards and objects from the classroom to start the class lesson.
2. Use the gadgets in the flashcards to make students interact with the new vocabulary.
3. Interaction with the students related to create a natural approach using the vocabulary