Description of class 'Meša Selimović' primary school :V1, V2, V3, V4, V5 23 to 26 students; age 11 & 12

Date November 2008.

Teaching unit Your Project
19.
Type of lesson Practising

Sources Project 2 SB and Workbook

Aims and goals To introduce and write about different animals

Describing and drawing animals
To use the present simple tense
To write about: Where does it live? What does it look like? What does it eat? How does it find its food?

Methods -Task based method

-Communicative method
-Work on project

Class management Frontal work

Group work

Teaching aids, Paper, photos, pictures, crayons, book,

materials and
equipment
Procedure Introductory part, main part, final part.

Additional plan There is no additional plan.

ANTICIPATED PROBLEMS
Non-cooperative students.
Some students don't understand task. They didn’t take any materials for this lesson.
Some students might have some difficulties writing
SOLUTIONS
Teacher may need to remind students how they do their project.
She explains unfamiliar words and tells them some information about some famous persons. She asks students to lend them some parts of materials for
this lesson.
LOCATION OF WORK
Class of English

What do project work?

Project work captures better than other activity the three principal elements of a communication approach.
These are:
1. a concern for motivation
2. a concern for relevance
3. a concern for the educational development of the learner

1. MOTIVATION
Positive motivation is the key to successful language learning and project work is particularly useful as a means of generating this.
Firstly, project work is very personal. The students are writing about their lives-their house, their family, their town, their dreams and fantasies, their
own research into topics that interest them.
Secondly, project work is a very active medium. Students aren’t just receiving and producing words. They are:
 Collecting information
 Drawing pictures, maps, diagrams and charts
 Cutting out pictures
 Arranging texts and illustrations
 Coloring
 Carrying out interviews and surveys
 Possibly making recording
2. RELEVANCE
It encourages the use of a wide range of communication skills.
 It provides learners with opportunities for communicating about their own world- their friends, their interests, their feelings…
It shows that English is not just for talking about the ways of the English –speaking world.
3. EDUCATION
Project work is a way of turning such general aims into practical classroom activity.

PROJECT ‘’A’’
Find out and write about animals
Sea Animals
Wild animals
Domestic animals
Bats
Birds