Lesson Design Overview

Performance 1/13 Day in

Intermediate Low Grade 8-12 Date 3 Minutes 45
Target /20 Unit
Theme/Topic American Sports and Chinese sports
Essential
How do sports habits and preferences reflect people’s cultural beliefs?
Question
Daily topic: Sports names; sports preferences and reasons.
STANDARDS LESSON OBJECTIVES
Which modes of Learners can:
communication will  identify names of sports activities and
be addressed? understand someone’s comments about a
What are the
Communication x interpersonal certain sport in a conversation.
communicative
x Interpretive  give a series of reasons why a certain sport is
and cultural and
x appealing to me.
objectives for the 
Cultures presentational report his/her partner’s sports preference and
lesson? reasons for it.

Materials/Resources/
Time
Activity/Activities How many Technology
Lesson Sequence What will learners do? minutes will Be specific. What materials
this segment will you develop? What
What does the teacher do? materials will you bring in
take?
from other sources?
 Art Gallery walking: sports images
labeled in Chinese on the wall around
the classroom. Students walk around
the room and write down their names Sports images (art
Gain Attention /
and sentences like “ I like it because…” gallery)
Activate Prior 8
on the sticky note and place it beside Sticky notes,
Knowledge
the chosen sports. Later they choose pencils
one sports image station and report
their classmates’ sports preference to
class.
Provide Input  Listen to a Chinese song on sports terms 10 Song audio:
and sing along.
 Then teacher displays the sports images Sports images
and Chinese characters on smartboard
for a TPR activity. The teacher does the TPR activity
charade while asking “What sports do I
worksheets
like?” Students make a guess and ask
“why”. Then teacher gives two or more
reasons. This will continue for several
rounds.
 Then students are given a worksheet on
which there are lists of sports the
teacher just mentioned along with lists
of reasons for her liked sports. Students
 will read, recall and match the sports
with the reasons mentioned.

Students pretend to be members of a sports

club. As a club gathering, they will play a sports
board game in order to learn about each
other’s sports interests.
 Teacher prepares a board game
worksheet on sports beforehand. First
teacher displays it on smartboard for
demo. There are two rules to follow. 1)
Elicit
the player throws a dice and the dice Board game worksheets
Performance /
number tells how many steps to move 10 Dice
Provide
Feedback forward. 2) then his partner needs to
ask the player whether he likes the
sport on the worksheet and why. The
player will reply and give two or more
reasons for his like/dislike of the sport.
 Students work in pairs to do this board
game practice. Teacher circulates the
room to observe and support.

 Teacher gives students the “Find someone

who” worksheet, making sure that students “Find someone who”
Provide Input 2
understand the statements by using worksheet
gestures, circumlocutions as necessary.
 Students conduct the “Find someone
who” conversation practice to learn
more about each other’s sports
Elicit “Find someone who”
interests. They will ask and reply about
Performance / worksheet
their sports preference and provide two 10
Provide
or more reasons. They will note down
Feedback pencils
the reasons on the paper. The teacher
circulates the room to observe and
support.

 Teacher sets up a “Wish wall” area

beforehand. At the end of class,
students write down a new sport they
Wish wall
Closure like and wish to learn on a sticky note 5
Sticky notes
along with reasons for it. They put it on
the “Wish wall” before leaving the
class. Teachers will collect the note
later.
 Students summarize the notes and
Enhance
write a short report on their findings.
Retention &
Transfer
  What worked well? Why?
Reflection –
 What didn’t work? Why?
Notes to Self
 What changes would you make if you taught this lesson again?