TASK 1: LESSON PLAN

READ LESSON PLAN AND

ANSWER.

DO YOU THINK IT IS APPROPRIATE?

YES / NO. GIVE YOUR REASONS
I have a neutral opinion. I think that the points 1 and 2 are a little bit confusing
because we know that the lesson is focused on Present Perfect tense but it begins
with examples that make you get confused because there you don’t use the main
tense. With a little bit of more explanation, it could work.

WHAT WOULD YOU CHANGE/ IMPROVE/

REMOVE?
I would improve explanations in each point. Maybe the person that did the lesson
plan knows what the teacher needs to do, but another person would be very
confused. Isn’t a bad lesson plan, it just needs better explanations where the steps
are clear and very detailed to avoid confusion. The points that need better
explanations are point 1, point 2 and point 5.

TASK 2. YOU WILL READ THE WAY THIS

LESSON WAS APPLIED

AT THE END YOU HAVE THE EXERCISE,

ANSWER IT AND ALSO THE FOLLOWING
1.- WAS THERE A MATCH BETWEEN THE
LESSON AND HOW IT WAS APPLIED? There
was a match, yes. The thing is that inside the lesson plan, there wasn’t mention
about the revision of present continuous. Maybe someone could have sensed that
their students need to use Present continuous, but it could have been better if it
was included inside the lesson plan. Also, in the lesson plan the instructions were
not very clear, maybe that’s why students got confused.

2.- WHAT COULD BE IMPROVED/

CHANGED? Giving clear instructions to make the lesson succesful.
Instead of staying away of students, the teacher could have been a monitor to
check if students were doing the activity in a right way. Also, the teacher could
have asked if students were understanding the instructions for the activity.

3.- HOW DO YOU EVALUATE CLASS

MANAGEMENT? It was very poor. Matching the lesson plan with
the lesson itself, we can see that the teacher needs to improve some aspects. I
can say that being clearer while giving instructions is the most important, because
in that way, students have clear what they are required to do. Also, being a better
monitor while students are working is very necessary to reach the success of the
lesson.

4.- Now look at the different class reactions,

and state which ones you think:
1. Could/Should have been predicted by the teacher;
The teacher should have predicted that students couldn’t hear the D sound at the
ends of the verbs in past perfect tense, could have predicted the mistakes in the
revision of present continuous to put things clearer.
2. Were quite unpredictable; That the class didn’t understand the
instructions given by the teacher and that they started talking in their native
language. That was very unpredictable.
3. Needed further investigation by the teacher when
they occurred. Inside the revision of present continuous, the teacher maybe
needed to take that as a sign that students need to have clear explanations and
instructions to make a good performance with the given activities.

Apart from making better predictions of the class's

reactions, what could this teacher have done to make
the lesson more successful? As I said before, give clearer
instructions, inside the lesson plan and in the moment where the lesson plan is
performed. Also, monitoring students in a way that the teacher needs to check if
they understood what they need to do and walking around the classroom in case
some of them need help or want to ask something related to the activity.