LANGUAGE SKILLS

DEVELOPMENT
AUTONOMUS WORK 1

UTEG
ORAL COMMUNICATION ORAL COMMUNICATION
CE.EFL.4.6. Listening for Meaning: Understand
EFL 4.2.1. Understand phrases and expressions
and follow the main idea in spoken texts set in
related to areas of most immediate priority within
familiar everyday contexts, provided speech is
the personal and educational domains, provided
clear and articulate, and deduce the meanings of
speech is clearly and slowly articulated. (Example:
unfamiliar words and phrases using context clues
daily life, free time, school activities, etc.)
and/or prior knowledge.
EFL 4.2.5. Understand most changes in the topic of
discussion if people speak slowly.
EFL 4.2.8. Follow main ideas in topics covered in
other curricular subjects with the help of visual
support, using concepts and vocabulary that have
been studied in advance.
READING
READING
EFL 4.3.9. Demonstrate an ability to interact and CE.EFL.4.14. Display an ability to interact and
engage with a wide range of ICT and classroom engage with a wide range of ICT and classroom
resources in order to strengthen literacy skills and resources and texts by selecting and evaluating
strategies. them in order to strengthen literacy skills and
EFL 4.3.10. Select from and evaluate a range of promote acquisition.
both physical and digital texts and materials in
order to promote the acquisition and develop an
appreciation of the language.

Lesson plan

TOPIC
 Reading: The story of chocolate
OBJECTIVES
 Students will be able to describe how chocolate changed over time.
 Identify causes and effects
 Retell the story of chocolate
PARTICIPANTS AND TIME
 Younger people whose age are between 16-17 years old
 Level B1
 60min
ACTIVITIES
Warm-up:
1. Reinforce the previous topic about would and could and talk about their favorite kind of chocolate
 and mention a fact: Some people believe that eating chocolate can make you smarter. Studies have
found that elderly patients, rats, and even snails have all shown improved brain power when
chocolate is a part of their diet. (5min)
Procedure:
2. Introduce the topic and review some vocabulary. (7min)
3. Explain to the students that they will listen to the reading and next time encourage them to read
for themselves paragraph by paragraph, thus highlighting the causes and effects of the events. (15
min)

4. Ask students some questions applying scanning techniques in order to find specific facts. (10min)
-Where do you find information about cacao seeds being used as money?
-What could you buy with cacao seeds? And What was one way that ancient people used
chocolate? Explain to students that they only need to find that information in the reading and leave
out unnecessary information.
5. Provide sentence starters for students to complete with so that and would/could. (7min)
Such as:
- “The story of chocolate”___________ (so that we could learn the history of chocolate).
- “My friend bough milk and ice cream”______________(so that he could make a milkshake)
6. Based on the sentences that students highlight, make pairs and create a chart specifying the causes
and effects of each action that the teacher will provide to the students. (10min)

CAUSE EFFECT
1. The Aztecs added another ingredient Student complete
 2. Student complete So that they could enjoy chocolate in their
next life
3. The Spanish added sugar Student complete
4. Student complete So that they could enjoy it in their own
country

7. Ask students to reread the text and ask them to focus on how chocolate has changed over time.
Only three aspects will be given. (6min)
-People:____________
-Chocolate as currency:_______________
-People________________

RESULT
 Students will describe how chocolate has changed over time.
 Identify cause and effect,
 Apply scanning techniques.

JUSTIFICATION
Planning for a class is of great importance since we know that it is a
fundamental task of the teacher, as it must be organized, anticipate or prevent for the
teacher to be well prepared to instruct, as always by the students there are doubts in the
teacher is responsible for solving them, therefore as teachers, it is vital to know that you
must have in mind what will be learned, for what will be done and how you can achieve
the goal of the class. Therefore, This lesson is intended for B1-level students between
the ages of 16 and 17. The topic of this lesson is "The history of chocolate". I decided to
deal with it because it is a very interesting topic for younger students, not like traditional
topics that bore students. In the design of this lesson, I take into account the objectives
that our curriculum gives us as a teacher, in this case, we cover two skills such as oral
skills and reading skills, as the class is created for 60 minutes, however, as teachers, we
must know that we cannot cover all the main skills in their totality, of course we will
practice a little bit but we have to emphasize at least 2 of them. Furthermore, I choose
ESA lesson plan model, because in this class I have decided to take topics that catch
their attention and activate their previous knowledge, hence this class is a fun and
productive way for students to learn. Likewise, this model is accurate for the class since
it teaches them new study techniques and new vocabulary so that they can finally use it
in a real context. That is why students in the case of oral communications learners can
grasp the general meaning of spoken texts set in familiar everyday contexts and infer
changes in the topic of discussion, as well as deduce the meanings of unfamiliar words
and exchanges through the use of context clues, provided speech is given slowly and
clearly and there is sufficient visual support. Likewise, in reading skills, learners can
interact and engage with a wide range of ICT and classroom resources and texts by
selecting and evaluating them in order to strengthen literacy skills and promote
acquisition. For this reason, in my opinion, the ESA model is the most appropriate for a
class in which we cover the skills of reading and speaking, because if we take topics
that are not according to the age of the children, it will not be an efficient class and also
consider the teacher's planning.