Objectives Course: Fundamentals 1 Skills: vocabulary and listening

Unit: 1 Lesson: A Date: January 18th, 2019

 Talk about occupations
Number of Students: 20 Lesson Plan by: Julieth Montoya
Materials: balls

Stage Activity Description Tim

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Introducti To review greetings have them ask, how are you? to their classmates and answer the question. 10
on Ask the class what my name is, and what my occupation is? Also, what their occupations are at the Colombo? min
Then write your name and occupation on the board: I’m Julieth and I’m a teacher under I’m write I am, tell them
you will explain why later on.
Vocabular The next idea you will want to teach is where these people work. To do this, you will need to have large pictures 30
y of the typical settings of each job. Teach the names of the settings, if necessary. For example, you would have a mins
picture of a classroom for a teacher. I will show different scenarios and have students think of what occupation
matches the setting.

To practice do a little game, place a ball in the middle of the classroom, say that if they know the name of the
occupation they’ll grab the ball and say the setting.

Then tell that for occupation we add a/ an the difference can be pointed out in Spanish as well as the verb be
meaning and modifications. Use exercise 3, 4, 7, page 10-11 check as a class.
teaching Now I will teach grammar, the subject pronouns, the verb be, first repeat I am Byron and point to another person
until someone says she, then to a boy until someone says he. Write them on the board and highlight singular 15
and plural pronouns and the first, second, third persons, then have students practice place the correct form of mins
the verb be explain that in Spanish we have a variation of ser o estar.
Preteach the question what do you do? Or what’s your occupation? Have them infer the meaning
Tell students that this is the question we make when we want to ask for someone’s occupation.

Have them ask each other about their occupations, and the setting, then have them tell the class their
classmates’ occupations, finally with this information do a memory game, they’ll have to say their classmate’s
occupation in a row.
transition Now we can practice the occupations! 2
min
Extension Organize them in groups, have them go to the link and give each group a set of pictures, say that they’ll write the 20
activity correct number and in their notebooks some sentences about the occupation, including workplace, have them mins
then share to the class that will listen and write the number on the picture.
https://es.liveworksheets.com/worksheets/en/English_as_a_Second_Language_(ESL)/
Jobs_and_occupations/Jobs_ix146ot
Wrap up Give them a crossword puzzle, first organize them in pairs by miming their occupation and finding their partner, 15
then say that they’ll explain their occupation, so their classmate can complete the missing part, then go over the mins
occupations as a class

Doctor doctor dentist dentist cashier cashier builder builder reporter reporter
teacher teacher singer singer actor actor painter painter dancer dancer