Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCar)

Departamento de Letras (DL) – Graduação em Licenciatura em Letras/Inglês

Disciplina: Habilidade Oral em Língua Inglesa II
Professora(s): Camila Hofling e Elaine Borges

Lesson Plan – Micro Teaching

Teacher(s): Ana Julia Storti Rosendo Subject: English

Eduarda Magossi Gonçalves Title of the lesson: Canada: How much we know about this country?

Level: Intermediate - 3rd grade of high school

Timing: 50 minutes

Background knowledge: It is necessary
the students to have intermediate
vocabulary to understand different types
of information from audio and to
comprehend questions.
Learning expectations: We expect the students to understand what
the video says about Canada. We also expect students to improve
their listening skill by setting the context and the specific
characteristics of the genre informative video .

Bloom’s taxonomy: Understanding/Comprehensive (understanding, summarizing, discussing)

Mental Set: Check the understanding / Input

Language focus skills: listening - with focus on the process of listening

Language competence: linguistic and metha generic

Language conception: act of speech / interactive - with inductive assimilation

Teaching listening approach: top-down - start with the genre, with a whole part of language, with authentic
materials, and then going ahead with the smallest details inside the activities

Development

Pre-listening: Firstly, we will prepare the students for the activity of listening (an informative video about
Canada) with some pre-set questions (attachment 3), asking the class if they know Canada (population, official
languages, location, etc). In this part, they do not need to have correct answers, this is just to warm-up the class.
The students will make a kahoot, a site with an online game. The teacher needs to share the link with the
students for them to access the game (attachment 4). This little game is for the teacher to know how much the
students know about Canada’s information and to create motivation by spectation for what they are going to
hear (attachment 1). This is important because when the students know what to expect to hear, they can listen
with a purpose and find the information easily. We will also explain a little bit about how an informative video is
constructed: a genre that has specific construction (attachment 5). The teacher will also discuss some key words
(attachment 6) from the video (attachment 1). (Around 15 minutes)

Listening: The class must be divided in pairs. The students will listen to the video (3 minutes - attachment 1)
about general topics about Canada. Then, to know if they understand the information, we will give them printed
sheets with multiple questions to be answered, one sheet for each pair. We might play the video twice
(Attachment 1), firstly without subtitles for them to find a general idea of the subject, and after, with subtitles in
English to help students localize more specific information and help those students with less listening ability. The
teacher might check the answers with the whole class and make some corrections if necessary, using the
blackboard. (Around 20 minutes)
 ● Extra activity: If the listening activity (attachment 1) ends before we have planned, we might play a
second video (3 minutes - attachment 2), about Canada's official languages, and again, give one printed
sheet for pairs, with multiple questions to be answered. The teacher might check the answers with the
whole class and make some corrections if necessary, using the blackboard. (Around 15 minutes)

Post-listening: To end the class, we will make a little discussion asking the students if they could understand the
video. The teacher must take notes of the discussion: how hard the activity was, what problems they had to
comprehend what was being said in the video, such as speed, accent, external distractions, etc, what was the
most difficult thing to understand, what the structure of the video make they think about the problems of
comprehension. The goal here is to focus on the functional part of the language and of the video, checking on
words, phrases, expressions they do not understand, talking about the formal structure of this genre of text
(informative) turned into a short video. (Around 15 minutes)

Materials and resources:

Computer, exercises, data-show, soundbox, blackboard, printed sheets

Personal Notes/Reminders/Homework/Other Considerations:

We can ask the students to research other facts about Canada they think are interesting and ask them to record
an audio about what they have researched, and send it to the teacher.

Next class: Now that we know the difficulties students had during the listening practice and took notes of it, in
the next class we are going to work with these problems, trying to solve them with smallest and individual
activities. This specific example of class corresponds to the bottom-up approach.

References:
Listening in language learning. NUNAN, David

The changing face of listening. FIELD, John

Attachment(s):

Attachment 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQrTIC7T-mw

Questions about the video with the answers

1. What information about Canada is correct?

a) Canada is one of the world’s biggest and beautiful countries

b) Canada is one of the world's richest and most pet friendly countries
c) Canada is one of the world’s largest and most liveable countries
d) Canada is one of the world’s sustainable and most habitable countries

2. What are the Canadians people origins from?

a) Belgium and Portugal

b) Netherlands and England
c) Great Britain and Germany
d) France and Great Britain

3. What’s the general idea of the video?

a) Introduce Canadian markets, nature and job opportunities

b) Introduce Canadian history, geography and attractions
c) Introduce Canadian tourist attractions, food festivals and history
d) Introduce Canadian people, sustainable industries and local sports

4. How many people live in Canada?

a) Around thirty-four million people

b) Around fourteen million people
c) Around forty million people
d) Around forty-three million people

5. What are the biggest cities mentioned by the video?

a) Ottawa, Toronto and Quebec

b) Montreal, Halifax and Toronto
c) Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal
d) Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal

6. Canada has ten provinces and three territories with many attractions to visit? Choose true or false

● true
● false
● I have no idea

7. The horseshoe falls in Niagara falls in Ontario is…

a) one of the world’s most impressive and voluminous waterfalls

b) one of the world’s most impressive and freezing waterfalls
c) one of the world’s biggest and impressive waterfalls

8. How does the video describe Canada?

a) A country with comfortable lifestyle

b) A country with many blessings
c) A country with low temperatures
d) A country with polite people

9. More Canadians live in the countryside than live in the city limits?

● true
 ● false
● the video doesn’t say

Attachment 2 (extra activity): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCwuJzwVLik

Questions about the second video with the answers

1.What’s the general idea of the video?

a) introduce minorities languages in Canada

b) introduce French and English to beginners
c) introduce datas about Canada languages

2. Do you know the official languages? Write them below

_______________________________ (French and English)

3. How many languages are spoken in Canada?

a) more than a hundred languages

b) around one hundred and seventy languages
c) more than two hundred languages
d) around two hundred and seventy languages

4. What province has French as the majority language?

a) Manitoba
b) Ontario
c) Quebec
d) New Brunswick

5. What’s the percentage of Canadians who can talk in English or in French?

a) eighty-one percent
b) ninety-two percent
c) eighty-two percent
d) eighty-three percent

6. What’s the percentage of Canadians who speak English or French regularly at home?

a) ninety-five percent
b) eighty-three percent
c) ninety-one percent
 d) ninety-four percent

7. True or false? One in four Canadians have French as their mother tongue or the language spoken at home.

● true
● false
● the video doesn’t say

8. At the national level, what’s the majority language spoken?

● French
● English
● the video doesn’t say

9. What’s the purpose of the research of Statistics Canada presented in the video?

a) to know the number of foreign languages spoken in Canada

b) to know the main characteristics of the minority communities in Canada
c) to know the largest foreign community living in Canada

Attachment 3

Pre set questions on Kahoot with answers:

Questions Answers

1. What is the capital of Canada? Ottawa

2. What are the official languages of Canada? English and French

3. In what continent Canada is located? North America

4. What is the number of Canada's population Around thirty-nine (39) million people
these days?

5. What principal countries did colonize Canada? France and Great Britain

6. How many provinces are there in Canada? Ten (10) provinces

7. How many territories are there in Canada? Three (3) territories, composed by The Northwest
Territories, the Yukon and Nunavut

Attachment 4

Kahoot access link to share with the class:

https://create.kahoot.it/share/kahoot-para-avaliacao-formativa/aaca826c-291d-4054-b7a8-8ff76f835c5c
Attachment 5

General information about the structure of informative videos. It involves the metha generic language competence.

● It's an introduction to a new subject

● The structure is based on a sequence of facts about Canada
● It has a faster rhythm of speech - It's not as calm as a narrative
● The majority of verbs are spoken in the present time, like "Canada is...", "Canada has..."
● There is a song on the background
● It shows many short videos of the things they are talking about
● It presents some statistics information

Attachment 6

● Unspoiled - not damaged, ruined, like unspoiled forests

● Congenial - refers to the company you have, feelings of comfort
● Largest - something really big in size or amount
● Liveable - worth living, enjoyable, a good place to live in
● Cordial countries - friendly countries
● Major attractions - important, significant attractions
● Wildlife - native fauna, flora and animals
● Waterfalls - a cascade of water falling from a height
● Rockies - mountains in North America
● Wilderness area - an uncultivated, uninhabited area