what would you change?

LESSON PLAN: WHAT WOULD YOU CHANGE?

Núria López SecunzaJudith Zorrilla Sainz

Literatura Inglesa3º Magisterio Especialidad Lengua

Extranjera

• Age: Lower Secondary, 4th Grade.

• Level of English: B1-B2.

• Teaching context: English language learning class.

• Type of literary text: •Prose (fiction/fantastic story).•Complete, original and written text.

•Trailer and original film with Spanish subtitles.

OBJETIVESGeneral objectives:

The students will be able to…

• Improve reading and comprehension skills.

• Improve their communicative skills.

• Adquire spontaneity and self-confidence.

Literary objectives:

The students will be able to…

• Start to introduce themselves into English literature.

• Learn the topics Roal Dahl wrote about.

OBJETIVES

Linguistic objectives:The students will be able to…

• Review of grammar (verb tenses and conditionals) and expressions.

• Increase their vocabulary.

• Improve their productive and receptive skills.

•Improve their literary reading comprehension.

Cross-curricular objectives:The students will be able to…

• Raise the world problems awareness.

• Respect other points of view.

• Take self-confidence.

•Trust in the fact that effort, cooperation and willpower mixed with imagination can change things.

METHODOLOGY

• It is focused on a language, an inductive and a contextual approach.

• Contextualized review.

• Extensive and outside class reading.

METHODOLOGY

• The classes are going to be developed always in the target language.

• Communicative dramatization.

• It will be approach to develop creativity.

• We will present it using different formats (visual, read,audio…) associated to an emotion.

TIME SPAN

• The reading will last the whole 3rd term.

• The chapters’ reading time will be divided per week.

ACTIVITIES

• Pre-reading activities.

1. The author and the topics he writes about.

1. Tittle page.

ACTIVITIES

1. Trailer (English version without subtitles).

4. Vocabulary.• Chapter 1: Stinker (apestoso), surface (superficie),

wonder(preguntarse), stove (hornillo)• Chapter 2: Sawdust (serrín), drill (torno), gearbox

(caja de cambios)

5. Film.

ACTIVITIES

• While reading activities.

1. Description of each chapter to among classmates.

1. Quiz

ACTIVITIES

• After reading activities:

1. “Powers” activity.

1. Dramatized dialogue.

1. Comment about the values theme.

SESSIONS

During reading sessions…

• Book reading: the whole term divided by chapters per week (pre and while reading activities)

• 1st session: – information (author and themes).– tittle page.– helping vocabulary.– trailer.

• 2nd and 3th sessions: film with English subtitles.

SESSIONS

• 4th session: – Choose in pairs a “power” to change the world with. – Write individually a past, conditional and future sentences. – Explain them the next session.

• 5th, 6th and 7th session: presentations (dramatized dialogue as “world politicians”). – Teacher role.– On the blackboard: 3 columns with each type of sentences.

The others copy it.

• 8th session: global values comment.

ASSESMENT OF OBJETIVES

• To understand a whole text plot.

• To use correctly verb tenses and conditionals.

• To be able to express themselves in spoken English.

• To analize and reflect about the values mentioned before.

SELF- ASSESSMENT.SELF-ASSESSMENT

EVALUATION OF THE ACTIVITY

• We have not carried it out in a real context but we think that is an innovative approach to deal with this activity.

THE END

THANK YOU ALL!We expect you have enjoyed it!

Núria López Secunza.Judith Zorrilla Sainz.