1. Duration: 50 minutes

2. Target learners, institutional context, and level: 40 fifth-grade EFL Ss at a public school at a low beginner level. They are 11 to 13 years old and these are their very first two English classes they are attending.

3. Materials/Equipment/Technology components: textbook, flashcards, video (link), projector, laptop, speakers and blackboard.

4a. Terminal Objectives: Introduce themselves and others using verb to be, personal pronouns and demonstrative pronouns4b. Enabling Objectives: a) Introduce themselves as famous characters using the personal pronoun ‘I’ and the verb to be ‘am.’ b) Recall others’ famous character names. c) ask some information about a specific person

TimeProcedure

Type of technique or activity

Description of Procedure Materials needed

10 min Warm-up

1. T greets Ss and asks how they are doing. T tells Ss that today they will learn how to introduce themselves and others in English.

2. T gives each S a card with a famous character on it. T shows her card to the class and writes the sentence on the board: I am Wonder Woman/Superman. T practices the sentence with Ss

3. T explains that Ss will stand up one by one and introduce themselves as the famous character they got in the card they are holding.

4. Ss stand up one by one and introduce themselves as the famous character in their cards.

5. T writes the following sentences on the board: He/João is_____; She/Carla is_____. T practices with Ss and tells them that now they have to try to remember who was which character choosing a classmate and telling the sentence on the board.

6. Ss start trying to guess/remember who was which character and if they are right, they get the card from the person who they remembered/guessed correctly. The student with the biggest number of cards is the winner or the student with the best memory in the classroom.

-Flashcards-Blackboard

25 min Presentation7. T shows the video “Are you…? Nice to meet you?

8. T writes the prompt below on the board and rehearses with students as many times as he/she thinks it is necessary.- Are you______? - No! I’m_______.- Are you______? - Yes, I am. – Are you_____? – Yes, I am.- Nice to meet you! Nice to meet you too!

9. T shows the second part of the video in which the dialogue above and activity below is being performed. T gives each student a card and tells them: Now, you are the first character in the card you got. Do the same as in the video. Go around the room and find the second character using the dialogue on the board without showing your card.”

10. After finding their partners, Ss should sit down next to each other and introduce themselves again, but this time, with their real names.

11. T shows the fourth part of the video “Alternative/Optional ending #3” and practices it with Ss.

12. Then, each pair, one by one, stands up and introduces one another to the whole class by their real names saying: “This is____.”

-Blackboard-Laptop-Projector-Speakers-Flashcardvideo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEy9n2OrINo&feature=youtu.be

*If the T does not have Internet connection, the video can be downloaded from the following Google Drive folder:https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1w8eFXTWvoLU3JBd09kcnVqM0k/edit?usp=sharing

By Fernanda Gonçalves

10 min Practice

13. T asks Ss to open their textbooks to page 15 and answer exercise 1 in which they fill in the gaps in some balloons in order to introduce themselves to a new classmate. T asks Ss to turn to a classmate next to them and exchange books to see if they have done the same thing. If their answers are different, they should call their T who will give them some on-the-spot feedback

14. Following the conversation in the balloons, Ss answer exercise 2 in which they will introduce themselves to a classmate next to them.

15. Then, T asks Ss to find a partner, open their books to page 23 and Ss answer exercise 1 in which they fill in the gaps in the question and answer balloons.

16. T corrects on the blackboard.

- Textbook- Blackboard

5 min Homework17. Ss answer page 24/exercise 1 (exercise 2-3 can be used as a warm-up for next class)

*Optional online homework: - T tells Ss to log in on the ANVILL site, use the username hooray an password 1234hooray

- Once logged in, Ss do activities: “Nice to meet you” & “This is...”

Textbook

https://anvill.uoregon.edu/anvill7/

Reflection

In this lesson plan, I start by using flashcards of famous people, what I could call a kind of semi-realia material. Then, I use a video I recorded with some friends in which we perform an activity that demonstrates how Ss should introduce themselves. I can say that this video is also a semi-authentic material because although it has real people doing it, it had the purpose to be used in the classroom.

Then I give Ss some cards and I tell them they should find their partners. So, I used the cards to pair them. I also have Ss work in pairs again, but this time, they will do it with any S who is sitting next to him/her.

I believe this lesson plan, the semi-authentic materials and the pairing techniques I used are appropriate to the target Ss because they are real beginners, they are having their first English class and I have 40 fifth-grader Ss in the class. So, it would be very hard to use authentic material in class and it would also be very hard to group them into bigger groups. Thus, I think the choices I have made for this class meet my Ss’ needs.