Attendance Board.
Aimed to: Children from elementary school
Objective: To get the attention and participation of Students during the pass list in every class in a funny and creative way.
Activity: Teacher will pass the list in the order of the attendance board and each student will have to say present or here when they listen to their names.
Time: 5-7 minutes approximately
Resources and tools: A handcrafted attendance board.
Description: An attendance board made from craft paper and divided into the four ancient elements: fire, water, air and earth with five lines in each element to arrange the space for 20 students as maximum. The idea of the attendance board was taken and learnt from teaching children.
Weather board
Aimed to: Children from elementary school
Objective: To highlight the current weather conditions in the sky during the class and practice the vocabulary of weather.
Activity: One student, chosen for the teacher, has to go out of the classroom and look up at the sky to tell what the weather looks like.
Time: 3-5 minutes approximately
Resources and tools: A handcrafted weather board.
Description: An weather board made from craft materials showing the most common weather vocabulary. this idea was taken from teaching children.
Nintendo Switch Device simulator.
Aimed to: Children from elementary school
Objective: To familiarize the children with videogames consoles as part of one of the characteristics from 21st century skills.
Activity: Students can choose to get sea animals from the board by winning a classroom game, the team with more animals wins at the end of the lessons.
Time: 3 -5 minutes
Resources and tools: a handcrafted Nintendo switch board, 8 small flashcards.
Description: A nintendo switch device made from cardboard with aquatic design. Designed to catch the attention of children with something colorful.
Contains 8 sea animals in a small version of the common flashcards in order to get one by one during the lessons. It was designed taking into account the naturalistic intelligence proposed by Gardner, the visual learning style, the 14th sustainable development goal: life below water and some gamification characteristics.
Crossword.
Aimed to: Children from elementary school
Objective: To practice the vocabulary of sea animals in English
Activity: Students will write the words in the crosswords according to the numbered images of sea animals.
Time: 5-10 minutes approximately
Resources and tools: Crossword worksheet.
Description: A crossword worksheet gets from the web, photocopied and delivered to each student.
Flashcards.
Aimed to: Children from elementary school
objective: To teach the vocabulary from sea animals with the aid of 15 flashcards.
activity: Games such as memory, twister, guessing game, hangman, tip tap toe.
time: 10-15 minutes approximately
Resources and tools: 15 flashcards of sea animals
Description: Flashcards are priceless resources to teach children, so in order to teach vocabulary in an easy and fun way, the teacher will show 15 flashcards and play different games to practice these words in some lessons.
Test.
Aimed to: Children from elementary school
objective: To test the knowledge and progress of every student.
Activity: An exam applied after the fourth lesson.
Time: 60 minutes
Resources and tools: A photocopied test of 2 pages.
Description: A test with 3 questions about personal information, 10 sea animals for writing below the images and the numbers from 1 to 10 for matching.
Lesson plan 1
activity: warm-up | T will greet Ss while they sit in their chairs, then T will ask Ss to stand up and make a semicircle, T will play a song called”if you’re happy and you know it” and Ss will have to do the same movements that T will do.
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Presentation | T will ask the names of each Ss and what are their expectations of these english lessons, after that T will introduce himself to the class | 5-7 mins |
Attendance board | T wil give little pieces of paper with the words of the ancient four elements: water, fire, air and earth. Ss will have to write their names in the attendance board according to these papers and T will explain the procedure of the attendance board. | 7-10 mins |
Weather board | T will teach vocabulary related to weather states, then will ask Ss to go out of the classroom and look up at the sky to identify the current weather. T will practice the pronunciation and will explain the procedure of the weather board. | 5-7 mins |
Presentation | T will draw on the whiteboard a man and will write his name under it. then T will write his hometown and age and will ask the Ss if they can guess which questions are related to these words. T will write the questions: what is your name?, where are you from? and How old are you? next to the answers. Ss will have to write these in their notebooks. T will practice the pronunciation and will choose randomly 3 Ss to repeat the questions. |
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Practice | T will ask Ss to do a chart in their notebooks with four columns and write the three questions in the first column, then Ss will have to ask the questions to three classmates orally and write the answers | 7-10 mins |
production | T will ask Ss to work with couples and they will have to create a little conversation with the questions learnt and then T will choose three couples and they will pass in front of the class to share the conversation. | 7-10 |
Homework | T will write the homework on the whiteboard, Ss will have to study the questions learnt that day. | 5-7 |
lesson plan 2.
Warm-up | T will give the lyrics from a song called “the ants go marching” by super simple song, then T will play the song once and Ss will have to listen, T will play the song twice and Ss will have to sing aloud. | 5-7 mins |
Presentation | T will present the numbers from 1 to 10 in english by writing on the whiteboard, then T will ask Ss to repeat after him the words. T will ask Ss to identify the numbers in the previous lyrics given. | 7-10 mins |
Practice | T will write the numbers on the board in one column and in other the symbols of numbers, ten Ss will have to pass and match the meaning with the numbers | 5-7 mins |
Practice | T will ask Ss to write in their notebooks the numbers from 1 to 10 in order, then T will ask individually the numbers from 1 to 10. | 5-7 mins |
Presentation (brainstorming) | T will ask Ss if they knew which kind of animals live in the sea and what animals they have ever seen. T will show 15 flashcards of sea animals one by one and will teach the pronunciation. then T will ask Ss to repeat the words after him. | 7-10 mins |
Nintendo switch board | T will show the Nintendo switch board where there will be some sea animals from the flashcards and will explain the procedure of the game called save the animals where Ss will have the chance of get an animal each time they win a classroom game. | 5-7 mins |
Practice | T will ask Ss to draw in their notebooks these 15 animals and write their names in English,then T will show only the vocabulary and Ss have to guess which animal is on the other side of the flashcard. | 7-10 mins |
practice | T will draw some sea animals on the board and Ss will have to participate and write the name of the animal on the board. | 7-10 mins |
homework | T will write the homework on the board: Ss will have to study the sea animals vocabulary and the numbers. | 5-7 mins |
Lesson plan 3.
Warm-up | T will ask Ss to stand up and make a semicircle, T will play a song called “ a ram sam sam dance” from the learning station and Ss will have to do the movements of the song. it could be played twice. | 5-7 mins |
Brainstorming | T will ask Ss if they knew something about water care at home and the uses of water in daily life. T will give a brief information about water care. | 7-10 mins |
Presentation | T will play a cartoon from UNESCO on his computer about water care and after this video Ss will have to talk about what they learnt and understood. | 7-10 mins |
memory game | T will ask Ss to sit together in teams according to their names displayed in the attendance board. First water team will play against the fire team, second air team versus earth team. T will explain That each team will have the chance to turn in a flashcard and a word for matching in a memory game. Ss will start with 4 flashcards, then 6, 8, 10 until reach the 15 flashcards in the game. | 10-20 mins |
Hangman game | T will make some lines on the board and Ss will have to guess letter by letter which animal is on the board. Each time they give a wrong letter T will draw a part of the body of a hangman. They can work in teams for example water and fire teams together versus air and earth teams. | 7-10 mins |
Homework | T will write the homework on the board, study the questions, numbers and animals vocabulary for the next week because it will be a test. |
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Lesson plan 4
warm-up | T will ask Ss to stand up and then T will play a song called “lagoon monster” from canticuenticos. Ss will have to sing and do the mimics fromm the song | 5-7 mins |
Presentation | T will present the vocabulary from 7 animals: cat, dog, mouse, bird, fish, butterfly. Ss will have to repeat after T the words and write in their notebooks. | 7-10 mins |
Mimic game | T will ask Ss to sit in teams for playing a game. T will ask for a participant and the participant will have to do mimics from an animal given by T, his/her team will have to guess which animal is. | 7-10 mins |
Test | T will give each Ss a test of English to evaluate their knowledge and the vocabulary learnt in the past classes. | 60 mins |
