English 4 lab. Lesson presentation - Serena Conti

English 4 Lab. - by Serena Conti

What a wonderful question!

A Lesson on the WH Questions

A class of 18 students, three of them have foreign cultural origins, but after three years of scholarization the level is more uniform. There are some students with difficulties in respecting rules and manteining a correct behavior

CLASS PROFILE:

3 rd Year Primary School

CLASS:

To give the students controlled and guided situation of speaking;To enhance some vocabulary (as the days of the week)

LESSON SUBAIMs

LESSON MAIN AIM:

Knowledge and use in spoken language of 2/3 of the "WH" questions to ask for information

• Paying attention at the composition of the groups in order to combine students which could be a positive model for other classmates

• Claryifing rules before starting the activities

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• Trying to help students understand with illustrations (pointing during the reading) and with mimic and expressions

• Difficulties in respecting assignments and rules, especially during group activities and outdoors.

• Difficulties in comprehending the story read only in English, without a literal translation.

ANTICIPATED

PROBLEMS

SOLUTIONS

• Digitalboard,
• Flashcards, and prize cards or stickers,
• Objects for the treasure hunt like plastic animals or fruits,
• Papers where is drawn the garden map,
• Pencils

Knoledge of some vocabulary, as the days of the week, and of some objects we will mention in the activities

The lesson starts with a story of a mole that provides a background for the activities

MATERIALS AND EQUIPEMENTS

ASSUMPTIONS

CONTEXT:

MOLE IN THE HOLE

This activity involves the whole class;The teacher will show on the digitalboard the map of the story and ask the class "WHERE IS .... ?" (mentioning a place of the story). Then the teacher will call at the digitalboard one of the students to click on the map the place he thinks is the right answer... We instantly go at a new page where the students could dig like the mole did and find something... and the teacher will ask him "WHAT have you found?" and then the pupil will try to answer.

ACTIVITY 0NE:

Play

FINDING A PLACE TO DIG

WHERE IS THE TREASURE ?

ACTIVITY TWO:

This activity is a game that involves the whole class. Students have to sit in a circle on the ground. One of them will go out of the classroom, and everyone who stays in will hold a flashcard and hide it under his bottom. Only one of them will hide the prize card or sticker.

Then, we call back the student who went outside. He can ask three classmates, "Where is the treasure?" and each one can give a true or false answer. Then, the student must try and guess, by choosing one of the classmates. Then he has to ask him, "What did I find?": and the chosen friend will stand up and show his card. If it is the prize, the player has won and can take the prize. However he will take the classmate's sitting place for another round of the game, and so on, until everyone has played as the treasure finder.

THE TREASURE MAP

ACTIVITY THREE:

For this third activity the teacher will divide the class into groups of 4/5 students.Each group has a paper map of the place (the garden, the gim or the class) where there are drawn the main reference points, for examples a big tree, the slide, the little house etc... Previously theacher has hidden some objects that students have to find, but this isn't the only task, they alsohave to sign on their map what they have found and where.

THE TREASURE MAP

ACTIVITY THREE:

For this third activity the teacher will divide the class into groups of 4/5 students.Each group has a paper map of the place (the garden, the gim or the class) where there are drawn the main reference points, for examples a big tree, the slide, the little house etc... Previously theacher has hidden some objects that students have to find, but this isn't the only task, they also have to write on their map what they have found and where.

At the end everyone will receive the treasure hunter sticker for the good work done!

When they have collected them all we can go back in class.Then all togheter we will make the "TREASURE MAP" proceeding in this way: each student in turn will be the cartographer and he will ask another group "WHAT have you found?" and "WHERE did you find it?" in order to draw the object on the map, until the map will be complete.

THE END

DINOSAUR PARK