Sunday, July 17, 2011

Technology Enhanced Lesson Plan

The University of Tennessee has developed a Basic Model for Lesson Plans that every teacher follows in every class.
Here is what I worked with one of my classes and I am glad to share that.


Unit Name:

Coping with Technology


Lesson Title:
Express Frustration about a Machine

Lesson Author:
Dalton Mendoza Alayo

Grade Level / Subject Area:
Basic Two Level Students

Time allotted for lesson:
One session - 60 minutes

Short Description of Lesson:
The lesson aims to develop vocabulary awareness on the students to express frustration for a bad working machine or even express sympathy to a friend with a technology problem.

Classroom layout:
A 12 students class sitting down on horseshoe shape desks.

State Curriculum Standards:

  • K.R.12 Recognize cause and effect, problem and solution and distinguish fact from opinion in text and use text for support.
  • K.R.13 Identify patterns and style in text, such as rhyming and repetition.
  • K.L.3 Understand basic structure of spoken language.
  • K.L.6 Demonstrate use of various strategies to construct meaning (e.g. context, nonverbal clues, prior knowledge).
  • K.L.7 Understand common expressions and vocabulary related to school social interaction. (e.g. school social interaction).
  • K.L.9 Demonstrate comprehension of spoken language through drawing conclusions, making generalizations, making predictions, etc.
  • K.S.7 Use logically connected language and discuss implied meanings.

NETS•S (2007) Performance Indicators:
  • Demonstrate creativity and innovation.
  • Communicate and collaborate.
  • Think critically, solve problems, and make decisions.

Instructional objectives:
Students (Audience) will be able to express feelings of frustration for a bad-working machine and show sympathy to a friend that faces similar problem (Behaviour), using the vocabulary learnt (Condition) grading the sympathy expressions according to the problem-gravity (Degree).

Materials, resources and technology:
  • Materials. Student book (Top Notch 1 Unit 4 Lesson 2), whiteboard, markers in colors blue and black.
  • Resources.Panel with Basic Classroom Language.
  • Technology.Power Point Presentation, Digital pictures of Electronics, CD Audio with vocabulary and conversation models, Mimio Digital Whiteboard, Overhead Multimedia Projector.

Prerequisite skills:
Proper use of Present Continuous Tense for actions in progress

Instructional Procedures:
- Tell the students the objective they are to achieve at the end of the class.
- Show a slide with a computer and ask students whether they have a computer at home.
- Ask Students to mention other electronics the have.

- Show the students the book picture on page 44, with the man expressing a bad feeling about an electronic device he holds no his hand, and ask them to predict what they think the conversation is going to be about.- Play the audio CD on track number 8.
- After listening ask some comprehension questions: what are the names of the two men in the conversation?, what are they doing?, what is Ed holding on his hand?, what brand is the cd player?, is there any problem with
the CD player?, what is the problem with the cd player?, is Ed happy?, what did he say that makes you think He is not happy?, does Louis feel happy for it?, what did He say?
- Play the audio cd and make students repeat the conversation in the pauses, pating attention to phonetic, rithm and intonation.

- Show students some ways to show sympathy and frustration for feelings about machine problems.
- Move to vocabulary activity by showing electronic devices with their
names and make students listen and practice the vocabulary.
- Ask students comprehension question by giving them uses for the electronics vocabulary practiced in disorder and making them tell the teacher what electronic he is refering to.

- Make students complete the sentences in activity letter B.
- Play the audio cd and make students identify the electronic device people in the audio are talking about. Repeat if necessary.
- Ask students to personalize in pairs the use of the vocabulary learnt in a conversation to express regret and sympathy for a machine problem.
- Make students role-play their conversation out loud to the class.
- Ask the class some comprehension questions as the inicial conversation model.
- Make students summarize what they learnt in class.

Assessment/Evaluation:
According to the Lesson Objective, students English Performance is going to be evaluated in the rate of proper responses for facing electronic machines problems.

3 comments:

  1. Language Learning that includes activities that face real life situation like expressing feelings as frustration, motivates students to assume an active role in the process. I really like your Lesson Plan, congrats!

    Boris

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  2. Thank you Boris. I hope it helps.

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