First Lesson Plan

LESSON PLAN 1st

Name/Surname: Hilal ŞEN                                                                           

Institution/ Context of language teaching: Ahmet Bahadır İlhan Primary School

Material (Course-book or any other) Used: No course book was used. The activities were found and taken from https://en.islcollective.com/ and http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/ .

Lesson Focus: 40-minute-long integrated lesson plan (focused on grammar)

Learners’ previous knowledge: The students have basic grammar skills and vocabulary knowledge to be able to communicate. They know how to use and combine simple tense structures.

Learner profile (Age + Proficiency level/ Number of students): The students are elementary level students studying in the primary school. There are 18 students in the class aged 13-14.They all have so much to say and willing to participate and talk. However, their English proficiency may not be very high to produce well-structured sentences.

Anticipated problems & Remedies during Teaching:

* The students may not know some of the vocabulary items used in the activities, so teacher will briefly explain their meanings.

* Students may find it difficult to answer some questions. Teacher will provide them with assistance.

Aim/Goal of your lesson (1-2 goals):

By the end of the lesson, the students will develop and increase their competence in using the related grammar structures ‘’ must & must not ‘’ with the help of speaking, listening and writing activities.

Objectives of the lesson (2-4 objectives):

By the end of the lesson, the students will have/ students will be able to …

1.       To practice their listening skills through a video record integrated with the grammar topic.

2.       To analyze the target grammar structures through the PowerPoint presentation.

3.       To examine ‘’ must & must not ‘’ structures with the fill in the gap task.

4.       To produce meaningful sentences with the usage of related grammar structures playing a board game.

Lesson Plan (The Procedure)

Stage	Allocated Time	Procedure What do the teacher and the students do?	Aids	Interaction Pattern	Rationale & Justification
Warm-up	5’	After greeting the students, teacher informs the class about today’s topic. She tells that they are going to learn and talk about some rules that we have to obey in the school. Then, teacher wants the students give some examples and asks them about their school rules.		Whole class	Teacher decreases the tension of the classroom asking questions; thereby teacher attracts the students’ attention slowly and makes an introduction to topic.
Pre- Lesson	10’	After preparing the students into the lesson, teacher explains that they are going to watch a video about Kitty and Gran who talk about some school rules. While following the video, students are also supposed to answer true / false questions on the provided activity paper. Immediately after informing the students about watching a video, the teacher distributes the papers and wants the students to read the sentences once to make students familiar with the video context before watching it. Later, the teacher starts the video so that students can decide whether given sentences true or not. The students will be given one more chance to watch the video, and finally answers will be elicited.	Video  Task	Individual Work	This stage aims at students to get awareness of ‘’ must & must not ‘’ structures including an authentic material, video which is reflecting real life context and authentic language. Teacher tries to make students learn inductively through a video so as to help them use their cognitive skills and get more involved in the learning process rather than revealing the rules explicitly.
While- Lesson	15’	Teacher introduces the target grammar structures through PowerPoint presentation including some descriptive signs and sentences related to these signs about school rules. After the presentation, teacher distributes the fill in the gap task on which students should write ‘’ must or must not’’ according to given signs. When they finish the task within the instructed time, the teacher randomly selects a student so as to get the answer.	PPT, Worksheet	Whole Class Individual Work	This stage aims at students to get awareness of difference between the structures ‘’ must & must not ‘’ through signs and their messages based on the real life. Authenticity in a presentation would make student learning more permanent.  Students will be able to exercise individually what they have learnt, and thus teacher will be able to check whether students get the point or not.
Post- Lesson	10’	Afterwards, teacher tells that they are going to play a game. Students are required to be groups in three or pairs, and then teacher starts to explain the game. Teacher will distribute to each group a paper and there is a board covered with some actions that ‘’ must & must not’’ be done in a school or at home. Firstly, one of the group members should dice, and then count diced number on that board. Finally, they should look at the part they have counted and create a meaningful sentence using the target grammar structures.	Board game	Group Work	Students will have practiced related grammar structures with a game that make them enjoy and learn simultaneously.

            Contingency Plan (In case you finish early):

Students will listen to a song named ‘’ the show must go on by Queen ‘’. A paper on which lyrics of the song are available will be distributed to the learners, and thus students will have a chance to see the target grammar structures within a context once again. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t99KH0TR-J4

Homework if any:

No homework. 

POST-TEACHING SELF EVALUATION FORM

Please answer the following questions after you complete Final Teaching Task.

What were the strong aspects of your teaching? What are the points that you are happy with in your teaching experience?

At the end of the lesson, the comments that I received from both our mentor and students made me very happy because it was clear that they could comprehend the target grammar structure very well. They said to their teacher that we learned ‘’ must ‘’ and now we could do these exercise that was distributed by their teacher. Getting such a positive feedback from the learners was the strongest side of my teaching experience.

If you had a chance to re-do the Teaching Task, what are the things you would change? What were the aspects of the activity or your teaching that could be/need to be re-designed if you had a second chance?

I would not change anything because the stages went very smoothly while I was teaching and students could achieve effective learning at the end of the lesson.

What are some of the issues mentioned in your mentor’s feedback? How do you respond to these comments?

Mentor teacher told me that I was good and successful. In addition, he told that students could understand the topic and participate in the class very actively. The only advice that he made was that I should give a chance to one of the students to explain something like a vocabulary or a question to the rest of the class by providing enough time for the learners. Actually, I believe that I tried to use such a strategy sometimes.

A KEY OF HEALTHY LIFE

Some do it while listening to music,some do it while watching TV,others do it in the privacy of their own homes,others in gyms.For some they do it in the morning,others at night.No matter where or when,Many people all over the world do it and this is exercise.However,unfortunately,in the rush of modern life,some fail to make room in their lives for exercising.But,this healthy habits offer such great benefits that regular exercise needs to be in everyone’s daily routines.

  When a person exercises long and hard enough,the heart pumps faster and blood is circulated well throughout the body.Since the heart is a muscle,exercise serves to strengthen it.As the heart becomes stronger,a person’s stamina improves,as well as her energy level.The same is true for the lungs.It doesn’t take long to get these benefits.A person can get such results within a few weeks just by walking at a rapid pace for 30 minutes three or four times a week.

  Another physical benefit of regular exercise is skeletal fitness.It takes longer to achieve,but it is well worth to the effect,particularly for women.Exercise can help prevent osteoporosis.Osteoporosis is a gradual process of loss of bone mass that occurs naturally as people age,but it can be halted by regular exercise.

  It can also help people improve their emotional fitness.As fort he advantages,exercise reduces stres.It does this in different ways.Exercise makes a person more capable of handling stres because he/she is less tense.Another way that exercise helps people handle stres is that after sufficient exercise,the body produces natural stres-relieving chemicals.In addition to helping people cope with stress,exercise can also help alleviate depression.

  A regular exercise not only helps one’s most vital systems function properly,but also helps maintain emotional balance.It doesn’t require much time or effort to become a healthier person as all these changes can be observed within weeks.Instead of watching TV so much and engaging in the internet so much,people would be beter of cycling or walking in order to lead a healthier life.

  This cartoon reflects the main idea which i want to explain.It teaches us very important thing.It is very suitable fort his writing.Exercise is the main key of a healthy life.You should keep this key with you always.

HAVING A HEALTHY LIFE

  Almost everyone has a goal in their lives to be healthy.Altough we know the importance of this,many of us make choices which will affect our lives in an unhealthy way.While we are determining our priorities,we show priority to the things which will give us pleasure.Few people do some changes in the name of healthy life.However;All the people should do something about this because we all know that we are having some health problems as the time progresses.But,we can reduce these problems by taking some precautions to have a healthy life. What is the meaning of being healthy?

   *One of the conditions to have a healthy life is not using alcohol.Alcohol weakens the ability of deciding,vision and the control of muscles.

   *You should have regular check-up.Realizing the health problems before they appear is an important strategy in terms of living well and long.

   *You should consume healthy foods.Proper nutrition prevents diseases and it makes the recovering stage from an ilness faster.You should choose nourishing foods that are necessary for functioning of your bones,organs and tissues.

   *You should consume about 2 liters of water.Consuming water provides functioning of you metabolism fast and it clears your body from unnecessary substances.Water is for healthy life.

   *One of the key strategies is also avoiding from drugs,using medicines at a dose and not using tobacco products.

   *You should have a good sleep pattern.Sleeping keeps the body strong and keeps your mind awake.

   *You should pay attention to your weight because weight is the source of many diseases.

   *Positive thinking is one of the important steps on the way of healthy life.You should direct your power of thought to the positive subjects.

   *The other advice is that you remove the stres from your lives.

   *And finally,i think it is the most important thing we should do.This is doing exercise.It is an indispensable element of a healtyh life style.It strengthens your muscles and your heart,increases the stamina,regulates the sleeping and more…In addition to its physical benefits,it improves your mood,removes the stres,increases mental alertness.By changing our physical apperances,it strengthens our self-esteem and self confidence.

  I wanted to mention about this subject  because i think that many people including me go on a wrong way at this subject.This started at me when i came here.While i was living at my home,there were always home-made and healthy foods.I was always trying to do exercise regularly.I used to go walking at beach,i used to go swimming very often,i used to be a member of a gym.But now,i can’t do any of these things.My life style has changed.As i have said at first,we all have the knowledge of being a healthy man but there are always being obstacles which cause us to postpone to be a healthy person.Our lives are your areas of resposibilities and we owe this responsibility to our lives.We should know the value of ourselves.

SENTENCE CORRECTING

SENTENCE CORRECTING

In this Picture mom says the true but dad is so engaged in the TV that i think he couldn’t catch what his wife said.When people watch TV,they can’t think logically and they want not to be disturbed by anyone or anything.But,what the mother says is completely true.TV has a negative effect on children as well as its negative effect on the communication within a family.TV broadcasts that support violence make a negative effect on children.It can cause children to have a bad relationship with their family members.They experience some problems with their teachers and friends.They are being an unwanted child because of their rude manners.They have difficulty in understanding positive concepts.Children who grow up in front of TVs will always remain incomplete in terms of socialization and psychological.It will affect their language development.It can be a reason for being a fat child.It is killing reading ability.It is a reason for loss of energy.

  To prevent these,you should be the model of a behaviour which you want to see at your child.Children’s acts of violance which can be seen innocent shouldn’t be ignored just saying that they are children.You can show positive images and messages to your child on TV.What the children watch should be under the control of mother and father.TV broadcasts which promote violance should be limited by mom and dad.You shouldn’t use the TV as a babysitter.

  TV is an indispensable device,it is enjoyable to spend time with TV but when it is uncontrolled.It can create bad results.When i was child,i used to watch much TV.This was affecting me in many ways.I didn’t use to do my homeworks,when i came home i used to open TV immediately.I used to sit in front of  TV for hours so i was always at home and i didn’t use to go outside to play with my friends.This caused met o be a lonely child.My family used to try to dissuade me from watching so much TV but i was always finding a way.TV is a device which should be taken into consideration otherwise it can affect even the children’s futures.

IS IT CONSTRUCTIVE OR DESTRUCTING?

  When TV was first introduced ,it was thought that this new invention would better life and TV was going to bring families closer together.But,nobody could have seen the sad Picture,which prevail almost all homes all over the world today.

  TV has certainly influenced the activities of family members,especially limiting family outings As families today sechedule their lives around the TV only,when there is a special occasion,which requires every family member to attend ,there is always someone in the family who doesn’t want to go.They generally tell the same complaint,’’i will miss my program’’.Afraid of missin geven one episode of their favorite program,they sacrifice the valuable time which they would otherwise spend together with their family.Another reason why TV is favored over family outings isthat it provides a variety of entertainment programs,which in return make family members house-bound.For example,technology made it possible to watch a live concert comfortably at home or watch a very recent movie.They would rather stay at home than go out because all this entertainment is free of charge.

  Perhaps more important than the lack of family outings is the destruction of family time together at home.TV leaves little time for traditions that used to be formed during long evenings together.In addition to the loss of traditions ,TV  has decreased quality time spent together.When all the family members at home,they don’t bother to communicate with each other because they are mostly busy with watching their favorite shows even they are eating meals.Therefore,they miss the opportunity to use time talking,discussing.Another example to the decrease in quality time is that mothers use TV as a babysitter.They leave their small children spend countless hours in front of the TV instead of playing with them,which would be more valuable.

  TV has stolen the valuable time families spend outside and at home.If parents and children don’t change their priorities,TV will continue to exert its influence on family life.For example,while i am talking with may dad,he may not be listening to me if he is watching me.This situation irritates me .You have to tell all the things once again.But,to solve all these problems which i have mentioned i can’t find anything to say.TV is a dominant character in our world.