Beginning Descriptions

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Beginning Descriptions By Leah Amber
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The School Rambam School Haifa Mamlachti Dati
The class Fourth grade Mixed ability 26 girls
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Beginning Descriptions Based on Unit 1 Sam and
Ann (Freddys World Plus)
Sub-Topics The Family Body Parts Adjectives Feelin
gs
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Why this Topic? Class teacher on maternity leave
- had left material that she wanted
covered. Interesting topic and great sub-topics.
Good way to get to know the students e.g. The
family. I hoped the topic would be meaningful
to the students. Could act as a good
ice-breaker talking about sub-topics that the
students are familiar with. Not enough focus on
speaking English in the classroom. I felt that
this topic would be very effective to begin to
develop some fundamental language structures.
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• Lesson Plan 2
• Grade 4th Level Foundation, Stage 1
• Topic Beginning Descriptions Facial Parts
• Domain (s) Social Interaction Appreciation of
  Language
• Purpose of Lesson (General Aims)
• To introduce Facial parts, reinforce vocabulary
  and begin to use descriptive language
• Lesson Benchmarks
• Social Interaction
• Interact for purposes such as giving
  instructions, making requests, greeting people.
• Engage in short conversations.
• Ask and answer simple questions about familiar
  topics and everyday situations.
• Appreciation of Language
• know how word order, sound and writing systems
  in English are organized, and how these elements
  compare with their mother tongue

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Assumed Previous Knowledge Ability to read
simple words and texts. Members of the family
in English. Conversation structure This is.
Colours in English
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Materials Pictures of the family Pictures
of the body parts Vocabulary words Visual
aids Freddy's World Course book Freddy's
World Workbook Freddys World Teacher's Guide
Freddy's World Disc Tape recorder White
board White board markers
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• Anticipated Problems and Solutions
• I am concerned that some students may have
  difficulty with the workbook tasks and may become
  disruptive. I will try to explain the
  activities before they start. Hopefully it will
  help the weaker learners.
• Last lesson, students were playing with all
  sorts of things on their desks I will ask them
  to put everything away, other that the things
  they need for the English lesson.
• Some students did not complete their homework.
  I will tell them that I am planning on marking
  their workbook and that the marks will be going
  towards their grade.

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• Activities and time (approximate)
• First 5 minutes used to settle the class.
• Introduction (15 mins)
• Review vocabulary learned last lesson - Place
  pictures of family members on the board. Ask the
  students, "Who is this?" Students to answer,
  "This is the sister". (5 mins)
• Introduce body parts hold up pictures one at a
  time. Students to repeat after teacher. Stick
  each of the pictures on the board.
• Hold up vocabulary cards. Students to call out
  what it says. Ask for a volunteer to stick it
  under the correct picture. (5 mins)
• Ask students to open their books to page 20.
  Listen to the song "Head, shoulders, knees and
  toes". (5 mins)

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Body (20 mins) Take out visual aids 2
heads, hair, eyes, noses, mouths. Hold each one
up. Students to call out what they are. Ask
for 2 volunteers. Ask each one to choose a head.
Now say, "Please choose hair", Children choose
hair for each head. Continue for all the parts of
the face. Model how to describe the person,
e.g. This is a boy. He has brown hair and blue
eyes. Ask for a volunteer to describe the
other person. Ask for 2 more volunteers. Do as
above. (10 mins) Ask students to open their
Workbooks to page 34. Students to complete
pages 34 and 35. (10 mins) Conclusion (5
mins) Sing the song "Head, shoulders, knees
and toes" again.
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Homework Complete workbook activities not
completed in class. Remember to tell them the
work will go towards their grade. Extension
activity Meitzav vocabulary worksheet Body
parts worksheet Assessment Teacher
observation of student participation during oral
presentations , paying attention to correct
sentence formation and pronunciation and
assessing use of vocabulary words learned in the
lesson Check homework reinforces vocabulary
covered in the lesson.
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• Reflection
• They really enjoyed the "Build a person"
  activity. They all wanted to have a turn, but I
  told them that we will keep on using it and that
  more students will get a turn next time. As it is
  a class of girls most of them did not want to
  make a boy. I do not think this is important as
  long as they are speaking and using the required
  vocabulary and functional language.
• Workbook activities are sometimes difficult as
  so many students need your help all at the same
  time. Next time, I will try to explain the
  workbook activity in more detail, before getting
  them to open their workbooks.
• Many of the weaker students started doing other
  things during the workbook activity. I will try
  to group them next time so that I can help them
  all at the same time.
• It is a good idea to write the workbook
  activity pages on the board. That way, I do not
  have to repeat it so many times, I can simply
  point to the board.

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Overall Reflection Overall, this was a great
unit. The students seemed to have a good time.
They were mostly engaged in the activities and
had a good grasp of the material that was
taught. It is extremely difficult to work in a
class with so many varying abilities. There
always seem to be students who fall through the
cracks, either the more advanced students or the
students that are struggling. I attempted to
bring in a number of unusual and exciting
activates to cater to the more advanced students.
This did help for the most part. As far as the
struggling students, some liked to sit together
as a group, but others felt uncomfortable.
Visual aids definitely help to keep the students
on task and engaged. I tried to incorporate
"Gardner's Multiple Intelligences" whenever
possible in an attempt to keep as many students
engaged and on task as possible. This was very
effective, as it not only kept students on task,
but also helped to keep activities varied and
interesting. It also ensured that the lesson had
pace and momentum.
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Work Samples
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