Lesson Plan T/T Adults: March 2, 2010 (I have once again lost a lesson plan: the final one for March 4, which was a pretty good and lively class.)

Supplies: Lesson plan, book, CD, computer, church picture, basta stuff, philosophy game

Setup: Write agenda. Write i and ee. 2-column grid: name & Mexican music (Jaime, Nahum, Armando, Daniel, Alexis, Roberto, Illaly)

Agenda Summary: Unit 71, exercises 1 through 3 and some exercises that enhance what the text covers and also works on some speaking/pronunciation.

Last week’s HW: Write an idea for one short activity or topic you’d like to do in the last. class. AND: Bring in yr fave Mexican song: name/artist, or song itself.

Greetings Ideas? Book p 132 (52?), #1 and #2 Mexican music Book p 132 (52?), #3 Your ideas V&F Arrow Find your partner Describe the Picture The Letter

Time	Activity	Teacher	Students	Objectives
7:00	Greetings	Review agenda.	Tell me one new thing since I saw you last.	Warmup
7:10	Book p 132 (52?) #1	Assign partners	Answer checklist
7:15	Book p 132 (52?) #2	Play tape.	Listen and talk to partner. Two sets come to front and say what they learned.
7:30	Mexican Music:	Ask: what was your favorite Mexican music that you brought. Write on board.	Choral: get volunteers to compare selves to others.	Work more with comparing your likes & dislikes with others
7:40	Book p 132 (52?) #3	2. Get them to tell me the difference between the four illustrated forms. 4. Get a discussion going using their statements.	1. Study the grid. 3. Write four of your own sentences: one of each kind.	Expand on textbook.
8:00	Your ideas	All stand.	Write homework ideas on board
8:15	V & F	Remember last week’s sound? Review. Explain difference between f and v. For [f], put your top teeth onto your bottom lip, and make a sound exactly like [v] except voiceless. Hands on throats.	Practice
8:20	Arrow	Context. Read through first. Look at colored words. Questions? Then play.	Listen for V & F.
8:35	Find your V partner	Hand out cards with words to match	Find your partner. Come up as pairs and pronounce word sets.	Key pronunciation distinction
8:40	Describe the picture	Guide questions to focus on target forms: to, in, at; present participle form	One person come to board. Others look at and describe drawing.	Vocab, comprehension, prepositions, participles
8:50	Homework: The Letter

IF TIME

In My Opinion	Describe scenario, get feedback, and modify scenario	Express opinion and reason	Why… because
Stress	Word stress very important in English. Can totally change meaning of sentence. Elicit sentence or use and write: She knows how to play the guitar.	Discuss meanings.	Intro to intonation.
BASTA

And here is the homework I gave them, but only four of 7 filled it out and gave it back:

____________________ ______, 2010

Dear Ginna,

I (can) (can’t) believe our six weeks together are almost over. It seems like (shorter) (longer)! I’m writing to give you my honest thoughts about what we did in class.

My favorite activities were _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________. I liked them because ________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________. I didn’t like when we ________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________. I didn’t like it much because ____________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________.

I think that we covered material in class (too quickly) (too slowly) (just right). I wish we’d had more time to study __________________________________________________________, but I’m glad I got to learn ________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________.

What I’ll remember most about this class is_______________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Sincerely

__________________________________________________________________________

Age (optional but helpful): ____________________________________________