LESSON PLANS OF MY COLLEAGUES

One of my colleagues, Meral, prepared and applied very good lesson plans in our internship. The students were different from mine. They were 12-13 years old and false pre-intermediate.
This link includes : a lesson plan for

• REPORTED COMMANDS
• PASSIVE VOICE 
• USED TO
• NOUN CLAUSES
• PRESENT PERFECT- SIMPLE PAST

Gizem created nice lesson plans :

The last colleague is Ozge.  Her class level was different than us. Here are her enjoyable lesson plans:

Comparatives and Superlatives Lesson Plan

I prepared a lesson for comparatives and superlatives.  The students enjoyed a lot.  However, for the last post activity, I was able to apply just first 4 exercises.  Therefore, you can make shorter if you want to use it in your lesson.

Here is my lesson plan :




To see my lesson more clear, I can show you some pictures which I prepared for this lesson.
These are warm-up and presentation (while teaching)stages.  First, I made the students remember the pictures or define them.  I asked " what do you see in the picture, what are they doing? where? which one goes faster? which one is prettier etc...".  I got the answers and wrote the full sentences on the left of the pictures with the students, together.  Pictures were on the center of the board.  I made the students aware of "-er, -ier, more" and the topic of comparatives.  Then I showed small pictures which are related to superlatives.  I wrote the sentences with the students on the right of the board.

 This is : Seda Sayan is prettier than Bülent Ersoy. ( students laughed this picture a lot)
              Adriana Lima is the prettiest. ( Boys loved this.  :) )

 This is: Sleeping in the car is more comfortable than on the chair.
              The bed is the most comfortable.

 I called first one George and the second one Robert. This is: Robert has a longer nose than George.
                                                                                             Pinocchio has the longest nose.

 Boys loved these pictures. This is: Doğan can go faster than Nano.
                                          Bugatti can go the fastest of all the other cars. ( I did not know Bugatti.  I learned it while preparing my lesson, but when I asked to the students if they knew this car, boys guessed immediately.)

This is: I can solve the second problem more easily than the first one.

            This problem is the most easily solved.

This is : Rihanna sings as sweetly as Beyonce.

After they learned comparatives and superlatives, I put the 3 members of "One Direction".  Some girls loved,  but some girls did not like them.  I gave information about them on the board. 

Then, I gave the students worksheets. (4-5 minutes)

After eliciting the students' answers, I divided the students into 5 groups.  Each group should have 3 students. They chose their groups' names.  I showed a demo of  the game.  For each part, they chose a member of their groups and one member from the other groups.  They will compare them.  If it is grammatically and really correct, they will get one point for their groups.  I wanted the students to do first 4 parts, then collected one paper from each group.  I read their sentences and we saw their proves and mistakes.  I gave candies to the winner group.

If  I had less time for my post activity, I would not apply it.  Instead of this, I can give the students this one: 

However, my post activity includes students interaction and they worked collaboratively.  Therefore, it worked very well.

I hope, you enjoyed it.

Past Simple- Past Continuous ( when- while) Lesson Plan

I changed this lesson a lot because I could not imagine the time learners would spend on the exercises.  They had already learned past simple and past continuous tense( when- while).  Therefore,  I did not need to explain the tenses. I used running dictation activity.

Here is the my lesson plan:






These are some pictures from my lesson:

This is my treasure chest. The reason I chose this kind of box is that my lesson started with pirates, so I tried to make my lesson in the same theme in terms of activities.  Therefore, the students can connect everything in one clear concept.  There are yellow papers like golden in it.  Each student chose one of them and  completed the sentences with when and while. This was at the end of the lesson.

These are for vocabulary teaching before reading the story.

I tried to emphasize the pronunciation of "sword" because we may read it as it is written.  I made the students to repeat the word.

A Tip for When / While:  Draw 2 boys and girls on the board.  Boys are in the name of  when and while.  Girls are in the name of past and past continuous.Tell a story : "In old years, there were men dominance and wives could not walk with their husbands.  Women just followed men.  In those times, "when" married to "past simple" and "while" married to "past continuous".  As a result, "when" went somewhere, "past simple" followed him and "while" went somewhere, "past continuous" followed him."  Then draw a heart to show they loved each other and when was with past simple, while was with past continuous.

They may keep in mind this in that way! :)

A Tip for  -ing: In Turkish , we say "-ing takısı" ( takı means a jewellery).  Therefore, whenever you'll teach a lesson including continuous tense, as a female teacher you can wear a necklace, so the students understand they will learn a tense which has "-ing".  Also, we can say that this tense is very fashionista, so it has always its jewellery (-ing) on the verb.

I hope, you enjoyed it! :)

Counting and writing the numbers until nine in English- LESSON PLAN

In young learners lesson, I prepared a lesson plan for my final project.  You can see and comment my work. :)

Here are the background information about my students and the lesson.



Here is the lesson plan :





These are the appendix pages in my lesson plan:





And finally, this is my poster presentation of my lesson:

I had fun while preparing this lesson, I hope it becomes useful for you! :)

Reported speech- Lesson Plan

I applied this lesson plan to upper- intermediates as you see in my lesson plan.  However, some small problems occurred because the students were just 10 people in that day and my mentor teacher had told me that they would cover the reported speech until I came to teach there for my internship. But, it did not happen, they could not remember reported speech and I recognized it after ı gave them their first worksheet. Although these negative things which does not lie at my door, I believe my lesson plan worked well and my students enjoyed very well.  Below is my lesson plan and I will support it with my pictures.






I sticked a picture from "LOVE ACTUALLY" movie and I asked questions.

I gave them a worksheet about the movie.

After they complete the sentences, they checked their answers from the movie by watching two times.

While I explaining reported speech, I said " we can use reported spech in our gossips.  Pardon, in these days people do not say they are gossiping, they say : We are just analyzing the situations and people.  So, we'll just analyze the situations and people, we don't gossip never ever."  Then, I told them I had invited three gossip girl characters.

After I explained my topic superficially and told them the difference between "say" and "tell" , I gave them a classic worksheet for 10 minutes.

After eliciting the answers, the game started.  There are isolated students near the wall and their english is very poor.  Therefore, I did not want them to be in the same team for the game.  I divided the students into two groups by telling them in order "you are red, you are blue, you are red, you are blue..."  Red ones gathered in one corner, and blue ones gathered one group.  I gave them small papers to write and wanted them to select a writer.  I read direct sentences and they changed them to reported sentences as soon as possible.  They wrote their sentences on the papers and  showed me by raising them up. After each correct sentence, the group will go further until they scored a goal.

I gave a reward for the winner team.

I had a contingency plan, but I did not apply it.  There are some sentences which were told by famous people.  I would have wanted the students to change the sentences into reported speech.

LESSON PLAN- both... and, neither... nor, either ... or

     I gave some information about  the background of the school and my students.  This lesson plan I prepared was applied to just 10 ART TM and everything was fine.  All the students participated in the lesson and they liked visuals and my post activity. I will show my lesson plan and then upload some photos including my materials I used in the lesson.  This may help you to visualize the lesson.

Here are the some pictures from my materials:

I prepared a bag for my story from Gadget.  I put all the clues as sentences on the papers in this bag.

I stuck my Gadget and I started to tell my story.  Then, I stuck the pictures and clues one by one.

I used colorful papers for the exercises.  The town's football colors are green and orange, so I chose these colors.  Let's look how they seem: 

This is my post activity Mona Lisa Code GAME.  First, I distributed the papers showing which letter corresponds to which numbers.  Then, I stuck one paper which includes some codes.  These codes become a sentence with either or, neither nor and both and.

 The students who finished the first and found the correct sentence won rewards.  After the lesson finished,  I said the other students "next time, do better" and gave them a smaller reward too. :)

I hope you enjoyed it :) !

LESSON PLAN- articles

        In my practice teaching, I taught articles to my students. I wanted to share it with you because it can be an inspiration for you while teaching this topic or you can use it completely, so you can see how it works.
     
       Before that, You may want to know in which type of school this lesson plan was applied.  The school was a college in North Cyprus.  This means that the lessons are taught in English.  This school selects its students with an exam.  The school has classes from 6th to 12th.
   
        I used this lesson plan for two different classes.  Their age level, their class level and learning level are the same, but one of the classes was 10 Science ( mostly maths and science) and the other one was 10 ART TM( Turkish- Maths).  The students' profiles were very different although they seemed similar.  From the beginning of the year, I was observing both of the class.  I'll talk about firstly 10 ART TM.  This class consists of 13-14 students and their English is worse than 10 Science.  However, the atmosphere of the class  was very good and I liked this class.  The other class was 10 Science. This class has 21 students and their English is very good.  There are some Turkish students who came from England.  However, the students in this class gave me a hard time because They did not want to speak in my lesson.  Even if I asked simple questions like " give me an island name", they did not talk. In the previous weeks, they were very active, energetic and participating students with their teacher.  However, they did not participate in my lesson.  I applied the same lesson plan these two classes and I got different feedback for the same lesson plan.

This is my lesson plan:



     

"smile" lesson plan

This is another example of lesson plan. The reason I loved these lesson plans is that they provide a great communication to the learners. I took them from here: 

Smile

Language level: Intermediate (B1) +

Learner type: Mature teens; Adults

Time: 90 minutes

Activity: Listening; speaking; reading

Topic: Smiling; optimism

Language: Optimistic vocabulary and expressions

Materials: 2 short films and TED video,video transcripts; PowerPoint presentation

Overview

This lesson practises listening, speaking and reading. This optimistic lesson is designed around  a short film School Portrait by director Nick Scott  which tells the story of a jaded, cynical school photographer who tries to give each child a harsh vision of what their future will really look like, but a little girl with an infectious smile teaches him an important life lesson. The lesson also includes images from  a beautiful book Everything Is Going To Be OK which uses positive artwork from a variety of artists, graphic designers and illustrators.  I discovered the book on Maria Popova‘s wonderful Brainpickings. 

Step 1

Write School Portrait on the board and ask your students if they know what it means. If they don’t know explain that it is a photograph taken at school by a professional photographer. Ask your students if they have had an individual school portrait taken at their school. Ask about their experience. If you have your own school portrait show it to your students.

Ask your students if they can remember what the photographer said to them and how he encouraged them to smile.

Step 2

Tell your students that they are going to watch a short film called School Portrait. Ask them the following question:

How is the photographer different from a normal school photographer?

School Portrait (2011) from Michael Berliner on Vimeo.

Step 3

Cut up the sentences which the photographer says in the School Portrait Dialogue Word document. Put students into small groups and give each group one set of sentences. Tell them they are going to watch the film again and that they have to put the photographer’s sentences into the correct order.

Check answers and get feedback.

Answers

Step 3

Put your students  in small groups and ask them to discuss what the message of the film is.

Step 4

The message of the film is that smiling and being optimistic is extremely important in life. Show students the images below taken from a beautiful bookEverything Is Going To Be OK  . Ask them to discuss each image and its message.

here are pictures.

Follow up

Ask students if they know what an infectious smile is. Ask them if they know anyone with an infectious smile. Show them the photo below.

Ask your students the following questions:

Do you like this woman’s smile?

Does she smile a lot?

What kind of person do you think she is?

What kind of philosophy does she have about life?

What does she do?

Tell your students they are going to watch a short film about this woman. Ask them to watch the film and check their answers.

Unfortunately, the film can’t be embedded, but here’s a link.

Homework

For homework give students the link to this TED video in which Ron Gutmantalks about empirical research which shows how important smiling is in life.

Ask students to watch the video and make notes about research which shows that smiling has a positive effect on our lives.

Give students the transcript of the talk.

here is the transcript of the video.

Post-it lesson plan

While looking some other blog posts, I found a very effective and enjoyable lesson plan. Therefore, I wanted to keep it in my blog also. Here is:

Overview

This lesson is designed around a short film called Post-it Love by Si & Ad

Language level: Pre-intermediate (A2)- Intermediate (B1)Learner type:Teens and adults Time: 60 minutes Activity: Watching two short films, speaking, coming up with creative uses of Post-it notes Topic: Meeting a partner, creativity Language: Going to + infinitive, could + infinitive Materials: Two short films, Post-it notes Overview This lesson is designed around a short film called Post-it Love by Si and Ad (Simon Atkinson and Adam Townley).  Students practice speaking, try to be creative and watch two short films. Step 1 Ask your students the following question: Where do most people meet their long-term partner? Get your students to discuss the question. Step 2 Tell your students they are going to watch a short film in which the question in step 1 is answered. Show the film until 0:47 and then pause.

Tell them that statistics show that most people meet their partner at work.

Step 3

Tell your students that both office workers are too shy to speak to the other. Ask your students how they could express their affection for each other if they don’t speak to each other. Brainstorm different ways in which they can communicate. They may come up with some of the following:

Emailing, texting, letters, notes, through another person.

Step 4

Tell your students they are going to watch the rest of the film and going to see how they communicate with each other.

Step 5

Ask students what they think of the film. Ask students if they think the film reflects the real problem that many people find it difficult to communicate face-to-face with other people.

Step 6

Put your students in to small groups of three or four. Give each group a block of Post-it notes or a few notes stuck together. Tell them you’d like them to come up with as many different uses as they can for a Post-it note in an office except as something to write a note or reminder on. Give them five minutes to come up with ideas, and then get feedback from each group.

Step 7

Tell your students they are going to watch a short film in which a group of office workers use Post-it notes in very unusual ways.

Get feedback from your students.

Step 8

Put your students into groups of three or four. Tell them you want them to come up with different uses of Post-it notes to help them learn English more effectively. Give them an example such as:

You could write the name of common household objects in English on Post-it notes, and then stick them on the objects. Every time you look at the object, you see the word in English. This helps you to understand and remember the word.

Give them five minutes to come up with uses, and then get feedback from all the groups. Ask them to try to put some of the uses into practice.

I hope you enjoy the lesson.