LESSON PLAN USING "FODEY"

In the previous post, I explained the characteristics and main uses of Fodey. Now, I will share a plan designed specifically to use this tool in the classroom:

School: Private, Christian School

Class: 6th grade

Trainee Teacher: Raisis, Ornella A.

Practicum Supervisor: Ledesma, Paula.

Date: 03/05/2022

Time alloted: 80 minutes

Textbook: Tiger Time 5 (Macmillan)

Number of students: 18

Communicative Goal: describing past events

Grammar focus: past simple and past continuous with WHEN and WHILE

Vocabulary focus: -

Recycled Language: days of the week, action verbs, how to write a narrative, past simple, past continuous

Past Simple and Past Continuous will be activated. The teacher will use the projector to show students the following Wordwall game:

https://wordwall.net/es/resource/31287639/ingl%c3%a9s/past-simple-or-continuous

Students will have to choose a number, read the sentence and select the correct option.

The teacher will give each students a photocopy with the text and the reading comprehension activity. She will give them 8/10 minutes to read the story and then do the task. After correcting the activity, the teacher will go deeper and focus on the last action "Heard loud music" He/She will ask them in which part of the story they found the answer. Then, he/she will ask the person who answer to read that part of the text.

T: How did you know that the narrator "heard loud music?"

STS: Because it is in the text / Por que lo dice el texto.

T: Oh, can you read aloud that part, please?

STS: "While I was entering the church, I heard loud music" (the teacher will write the sentence on the board)

T: Great, thank you, X! What do we have here? Past Simple or Past Continuous?

STS: Past Simple / Past Contiunuous / Los dos! / Two

T: Do you all agree?

STS: Yes!

T: You are right, very good! For the past three or four lessons we have been studying Past Simple and Past Continuous. Do you remember them?

STS: Yes / Si! / Pasado Simple son los verbos que llevan "-ED" o los que estudiamos de la columna.

T: Very good! In Past Simple we have the regular and the irregular verbs. What about the Past Continuous?

STS: Was/Were con el verbo con "ING".

T: Ok. Do you all agree?

STS: Yes / Si esta bien lo que X dijo

T: Excellent. There is a word joining both tenses, can you spot it?

STS: While

T: Yes! That's right. Can you imagine what "while" means in Spanish?

STS: ...

T: Think about the meaning of the sentence.

STS: Cuando

T: Not exactly. but you are near

STS: Mientras

T: Good! While is our "mientras"

STS: Entonces la oracion dice "mientras estaba entrando a la iglesia, escuche musica fuerte"

T: Exactly. Using "while" we can join Past Simple and Past Continuous in the same sentence. If you look again at the sentence, can we put "while" wherever we want?

STS: No / Esta al principio / Antes del Past Continuous

T: Ok. X can you repeat what you said again?

STS: While esta antes del Past Continuous.

T: Good job! (The teacher will write on the board, under the example, the formula: While + P. Cont + , + P. Simple). Clear?

STS: Yes! / Profe, entonces es parecido al "When" que vimos la clase pasada.

T: Absolutely! Yes! What do you remember about it?

STS: when es "cuando" y se usaba con el Pasado Simple

T: Ok, that's correct. Both allow us to join both tenses in a sentence, but after "when", we need a Past Simple verb. (The teacher will write an example and the structure in the board for students to compare "when" and "while")

STS: Ahhh / Ahora entiendo / Osea que son diferentes pero se parecen

T: Yeah! Good job people! Now let's go on exercising.

As has been previously mentioned, this plan will be carried out after some classes studying Past Simple and Past Continuous, so the focus of this class will be in the fully-communicative activity.

ACTIVITY 1: Fully-communicative (50 minutes)

Focus: writing

Group scheme: solo

Description: Students will have to write a narrative of 125-150 words. They will be advised to use Past Simple or Past Continous and the story has to be developed under the title "An unexpected event". Then they will have to rewrite their composition on "Fodey".

Context: The School Newspaper have asked you to write about something unexpected. The best story will be published in next month's edition. Let's write and then, let's use a webpage in which we will be able to see how our story would look like in a newspaper.

Correction: Students will have to send the teacher their story and he/she will give learners personalized feedback.