LESSON PLANING

ENGLISH - III CYCLE - 8Th GRADE

TARGET CONTENT N° 1: IDENTIFICATION OF Family members and partner’s relatives.*


OBJECTIVES

LANGUAGE EXAMPLES


PROCEDURES

VALUES /ATTITUDES
AND CULTURE


EVALUATION OF LEARNING OUTCOMES

LISTENING
· Guessing the general meaning of a short passage.

SPEAKING
· Eliciting basic information from both friends and strangers.

READING
· Understanding a range of written materials

WRITING
· Writing several sentences to convey familiar factual information.

Family relationships.
This - that - these - those - are -
-He/she works at ______?
-How many do you have?
-I have brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles...
-My mother's sister is my .
-Her brother is my _____.
-Is he/she your _______?
-How old ?
-Who ______?
-How many _____?

Functions:
Identifying people.
Asking for and talking about people and their families

Warm up:
The teacher uses the computer and shows students a little presentation (power point) using pictures of family members and students have to guess the name in English of each one with the correct pronunciation.
Presentation:
The teacher uses some important flashcards about family members with the respective names and explain students the function of each person in a family, the differences, and the similarities that each one have.
Also the teacher makes a comparison of her family with other student to explain it better to the class.

Control Practice:
The teacher asks students to work individually.
Then the teacher gives them a paragraph related with the family, after they read it, then they have to Elicit basic information of it and Finally each student have to give ideas and opinions about their understanding of the Written material.
Then teacher asks students to make ten sentences using the vocabulary of family members (individually).
The teacher makes feedback around the class.
Consolidation:
The teacher makes a round table to discuss important details about student’s families and also make comparisons of each one, at the same time the teacher makes questions to students to prove students learning.





§ Love for other people
§ Tolerance towards gender and people’s feelings.
§ Responsibilities among family members.

CULTURE
· Nuclear and extended family in Costa Rica and in English speaking cultures.
· Importance of long-term family ties in our country.
· Differences and similarities in gender roles among both cultures.

· Guess the general meaning of a short passage.

· Subtraction of basic information from both friends and strangers.

· Comprehension of a range of written materials

· Production several sentences to convey familiar factual information.