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Class Name and Level: Practicum Teacher’s Name: Alexa Valencia

LESSON PLAN
Year 7/8

Date 16/11/2018 Time and length 11.05am-12.05pm 1 hour

of lesson
Language Paragraph Structure Topic Holiday Destinations
Focus/Skill/s
Lesson No. 10

Class Profile
Mixed gender Background from Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, Nepal and Russia
aged 12-14 Developing Abilities

What do students already know?

Students are already aware of past simple; past continuous; past perfect
Simple sentences compound sentences, complex sentences.
Countable and Uncountable nouns
Narrative Structure

Aims: To create a cohesive paragraph appropriate to the prompt of the lesson.

Objectives: Students will:

 Brainstorm the prompt thoroughly
 Select 3 main points for discussion
 Follow guided learning, but create individual paragraphs
 Work individually to create own paragraph
Key Language (vocabulary)
 Sentence Structure
 Topic Sentence
 Supporting Sentence
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Modifications/Elaborations for individual student needs/Differentiation

 Different levels of assistance from teacher
 Use of paragraph template for all sentences.

Timing Sequenced Teaching and Learning Grouping Resources

5 mins Introduction/Warmer
 Get the students to look at the first slide (pictures of burgers)
 Ask the students to work in pairs, and describe their perfect burger to each other Pairs PPT
 As a class, look at the different burgers: would you be sick if you ate the burger stacked with 6 Whole Class
patties? Would you be disappointed if you only had one patty? Relate the balance of fillings in a
hamburger to the balance of fillings in a paragraph.
5 mins Body
 Go through structure of a paragraph using the hamburger picture slide 3 Whole PPT
 Let students know that we will be explicitly learning how to write full, juicy paragraphs Class
 Go through quick questions, activate schema about sentence types and their correct structure
(slide #5)
 Introduce topic for the lesson: holiday destinations. Ask students to think of a destination that
they would recommend. Discuss

5 mins  Using ppt example as an aid, get students to complete first step of the brainstorm (at least 6 Blank Paper
supporting ideas): clustering (slide #7) Individual PPT

10 mins  Build on ideas as modelled in the ppt and pick the 3 points that had the most supporting ideas
(slide #8)
 Choose the first idea that you would like to work with
15 mins Paragraph template
 Briefly look at the overall structure of a paragraph again with the burger picture
 Start to plan paragraph using prompts on ppt (guided learning)
 Write a good copy of this paragraph
 Practice writing next paragraph individually.
15 mins
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Conclusion
5 mins  The bun at the top and bottom of the burger are made of the same material. How Post-it Notes
is this similar to the first and last sentence of your paragraph? Write answer on
post it note, stick on wall as you leave the room.

Assessment of student learning

 Assess student success with paragraph writing worksheet.