Universidad del Aconcagua

Escuela Superior de Lenguas Extranjeras

Teaching Practice
Lesson Plan: Third Class
Institution: Saint Louis English Institute
Course: Junior 2
Numbers of students: 7
Student´s Age: 6-7 years old
Class Duration: 1 hour (twice a week, Tuesdays and Thursdays)
Textbook: Happy House Student Book and Workbook
Unit: 3
Trainee Teacher: Diana Kessler
Teacher Trainer: Miriam Gutierrez

Topic: Food/ The Butterfly life cycle

Aims:

 Get to know a popular story.

 Learn the main vocabulary of the story.
 Practice spelling of new words
 Reinforce simple grammar structures
 Work on cognitive and fine motor skill development

Vocabulary

 Food items (pear, orange, apple, strawberry, plum, chocolate cake, salami, cherry pie, cupcake,
sausage, pickle, lollipop, children already know watermelon, cheese, ice-cream, broccoli,
banana, spaghetti, French fries, soup, pizza, juice, donut, popcorn)
 Butterfly life cycle vocabulary (egg, caterpillar, cocoon, butterfly)
 Numbers (1-5)
 Days of the week
 Colours
 Distinction between healthy and unhealthy food

Grammar

 Revision of” What color is this? It’s…” and “ What day is today?”
 Sequence structure in tales
Resources

 Video from the web page https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIQsyHoLudQ

 Worksheet
 Flashcards
 Paper of different colours and textures, glue, scissors

Warm up:

 The teacher will start the class by playing the song (video format) about days of the week, from
the web page https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIQsyHoLudQ (children know a similar song,
so a change could be good) this song has some variations (children will have to sing softly, then
loudly, then they will have to clap their hands, stomp their feet, sing proudly)
 The teacher will present a set of disorganized cards (one apple, two pears, three plums, four
strawberries, five oranges, a piece of chocolate cake, a salami, a piece of cherry pie, a cupcake, a
sausage, a pickle, a lollipop, a slice of watermelon, a slice cheese and one ice-cream and she will
ask if they remember what the caterpillar ate on Monday, Tuesday and so on. As they answer
she will stick the flashcards below the days of the week (the days of the week are already on the
board as permanent posters). When all the pieces are on its place, teacher and children will
count together to see how much food the caterpillar ate.

Development

 The teacher will explain they will play a game, presenting a set of cards that they will have to
rearrange in order to have the correct sequence of the story (each will have their own set of
cards). The first one to get the sequence right will win. After the teacher has checked the
sequence they will stick it on the notebooks along with the date. Note: This activity was
programmed to be done the first class, since there wasn’t enough time to do everything; it was
rescheduled to be used as part of the development for this class.
 Now the teacher will present a poster with a chart divided into healthy and unhealthy food. As
example she will use vocabulary children know from previous classes (French fries, broccoli,
hamburger, bananas, cheese, donuts). She will now ask them to organize the food they learned
from the Hungry Caterpillar into the chart. For this the teacher will provide little pieces of paper
children will use to draw and write different items of food to be placed in the chart. The chart
will stay in the classroom for future reference.

Round up

 Next the teacher will present a worksheet children will use to make their own collages, for this
the teacher will bring to class papers of different colours and textures for them to paint or glue
in their worksheets. They will have to draw a circle around food that is healthy and write an H
and a circle (of different color) around the food that is unhealthy and write a U, also they will
have to write their names on the worksheet. The finished jobs will stay at the institute until the
last class (they will be glued in a big poster and presented for parents and classmates to see).