Universidad del Aconcagua

Escuela Superior de Lenguas Extranjeras

Teaching Practice
Lesson Plan: Fourth 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/Distinction between healthy and unhealthy food.

Aims:

 Get to know a popular story.

 Learn the main vocabulary of the story The very Hungry Caterpillar.
 Practice spelling of new words.
 Learn the difference between healthy and unhealthy food.
 Reinforce simple grammar structures.
 Work on cognitive and fine motor skill development.

Vocabulary

 Food items (From the Caterpillar story: pear, orange, apple, strawberry, plum, chocolate cake,
salami, cherry pie, cupcake, sausage, pickle, lollipop, children. From previous classes:
watermelon, cheese, ice-cream, broccoli, banana, spaghetti, French fries, soup, pizza, juice,
donut, popcorn, fish, yogurt. Note: by now children already know most of these words)
 Numbers
 Days of the week
 Distinction between healthy and unhealthy food

Grammar

 Revision of ”Do you like…? Yes, I do or No, I don’t” and “What day is today? Is it Thursday? Is it
Friday?”
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 asking: What day is today? Is it Thursday? Is it Friday? Is it
Saturday? And so on (it will be Tuesday the 23rd) Then she will revise the days of the week by
playing the song (video format) from the web page
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIQsyHoLudQ. She will write the date on the board.
 Next, the teacher will tell the children they will play a game. She will put some flashcards over
the table (most words are from the caterpillar story but there will be two more children know
from previous classes: yogurt and fish). She will explain they will have to stand up if they like a
certain food or stay on their sits if they don’t like the food she mentions. She will then arbitrarily
take one flashcard from the table and ask: Do you like…? The first one to stand up will win. The
teacher will stick the flashcards on the board under the days of the week flashcards (which are
already on the board as permanent posters).

Development

 The teacher will present a worksheet for children to reinforce vocabulary. They will have to
complete and stick it in their notebooks. In the worksheet they will have 3 exercises (one to
complete the missing letter and guess the word, one where they find words in a box and one
where they order the days of the week) 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.
 Then, the teacher will continue with an activity programmed for the previous class. Children
started classifying food into a chart divided into healthy and unhealthy food. She will use the
flashcards from the warm up activity and 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. When they
finish children and teacher will count together to see how much healthy and unhealthy food the
caterpillar ate.

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; they will
be glued in a big poster and presented for parents and classmates to see. Note: This activity was
programmed to be done the third class, since there wasn’t enough time to do it; it was
rescheduled to be used as the round up of this class and also of the entire practicum period.
 Finally, the teacher will thank the children for being such good students. She will give them a
little bag with some candies and a thank you note.