BP10_20091014_Week 2 - Flickr_lessonplan

Lesson Plan: Ekaterina Tolstova

Title: We can do everything

Level: elementary

Content Area: verbs

Time Frame: 2 lessons + 1 lesson

Learning Outcomes: learners study new verbs and use them in sentences.

Procedures (tasks):

The first two lessons

Steps of the lessons Time Activity Link

Learning new words

Run, jump, sing, dance,

play, swim, read, write

In groups

10

min

Learners look for pictures. They type the

words in the “search window” and try to

guess the meaning of these verbs.

http://www.flickr.co

m/

For example:

http://www.flickr.co

m/search/?q=run

The students learn new

words with the teacher

All class

10

min

The teacher shows slides, pronounces

the words adds some new verbs. The

learners repeat and try to remember

them.

http://www.pimpam

pum.net/phrasr/?id=

15518 (this is made

by me)

http://www.pimpamp

um.net/phrasr/?id=15

400 (I have found

this)

Playing vocabulary

games

Individually

10

min

In order to revise and learn the verbs the

students do some activities on the

internet.

The set of verbs: cook, clean, drink, eat,

cry, write, sing, dance, read.

Children can play 2-3 variants of games

with these verbs.

http://www.manythi

ngs.org/lulu/j3.html

#

Learning the structure

“I can…”

All class

10

min

The teacher shows slides. Learners guess

the meaning of the structure “I can”,

“We can”.

http://www.pimpam

pum.net/bubblr/?id=

14694

http://www.dvolver.c

om/live/movies-

238832

Doing slide shows

Individually / In groups

20

min

The learners do their own slide shows to

the verbs.

They are to type the verbs they want,

choose the picture they like.

The teacher helps while the children

working.

http://www.pimpam

pum.net/phrasr/

Using the verbs

Commenting slide

shows

15

min

The groups show their slides and tell the

class what they can do.

Assessment/Reflection 5 min The class chooses the most funny /

interesting slide show.

Home task

Individually / In groups

The students make photos of their own

which illustrate what the children can

do. Then they upload photos on Flickr.

tagging the photos “wecando” or by

their names. The children think of the

captions to the photos.

One week later

1. The students make slide shows with speech bubbles on

http://www.pimpampum.net/bubblr// they can write sentences in the bubbles about

themselves. Working on this site is very simple, so the children will cope with the task.

2. Or the learners can make simple cartoons to the topic at

http://www.dvolver.com/live/moviemaker.html