Appendix B:

SPAN 130 Sample Lesson Plan



Wednesday, 06 October 2010

Communicative objectives: Practice narrating in the past tense, learning to distinguish between the uses of the different tenses to tell stories and compare/contrast different events.

Content objectives: Re-think the historical activities that they learned last week and Monday. They will also be using new vocabulary for the different activities.



9:00–9:15

Warm Up. Have students answer questions from Part A while they read aloud the biography of the author of the song we will listen to on p. 92 of the textbook. Hand out the lyrics of the song.

Review the questions from Part B that they should think about while listening to the song. Play the song/video.

With the same partner, go over responses. Walk around and ask questions to sets of partners. Quickly go over their opinions as a class.

9:15–9:20

Pluperfect activity: Had you done this when that happened? (They read the grammatical section on the pluperfect for homework.) With a new partner, do Activity 15 (one partner must formulate the question, then the other respond, alternating roles of who asks the question).

As they talk, I will walk around and ask the questions to sets partners, followed by a quick feedback as a group.

9:20–9:30

Review homework: Pedro Almodóvar and his life. (For homework, they put together sentences about Almodóvar's life). Go over with partner the answers that they came up with. As they talk, I will go around asking them the questions. Review as a class.

9:30–9:40

Review other homework activity: How old was somebody when something happened? In new partners, go over activity 24 which the students put together as homework. As they discuss, I will go around observing, followed by a feedback in class.

9:40–9:49

What time was it when you did this? In groups of three, formulate questions based off of activity 23, part B. The groups should alternate who asks the question, while the other two answer. Remind them that they will present their responses to the class.

Have each group present one story that they discussed in the groups.

9:49

Show them the homework for tomorrow.

Filler or alternative activity: Activity 15 as an activity to help them prepare for new vocabulary that they will find in the stories that they will read tomorrow.



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