3. Contents
1. Introduction …………………… 4
2. Lesson plan …………………… 6
3. The implementation ………….. 17
4. Materials ………………………. 23
5. Reflections ……………………. 25
Dinosaurs: The top 5
4. 1. Introduction
This lesson plan is divided into 5 sections: the
introduction, the lesson plan, the
implementation (a short video and some
photos during the implementation), some
reflections about it and the materials given
to the pupils.
Dinosaurs: The top 5
5. The main objective of this lesson is to reinforce
the vocabulary previously worked in the
English classroom, through the topic of
dinosaurs.
They will be able to practice the every day
expressions, reinforce them and to use the
vocabulary worked in real a real situation.
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6. 2. Lesson plan
Title of the Lesson: Dinosaurs: The top 5
Unit of Study: Prehistoric animals
Level and group: First level of primary
Number of children: 21
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7. Background Information: This lesson is
planned within a transversal project about
prehistoric animals. All the teachers in
every subject have worked some aspects
about this topic. In the English classroom
we are going to know some
characteristics about the top 5 of
dinosaurs, the pupils will invent their own
dinosaurs, they will name them and finally
they will participate in a Dino competition.
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8. Learning objectives:
- To learn some characteristics about
dinosaurs.
- To recognize the differences among the
top 5 dinosaurs.
- To invent a dinosaur.
- To respect the classmates works and
preferences.
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9. Competencies involved:
- Communicative competence
- Oral competence
- Audiovisual competence
Assessment:
- Direct observation
- Participation in the classroom activities
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10. Lesson development
0. Warm up: Starting song. Date. Asking
personal questions to the pupils. Topic
presentation: Dinosaurs (10’).
1. Let's see the top 5: The teacher will show
the pupils the web page:
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/life/dinosa
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11. On this page they will discover the top 5
dinosaurs in the Natural History Museum
from London and some of their
characteristics (15’).
2. Let's invent a dinosaur
The pupils have to choose different parts
of dinosaurs. E.g.: A big head (from
Tyrannosaurus), big body (from
Triceratops) and long tale (from
Diplodocus) (15’).
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12. Dinosaurs: The top 5
Then they will colour the result (brown,
green, yellow, etc.). As a result, they will
invent their own dinosaur (15’).
3. Dino competition
Finally, they will decide the class Top 5
in a Dino competition (5’).
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Interaction:
- Teacher-students
- Students-students
Skills:
- Listening, speaking and interacting.
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Materials:
- Computer
- Wall screen
- Internet
- Paper
- Glue
- Colours
15. Dinosaurs: The top 5
Bloom’s Taxonomy:
- Creating
- Applying
- Understanding
ICT resources:
- ICT resources
- Web page:
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/life/dinosaurs
- Video camera recording
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Personal notes/reminders/homework/other
considerations:
The pupils English level is not very good,
since they only have got one session every
two weeks and it is the first year they study
English. And I am not the English teacher.
25. 4. Reflections
The result of the lesson plan Top 5 dinosaur
was not as I thought previously. I think
that the first difficulty is that I have been
too many time without teaching English.
The second one is that the children are
not my pupils, I do not know their English
knowledge
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(although their English teacher, my colleague in
the school, told me about them and that they
have not been exposed to English a lot).
Moreover, they had not tools to understand my
English explanations, so I had to translate too
many times.
I think that it was a very easy activity, but it took
me more than one hour. Luckily, the other
teacher did not mind to borrow me some
minutes from her classroom time.
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Fortunately, and for me, the most important point
of view of the activity, it was a success for the
children, they liked a lot, from the beginning they
were very enthusiastic, of course, they liked the
topic 'dinosaurs' and they enjoyed a lot
discovering some of them in the Natural history
museum web page, and even more when I
asked them to invent their own dinosaur from the
different parts of the top 5 dinosaurs.
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They asked me to repeat the classroom, they tried
to speak in English, although they said to me
few words, and I realised that they had got
several problems to pronounce and even to say
the sentences aloud, they became shy because
they recognized their language problems in
order to produce what they wanted or they could
in Spanish or Catalan.
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To sum up, I think that the situation was not usual,
for them and for me. So in another context
perhaps the lesson plan could go better.
However, I have enjoyed a lot, I have learned
and I have realised that I need to teach English
again.
