Lesson Plan

LESSON PLAN

The Months
Objetivos generales:

Reconocer y enumerar todos los meses del año.
Pronunciar correctamente los diferentes meses del año.
Escribir fechas en inglés.
Usar estructuras inglesas para expresar y preguntar por la fecha de cumpleaños.
Mostrar interés por el uso del inglés.
Participar en las actividades.

Contribución a las competencias básicas de primaria:Contribución a la competencia en comunicación lingüística, gracias al estudio de una lengua extranjera que requiere del conocimiento previo de la lengua propia para poder establecer las bases de la segunda.
Tratamiento de la información y competencia digital, gracias a la interacción en una de las actividades con una herramienta virtual.
Competencia social y ciudadana, a través de la participación enclase con los compañeros.
Competencia de aprender a aprender, mediante la realización de las actividades propuestas y su implicación para realizarlas correctamente.
Autonomía e iniciativa personal, a través de la realización de los ejercicios obligatorios propuestos y también de los voluntarios.

Criterios de evaluación:

Adquisición del vocabulario relativo a los meses del año.Pronunciación correcta de las diferentes palabras relacionadas con los meses del año.
Participación en las distintas actividades.
Esfuerzo e implicación en el trabajo.

First Activity

Specific Objetives:
To write the date of each date correctly
To enumerate and recognize all the months of the year
To relate every month with a particular characteristic

Duration: about 15 minutes
Organization:individual, the whole class
Material: “make a calendar”
Vocabulary:
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
Ordinal numbers
Date
Calendar

Explanation:
My children have already studied the name of the different months years ago so for me it is more easy to introduce the following activities but anyway I will have to review them becauseis probably that although they studied them is probably that they didn’t acquire or they didn’t acquire at least some of them.

First part:
First off all is important that our children know how to write a date in English because of that we are going to teach the English structure.
Every single day one person will have to write the date of the day on the board and everybody will have to writeat the same time in their own notebook as a routine.

The structure is simple and the first days I will write the date but after they will do it on their own although I let him use the table of the ordinal numbers.

The structure is:

Today is 22nd November, 2010 – Day/Month/Year

(We will have to explain that with the first three days we have special terminations in order to express orderand dates, the ordinals numbers.) It simple if we have a table:

Ordinal numbers table

1º, first, 1st
2º, second, 2nd
3º, third, 3rd
4º, fourth, 4th.
5º, fifth, 5th
6º, sixth, 6th
7º, seventh, 7th
8º, eighth, 8th
9º, ninth, 9th
10º, tenth, 10th

Second part:
After this exercise I will give them a calendar with several brackets in order to complete them with the months.
Undereach month they have one place in order to draw something that they relate with this specific month; I guess that if they relate some things with the different months they will acquire them better
E.g.: In January they can draw a snowman, In July and August the can draw the beach and so on.

Second activity

Specific Objetives:
To review all the months of the year
To enumerate in order themonths of the year
To write and use the structure I was born, he was born, she was born…

Duration: about 25 minutes
Organization: In couples, the whole class
Material: Pieces of cake, candles
Vocabulary:
The months (January, February…)
Ordinal numbers
Piece
Cake
Candle
To be born
Birthday
Date

Explanation:

First part:
I will give each couple one cardboard with a piece of cake...