Lesson Plan

LESSON PLAN
Cognitive Target: (write the topic or linguistic-grammatical content)
General Objective: (write the aim for teaching the previous cognitive target starting with a verb from thetaxonomy)

Introductory Activities:
a. Warm-up:
It is a varied and motivating way of starting the lesson. The warm up can take different forms. On one hand, it is usually a brief lively session towelcome the students to their foreign language class. Also it can be used to catch students’ interest towards the new cognitive target. It may include games, songs, riddles, and jokes, among others.Students should be encouraged to participate and have fun.
b. Presentation:
The teacher introduces the class to the new theme and the new language components. It is usually a brief lively sessionto activate students’ background knowledge to the new cognitive target. If you use a song in the previous part, you can make questions, brainstorming, clustering ideas, or vocabulary introduction.Development Activities:
a. Explanation:
The teacher introduces the class to the new theme and the new language components. Both the content and the new grammatical and lexical items are emphasizedin an integrated way. Getting meaning across is essential. Students receive considerable input from the teacher. They are allowed time to assimilate the language, to listen actively and to try tounderstand what the teacher is saying. The teacher uses simple, but natural language through different techniques.
b. Practice:
Here it is the stage where both “controlled practice” and “creativepractice”, are integrated into one single step called “practice”. First, students use the new linguistic components in a relatively limited setting by playing with the language. The teacher shouldorganize sequential tasks, going from basic language use to more demanding communicative skills on the part of the learners. Students are asked to incorporate their language acquisitions to their...