Lesson plan for teenagers of 14 years old

Universidad Catolica de El Salvador

Present Continuous

Faculty of Science and Humanities

Action Verbs

Teachers: Deysi Ramos and Alex Magaña

Time: 3 hours

General objective:

At the end of this lesson plan, students will be able to:

ü Recognize the correct usage of the present continuous with the verb to be.

Specific objectives:

. As a result of this lesson plan, students will be able to:

ü . Identify properly the present continuous in the oral and written form.

ü . Formulate correctly affirmative and negative sentences in the oral and written

form.

Materials:

Computer

Camera and mics (if the computer doesn´t have by itself).

Internet

Web sites:

eslgamesworld.com

youthink.com

voicethread.com

vocaroo.com

wordle.com

mailvu.com

voxopop.com

mind42.com

youtube.com

hotmail.com

Warm-up

Students get ready to begin the class by playing this fun and easy game in which they will be able to challenge “the virtual teacher” and throw him overboard by clicking the word that does not belong to a certain group of words. Students should be smart and click on the highest number of any dice since this is the number of steps that “the virtual teacher” walks forward if the students answer correctly, but if they don´t, “the virtual teacher” walks backward the same number of steps. Play the game in the next link:

http://eslgamesworld.com/members/games/grammar/walk%20plank/word%20groups/word%20groups%20for%20beginners.html

Copy the words you chose that do not belong to each group in our group in Facebook. You must copy the word before choosing it, so that you are able to send them to your teachers.

Presentation

Through these series of videos, students are going to get involved with some vocabulary and the correct use of the present continuous with the verb to be. In the first, second and third video, students get familiarized with some action verbs and with affirmative and negative sentences using the present continuous as the target structure. In the fourth video, students interact with it by repeating some statements. In the last video, which is the sixth according to the sequence of these videos, students get familiarized with a “wh question” using the present continuous, and they also review affirmative statements using our target structure. Watch the videos in the next link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFhAUg2ZPoY&feature=related

IMPORTANT NOTE: There are five videos that students can easily watch just by clicking the next one that continuous the sequence. All of them are called “present continuous verb tense”, but each one has its own number and subtopic. The sequence of the videos´ number goes like this: pt. 1, pt. 2, pt. 3, pt. 4, and pt. 6, so if you don´t find pt. 5 don´t feel lost because it doesn´t exist.

Controlled practice

1. Action Verbs Catching

In this activity, there are images and sentences to describe the words under the bucket. Students are supposed to catch and drop them into the correct category boxes by clicking and dragging them without letting they go till they are into the proper bucket categories. To do this activity, go to this link:http://www.eslgamesworld.com/members/games/grammar/present%20tenses/action%20verbs%20catching2.html

Copy and paste your result in our group in Facebook.

2. Present Progressive Hangman

This activity has a question on-screen along with the required character spaces. A panel at the bottom provides students with the letters of the English alphabet and numerals zero to nine. Click all the alphabets or numerals in the answer, or alternatively type the answer and click the "guess the answer bottom". After your sixth incorrect entry, the hangman fills in the answer for you. If you get it right, you´re free of the noose and move on to the next question. To do this activity, go this link:

http://www.eslgamesworld.com/members/games/grammar/present%20tenses/present%20progressive%20hangman.html

After students finish the game or if time gets over, they have to click on “check answer” bottom and copy and paste those results in our group in Facebook.

3. Present continuous´ quiz on youthink.com

Students have to go to this link and take the quiz. After taking the quiz, they have to e-mail their results to the teachers. To do this, students have to fullfil this grid with the information required. It appears in the page where you take the quiz. your teachers´ e-mails are:

alexjandro26@hotmail.com and daysiramos_07@hotmail.com

Email Your Results Your Name: Your Email: Friend's Email(s): (Sep. w/ commas)

http://www.youthink.com/quiz.cfm?obj_id=208914

Semi controlled practice

1. Watch it, describe it and record it.

In this activity, students go to this link: http://voicethread.com/?#u2507093.b2796120.i14759802 in which there is a picture that they are going to describe and record by using the present continuous. For example: Simon is eating.

The recording must be done in vocaroo.com. After recording, students have to click on “click to save here” and share it on Facebook.

2. Go to Wordle.com and record on vacaroo.com

In this activity, students go to this link: http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/4924671/Present_Continuous in which there´s a picture with disorganized words that they will use to write as many sentences as they can. Then, they record themselves reading all their sentences on vocaroo.com, after that they have to click on “click here to save” and share it on Facebook as a private message.

3. Youtube and Voxopop

In this activity, students must go to this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZMT-ms4Two&feature=player_embedded#!

to listen and watch the video in order to be able to answer the teacher´s questions on voxopop.com. The name of the talkgroup in which students are going to participate is: PRESENT CONTINUOUS, and its link is:

http://www.voxopop.com/topic/649f6e70-0d14-41a7-9eb8-4041d6b9a78c

Free practice

1. Recording yourself on MailVU

In this activity, students record themselves showing pictures that they will also describe by using the present continuous. Students must go to this link:http://www.mailvu.com/ in which they only have to click on the "Permitir bottom" and then click on the "Record bottom", which is on the right side of the image´s camera, to have access to record. After recording, students send their videos to the teacher by clicking on the "Send bottom" and filling all its requirements to be sent. Here you have the teachers e-mail:

daysiramos_07 @ hotmail.com and alexjandro26@hotmail.com

2. Recording yourself on Voxopop

In this activity, students search for a short story in which the present continuous is used as a target structure; then, they record themselves reading it on Voxopop.com

3. Mind42

Students have to create a mind map on this site: http://mind42.com/signin

The mind map´s topic must be done with the present continuous structure, but students decide the kind of statements they are going to use; in addition, they have the freedom to upload as many pictures, links, etc. as they want. After done it, they have to publish it by sharing their links on our group in Facebook.

4. Get the most creative dialogue design award!

In this activity, students work in trios to create a short dialogue by using the present continuous as the target structure. Then, they are going to record themselves and upload the dialogue, in a Microsoft Word document, on voicethread.com in the teacher´s account which is: user: alexjandro26 @hotmail.com , and the password is: alejandrito

IMPORTANT NOTE: After checking all groups´ work, the teacher is going to give an award to the most creative job.

Wrap up

Students have to write 13 sentences on a word document. They also have to include an image next to each sentence, so that they show their understanding of the present continuous tense. They have to send their documents to the teachers´ e-mails which are: alexjandro26@hotmail.com and daysiramos_07@hotmail.com

Quizzes for children, teenagers and adults.

INTRODUCTION

Hello. In this blog entry, Deysi and I are going to present different ways on how we can use videos, stories, and different internet sources. In this project, we have made used of a website to prepare quizzes, so the idea is to come up with different internet tools, so students can practice their understanding of English.

This first quiz is addresed to children. This reading is about a lady who swallowed many animals. She followed a chain in order to catch the first animal she swallowed.

https://voicethread.com/?#q.b2735446.i14434763 (IN THIS LINK, YOU WILL HAVE ACCESS TO THE READING, SO CLICK ON THE LINK, BUT IF YOU HAVE PROBLEMS TO VIEW THE READING YOU CAN TYPE THIS USER alexjandro26@hotmail.com AND PASSWORD: alejandrito)

In this quiz, you will have 12 questions. Each of them have three options, so click on the one that best matches each request.

http://www.youthink.com/quiz.cfm?action=go_detail&sub_action=take&obj_id=208184&filter=my_qs&f_cat_id=-1&time_spa

SECOND QUIZ

This second quiz is based on a musical video in which teenager students are going to put into practice their visual and memory skills since they need to be pretty good observers to answer correctly all quiz´s questions.

The video is about a guy who is in love with a girl that he hasn´t met yet.

This is the musical video´s link, We hope you enjoy it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KYEev_3L6k&feature=related

Right after watching the video three times, go to the quiz´s link in which you are going to find a multiple option quiz that only has 12 questions and 3 options. Please click on the best option for each statement.

This is the quiz´s link: http://www.youthink.com/quiz.cfm?obj_id=208687

THE LAST QUIZ is for adults. They have to see a video from youtube. The video is about global warning and some other aspects related to it, so after watching the video (link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJAbATJCugs), you have to go this link

http://www.youthink.com/quiz.cfm?action=go_detail&sub_action=take&obj_id=208360&filter=my_qs&f_cat_id=-1&time_span=all

and take the quiz which has 12 questions with three options each; be sure to click on the one that best matches each request.

CONCLUSION: we think that as society is changing day by day, and the use of technology is becoming a need for teachers and for students as well, these tools we have used to prepare our quizzes are very nice because students are in touch with different internet tools that some of them might be familiar with, so that it will be even easier for them to use.

At the very beginning, we felt kind of weird because we are not accustomed to use these tools, but since we got involveld with them, they were easy to use.

Something that might be considered as a disadvantage is that when we are not accustomed to use these tools, they seem to be time-consuming.

my computer skills.

hello, to have computer skills have become part of our daily life, that´s why nowadays we can see that many people are learning on how to use computers and the internet as well, but the question is why??? well, there are many reasons we can talk about, but in this entry we are going to talk about a simple one, companies require people who know how to use the computers and the internet as well, so that people have started to think seriously on this issue, and that´s why we can see how the amount of people studying about this has increased a lot.

I have to say and be clear on some aspects; first of all, it is not just to know on how to use the computer, but to have computer skills, so that you are the most suit person for applying a job. To have computer skills is very complex because it means that you have to be updated with programs you may use in your job; you need to know what this or that buttom may works for, or how can you get easier to a menu or any function that can help you to do things faster. etc.You also have to be able to use the internet, distinguish for example what information is more relevant or essential than the other one because let me tell you that on internet as you must know, you will find information that is not reliable, so that you have to be able to make those differences, so if we talk about reliable information, we have to say that you gotta be able to identify those sites that are reliable as well. It may not seen to be easy, but as you start getting acquainted, you will see that it is kind of easy and you will become an expert on this issue.

Now let´s move on on this other part, having computer skills as I said before can be kind of hard for some people as for others can be the opposite, I mean, easy. I think that everything will depend on the efforts and wishes that you have to learn.
There are some things that I consider useful for your learning on this, and it is that if we wish to learn, we also have to be kind of curious to find out for example on what this key may work for, or what can I do or application I can get into if I click on this menu, etc (you can do this if you are working on your own computer of course, otherwise, you can get into troubles if you are using computers on a cyber cafe or any other place).
So, whenever you have the chance to study about computer and the use of technology, do not doubt on asking your instructor for more information regarded with what you are learning as it will help you to become more expert on what we have been discussiong about; of course this world of technology is very complex and even thought when we think we have learned enough, there will be something new to learn every day.

So as a conclusion, I can say that we have to start becoming aware on what we can do right now, and what we can improve related with the use of computer and the internet because let me say that, I do not know you but sometimes there are children that know more about this issue than yourself, so we have to become more acquainted with this as it is taken or being part of our lives.
We can see how the use of technology is improving day by day, and it means that people need to be updated with all those changes. There are new things to learn, and what is our way? to follow them othewise we are going to be kind of lost. why do I say this? it is because as I said before technology is improving, so the new model of computers, programs, etc, are changing, and we have to be involved in those changes, I mean, we have to be like following the new updates of all what we have been discussing about.
So guys, I hope that you understand what I meant by this blog, and leave your comments, so that we can learn from each others.