Teaching Plan #1

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Current Curriculum
The English Curriculum for the month of February is of descriptive text starting from describing external objects such as places or things, to in depth descriptions of people. Teaching Plan #1 is for the first week of describing people through their looks, personality traits, and preferences.

Teaching Plan
Day 1
On the first week of Teaching Practicum, 2/17-2/21, I was assigned to create a lesson plan for the unit that was to be taught to the students. Compared to the last week of introductory lessons I taught, this week can be a continuation of the skills from last week which was “Descriptive Text”. Students were to move on from only describing places, things, and events, to being able to describe people. However, most students are able to describe physical aspects of others: height, clothing, looks, etc. This lesson plan tries to introduce students to describing people by their INTERNAL CHARACTERISTICS.

For example, students will be able to not only describe that a person “looks kind”, but that a person “is kind”; a student may describe a peer as shy but smart. Of course, since English is not the student’s first language, it would not be surprising to know that the student’s repertoire of vocabulary is not wide. That is another goal of the lesson: to expand the descriptive vocabulary of the students.

This lesson plan uses 3 separate exercises to build upon the overarching goal of using English in descriptive format. First, a whole-class activity that focuses on fun and motivation is given to the students: Describe your teacher. Through physical descriptions, memory of experience for inner traits, as well as asking questions to learn preference, students gain a script that they can use in Exercise 2.

Exercise 2 is group work where students describe peers. They will be using the vocabulary they either just gained from Exercise 1, or will hopefully be motivated enough by the fun whole group activity to ask the teacher. Later, they will present to the class what they talked about in order to train student’s speech ability.

Last, Exercise 3 is an individual writing task that focuses on remembering events with a certain family member. That will allow students to be analytical in their writing about the descriptions as well as gain a deeper appreciation for introspection on the people around them.

All evaluation will not be only based on grammar and vocabulary, but the integration of description of other people’s appearance, personality, and preferences into generalized usable English.

Day 2
This second lesson plan is needed because each unit is taught for one week, but individual classes have two separate English classes. Thus, a second lesson plan on the same subject is required for the additional 70 minutes. This one continues to develop the student’s ability to describe people

First, this second lesson plan picks up where the other left off in student’s ability to use appearance, personality, and preference as key points. However, unlike the last lesson plan where the target is someone else, this plan focuses on students being able to introspect and describe themselves. In my mind, the purpose of describing others is the ability to gain the language necessary to understand the self more. Thus, after an introduction of homework presentation, the lesson starts by introducing new words.

Along with new words to describe personality, students are then taught how to talk about describing people in the future, namely themselves. These are the key phrases students will be using in the in-class exercise. For 25 minutes, students will be writing about how they see themselves in the future. This not only requires them to think about themselves now, but also what their goals and dreams are. This exercise thus practices their ability to describe another (since future self is not present self) but also to think about the morals of what they wish to become.

Last, a homework assignment is given where students will use their own expectations of future self and compare that to ones that their parents have. This will allow students to see the changes of the times, how people view happiness and success, and allow them to have a new perspective of their own future goals and wants.