An activity using dvolver Moviemaker

Topic: Past Simple and Past Continuous
Age: 15

Objective: That students improve their writing and speaking, making correct use of past simple and past continuous. 

Instructions

1. The teacher shows this video to the students 
2. After the students have watched the video, they must give an end to it (Wirte 1 paragraph) using past simple and past continuous. 

3. After finishing the little end, every student have to share it with their partners, reading it aloud.

Activity for students with visual and reflective learning style

Topic: Past experiences
Age: 18 

Objective: That students make use of reported speech to write a text with coherence. 





Instructions

1. The teacher shows a comic that presents an specific situation.

2. Every student must write a text of three paragraphs assuming what experience was the subject of the comic living, using reported speech, connectors and giving as many details as possible. 


Reason

I decided this activity in order to help students with visual and reflective learning style to develop the ability of writing about past experiences, using reported speech. Also, is planned taking into account the introspective intelligence.

How to make materials for writing?

1. Types of activity

These are some of the activities that we can use in order to help students to improve their writing skills:

• Roleplay (The students write the dialogue)
• Create a kind of diary where you can write your thoughts
• Write reports about interviews, movies, documentaries, articles, etc
• Make a tale or story from using a card with a specific image
• Make a poem, song or proverb from a meaningful experience you lived

Exercise: Design an activity where students must write a report about their favorite movie, making use of connectors and strong adjectives.





2. Tips for teachers

•  Select the topics based on the likes and interests of students
•  Make use of students experiences
•  Include new vocabulary that students can use in real life context
•  Motivate students to read aloud and share what they write with their  partners
•  Include other skills like reading and listening
•  Promote a space where students correct each others mistakes

3. Strategies that students can use

•  Read a sample letter and identify  its parts
•  Picture dictation
•  Translating
•  Chaining/combining sentences
•  Substitution tables (Written)
•  Answering comprehension  questions
•  Imagine it- draw it- describe it. 
•  Emphasizing on connectors

A lesson plan to and Advanced English class

Lesson Title: How to survive in Colombia 
Topic: Giving instructions
Age: 18 
Language Focus: Modal verbs 

Main Goal: That students solve real life problems. 

Objectives

• Students will be able to interact between them, using language in context. 
• Students will be able to participate in the class giving their own ideas, experiences and opinions. 
• Students will be able to use language based on a situation of interest and relevance to them. 

Materials: Newspaper "The city paper", cards

Procedure

1. Warm up (15 minutes)

• Students have to make 5 work teams.
• The teacher will give every group a card that has some instructions, which will lead them to a place where a newspaper is hidden. For every group there is a different place, but the same newspaper. 
• After finding the newspaper, they will come back to the classroom.

2. Activities (30 minutes)

• The newspaper has 5 different articles. The teacher will tell students what every article is about, and every work team has to choose an article. 
• In every article there is a situation that presents a problem, after the students have read it, they have to make a presentation about how to solve that problem, using modal verbs and clear instructions. 

3. Closing (15 minutes)

• Students will give opinions about the presentations of the other groups, giving new ideas based on their own experience. 

Assessment: Write a paragraph about how did you survive to the most dangerous situation 

you have lived. 

Homework: Give instructions using modal verbs about what a person should do in case of an earthquake. Be clear and give as many details as possible.  

An activity based on Audio lingual Method

Topic: Modal Verbs
Age: 18
Objective: That students memorize the dialogue using the English language in a communicative way. 


Instructions
1. The teacher writes a dialogue on the board that contains modal verbs. 

• Dialogue: 

Jeremy: Hey Mary! Can you come to the center tomorrow? I must buy some clothes
Mary: That sounds good, but I should ask my parents first
Jeremy: Ok, and you may come with Jenny! 
Mary: Uhmm, she can't, she has to study 
Jeremy: Oh, well, see you tomorrow!

2. The teacher reads the dialogue and all the classroom repeat line by line.

3. Then, the teacher says the lines of Jeremy and the classroom say the lines of Mary. 

4. After the teacher has erased the dialogue from the board, all boys will be Jeremy and all girls will be Mary. Each group must say the corresponding line. 

5. To help students to remember the dialogue, when they have to say every line, the teacher shows a paper  with the appropiate modal verb written on it. 

6. To finish, all the classroom must say the dialogue, line by line, without any help from the teacher. 

Remember: If some student makes a mistake of pronunciation or grammar, the teacher should help the student to correct it.