AUTONOMOUS LEARNING CLASSES MAY 2ND AND 4TH

AUTONOMOUS LEARNING CLASSES MAY 2ND AND 4TH

EXAMPLES OF CLASSES WITH A LESSON PLAN PREVIOUSLY MADE

My classmates of Autonomous Learning class did the demonstration of how could be a class with a lesson plan done previously, and how it could be interesting for students when you do drama exercises; remember that in my previous post I show you the correct form to do a lesson plan (This is the link: http://autonomouslearningworld.blogspot.com.co/2017/04/autonomous-learning-class-april-25th.html ) and in other post I talked to you about some drama strategies/activities (This is the link: http://autonomouslearningworld.blogspot.com.co/2017/04/autonomous-learning-classes-april-18th.html ). Now, in this post I am going to show you the examples that my classmates gave in the class.

GROUP 1 (Alejandro, Tatiana and Ana Maria)

Subject: Profession and occupation

Drama Activity Strategy: Props

Parts of the class:

Warm up: They gave us (the students) photocopies which have the lyrics of a song but with incomplete sentences, and we had to listen the song and complete it.

Introduction: They talked about professions and occupations like: Actor, author, chef, doctor, dentist, shop assistant, nurse, farmer, teacher and others.

Practice: To practice the new vocabulary we talked with our partners about our parents’ profession or occupation.

Production:  In this part they used the drama activity that was props. They brought props of some clothes that usually use some professions and occupations and we had to talk about the profession of the accessory that we had put.

Review: In the review we had to identify the profession and occupation of some pictures.

GROUP 2 (Mauricio, Laura and María Paula)

Subject: Parts of the city.

Drama Activity Strategy: Magic carpet.

Parts of the class:

Warm up: They did an activity which the students had to do a list of verbs, that activity is called “snake” and consist to write a word and the next word must starts with the last letter of the previous word, but in this case those words had to be verbs.

Introduction:  They talked about some different places in the city.

Practice:  To practice the new vocabulary they gave us some photocopies which had pictures of some parts the city, and we had to identify them.

Production: In this part they used the drama activity that was Magic Carpet. They brought two “Magic Carpet” and four students had to give clues or describe a place of the city and the other students had to guess, this activity was divided in two groups.

Review: In the review we had to say the part of the city showed in the board.

 GROUP 3 (Santiago, María Jose and Melanie)

Subject: Daily Routines

Drama Activity Strategy: Freeze Frame

Parts of the class:

Warm up: To start the class they put us to play the game “Heads up”

Introduction: They talked about vocabulary in daily routines, like: study routine, gym routine, work routine, cooking routine, and others.

Practice: To practice this topic they gave us photocopies which had some pictures about some actions that you usually realize in a daily routine.

Production: In this part they used the drama activity that was Freeze Frame, which consist guess the routine in groups.

Review: In the review they showed us a video with the same topic.

GROUP 4 (Natalia, Cristian and Nicolas)

Subject: Parts of the House

Drama Activity Strategy: Roll On the Wall

Parts of the class:

Warm up: They gave us a picture of a part of a house and we had to talk about it.

Introduction: They talked about some parts of a house and things that you can find in each part usually.

Practice: To practice the new vocabulary they gave us some photocopies which had a picture of a house and their parts, we had to identify them.

Production: In this part they used the drama activity that was Roll on the Wall.

Review: In the review, they showed us a video with the previous topic.

PERSONAL OPINION: This examples could help future teachers who want to make their classes more interesting, also to be prepared for each class.