Intercultural Project : Sports in Argentina and in USA - Practice II 2017. Lesson plan

1. Practice II: Didactics of ELT and Practicum at Primary School Level
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Intercultural project: “Sports in Argentina and in USA”
24/10/2017
School N°25 “Granaderos de San Martin”
Course: 6th “B” and “D”
Teacher: Jorgelina Rodriguez
Timetable fit: Mondays and Thursdays from 16.05 to 17.30
Lesson aims:
As teachers, we’ll try to:
 Focus on macro skills (speaking and writing) considering learners’ ages to
acquire language.
 Revise vocabulary related to sports.
 Identification of different sports, both local and international (USA)
 Revision on grammatical structures ( can – can´t)
 Revision on vocabulary related to different abilities.
 Revision of reference
Objectives of the lesson:
During the lesson, students are expected to:
 Revise the vocabulary related to sports: football, baseball, hockey, basketball,
ice skiing, skateboard, boxing, karate, etc.
 Talk about abilities related to sports.
 Revision of vocabulary related to different abilities ( jump, sing, run, walk, etc)
 Revision on reference
 Introduce sports practiced in the USA and in Argentina.
 Students to be able to identify and compare both countries with the same
sports
 Present a sport to the class and the exchange student, John Brakke.
Language:
Lexis: vocabulary about sports and abilities.

2. Practice II: Didactics of ELT and Practicum at Primary School Level
Aimé
Huarte
Florencia
Pérez
Functions: identifying and classifying different sports in Argentina and in the USA.
Routine (5’):
We are going to post on each of the classrooms a sheet of paper colorfully
designed by us with some threads hanging where we are going to put each of our
students ‘ names ( with a clip). Every time we enter the classroom, we are going to
choose three helpers. They will have to pick up all the names and give them to
their classmates to put them on. Before we leave the classroom, they have to give
them back so they can pick them up next class.
“1, 2, 3, silence please” (make use of it whenever the teacher/pedagogical partner
sees it necessary)
Breathing activity. Since one of the classes starts after the break, we will invite
our students to stand next to their desks and imagine they have a balloon inside
their hands. They are going to inhale and when they exhale, the balloon is going to
be a little bit bigger than before. We are going to repeat this procedure three times
and at the end, we will imaginary pop the balloon.
Warm up (5’):
As we were talking about the different kinds of sports in Argentina, we will revise
the vocabulary first.
We will activate the vocabulary with the following questions:
 What sports do you remember from last class?
 Which are played here in Argentina?
 Which one do you think is the most popular?
 Do you play any of them?
 Do you know the name of some of the players?
 Have you watched them on TV?
Body of the lesson:
Activity 1 (15’):

3. Practice II: Didactics of ELT and Practicum at Primary School Level
Aimé
Huarte
Florencia
Pérez
We prepared a PowerPoint presentation with the exchange student, John Brakke,
so as to introduce well-known sports in both countries, the USA and Argentina.
These sports were already introduced during our classes.
.
Activity 2 (10’):
We will divide the class into 4 groups. Each group will have assigned a sport. We
will provide the students with some colour pencils and cardboards so as for them to
draw about the sport they were assigned (from the USA or Argentina)
Each of the groups will have to write 3 sentences on the cardboard regarding
abilities using can/can’t
For example: “Volleyball players can jump high. They can’t sing.”
Activity 3 (10’)
Each one of the groups will present their work to their classmates and John. They
will be encouraged to speak about what they have drawn and their reasons as well
as read out loud the abilities they have chosen.