Portfolio of lesson Plans



Portfolio of 5 lesson plans

Introduction

The central part of English language is grammar, it should be placed high significance when educating a person. If there is a failure in achieving this there must be a failure in recognizing this vital element. Indeed there are certain distinctions of grammar that require a great amount of time and effort for even the most skilled learners. Some researchers' emphasis the fact that proper instructed grammas lessons can help facilitate the learner is grasping key concepts relatively easily. Following is a portfolio of lesson plans signifying the various approaches to teaching and learning grammar (De Silva and Burns, 1990).

Sample Lesson plan guide number 1

Lesson Topic: Introducing pronouns through story telling

Goals:

Introduce the characters of the story

To teach and help practice the use of pronounsCommunication tasks

Explain subject pronouns and illustrate through a story that they are used when we do not want or cannot say the person's name

Make sure to specify the usage of he , she and it for third person and they for third person plural

Make sure to explain each word that might be difficult for students to understand

Point out words from the exercise unit that are pronouns

Strategies

Work in groups and cooperate

Effective storytelling

Before activity preparations

Play the audio of the story and let the students listen attentively

Ask the students to point out the main characters

Explain how the names are replaced by subject pronouns, the reason behind using them.

Structure:

This activity is for pre intermediate students.

This exercise is in order to check whether students understand the idea of subject pronouns and how they change according to singular and plural

Activity can be performed individually or in groups

Make sure to play an audio first to get them attentive about the topic

Have the students perform the exercises on subject pronouns

The exercise focuses third person subject pronouns

Another exercise is to fill in the blanks with the characters name instead of pronouns, the importance of this exercise is to understand characters and how they are replaced by subject pronoun

Make the students re write the sentences and conduct a class discussion regarding the answers

Rationale

According to Fotos and Nissaji they consider teaching pronouns to a foreign language speaker is tricky since there is no such concept within many languages for instance Spanish. This activity helps elaborate the usage of subject pronouns and within which context. For this purpose pronouns are introduced to the students at an early age to help them understand the basics (Foto and Nassaji,2010).

Sample Lesson plan guide number 2

Lesson Topic: Critical problem solving using modal auxiliaries

Goals

Proper usage of past tense modal auxiliaries ; Could/might

Reading comprehension, how accurately the students grasp the situation and the major problem

reasoning

resolving the problem by careful analyses

Using hypothetical auxiliaries Would/should

Communication Task

Read out a current problem that needs to be dealt with could be from the newspaper

highlight the proper usage of Modal auxiliary within the passage

provide examples of similar issues and the solutions

students will individually devise a solution

Strategies

Read Aloud

Story Grammar

Writing and analysing situation and identifying problem

Make students discuss possible solutions ...