LESSON PLAN TEMPLATE

Your Name:________Vani Taufaga____________________________________________

Location:____________Fiji_____________ Type of School:___Public School ___
Grade: _7___ Name of Class: ______________________________________
Level of Class:_____intermediate ________ Number of Students__25___
Total Length of Class (minutes):____30 minutes_______
PRE-PLANNING FOR THE LESSON
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Topic of Class Interpreting Videos
Overall Goal

Students will be able to create their own idioms and similes

Specific Objectives
1. Students will be able to use the skills learnt from differentiating idioms and similes and
interpret the video
2. Students will be able to create their own idioms and similes to interpret the video.
Prior Knowledge
Students would already know and be able to identify the difference between idioms and
similes.
Are able to create idioms and similes with use of pictures
Materials and Resources
Computers/laptop/tablet/phone, Instagram account for each student
Key Vocabulary
Hashtag, interpret, differentiate, identify
Assessment
Formal: from the previous homework regarding idioms and similes, the teacher will evaluate
whether or not the students are able to differentiate between the terms and apply that
knowledge in the Instagram activity.
Informal: For the warm up and model practice done with the whole class, the teacher will
visually assess and take into account who understands and who is still struggling. Then the
teacher will re-group so that students who know about idioms and similes will be able to help
those that do not yet know.
LESSON
SEQUENCE:

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Lesson Element * Time Procedures
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Warm up
5 min 1st, 2nd, 3rd Person/Plural Review:
Review with the class the difference between idioms and simile by
giving sentences and the students will raise their right hand for
idiom and left hand for simile. (or other body gestures e.g.
clapping hands for idioms and blinking your eyes for simile)
After which, ask a student to explain why it is a simile or idiom
3rd Person
203rd Person Feelings:
25min
The teacher will then introduce the social media Instagram
which is a way of for people to share their videos and
photos online with other people.
Each student will create an Instagram account and follow
the teachers account
The teacher will then go through a few pictures and videos
to show the students what Instagram is all about and the
variety that is available
As a demonstration activity, choose a video and discuss as a
class what is portrayed, the theme, and their feel towards
the video e.g. does the video make them feel adventurous,
angry, surprised etc
Write these ideas on the board
After discussing about the video, together as a class, create
a sentence that describes the video.
With the same sentence, ask the students how they can
change the sentence into an idiom
Together as a class create an idiom using the main ideas
from the original sentence
After which, create a simile using the main ideas from the
original sentence

3rd Person Written 10 min

Practice

With the sentence created (choose either the idiom or simile

sentence), the teacher will put the sentence into either a
song/rap/poem to make a 15-20 second video.
The title of the video should be labeled with a hashtag and
title e.g. #simile video response

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Ser Intro

10 min Students will watch the same video from the demonstration activity
again
In pairs, students will create an idiom (or simile) sentence to the
same video discussed as a class

Ser Practice

10 min Then students will make a 10-20 second video response through
instagram using their created sentence either through creative song,
poem or rap.
They will then post it onto their account and tag the teacher

Closing Activity

5 min

Teacher will assign pairs to view one anothers video

Students will view the video and write a sentence response with the
hashtag; #response
* e.g., warm-up, presentation, production, practice, pairwork, groupwork, etc.
Please Attach:

copies of any visual devices or handouts that you will use in the lesson

Remember:

Select a particular location/age or grade level/level for the students (e.g., 7th grade
beginning English students in China)

Plan one course hour (approximately 50-60 minutes) appropriate to the group you
are teaching

Your lesson plan should focus on the teaching of language, speaking, and/or
listening (reading and writing should not be the main focus)

Your lesson should include both (a) some form of teacher presentation and (b) some
form of student interaction.

Any handouts or materials incorporating worked produced by others should include

citations to original source

Rubric: Lesson Plan (See the rubric in Canvas for point values)
Outstanding
Pre-Planning Units are very

Good
Pre-Planning units are

Needs Improvement
Pre-Planning Units are

specific, complete, internally

consistent, and appropriate for
the students involved and the
goal of the lesson

somewhat specific, complete,

internally consistent, and
appropriate for the students
involved and the goal of the
lesson

insufficiently specific,
incomplete, not internally
consistent, and inappropriate for
the students involved or the goal
of the lesson

Lesson Sequence is very

detailed, pedagogically sound,
and matches the goals and
objectives of the lesson

Lesson Sequence is somewhat

detailed, mostly sound, and
mostly matches the goals and
objects of the lesson

Lesson Sequence is
insufficiently detailed, not
pedagogically sound, and does
not match well with the goals
and objectives of the lesson

Overall lesson is very

interesting and effective for the
student population and
goals/objectives

Overall lesson is somewhat

interesting and effective for the
student population and
goals/objectives

Overall lesson is insufficiently

interesting and effective for the
student population and
goals/objectives