The Gingerbread Man EFL Lesson Plan
The Gingerbread Man EFL Lesson Plan
The Gingerbread Man EFL Lesson Plan
B. Lesson Background:
It is a lesson using authentic materials to check mainly the listening skills of students. Students are already familiar
with common verbs, and present tense; and were taught how to read and write simple sentence construction. After
this lesson, students are asked to perform a group play to further check students understanding of the story.
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E. Procedures / Timing:
Teacher does/says . . .
Students do/say . . .
Approximate
Time
4mins
3mins
6mins
8 mins
10mins
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speech
Teacher announces they will play Say
What Race (Pass the message game) and
explain and demonstrate the instructions as
follows:
Divide into two groups. Each group will form
a line. The first person on the line will read a
sentence taken from the story and whisper it
to the next student which will whisper it to
the next student and so on until it reached
the last student which will find the matching
picture and say the exact sentence. The
student who reads will go at the back of the
line, so for every round each student will
have chance to read or find the picture.
Points are given to the group every time they
get a correct match. The group with highest
points wins the game.
groups
6mins
3mins
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F. Alternative Assessment:
For this class period, the teacher will use alternative assessment by observing students at work. She will make note
of the different language abilities students used on the following activities:
First listening activity: ability to listen for gist
Cloze worksheet activity: dictation ability; reading ability and listening ability; pronunciation;
ability to makes connection between visual (video) and text (transcripts)
Say What? Race activity: listening comprehension ability (matching picture with story lines)
listening ability (pass the message accurately)
and practice of grammar(reported speech)
If I am The Author activity: speaking ability
Students are given chance to correct other pairs works during the cloze worksheet activity.
Teacher also notes whose students share their opinions during pair or group discussions. Teacher will also note
students pronunciation errors and correct it indirectly.
Below is an assessment form the teacher can use to check students performance. The rubrics for pronunciation and
fluency is adapted from :
http://jfmueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/toolbox/examples/withers97/debateoralevaluationrubric.htm
Assessment Form
Lesson: The Gingerbread Man
Skill
Activity
Pronunciation
Drill
Accuracy
Say What? Race
Fluency
If I am the Author
4 Phonetically correct.
Pronunciation and intonation
sound natural.
3 Generally correct and
comprehensible. Only
occasional errors.
2 Several errors in
pronunciation
1 Excessive errors
S1.
S2
S3.
S4.
S5.
S6.
S7.
S8.
Rubrics:
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G. Classroom Management:
The students are seated in group of fours to easily change from pair to group work. Students expect a fun
but at the same time productive class. They know that the classroom is a safe place to practice English and it is
normal to make mistake and learn from it. They usually work in pairs or in group day-by-day. Teacher circulates to be
sure that everyone is on task.
For the race game, chairs are moved on the sides to create space in the middle.
Since Korean students are competitive and grade conscious, rubrics are known and discussed to students
for each activity. The academy also implement using pure English during class as much as possible, so the teacher
must used simple, easy to understand instructions. Instructions and directions for every tasks are read first to them
followed by demonstration and answering the first question for them to serve as model. Teacher ensures the students
can perform the task.
The class implements a reward system. Students who perform tasks get stickers they collect and stick on
their folders which can be converted into EnglishWorld currency (EW$). They can use this to buy trinkets, toys and
snacks during the end of semester Market Day. ( See example at this link.
https://ketanhein.wordpress.com/2013/12/05/lets-go-to-the-market/ ) Misbehavior is not punished by point deduction
but noted in their performance sheet.
School supplies are provided and should only be used inside the classroom. They should return everything
in place at the end of the class. Students outputs are also compiled in portfolios.
Class rules and common classroom expressions should be posted on wall written both in English and
Korean.
H. Reflection - Phase 2
This lesson is same as the phase 1 lesson plan with little revisions. Revision includes adding the number of
students in the class and expanding the objectives. I also added an assessment form with rubrics as a respond to my
peer-evaluators suggestion. I also added in the procedures where the teacher should use the assessment form.
This focuses on listening skill but composed of different activities that integrate other main skills such as reading
and speaking. It also integrates the sub-skills pronunciation and grammar. Students are given enough exposure to
the text; it is repeated four times during the entire class, before given the comprehension questions. With different
activities all using one single text, the lesson appeals to multiple learning styles of the students. Repetition technique
is also best suits an EFL class. Students performance is assessed based on how they work with the text.
Short, several tasks are also used in order for the students to keep focused on the lesson which helps in
maintaining discipline inside the classroom.
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