Name of the Teacher Date Level of the class Length of lesson
Michaela Manicom 5 November 2020 A1 Elementary 60 minutes
Lesson Type: Vocabulary
Lesson Topic: Jobs
Lesson Aims: Lesson Outcomes:
By the end of the lesson, students will be better able to… By the end of the lesson, students will have…
1. Recognize and apply the ten new nouns (actor, doctor, 1. Had an open classroom discussion about future career
driver, teacher, musician, shop assistant, cleaner, nurse, choices, jobs they are currently in or people they know
farmer, mechanic), in their daily lives while coming into within any of the relevant fields using the target language
contact with different people within different fields. (TV).
2. Identifying with possible career opportunities.
Target vocabulary: Common Nouns
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, Anticipated difficulties: Suggested solutions:
1. Each job listed could be broken up into different categories, 1. Provision of different scenarios distinguishing between
therefore students could find it more difficult to find (and different types of each job, in which I will encourage
learn) one universal meaning, such as: teacher. There are feedback through CCQs.
many different types of teachers (English teacher, special
education teacher, lecturer, etc). 2. Demonstrate the physical movement of the mouth when
verbalizing /r/ and continuing to do so until students are
2. In the students L1 (Chinese), there is no /r/ sound, thus this able to repeat the sound correctly, as this will help them
target language could be more difficult for them to grasp as with many other words within other target languages in the
many “jobs” end in /r/, such as: actor, cleaner, doctor, future.
driver, farmer, and teacher.
3. During the students’ activity time, I will group them into
3. Students that are slightly more advanced could result in the pairs/ groups of three (with each containing students of
other students feeling discouraged and embarrassed to ask different levels), in which the students should feel more
for help, thus hindering their growth within the target relaxed thus able to learn from one another and ask for help
language. within their groups.
Language analysis:
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Michaela Manicom 5 November 2020 A1 Elementary 60 minutes
Lesson Type: Vocabulary
Lesson Topic: Jobs
Lesson Aims: Lesson Outcomes:
By the end of the lesson, students will be better able to… By the end of the lesson, students will have…
1. Recognize and apply the ten new nouns (actor, doctor, 1. Had an open classroom discussion about future career
driver, teacher, musician, shop assistant, cleaner, nurse, choices, jobs they are currently in or people they know
farmer, mechanic), in their daily lives while coming into within any of the relevant fields using the target language
contact with different people within different fields. (TV).
2. Identifying with possible career opportunities.
Target vocabulary: Common Nouns
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, Anticipated difficulties: Suggested solutions:
1. Each job listed could be broken up into different categories, 1. Provision of different scenarios distinguishing between
therefore students could find it more difficult to find (and different types of each job, in which I will encourage
learn) one universal meaning, such as: teacher. There are feedback through CCQs.
many different types of teachers (English teacher, special
education teacher, lecturer, etc). 2. Demonstrate the physical movement of the mouth when
verbalizing /r/ and continuing to do so until students are
2. In the students L1 (Chinese), there is no /r/ sound, thus this able to repeat the sound correctly, as this will help them
target language could be more difficult for them to grasp as with many other words within other target languages in the
many “jobs” end in /r/, such as: actor, cleaner, doctor, future.
driver, farmer, and teacher.
3. During the students’ activity time, I will group them into
3. Students that are slightly more advanced could result in the pairs/ groups of three (with each containing students of
other students feeling discouraged and embarrassed to ask different levels), in which the students should feel more
for help, thus hindering their growth within the target relaxed thus able to learn from one another and ask for help
language. within their groups.
Language analysis:
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