Friday, 11 September 2009

LESSON PLAN

Decor Your Living Room

Level: Form 2 (Intermediate)
Topic: Home Decoration
Theme: Social Issues
Time: 80 minutes (double period)
Language Content: Prepositions of location and vocabulary


Aims: By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
1) Identify new vocabulary using the information from the web.
2) Write sentences by using the right prepositions.
3) Decorate their living room.

Technical requirements:
1) One computer per group of 2- 3 students.
2) Internet connection.
3) Web Browser.

Preparation:
1) Locate the website.
2) Prepare worksheet based on the information in the website.
3) Whiteboard.



Set induction (5 minutes)

1) Teacher revises the previous lesson on prepositions.
2) Teacher asks the students about the use of the furniture and the locations of the furniture at their house.

Task 1 (35 minutes)

1) Teacher assigns 2- 3 students for one computer.
2) Teacher instructs the students to go to the following website: http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/categories/departments/living_room
3) Teacher explains on how to use the navigation bar to jump from one picture to another.
4) Teacher draws a table (see Appendix A) on the board and asks the student to draw the same table in Microsoft word.
5) Teacher asks students to work in pair and identify the furniture and electrical appliances in every single picture by fill in the table.
6)Teacher allocates 20 minutes for students to create and fill in the table.
7) Teacher guides the students in completing the task.
8) Teacher asks a few groups to present their findings and discuss it with the whole class.

Task 2 (35 minutes)

1) Teacher explains and lists down the prepositions of locations on the board.
2) Teacher instructs the students to go to the following websites:
(http://www.la-z-boy.com/furniture/com/furniture/)
3) Teacher distributes a work sheet (refer to Appendix B)
4) Teacher asks the students to label with the furniture and then create sentences to explain their locations using the right prepositions.
5) Teacher asks a few groups to read aloud their answers and sentences

Conclusion (5 minutes)

1) Teacher recaps the lesson on “living room decoration”.
2) Teacher inculcates moral values and asks for responses from the students.


Follow-up activity:


Students are asked to draw a picture on their living room decorations based on their own imaginations.

Appendices












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7 comments:

  1. Ita, I love your lesson! I'm sure the students will beg their parents to let them decorate the house after this lesson just for the sake of showing off their creativity ;)

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  2. it is very interesting topic. i am very agree with saha. i think the students would go ga-ga over this lesson. this lesson would bring out the creativeness in students. i think that the students would enjoy the lesson very much. -Nur Fazleen bt Badrul Zaman-

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  3. This lesson made me think about the Deko! Deko! Deko! commercial. I love the simplicity of the lesson and perhaps through this lesson, we can find another DEKO ERIC in the house????

    p/s: ita, it also reminds me of the German lesson, remember die Furniture????? German II...

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  4. i think ita...you have done a good job... =) give students opprtunity to be creative and informations for students who want to be an interior designer in the future...cool! =)

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  5. waaahhhh...decoring while learning...nice!

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  6. a good lesson plan to enhance the students' creativity..using IKEA's website is interesting too :)

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