Microteaching 2



Name: Ghady Samir                                                                                   Time: 50 minutes

Level: intermediate                                                                                   Date:  01-13-2013

Main Aim(s)

By the end of this lesson students:      a.        Will have developed their reading and listening comprehension skills in the context of the story Little Fish      b.       Students will have developed their speaking by discussing the moral of the story by referring to personal incidents

Subsidiary Aim (s)

Students will have familiarized with verbs in the story and use them in the final speaking task

Materials

o    http://www.turtlediary.com/kids-stories/the-little-fish.html o    Handmade drawings

Assumptions:

Students are familiar with teacher students interactive moral stories Students are familiar with predictive tasks

Anticipated Problems:

Possible Problems	Proposed Solutions
Technical problems might happen with internet connection. Story telling might take more or less than the needed time based on students’ skills	Provide a written copy of the story to read with students Provide a time optional comprehension task for (5 minutes)

Stages	Time	Int. Mode	Procedures	Aims
Lead in	5	OC	Ask SS what kind of fish they can find in the sea. Brainstorm for ideas i.e. (Sharks-turtles-octopus) Introduce title of the story Little Fish and tell SS that the story has a moral.	Generate students’ interest in the story
Prediction Task	10	DW	Using the drawings, SS try to create their own version of the story.	Lead in to story presentation SS predict the content of the story
Read and listen to Story	10	OC	Teacher  reads the story and discusses it with  SS. Discuss which group was the closest to the real story	Present the content for students to check their predictions.
Comprehension (Time optional)	5	GW	Students are given ten statements from the story. Students distinguish which statements are true and which are false. Open class feedback	To check students comprehension of the story in details
Language Focus Follow on	10 10	GW OC S	The teacher gives the students ac list of verbs from the story i.e. run swim, eat Each student thinks of a verb and mimes it to the class for them to guess. The teacher writes the moral of the story on the whiteboard and tells the class a story about her not listening to her mother and what consequences she suffered. Students think of stories with the same moral and share them with each other Content and language final feedback	Highlight students attention of some verbs in the story Students relate the moral of the story to their lives Students develop their narrative speaking ability by telling stories about themselves.

 Little Fish

Leo:  Here I come. I can swim, swim, and swim. And have beautiful fins.

Grandpa:  I am tired. I am going to sleep. Be a good fish and do not go away. There are many dangerous animals far away.

Leo:  Yes Grandpa. I will not go far away.

Timmels:  Hello Leo! Come on. Let us go.

Leo:  Yes. Let us go.

Oh no! It’s a shark! We are so small. The shark will eat us. Run, run, and run.

Narrator:  They went ahead and saw an octopus.

Leo:  Oh no! Someone help us. This octopus will eat us.

Narrator:  Timmel’s friend, Dori, who was nearby, saw what was happening and rushed to help Timmels and Leo. Dori managed to get rid of the octopus.

Timmels:  Thank you Dori.

Leo:  Thank you.

Dori:  Both of you are small animals. You should not go far away. The big animals can eat you. Always listen to the elders and go far away only with them.

Leo and Timmels:  Sorry.

Leo:   We should obey our elders. They only want the best for us.

True or False?

                                                                                                     T                   F

Grandpa is Timmel’s grandfather.
Dori is Timmel’s friend.
Leo and Timmels are friends
They saw an octopus but they were safe.
They saw a shark but Timmels helped them.
Leo was sorry he did not listen to grandpa.