1. Final Project – Lesson Plan
By: Hector Elias Perez Gonzalez

2. Topic: Comparing Weather Conditions
Objective: Students will be able to write 3 sentences about the weather by using comparative adjectives.
Language Focus: Writing, expressing comparisons.
Class Time: 45 minutes

3. Students Profile Age/ Level: 7°, 12 years old
Number of Students in the class: 15
Prior Knowledge: They already know the basic weather conditions: cloudy, sunny, rainy, snowy, as well as temperature terms, like warm and cold; they also have learned the future tense of the verb to be (will be); the adjectives, and the days of the week.
Limitation: They are not allowed to bring their smartphones and similar devices to the school, so an adaptation is necessary for the use of technology.

4. Warm-up
Kahoot review session in groups of 3 (led by the teacher). They will review their prior knowledge on Comparative Adjectives.
5 minutes

5. Materials needed Printed Kahoot answer cards for the groups.
Teacher’s laptop.
Teacher’s smartphone.
Projector.

6. Rationale
This warm-up activity will serve as scaffolding to start the topic. They will apply their knowledge of Comparative Adjectives to the topic’s context to achieve the objective.

7. Activity 1 (F/A)
The groups will complete a handout with the comparative version of the given basic weather conditions. Each group will have 1 handout, so the students will have to discuss and agree before filling its blanks.
Time: 15 minutes

8. Materials needed Handouts given by the teacher.
Students’ pens or pencils.

9. Assessment Group Formative Self-Assessment Tool for Activity 1
Instructions: As the teacher shows the correct written form of the comparative adjectives, the students will check if they wrote such forms properly.

10. Rationale
They will complete this handout cooperatively in order scaffold for the next activity, as hey will use such filled handout as a reference.

11. Activity 2 (F/A)
The groups will play a puzzle in order to form sentences. Each student will write 1 sentence in the mini whiteboards
Time: 20 minutes

12. Materials needed
Day-of-the-week tickets and illustrated-weather- condition puzzle tickets
Mini whiteboards.
Whiteboard color markers (1 different per student).
Whiteboard erasers.

13. Assessment Group Formative Assessment for Activity 2
Rubric: the teacher will observe the groups’ whiteboard and check the following:

14. 4 points
3 points
2 points
1 point
Sentence completion
There are 3 sentences written in the whiteboard.
There are 2 sentences written in the whiteboard.
There is 1 sentence written in the whiteboard.
There are no sentences written at all.
Use of the comparison sentences’ structure (___ will be ___ than ___).
The 3 sentences follow the structure.
2 sentences follow the structure.
1 sentence follows the structure.
None of the sentences follow the structure.
Future tense structure(will be)
The 3 sentences follow the future tense structure
2 of the sentences follow the future tense structure.
Only 1 sentence follows the future tense structure.
None of the sentences follows the future sentence structure.
Comparative adjectives
Transforms correctly the weather conditions to comparative adjectives in the 3 sentences.
Transforms correctly the weather conditions to comparative adjectives in 2 sentences.
Transforms correctly the weather conditions to comparative adjectives in 1 sentence.
Does not transform correctly the weather conditions to comparative adjectives in any sentence.

15. Rationale
The students will do this activity in order to assess if they are able to write sentences comparing the weather of different days of the week, as well as to make the class more dynamic.

16. Wrap-up
Individual exit ticket: the teacher will show 2 images of places with opposite weather conditions. The students will, individually, fill an exit ticket with all the possible sentence combinations.
Time: 5 minutes

17. Materials needed
Post its.
Pen.

18. Rationale
By this doing this, the students will demonstrate that they learned the comparative adjectives.

19. Summative Assessment
The Summative Assessment will be taken on the next class. It will consist of a Written Test.

20. Written Test
The students will use a poster brought by the teacher as a reference. Such poster will contain a table with the days of the week, and each day will contain a different weather condition. The students will be free to choose the days of the week they will use to write the comparison sentences. They will have to write 5 sentences.

21. Micro-Demo Activity Chosen Activity: Activity 2 – Group Puzzle Game
Time: 20 minutes
Prior Knowledge: They already know the basic weather conditions: cloudy, sunny, rainy, snowy, as well as temperature terms, like warm and cold; they also have learned the future tense of the verb to be (will be); and they know the days of the week.
Scaffolded knowledge during the class: At this point, the students already know how to

22. Instructions The groups will take turns.
One by one, each group student will go in front of the class to take 2 Day-of-the- Week-Tickets from one basket and 1 weather-condition-ticket from the other basket,
Then he will quickly write down the key words in the group’s mini whiteboard, and
Then will go back to his/her group to write his/her corresponding sentence such mini whiteboard, based on the keywords he/she took. The sentence structure will be: _________ will be _____ than __________.

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24. Thank you!