1. Lesson Plan The Countries of South America By Melva Lamboglia
University of Panama Faculty of Humanities English Department Master of Arts in English as a Second Language
Lesson Plan
The Countries of South America By
Melva Lamboglia

2. Lesson Plan Format
Date: November 16th, 2007
Subject: English.
Grade Level: 7th graders.
Skills: Reading, Writing
Macrofunction: Description.
Preparing the Learning
Setting: Teachers will ask their students for the countries of South America
Assessing prior knowledge: All the students will answer wh- questions about these countries such as:

3. Where is Peru? It is beside Bolivia.
What is the capital of Peru? It is Lima.
Information of New Topic
Teachers will explain about the nationalities and languages of those countries.
Reference to previous knowledge
Teachers will ask their students oral questions about the topic, to open a map of South America and to answer those written questions using prepositions such as beside, under, and over.

4. Course of Study Objectives
At the end of the new class, your students will be able to:
Acquire a good pronunciation of the countries, capitals, nationalities and languages of South America.
2. Use those countries in real context.

5. Learner`s Objectives
At the end of this new class, students will be able to:
Tell the countries of South America
orally.
2. Mention their capitals, languages and nationalities.
3. Identify them on a map.
4. Use them on sentences

6. Materials
You will need.
A computer lab.
Computers.
Access to internet.
Methodology
Your students will make a brain-storming about the names of the countries of SouthAmerica and where they are located .

7. Then, you will assign them to go this page :
and solve a quiz about these countries, using prepositions in English. After they have finished this practice, they will go to the following page:

8.
and they will listen to the teacher`s explanation about the nationalities and countries. Next, they will go to the Page:
and will practice identify the countries. Finally, they will go to a page where they can identify the nationalities and countries.

9. Procedure
Teachers´ Activities
Students´ Activities
Teachers´s will:
Brainstorm questions about the countries of South America and where they are located using prepositions: under, beside and
over.
Students´s
Mention the countries of South America in English and tell where they are located using prepositions under, beside and over.

10. http://www.vocabulary.cl/Basic/Nationalities.htm Teachers´ Activities
Students´ Activities
2. Assign a classwork about countries of South America in a specific page.
3. Explain the nationalities and
languages.
2. Open and develop the practice on the web page assigned by the teacher written on the whiteboard.
3. Listen to the teacher´s explanation looking at the visual on a web.

11. Teachers´ Activities
Students´ Activities
4. Assign a written practice about nationalities and languages on Word format .
4. Solve a written practice on Word Format in the computer lab for appreciation.

12. Teaching the Learner
Learner´s Performance
(Assessment)
Concluding the Lesson
Adaptation of Instruction
Thank You!