Lesson Plan : Writing holiday postcards
Teacher Name: | Ms Sefton |
Grade: | Grade 6 |
Subject: | Interdisciplinary |
Topic: | Writing holiday postcards using the present and past tenses. |
Content: | Using structured postcards and cues, then real postcards imagining that they are in a place illustrated. |
Goals: | Learn phrases and themes used in holiday postcards, basic things they could write about them: Greetings from ... weather (sunny, cold, hot, rainy, wet, windy etc.) food (delicious, spicy/hot, expensive, cheap etc.) people (friendly/unfriendly, helpful, nice etc.) hotel (nice, clean, noisy, large, small etc.) scenery (beautiful, there are/is a lot of ...) flight (and other transportation) sight-seeing (interesting places, museums, art galleries, etc.) nightlife (busy, exciting, quiet, not much to do, a lot to do) shopping (a lot of shops, expensive, cheap, shopping centres, markets etc.) |
Objectives: | To be able to write first the structured postcard and then another postcard by modifying the themes according to the pictures in the postcards. Using the past simple in written work. |
Materials: | POSTCARDS worksheet with two different aspects to a holiday (one negative, one positive) and REAL postcards from all over the world. |
Introduction: | Collecting some adjectives describing some holiday themes that people write about in postcards, using students' personal experiences: including weather, people, hotel, transportation, food, etc. |
Development: | Teacher writes a model on the board, using words students have given. Explaining where the date, name, address would go, salutations. |
Practice: | Students fill in the structured postcards (one negative, one positive). Teacher helps as necessary. |
Accommodations: | More able students could write the first postcards in their own words. |
Checking For Understanding: | Some students could read their work aloud. Discussion whether the descriptions match the postcards. |
Closure: | Collect some words that students should study for the following week. |
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