DIDACTIC SEQUENCE

Escuela de Capacitación Laboral Sabino Pignatari

Course: 3rd Year “A” and “B”

Teacher: María Isabel Montaña

Trainee teacher: Inés Quiroga

I. Title II. Subject III. Duration.

Unit 5: “TECHNOLOGY” English Language November

Didactic sequence: “WISHES”

IV. Problems V. Objectives

I wish I were… Identify wish structure

I wish I hadn’t parked my car here Express wishes

If only Susan would stop interrupting me Talk about different situations expressing desires

Make sentences expressing wishes and regrets.

Review all time tenses.

VI. Skills

Express wishes

Recognize structures: I wish, If only,

Read about different situations and regrets

Listen to dialogues

Recognize time tenses in different situations

VII. Contents
 Wish structure: Past Simple, past perfect and would (modal)

Vocabulary about different situations

Time tenses

VIII. Activities d)Teacher’s purpose

a) Starting the lesson

Greeting. Use of vocabulary in different context

Say what wishes would they ask Talk about wishes ( present,past)

Listen to the teacher talking about activities Identify grammar structure

Read about different situations(dialogues) Make statements

b) Development

Write down new vocabulary

Make questions with I wish /If only

Make affirmative and negative sentences

Identify expressions

Highlight the use of the structure

Read texts about different situations

c) Round up

Write sentences in affirmative and negative

and answer questions.

Talk about regrets in the present and in the

past

Make oral sentences expressing wishes

among classmates.
 Do the tasks

IX. Evaluation

Participation in class, discipline, homework

Written evaluation

X. Sources

“On Screen” Workbook and grammar book and teacher’s book, copies, games, pictures, tape
recorder, whiteboard, markers

Lesson Plan Nº1

Class 1

Date: November

Grade: 3rd Year “A” and “B”

Timetable: Monday: 20.30 to 21.45 Thursday: 20.30 to 21.45

Tuesday: 20.30 to 21.45 Friday: 20.30 to 21.45

Wednesday: 20.30 to 21.45

Duration: 120 min.

Warm up:

The teacher will take two cards with two phrases: “I wish” and “If only”and she will

stick them on the board. The students will look at them and they have to guess what do

they mean.
Development:

The teacher will introduce the topic “Wishes” to the students. She will teach them the

grammar structure with lots of examples: first with present situations (I wish + past

simple) to change and then with past situations ( I wish + past perfect). Then they will

copy on their copybooks the theory and the examples. After that they will use the

handouts (copy or online) and they will start with the exercises. They will have to read

different situations between a boy and a man. The boy has got a bad cold and they will

have to write sentences expressing different wishes in the present. The man has been on

holiday and he had a terrible time. They will have to form sentences with different

wishes expressing regrets.

Round Up:

The students will see a picture with a family doing different activities (noisy activities

and disturbing). The students will see the pictures and they .will write sentences saying

wishes to change these situations.

Lesson Plan Nº2

Class 2

Date: November

Grade: 3rd Year “A” and “B”

Timetable: Monday: 20.30 to 21.45 Thursday: 20.30 to 21.45

Tuesday: 20.30 to 21.45 Friday: 20.30 to 21.45

Duration: 120 min.

Warm up:

The teacher will greet the students. Then they will write on the board three sentences

with I WISH (present situations and past situations)

Development:

The teacher will give the students a copy with a song with “wish” structures in it. The

students will put their headphones and they will have to listen to the song (I wish I were

here by Avril Lavigne) on their phones. After listening to the song twice or three times

they will have to complete it. After that they will check it all together. Then the teacher

will continue with the handout with other exercises where they will have to put the

verbs in brackets into the correct tense. After the exercise they will have to write

different wishes according to the different situations they will read. They will do it with

their classmates. Finally the teacher will give them an exercise where they will have to

correct the mistakes they will found in different sentences and they will have to write

them correctly.

Round up:

After some minutes the teacher will check all the exercises with the students.

Lesson Plan Nº3

Class 3
Date: November

Grade: 3rd Year “A” and “B”

Timetable: Monday: 20.30 to 21.45 Thursday: 20.30 to 21.45

Tuesday: 20.30 to 21.45 Friday: 20.30 to 21.45

Wednesday: 20.30 to 21.45

Duration: 120 min.

Warm up:

The teacher will greet the students. Then they will make a brief review again with the

structures I wish/If only.

Development:

The teacher will talk with the students about the review she will do with them with all

the time tenses they have seen during the year. The teacher will start making a review

with the time tenses the students are working in this topic. She will review past simple

and past perfect. First they will listen and they will participate in an oral review. After

that the teacher will give them a copy with two exercises where they will have to

complete sentences with past simple or past perfect. Then they will complete a text with

the two time tenses correctly. Finally the students will check the answers with the

teacher and clear any doubts they could have.

Round up:

The teacher will give them sentences to complete with their own personal opinions.

They will have to write them in simple past or past perfect.

Class 4

Date: November

Grade: 3rd Year “A” and “B”

Timetable: Monday: 20.30 to 21.45 Thursday: 20.30 to 21.45

Tuesday: 20.30 to 21.45 Friday: 20.30 to 21.45

Wednesday: 20.30 to 21.45

Duration: 120 min.

Warm up:

The teacher will greet the students. Then she will give them a copy for them to make a
written practice with I wish/ If only.

Development:

The students will have to do all the exercises alone taking into account what they
studied. The written practice will have three exercises. In the first one they will have to
make sentences using I wish. In the second one they will have to complete sentences
and the third one they will have to look at the pictures and write people wishes.

Round up:

The students will give the teacher their written practices.

Lesson Plan Nº5

Date: November

Grade: 3rd Year “A” and “B”

Timetable: Monday: 20.30 to 21.45 Thursday: 20.30 to 21.45

Tuesday: 20.30 to 21.45 Friday: 20.30 to 21.45

Wednesday: 20.30 to 21.45

Duration: 120 min.

Warm up: