Lesson plan

Teacher: Corolea Marcela

Grade: 5th
Lesson topic: Health (mixed)
Textbook: English Project
Time: 50 minutes
Aim: to increase Ss knowledge of positive health behaviours and enhance wellness.
Learning objectives: (by the end of the lesson students will be able to):
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understand the health benefits of regular physical activity

understand the importance of taking care of their teeth through proper dental hygiene and healthy eating
understand when and why they have to wash their hands

Procedures: conversation, dialogue, explanation, exercise

Class management: frontal, individual work, pair work, whole class
Types of interaction: T-whole class, T-S, S-T, S-S
Skills: speaking, reading, writing
Materials: worksheets, board, notebook, pictures
Evaluation: initial through warm up, continuous through activities, observation, error correction, final through both oral and written feedback.

Steps of
the lesson
Warm up
Preteaching

Time
5

Activities
T greets the Ss and asks them how they are doing and asks for attendance.
T asks Ss to place their desks in a circle.

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T writes on the board the title of the new lesson Health and asks them
questions:
1-what does it mean to them health and being healthy? (Being healthy means we
eat foods that are good for our bodies, we play and exercise.)
2-what foods do you like eat that are good for your bodies? (milk, fruits, eggs,
vegetables, meat, juice)
3-what is your favourite physical activity? (riding a bicycle, walking, running,
hide-and-seek)
4-why do you think we have teeth? (to eat, to talk and smile)
5-how can we keep our teeth healthy? (some foods can help make our teeth
strong-milk, cheese and yogurt, help clean our teeth apples, carrots, cucumbers)
6-why do we have to wash our hands? (so we dont get sick/germs)

Interaction

Materials

T-Ss
Ss-T
T-Ss

Board

Ss-T

Notebook

Whole class
Individual
work

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Notebook

T shows them a variety of pictures of healthy foods and physical activities and unhealthy foods
and inactivity. Tells Ss that in order to have healthy bodies when they get older (like their
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parents and grandparents) it is important to be healthy when they are children.

Whole class

Pictures
worksheet

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Ss write the answer to every question on the board and on their notebooks.

the teeth.

T asks Ss if they know how to properly wash their hands and mimes it.

T asks Ss when they should wash their hands (after touching animals, pets, before eating or
touching food, after going to the bathroom, after you cough, sneeze or blow your nose, after
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touching money, after playing outside or with shared toys).

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T asks Ss what did they enjoy about the lesson and if there were things new to them.

WORKSHEET
Find out the words related to the lesson: vegetables, teeth brush, fruits, hand washing, physical activity, health.

T-Ss; Ss-T
Whole class