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Date Posted: 16:28:46 06/20/03 Fri
Author: Carolina Rosa Pansini
Subject: Task 7

ANALYZE THE FOLLOWING LESSON PLAN HAVING RYAN’S TEXT AS REFERENCE.

The presentation of the lesson buying a car is too short.

“Project Title: Buy a car
Subject: Consumer Education/Family and Consumer Science
Description: A project requiring research, critical thinking and complex decision-making about an expensive consumer item – a car.”

So, as we can see, it starts in the wrong way. Because teacher should present and specify the language functions that students are going to learn and use in this activity. And this presentation is so briefly to exposure the activity’s intention. As Ryan says: “(...) learners can be kept motivated and interested if, for example, they know that they will be practicing the past perfect or within a specific context such as language used in a hotel."

The warm-up of the lesson is well done. Because teacher stimulates students to think about the situation and to research things related to it.

I could realize that after the end of the “research phase” and “decision-making-phase”, teacher asks students to share the results of their project. It opposes the Ryan’s model that suggests, at this time, to have some controlled practice. As a result students can practice their communication and their pronunciation.

At the “sharing phase” students are asked to hand in a summary of their research findings. In my opinion, it is not correct. Because it is a communicative course, so students should give this feedback orally to the class. The aim of this course is to increase fluency.

About the feedback of the teacher, as he or she asks students to hand in a written report of the research, I think the teacher should give some kind of feedback in their writings.

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