Fourth Lesson - Grade 3

Fourth Lesson - Grade 3


Lesson plan: Adventure Park

Stage 1: Images from the textbook. Students repeat the vocabulary after the teacher. Include actions for the words. Play an action guessing game with the students.

Stage 2: Introduce the phrase “There was a…” (This might be a repetition from a previous lesson) when going over the new vocabulary.

Play the listening activity. Have students join the words depending on the audio. (Go over the pictures and words before the audio is played). Do activity 4 and present it on the board. Draw what the students say. 

Stage 3: Ask the student to get into pairs and ask them to draw their own adventure park together. They are to draw and label their parks and if they want, they can present their parks to the class afterwards.

Stage 4: Introduce the modals “could” and “couldn’t” in the example sentences. Come up with examples to model it with then get examples from the students on what they could or couldn't do. Explain that it is the past tense if possible.

Stage 5: Have the pairs form into groups of 4 and have them explain to each other what they could or couldn't do in their adventure parks (have them use the drawings they already had) (Model with some students first).

Stage 6: If time - do activity 1 and 2 from the workbook.




My fourth and fifth lessons were done in a row. They were done in a grade 3 class who have a high level of understanding and competence when it comes to English. So I found myself going through the prepared activities really quickly. It was very lucky that the textbooks from which they are working also have student workbooks so we were able to revise a lot of the information through those.


Overall, the first of these two lessons went pretty smoothly for the most part. The students were focused and only a little bit disruptive, but it was manageable. The main issue was with trying to explain the use of “could” and “couldn’t”, and it required a lot of modelling and explaining with some of the stronger students. In the end it seemed to work really well. The pair work going into group work also worked pretty well, although with the group work, the students did get much more distracted after doing the bare minimum of descriptions and would default to chatting about something else. This was harder to manage, but it was a small activity and so it was easy to move forward with the next one.

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