Graded Assignment 1 - Lesson Plan (Writing) + Reflections

The Implementation of Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) in Language Classroom

Lesson Plan : "Teaching Writing to Primary School Students"

Subject	English Language
Skill Focus	Writing
Topic	Teaching vocabulary and sentence structure
Level	Intermediate – primary school children
No. of Students	30 students
Duration	1 hour lesson
Teaching Aids	English interactive website  Pictures  Powerpoint slides  Worksheets/exercixes
Objectives	To introduce simple sentences, sentence structure To enrich vocabulary of the students To generate thinking and creativity skills of students  To enhance student’s language skills by integrating the skills with the development of multimedia technology

Stage/Time	Content	Procedure
Induction 7 minutes	Class discussion	Teacher greets students, students get to know each other, asks how they are and also a recap of previous class: what have they learnt Teacher tells students that today students are going to learn about sentence structure and explain what is it about Teacher’s reflection: gives an introduction and a recap of previous lesson
Stage 1 15 minutes	Group work (consisting 4-5 students in a group)	A task is given to students based on the first site http://www.nonstopenglish.com/ Vocabulary building exercises, where students are asked to fill in the suitable words.  The description of the task is about “job occupation” The web will check automatically if there is any mistakes and gives correct answer and Teacher’s reflection: gives interactive learning
Stage 2 10 minutes	Pair-work	An online task is given to students. Teacher opens the website (http://www/rong-chang.com/) Asks students to do an activity on the following link http://www.rong-chang.com/writing/scrambled_simple_present01.htm Students are required to arrange words into a sentence in the simple present tense. Teacher’s reflection: promotes English learning through a wider range of vocabulary and grammar in arranging sentences.
Stage 3 15 minutes	Individual work	Students are required to work alone Teacher opens the website (learn English for kids, British Council) Asks students to do an activity on the following link        http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/category/skills/writing-presentation/writing-personal-recounts It is a website where students have to write what do they think on the particular topic and post it online. This promotes interactive learning and also the usage of web Teacher’s reflection: promotes learning through posting ideas and share between other people
Stage 4 5 minutes	Individual work (homework)	Activity through power point Based on the first activity which is the job occupation vocabularies, students are asked to write about what they want to be in the future. Teacher’s reflection: This may help student to start writing about the description by introducing PowerPoint to students.
Evaluation 8 minutes		The teacher reflects what he/she has taught. Teachers will know if the objectives are achieved by the answer script of the students. Worksheets are provided for practice
Reflection		A presentation consists of a lesson plan and best chosen websites are presented and we learn a lot of new stuffs. Through this assignment, we played a role as a teacher, and creating lesson plan was a tough work at first, we have to consult our lecturer and to make our lesson plan practical for an hour class. However, we managed to come out with a lesson plan focusing on writing skill for intermediate school students.

REFLECTIONS AS A WHOLE

• Through these activities, we can prepare ourselves to be a teacher in the future as it equips us with the knowledge of preparing lesson plan before teaching a classroom of students. This is an important aspect for a teacher as preparation is always crucial in order to offer the best to students.

• The computer-assisted learning encourages students to share and impart knowledge as well as promote learning through posting ideas and sharing between other people.
• This way of technique is that it prepares students for an interactive kind of learning in which students can interact with one another by posting comments etc. Students can always exchange their ideas and get instant feedback. It is interactive in nature as they can communicate easily.