Literature+Lesson+Plan+by+Emrullah+and+Samet




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Betül İLHAN  To choose a fable as the topic of a lesson plan for young learners is a brilliant idea because it is related to animals, which is one of the most attractive subjects to kids, and it aims to give a message. However, the lesson could start in a more interesting and appealing way. For instance, the video of the fable “The Cicada and The Ant” could be shown to the students or the pictures of the fable could be distributed to the class so that they can guess the narrative, in my opinion. Also, when I look at the lesson plan, I cannot see the objectives part which is really important according to most Methodology instructors. As for the reading text, presenting the template of a fable in it is excellent, yet there are some structures probably not known by pre-intermediate students such as past perfect tense, relative clauses etc. With some adaptation this text would have been perfect for young learners at that level. When it comes to the questions, I really really love them because they not only measure the understanding of the students but also show that their thoughts are important for the teacher. Every student may answer most of the questions differently, in contrast to most of the classic comprehension questions. But don’t you also think that students’ drawing the wolf blowing down the straw house would take a lot of time? Lastly, I like the homework because the students know what to do by the help of the template. 

====I think that the topic is a very good choice for students level. Every student at this age likes fables so chosing the fables as the topic is a very nice idea. When I examined the lesson plan, I saw the aims, unexpected problems, solutions but not the objectives. I believe that not writing the objectives of the lesson is a very big mistake because as we learnt in methadolgy lessons first we determine the objectives and then we prepare our activities to manage our objectives. Instead of directly strating to the lesson, telling a fable and asking the moral of it to the students is a good idea but they are young learners so you can use a much more attractive thing like showing a short video or cartoon of a fable. I liked that you teach some vocabulary items before starting to read the fable. I think it is very beneficial for students to do that. I think your comprehension questions are also very appropriate for students and I like them because they are open ended questions and some answers of the questions can change student to student. However I should say that if you increased the variety of the activities, it could be much more effective. For example as post reading activity you can divide students into groups and ask students to write another end to the story or role plan can be used. Lastly, ı think your lesson plan is appropriate to the level of students and giving the templete of writing fables is a very good idea but it could be much more attractive. ====