Driving correctly my English as I drive my car
Overview
Driving my English correctly to drive my car
Summary:
This is a lesson intended for learners having low conversational English skills as well as low reading and writing skills. In this lesson, the learners will review known vocabulary as well as learn new one using it with a correct grammatical structure. They will practice reading and writing. The learners will learn how to read, write and speak in order to communicate with others using correctly la grammar functions; All this will be taught in a real world-problem context.
Educational use
Curriculum /instruction
College & Career Readiness Standards (CCRS) Alignment
• Level: Adult Education
• Grade Level: B
• Subject: English/Language Arts
• Strand: Reading and Writing
Language
English
Learning goals:
The purpose of this lesson is for learners to be able to:
· Learn the correct use of present tense in verbal communication
· Read and write correctly personal information
· Understand basic driving instructional information.
Keywords
Designers for learning
Adult education
Driving license
Present tense
Driving directions
English lesson to drive a car
Time required for the lesson
45 to 60 minutes
Prior knowledge
Basic English vocabulary to introduce oneself
Ability to understand mains ideas in short conversation
Ability to read and write basic English vocabulary to introduce oneself
Required resources
Worksheets
Illustrations
Driving guide
Lesson author & License
Lesson author: Zulema Ramirez
License: Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license
Context summary
Learning a new language is certainly a challenge, mostly if we cannot attend to school regularly, As a consequence, being forced to communicate, we learn words and phrases informally, not knowing how to put them together effectively to express our ideas into this new language. In this lesson, we are going to walk the learners through the correct lexical and grammatical use of her/his prior knowledge in the present tense and at the same time we are going to integrate new content related to a short - term goal: Obtaining a driver license.
Targeted skills
Presence tense
Driving vocabulary
Asking and giving directions formal phrases
Describe family members.
Learning objectives
By the end of the lesson, the learner should be able to:
1 Give personal information using grammatically correct professional English.
2. Read and write driving directions.
3. Ask directions using formal English phrases
4. Follow directions given by the driving instructor
Relevant for learning
Adult learners planning to complete a professional instruction need to master the required English skills level. This lesson will be focused on the use of the present tense, having as subject daily activities and driving instructions. This lesson will allow the learner to refresh previous lexical knowledge and to learn the correct grammatical use of present tense. The learner will also practice writing and reading. This practice gives the learner the opportunity to improve his/her English skills.
Warm up
The teacher will provide the learners an application form to fill out. When filling in the form the learners will be induced to bring out tacit knowledge, like reading personal information questions, writing her/his address. The form could also include personal development questions in order to prompt the learners to give the teacher more information about their daily activities as well as her English level. Once this activity is done, the teacher will use the form’s questions to prompt the learners to introduce herself/himself.
Introduction
The teacher explains the course of the instruction for this lesson
Presentation/modeling/demonstration
The teacher will introduce herself / himself using new vocabulary in order to complete grammatically correct longer sentences Using a map of the city, the teacher will show the learn a location to explain her way to school. Here the teacher could use driving directions giving detail on how to get to school form the location she/ he chooses. .The teacher could explain succinctly why having a driver license is important her. The teacher could present all these information in a worksheet form. It could be used to underline verbs in present tense so the learners could have it as a reference for their own presentation.
Application
After finishing the demonstration phase, the teacher will ask question utilizing the application form filled out previously and the teacher’s demonstration in order to let the learners practice. In this way the learner will be exercising reading while combining known and new vocabulary to use it in present tense properly.
Integration
In this phase the learner is going to reproduce a real world situation like giving/ asking personal information, asking address, identifying driving directions, writing down driving directions. During the activities the learners will integrate all aspects studied in this lesson using formal English.