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Lesson Plan

Objective: Students should be able to have mini-conversations about their future plans and goals. Hopefully this will give them the necessary tools to have deeper conversations with people so that they can get to know people better and form fast friendships.

The goal for today: 80% of the students should be able to conjugate regular and irregular verbs in the future tense and use it to make short sentences.

5 minutes- daily attendence quiz. We will view the "Nao Direi" Disney Clip. While the students are watching the clip they will have to pick out the verbs and write them done in their notebooks. All the verbs should be written down in the regular infinitive form.They need to write at least 5 verbs.

15-New material. Irregular verb future tense. Zer brothers story. With the Zer brothers story they will learn how to conjugate the three irregular verbs in the future tense. They will also learn about cavaleiros and Machos, a very important cultural aspect of Brazil. We will review vocab about describing people.

10-Using Future tense Worksheet. They will be given 5 situations and they'll have to write a sentence for each in the future tense.

10-Making goals. Students will take a few minutes to write down some of their goals in portuguese using the future tense. Then they will pick a partner and have a mock conversation with them as if they had just met them today. They will have to introduce themselves and slowly get into the subject of goals and future plans in life. If there's time they can have another conversation with another student.

5-Horoscope Activity-Students will write a horoscope for their zodiac sign. The horoscope should reflect what life will be like for them in 5 years. They must use the future tense to write the horoscope.

5- Explain Homework. Students will take the list of verbs they made at the beginning of class with the "Nao Direi" clip and they will conjugate each verb in all the forms (Eu, Voce, Nos, etc) in the Future tense.

total: 50 MInutes

Quick sketch

Teaching the future tense

Main activity: [|Nao direi Disney fun]

p.474 teaches the future tense

Functions: students will be able to use the future tense to form sentences to talk about their future goals and plans in life so they can have meaningful conversations with others. It's important to learn how to have conversations that will build friendships and help people get to know you better.

Cultural Contexts and principles: This would be a good time to introduce the fact that long term and short term goals mean very different things to Americans/Brazilians. We can talk about why Americans are so focused on goal setting and the future and why Brazilians may be more laid back.

Concepts: Moving away from the simple grammatical form of ir + verb to express the future and enter a more sophisticated verb form.

Students Prior Knowledge: Students will use their knowledge of the ir + verb to express the future in warm up activities. The students should also try to start thinking about how they'd say their different goals and ambitions in life in portuguese. Students should also be thinking about what "future" means to them and if they are a long term or short term planner. Do they live in the moment, the past, or the future?

Textbook examples: Yuck. p.474 Future tense. This page teaches the future tense. p. 476 Horoscope Write your own horoscope for the day. (That could potentially be fun. Goes with my theme of the future...)

Examples from popular media: I noticed that I won't say I'm in Love (Disney-Hercules) has a lot of expressions in the future tense. This could be fun and with the proper tools be intertwined in a lesson. Most kids have seen the movie and most BYU girls are familiar with the song.

Culturally Authentic Materials: Irmaos Zer story to teach the future irregulars. Talk about Zé, common brazilian name and also a time to talk about the concept of a cavaleiro. Disney song, opportunity to talk about translations in music and the difference between portugual portugese disney translations and brazilian portuguese disney translations.

Student Actions: PIck out verbs from the clip. Learn the new irregulars. Use their new future tense knowledge to conjugate the verbs in the clip.

Goal: At the end of the activity I hope to have 80% of the students to have memorized the irregular conjugation of the future tense and be able to conjugate any verb in the future tense. The students should feel comfortable using the future tense to form short two/three word sentences and should be on their way to talking about the future.

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