Plan demo: Phrasal verbs with ‘Get’ lesson plan

Level: Intermediate

Plan Demo Analysis:

Though the teaching of phrasal verbs might become into a hard task for intermediate level students, this kind of activities involve certain features such as the cross-cultural factor which is more focused on English speaking countries due to the fact that this activity involves language that is mostly used by native speakers of the target language. In the sense of implementation, there are certain implementations such as the use of task-based activities where students can interact and cooperate with each other to achieve the objectives set in the plan. Some of the limitations present when applying this kind of task is the fact that this might be a hindrance for some students whom suffer from certain motor difficulties at the time of manipulating materials or objects involved into the activities.
When talking about competence, this activity presents a great opportunity for students to improve their knowledge and achieve the objectives at the same time by means of competence.
Regarding levels of difficulty, this task-based activity does not present much difficulty nor risk in the case of high school students due to the fact that the activity is performed indoors, in groups and under the supervision of the teacher. Although the activity does not focus its objectives in critical thinking, with this activity students are kind of exposed to critical thinking when identifying the different contexts in which to apply the rules and features of phrasal verbs as well plus that, the activity is more focused on memorization as the main task for students to achieve the objectives.
In regard to what local teachers do, not all the time we see this kind of procedures and tasks reflected on our classroom to achieve our syllabus objectives maybe as a matter that there is no innovation in all the cases when teaching some specific contents and specially in the case of high school teachers that focus more on the idea of using course books instead of activities that can enhance students motivation due to task-based activities.
Students’ interest is a major factor to take into account and with this tasks, students get some more interested due to the change from boring course book guided classes to innovative activities that involve them actively in the process.
When applying this activity, it might be said it really is an innovative one cause it involves new materials, competence and procedures where student are involved actively in the process of learning and so changing those boring classes where students are used to sit and limit themselves to the same course books that never change.

by Jaylin Jimenez Zuñiga & Oscar Conejo Chacòn