Topic: Planning the Day

Target group

4th‑grade students of elementary school

Core curriculum

Class IV

1. Me and my surroundings. Student:

10) describes the principles of a healthy lifestyle

General aim of education

Students justify why planning skills are useful in everyday life.

Key competences

• communication in foreign languages;

• digital competence;

• learning to learn.

Criteria for success
The student will learn:

• justify why planning skills come in handy in everyday life;

• plan your activities during the day individually;

• appoint the most important tasks to do during the day and week;

• determine the amount of time needed to perform specific activities.

Methods/techniques

• expository

  • talk.

• activating

  • discussion.

• programmed

  • with computer;

  • with e‑textbook.

• practical

  • exercices concerned.

Forms of work

• individual activity;

• activity in pairs;

• activity in groups;

• collective activity.

Teaching aids

• e‑textbook;

• notebook and crayons/felt‑tip pens;

• interactive whiteboard, tablets/computers;

• schedule of the day (table);

• colored paper (3 colors).

Lesson plan overview

Before classes

• Before the lesson, in one day each student writes down how much time he takes:

  • doing homework,

  • watching TV,

  • playing games on a computer, console, smartphone,

  • outdoor fun

Introduction

• The teacher asks students when they were planning something recently and what was the planning?.

• The teacher gives the topic, the goals of the lesson in a language understandable for the student, and the criteria of success.

Realization

• The teacher gives students a table with written time intervals (e.g every 1 hour) - from 6:30 to 21:00. The time of classes on a given day is painted gray (dead fields).

• The teacher explains to the pupils that they would complete the table individually with classes they did before the lessons or they would do after the lessons. As a help, they can use the chapter „How to plan effectively” from the abstract. The teacher asks the students to put the signed plans of the day on the board and then look for another person's plan identical to their own plan.

• The teacher asks students why it is so difficult to find identical two plans of the day.

• The teacher distributes paper stripes in 3 different colors to the students. Together with students, they determine the importance of color. Then the students write on the strips (depending on the determined importance of the color) the tasks they planned in their table. The pupils read their activities sequentially, starting from the most important ones.

• The teacher displays drillmap „Validity of classes” to students, and students explain the importance of planned activities.

• The teacher asks students to carry out the recommended interactive exercise themselves.

Summary

• The teacher asks students to carry out the recommended interactive exercise themselves.

Homework

• Listen to the abstract recording at home. Pay attention to pronunciation, accent and intonation. Learn to pronounce the words learned during the lesson.

The following terms and recordings will be used during this lesson

Terms

Texts and recordings

Planning the Day

Imagine that a holiday trip looks like this: you pack a suitcase or a backpack, then go with your family to the train station. There you wait on the platform, looking for any train going in the direction chosen by you. You do not know when it will arrive, or when you get there. Such a journey will probably be very tiring for you.

To avoid uncertainty and long waiting, use the timetable for flights or cruises. You can find them at every station and airport. Marked on them the arrival and departure times of the train or bus, and in the case of an aircraft - arrival and departure. Knowing them, you can plan exactly. Internet search engines are also very helpful in setting a route and determining the travel time.

Another kind of planning is a lesson plan. Thanks to it, you know what days the lessons take place and what time they start.

You have certain duties to perform each day and take part in various activities. Is there always enough time for everything? If not (or if you want to have more free time), try to plan your day. Thanks to this, you will perform your duties faster and more efficiently.

Creating a plan of the day is good to start by writing activities whose time is strictly fixed – for example, school or extra classes. Similarly, you can also plan your free time, starting, for example, by entering the broadcasting time of your favorite television program into your schedule.

During the remaining time that you have free, you can plan other activities. Remember, however, that you can not always change their date as you like. Walking with a dog or feeding animals should always be at the same time. Of course, you can go out with the dog, both at 7.00 and at 7.30, but you should not give it up.

When preparing your day plan, include both time for homework and learning, as well as rest or play. It's a good idea to plan the whole week. This will allow you to avoid situations when you will not have something to do on some days, and too many activities are waiting for you.

The plan of the day must be followed. If you plan to go out for a walk at 6pm with a dog, do not postpone it. Stick to your plans, even if it means you have to stop playing. It is also important to determine how long it will take you to complete the activity. At the beginning, measure how long it takes, for example, to do homework. Thanks to this you will know how much time to devote to study in your plan of the day. It's a good idea to spend a little bit more time on different activities than they really take. For example, if you do your homework every day for an average of 45 minutes, plan an hour for this activity. If you finish faster, you will gain extra free time.

• You can plan short sections of time (eg mornings before going to school) and longer periods (eg tasks to be completed during the week or month).

• We can plan short sections of time in detail.

• A good to start to planning is by identifying activities that we can not give up or that are particularly important to us.

• For effective planning, it is necessary to be able to assess how much time it takes to complete individual activities.