5 Senses Unit: My 3rd Intervention

Lesson 3: Mystery smells - The smell sense

Material for the teacher:                                          Material for the student:

                                                          

Mystery smell boxes:

Rubric:

Description of the lesson and observations:

As I had planned before, first of all I wrote in the blackboard "the smell sense". I asked them what they knew about it. They had worked some aspects of this sense with the tutor, so it was easy to get their knowledge about the topic. However, I was speaking in English so I tried to make them speak in English as well. When we had introduced the topic, I gave them the worksheet and I explained the activity. I had prepared 8 boxes with 8 different smells. They had to work in pairs and guess what was inside by using their smell sense. The activity was very nice and they enjoyed a lot. However, I realised that I should had prepared more boxes, because there were some pairs that had to wait a long time to get one of the boxes, and if they didn't had anything to do they got nervous. But with this same aspect, I could realise at the same time that they were motivated and they were really enjoying the activity, because they felt anxious to get one of the boxes.

When all of them were finished, I corrected it. I drew some boxes on the blackboard and they had to come and to write the names. Then, when we finished, I realised that there were 5 minutes more of class. It was time to improvise! And I thought that I should make them speak. So that, I wrote in the blackboard: "My favourite smell is _______ " And I said the sentence with one of the smells of the boxes. Then, it was turn to the students. They were able to say it really well, as well as they were listening to their partners to know what had been their favourite smells. It was a nice closing.