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 * Reflection of the session called "Sample Lesson Plans For Young Learners" in the Inged Conference **

The session called "Sample Lesson Plans For Young Learners" in the Inged Conference is the first session. It is the most enjoyable session in the whole conference. Therefore, the other sessions seemed like worthless.

The speaker's name is Aydan Ersöz. There was one lesson plan that the speaker is focused on. The aim of that lesson plan is to teach young learners the phrases "I want ____." and "I will ____.". We pretended to be students of her.

The aim of the pre part is to motivate and activate the students for the lesson. Moreover, it aims to prepare the students for the lesson and to introduce new items that the students will see through the lesson. So, for revision, the teacher showed some pictures to the students and asked to the students what they saw in the pictures. In the first picture, there was a family who is having breakfast. The teacher asked who she was or who he was. We, as the students, were supposed to answer the questions like he was the father or she was the sister. In the second picture, there was a table full of breakfast items like honey, milk, orange juice. The teacher asked what the students saw in the picture and the students answered it.

The aim of the while part is to teach the students the phrases. The teacher brought one picture to the classroom. In the picture, there was a house in which there is a family on the breakfast table eating their meals. There was a father, a mother, a sister, a brother and a baby. The teacher showed a puppet which means the story time. She gave the directions to the students. The students were supposed to make the sounds of the story. The teacher started to tell the story. In the story, the baby wanted some milk using the phrase "I want some milk and I want it now." and each of the members went to the basement to get the milk using the phrase "I will get it.". They all saw the ghost in the basement and ran away. Finally, the baby went to the basement to get the milk and he made the ghost run away and he got the milk. Afterwards, some of the students act it out.

In the post part, the teacher distributed fill in the blanks activity about "I want" and "I will". She wanted the students to learn the spelling. Then, the teacher and the students made a bookmark shaped in ghosts. Afterwards, the teacher finished the lesson with a game.

Using puppet for story time is a useful idea that I have heard for the first time in my life. The main things in this session are creating enjoyable lessons, the importance of visuals and learning by living. This lesson plan is appropriate for elementary level students.

Consequently, this session is very useful for me. At the beginning, I expected a boring and usual lesson plan, but at the end, it turned out to be very useful and enjoyable lesson. I know that I am going to use this lesson type in my real classroom setting.