Monday, 15 June 2015

SAMPLE LESSON PLAN (GRAMMAR)


Age: 13-14

Level: Intermediate

Duration: 20 minutes

Number of Students: 24

Skills: Reading, speaking, writing

Materials: Flashcards, pictures, handouts, electronic devices, role cards.

Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will have learnt the form, the meaning and the function (making simple suggestions) of “should”. They will be able to use this grammar structure.

LEAD-IN


Aims:
-to motivate students to get to the topic
-to activate learner’s schemata
-to contextualize the grammar structure
-to have students realize the new grammar structure

Procedure: The teacher comes to the class and greets students. Then he starts his lesson with some electronic items. He tries to introduce the class the lesson’ topic by talking about the items on the table, and he helps students grasp the topic. Then he gives the passage to students.

Duration: 2 minutes

READING COMPREHENSION


Aims:
-to help students understand the main idea of the passage
-to lead students scan the passage to find the correct answers

Procedure: The teacher gives a reading passage and handout to students. Firstly, he wants students to read the passage quickly to get the main idea. Then he ask students to read the passage in a detailed way to answer the context questions on handout.

Duration: 4 minutes

Context Questions:
1- What is the passage about?
- The passage is about the waste of electrical and electronic equipment.
2- What is the WEEE man?
- It is a 23 fit high sculpture that include the waste electrical and electronic equipment in it.
3- What does the WEEE man consist of?
- Five fridges, 35 mobile phones, five sandwich toaster and four lawnmowers. Computer mice are its teeth, vacuum cleaner tubes are its neck and an old washing machine is part of its spine.
4- What can we do to make the world a better place?
- We should maintain appliances for as long as possible.
- We shouldn’t throw away old appliances if they are still in working condition.
- We should repair them, sell them or donate them.
- We should recycle parts whıch we can’t repair.
5- What does Paul Bonomini remind us?
- He reminds us that “we should make less waste.”

ELICITATION


Aims:
-to lead students to the meaning of the grammar structure
-to explain the usage of the grammar structure with the help of the passage
-to explain the form of the grammar structure

Procedure: The teacher shows a sample sentence which contains the target structure. In order to lead students to the meaning and the usage of the structure, the teacher asks concept checking questions about the sample sentence. Then he tries to elicit the form of the grammar structure from students by asking the other concept checking questions.

Duration: 7 minutes

Steps:
1- The teacher wants students to look at the sentence taken from the passage and he asks some concept questions to students to get the meaning and the usage of the structure.
-  Is there any obligation to make less waste? (No)
-  Is this a good or bad behaviour? (Good)
-  Is it a right thing to do? (Yes)
-  Is this formal or informal? (Both of them)
-  Is this advice or necessity or an opinion? (Advice)
-  Where do we use it in daily life? (When we are making suggestions)
2- After concept questions, the teacher says “we use ‘should’ to make simple suggestions.”
3- He asks another concept questions to elicit the form from students.
 Is it possible to change the order of “should” and verb? (No)
 Is there any auxiliary verb in this sentence? (No)
 Do we use gerund after “should”? (No)
4- After eliciting the form, he also shows a substitution table to students.
5- Finally, the teacher asks students to find other sentences in the passage that include this grammatical pattern.

RESTRICTED OUTPUT


Aim: to lead students use the new grammar structure

Procedure: The teacher want students to read the situations and complete the sentences with “should” or “should not.” After students do the exercise, they checks the answers together. The teacher makes error correction if it needs.

Duration: 4 minutes

AUTHENTIC OUTPUT


Aims:
-to provide them a communicative activity
-to check students’ perception capacity in the target language
-to lead students use their creativity
-to provide them an entertaining environment when they use a new grammar structure

Procedure: The teacher wants student to work in groups of three. He gives each group a role card. There is a nick name and also a country name on it. They are in an international conference. The teacher is an administrator and students are participants from different countries. The teacher wants students to write a couple of suggestions according to these countries culture. They may be imaginary or realistic. For example: “You should always be on time for all appointments in Italy”, “You shouldn’t give an even number of flowers to anyone in France.” And then, the teacher makes the opening speech of the conference. When the teacher call any of students’ nick name, student makes his/her suggestions about his/her country to the other participants of different countries.

Duration: 3 minutes

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