Let' S Celebrate! Lesson Plan
Let' S Celebrate! Lesson Plan
Let' S Celebrate! Lesson Plan
Name: School: Grade: XIth A; No. of students: 28; Textbook: Prospects Advanced; Unit 17: Lets celebrate!; Lesson: Lets celebrate; Date: June, 4th , 2013; Lesson type: Mixed; Time: 50 minutes; Specific Competences: speaking, reading, listening, writing, use of language; Sub-competences: -improving communicative skills and group work; -developing fast silent reading and scanning skills; -scanning the text for specific information and performing a structured work task; -transferring information; -reviewing vocabulary related to celebrations; -developing listening skills; -listening in order to extract specific information; -developing writing skills; -practising the new language structure-causative have and get; Aids: - textbooks; - pictures and map; - blackboard and chalk; - flipchart and markers; - notebooks and pens; - worksheets; - laptop and recording; Anticipated problems: Ss may block or get shy in front of the new teacher or they may have difficulties in finishing the tasks in time; Student groupings: ,pair work,individual work,group work Interaction:T-Ss;Ss-T;S-S;G-W; I-W;
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Warm-up
The teacher greets students, introduces herself, marks the absentees, checks homework and asks two or three students to read it auto-correct it or asks the others to correct the possible mistakes. The teacher shows her students two pictures; asks questions, eliciting from the students answers that lead to the conclusion that Britain is a multicultural society with many different ethnic and religious groups represented in its population and, as a consequence there are many more festivals and religious events than there used to be. The teacher announces the students the title of their lessonLets celebrate and the main objectives and writes the title on the blackboard. Students have to write in their notebooks from the blackboard. The teacher tells her students the events they are going to read and talk about, writes them on the blackboard and asks them if they know some representative words, facts about the events. Teacher writes the students answers on the blackboard and the students write in their notebooks.
Lead-in
QuestionAnswer; Discussion;
To check students homework; To raise the students interest in the topic; To introduce the topic of the lesson; To keep students interested in the subject; To motivate students to interact and exchange ideas and information; To activate and revise their previous acquired information and vocabulary about the events that they recognise;
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Pre-reading ( lead-in)
Students are arranged in 9 groups of 3 students each-only if the total number of the present students allows it-and each group receives 9 different short texts about different festivals or religious events to read about.
The students receive worksheet no. 1 which contains a chart they have to fill in according to the information they have to look for in their texts. They have to work in groups of 3 in order to complete the task.
Fast silent reading; Scanning; SS-SS QuestionAnswer; Discussion; Listening; Writing; Explanations;
To develop fast silent reading skills; To develop communicative skills; To develop scanning skills; To extract specific information; To raise the students interest and motivation to read by challenging them to fill-in the given chart; To introduce new vocabulary in context; To transfer information;
While-reading
Students read to perform the task the teacher has set. The teacher will monitor If necessary teacher will explain the unknown words and write them on the blackboard.
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Students check their answers with each other. The teacher helps students to see if they have completed the task successfully asking one student from each group to write their answers on the worksheet hanging on the flipchart. The others fill in the chart from their worksheet with all the answers.
Post-reading
Students are given worksheet no. 2 and they have to work in groups of 3 to solve the task.
To direct feedback and find out how well students have done ; SSSS; TSS; SST;
While-listening
The teacher tries to raise the students curiosity by asking them different questions about different objects or events from their texts and telling them that they will find out more interesting facts about these from the listening text they are going to hear. Students read to perform the task the teacher has set.
Pre -listening
Discussion; Questionanswer;
TSS ;
IW
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Students check their answers with each other in groups. The teacher helps students to see if they have completed the task successfully asking one student from each group to write their answers on the worksheet hanging on the flipchart. The others fill in the chart from their worksheet with all the answers.
To direct feedback and find out how well students have done; To get feedback on the comprehension of the listening text;
Teacher writes the following sentence on the blackboard and asks students to look at the highlighted sentence from the full text reading worksheet, writes it too on the blackboard and asks the students to say whether the 2 sentences have a difference in meaning. Then the teacher explains the use of causative have and get.
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Practice
Students are handed worksheet no. 4 and they have to solve the exercise on it. TSS; SST; IW; GW To practice the new structure; To direct feedback and find out how well students have done;
Homework assignment
Students check their answers with each other in groups. The teacher helps students to see if they have completed the task successfully asking some students to write their answers on the worksheet hanging on the flipchart. The others correct their answers if necessary.
Discussion Writing
You are a journalist and you have to write about a festival or religious event from your town or country for a travel brochure, explaining and describing it and trying to attract more visitors.
Discussion; Explanations;
TSS; SST;
To practise writing;
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