LESSON PLAN
TEACHER:
DATE:
TIME:
SCHOOL:
CLASS:
11 year-olds, A1
Teaching unit :
Module 2: In the Park
Type of lesson :
Presentation, practice, skills work
Sources:
Challenges 1 Students' Book; Workbook; Teacher's Handbook
Aims and objectives :
Developing Ss communication skills (speaking and writing a text message).
Teaching methods :
conversation, presentation, reading comprehension, listening comprehension, writing, speaking
Class management :
whole class, individual work, pair work, group work
Teaching aids, materials
and equipment :
students book, workbook, CD; board, chalk, CD-player
Aims and
objectives
Class organization procedures and activities
Interaction
Teaching
aids and
materials
Possible problems
and solutions
TIMING
STAGES
Class profile:
partIntroductory
Main part
Introduce the
topic, elicit ideas
and vocabulary,
spark interest
Check homework.
Warm-up: Ask Ss if they remember what the groups interests are. Explain that
in this unit the group have new exercise interests. Ss look at the photos and
match the people with their exercise.
T SS
SS T
Revise
vocabulary and
target language
in context
Exercise 2: Ss read and listen to the dialogue and check their guesses from
the previous exercise.
T SS
SS T
Practicing a skill
Present target
language
Present target
language
Exercise 3: Check that Ss understand any new vocabulary in the dialogue. Ss
read the dialogue again and complete this exercise.
Extra: Play the recording of the dialogue again for the Ss to focus on
pronunciation, stress and intonation patterns. Ss work in groups of three,
reading aloud the dialogue and taking turns to be Rajiv, Alex and Lucy.
10
min
SB
CD
CD player
25
min
T - SS
T SS
SS T
Exercise 4: Point out the use of the question word How.
Exercise 5: Read the dialogue with the class. Elicit suggestions of other
activities, school lessons and opinion adjectives, e.g. boring, interesting, cool,
brilliant. Ss work in pairs taking turns to be Speaker A and Speaker B. each
pair then chooses one of their dialogues for the class to hear.
SB
CD
CD player
T SS
SS T
board
SS T
Practicing a skill
partFinal
Your Challenge: Exercise 1: Look at the text message abbreviations with the
class before they write Toms message in full sentences. If some of your Ss are
not used to text messages, they can work with Ss who are.
Use target
language
Ending the lesson:
Your Challenge: Exercise2: Tell Ss to choose abbreviations from Exercise 1 to
use in their messages. Give time to Ss to finish their messages and then ask
them to read their partners messages.
T SS
SS SS
SB
10
min
Homework: Time Out, p. 108, exercise 6