LESSON PLAN
Course: English 5th Year high school
Date: February 9th, 2012 / time: 90 min.
Class objectives: Students will be able to:
ü Recognize and express actions in the past simple and past perfect.
ü Recognize lack of sound/letter correspondence.
ü Express frustration, disagreement, sympathy.
Content of grammar: Past simple, Past Perfect.
Vocabulary: Wood/Cloud, Both/Growth/, Fair/There.
Previous knowledge: Verb in infinitive, present progressive, present simple, Expressions of disagreement, frustration, sympathy. Verb change into past and past perfect.
Audience: 20-35 students between 16-18 years old with an elementary level of English.
Preparation: Homework: Biography of the author Robert Frost and the reading of his poem “The Road Not taken”.
Teaching approach: Functionalism, Reader response.
Stages | Activity/Technique/Procedure | Time | Interact | Skills | Resources | Evaluation | Comments |
Opening Development | T. checks the homework in Ss’ notebooks. Then, he writes the title of the poem on the board and asks Ss what is the topic and theme of the poem. T. gives Ss a series of letters taken from the poem which contain a particular vowel sound and have Ss to work out their sound/letter correspondence. For example: fair/there. Ss have to differentiate how English often lacks sound/letter correspondence. Next, T. write the poem on the board and deletes the time tenses (past and past perfect) and changes each verb into infinitive. Ss have to write the correct time tense. | 10 min 25 min 35 min | T-Ss Ss-T T-Ss Ss-Ss Ss-T T-Ss Ss-T | Listening Speaking Listening Speaking Listening Speaking Writing | Poem, Board Poem, Board Dictionary Poem, Board Notebook | Summative Formative Summative Formative Summative Formative | Attendance and Homework are summative. Participation is summative Participation is summative |
Stages | Activity/Technique/Procedure | Time | Interact | Skills | Resources | Evaluation | Comments |
Closure | T. ask Ss if they have ever had to take a decision in their life where the only had two options. After the discussion T asks Ss to write their opinion about the decision that took the speaker in the poem. Ss have to hand in their opinion in their notebook as homework | 20 min | T-Ss Ss-T | Listening Speaking | Classroom | Formative |
