Lesson Plan 5

Date: October 14, 2009 Level: Second year of high school

Skill: Reading.

Expected Outcomes: Students will be able to recognize different renewable energy solutions (sources) by reading a text
and getting the main ideas from it, learning new vocabulary and identifying general and specific information. Students will be
able to use words related to energy to solve a scramble game.

Resources: markers, printed copy of the text, scramble game.

Time Comments
Introduction

Take roll call 3’

Objectives presentation 3’ Students will be told about what the lesson is going to be about and what the main
objectives are.

Core of the class

Review 5’ “Many scientists believe that there is not a clear solution to the energy problem”
This sentence will be written on the board so that the students can recognize some
of the structures studied in class previously. This sentence will help to introduce the
next subject as well.

Reading: “Renewable
Energy Solutions”

 Pre-reading: 6’ Students will be asked about what they know regarding energy sources and what
-Previous knowledge. they think the text is going to be about in order to activate their previous knowledge.

 While-reading: 6’ The text will be first read aloud by the teacher in order students can be aware of
-Vocabulary check; fill pronunciation. In this part students will have to look for unknown words in order to
in the blanks. check them later on the board.

Vocabulary 5’ Explanation of unknown words related to energy.

12’ Then they will be given the opportunity to read the text again in silence in order to
get a better comprehension of it and to fill in the blanks with “there is/are”
“much/many”.

Activity correction 5’ The text will be read aloud by the students in order to check the fill in the blanks
part.

 Post-reading 15’ Students will be given some comprehension questions about the main ideas of the
-Comprehension check. text to get general and specific information.

Comprehension activity 10’ Students will be asked to write their answers for the comprehension questions on
answers the board in order to be corrected. Some of them will be evaluated for their work on
the exercises with a “summative” grade that at the end of the semester will be
another grade.

Closing

Scramble (group game) 15’ Students will be divided into 13 groups of 3 students each. Every group will be
provided a scramble sheet related to energy, they will have to complete concepts
related to energy in order to answer the following question: How does the clothes
dry? The first group that solves the scramble game wins.

Summary 5’ All together will make a summary of all what we learned during the lesson, in order
to clarify any doubt about the content.

Name: Paulina Rojas González

School: Colegio Carlos Cousiño