Liceul Tehnologic de Electronic i Automatizri Caius Iacob Arad

Profesor Monica Bor

Lesson Plan
Date: the 1st of April 2014
Form: 11th
Level: Advanced
Title of the Lesson: "The Price of Success"
Lesson Type: developing speaking and reading skills
Main aim: to practise reading for gist and detail
Subsidiary Aim: to practise speaking
Objectives: by the end of the lesson the students will have:
O1: practised reading for gist
O2: practised reading for detail
O3: practised speaking
O4: practised language functions
Language Functions:
F1: to express opinions/personal points of view
F2: to argue/justify opinions/personal points of view
F3: to ask and offer clarifications in understanding of a message
F4: to ask and offer details and explanations of a message
Techniques: conversation, dialogues, pair work
Types of interaction: frontal, pair work
Assumptions: the topic will raise the students' interest.
Personal aim: to reduce the teaching talking time during the class
Anticipated Problems
Some students may have problems in understanding specific words in the text.
Some students will use the native language instead of English.

Solutions
Ask the students to infer the meaning of the unknown words from the context
Encourage students to use English.

Aids/Materials: blackboard, New Proficiency Gold textbook

Assessment: oral, marks
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Liceul Tehnologic de Electronic i Automatizri Caius Iacob Arad

Profesor Monica Bor

Lesson Stages
Stage

Stage Aim

Procedure

Introduce the
aim
Task

Presenting the aim of

the lesson
Teacher presents the
task to the students
Students work in pairs
Students present their
pair work

The teacher tells the students that today will learn about success from a famous ChineseAmerican writer by studying an excerpt from her book.
The teacher asks the students to open their books on page 182 and in pairs to look at the
pictures on the page 182 and make connections between the pictures.
Students work in pairs to find the connection between the pictures.
Students present their connections between the pictures. The teacher writes down some of
the connections.

Teacher presents the

task to the students
Students work in pairs

Pair Work
Class
Presentation
Task
Pair Work
Class
Presentation
Task
Pair Work
Class
Presentation
Textbook Use
Pair Work
Feedback

Interaction
T:Ss

Time

T:Ss

2 mins

Ss:Ss
T:Ss
Ss:Ss

3 mins
3 mins

The teacher asks the students to look at the two questions from exercise 1 on page 182 and
answer the questions in pairs.
Students work in pairs and answer the questions.

T:Ss

2 mins

Ss:Ss

3 mins

Students present their

pair work
Teacher presents the
task to the students
Students work in pairs

Students present their answers to the questions.

Ss:Ss
T:Ss
T:Ss

2 mins

Ss:Ss

5 mins

Students present their

pair work
Students work from the
textbook
Students work in pairs

Students present the answers to the three questions from the text.

Ss:Ss
T:Ss
T:Ss

3 mins

Ss:Ss

5 mins

The teacher checks the

answer

The teacher checks whether the paragraphs have been filled in the correct gaps.

Ss:Ss
T:Ss

2 mins

The teacher asks the students to look at the exercise 2 on page 182 and answer the three
questions based on the text in pairs.
Students work in pairs to answer the three questions.

The teacher asks the students in pairs to read an excerpt from the Chinese-American writer
Amy Tan and fill in the paragraphs in the correct gaps.
Students work in pairs to fill in the paragraphs in the correct gaps.

1 min

2 min

2 mins

Liceul Tehnologic de Electronic i Automatizri Caius Iacob Arad

Profesor Monica Bor
Task

Teacher presents the

task to the students

The teacher asks the students to solve exercise 4 on page 183 based on the text they have just T:Ss
read.
Ss:Ss

5 mins

Pair Work

Students work in pairs

The students work in pairs to solve the exercise.

Ss:Ss

3 mins

Feedback

The teacher checks the

answers
The teacher evaluates
the students
The teacher assigns the
homework

The teacher checks the answer with the class.

T:Ss

3 mins

The teacher evaluates some of the students who have been active during the class orally and
gives them marks.
The teacher asks the students for the next class to think of a best way to encourage a child's
potential.

T:Ss

3 mins

T:Ss

1 mins

Evaluation
Follow-up