LESSON PLAN

TEACHER:

DATE:

TIME:

SCHOOL:

CLASS:

15 year-olds, A2B1

Teaching unit :

Module 6 Save the Planet; Local Hero

Type of lesson :

Skills work

Sources:

Challenges 4 Students' Book; Workbook; Teacher's Handbook

Aims and objectives :

Read and listen to the Challenges story; learn expressions for interviews; listen to a weather forecast;

Teaching methods :

conversation, presentation, reading comprehension, listening comprehension, speaking, writing

Class management :

whole class, individual work, pair 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

Homework check.
Introduce the
topic, elicit ideas
and vocabulary,
arouse interest

Warm-up:
Exercise 1: Ss work in groups or as a class, looking at the photo, guessing what happened and who the
woman is.

Check reading
comprehension

Exercise 2: Play the recording for Ss to listen and read the dialogue and check their ideas from
Exercise 1.

T-SS

Present target
language

Exercise 3: Elicit the answer from the class.

T-Ss

Exercise 4: Ask a student to read aloud the example sentence. Elicit one or two more sentences from
the class. Ss work individually, writing sentences about the story episode. They can compare answers
in pairs before checking as a class.

T-SS
S-S

Practise target
language

WB
T-SS

Exercise 5: Look at the first two or three expressions with the class and check that students can
identify the function of each expression. Ss complete the sentences individually or in pairs.
Present useful
listening skills

SB

5 min

SB
CD
CD player
board

35
min

SB

5 min

T-SS
Exercise 6: Read through the instructions with the class. Ss work in pairs, making notes for their
interview. Help with vocabulary if necessary. Encourage the pairs to rehearse their interview quietly,
using the Key Expressions where appropriate.
Exercise 7: The pairs form groups of four and act out their interviews. Monitor but don't interrupt
students' fluency. Make a note of any general language problems to go over with the class afterwards.

T-SS

Everyday Listening
T-SS
Check listening
comprehension

Exercise 1: Ss work in groups or as a class, reading the predicitions and saying which they think are
the most likely to happen. Encourage them to give reasons for their choice.

partFinal

Exercise 2: Play the recording for Ss to check their guesses.

Practise w6rd
stress

Exercise 3: Ask Ss to repeat the example pair of words after you. Give Ss time to read through the
words and say them quietly to themselves. Play the recording for Ss to listen and mark the word
stress.check answers by asking Ss to say the words with correct word stress.

Revise target
language

Ending the lesson:

Ask two Ss to read the dialogue aloud (assign roles).

T-SS

T-S
S-S

Homework: