LESSON PLAN

Task Based Learning

TEACHER: ELENI TSAGDI

PLACE: PC LAB TIME: 11:00a.m
E CLASS – Number of students: 12

TITLE : A NIGHT AT THE MOVIES

CONTEXT : Five people talk about historical
inaccuracies in films.
AIMS : To teach students the foreign language
through various tasks. To focus on the meaning of
the words. To become familiar with grammatical
phenomena avoiding extensive theory parts.
OBJECTIVES : Students develop writing and
reading skills. Recycle their previous knowledge.
They learn new vocabulary and grammar related to
the text. They develop IT skills (become familiar
with the PC and they learn to use the Internet in a
right way).
METHODS TO BE USED : Personal computers,
Inductive (using particular facts and examples to
form general rules and principles)./ Task Based
Learning.
 ANTICIPATED PROBLEMS : Some students might
not remember how to form the gerund, or the
Causative form. If such a problem arises Teacher
uses this as an opportunity for classification and
revision. Some other students might spend a lot of
time to do the exercises on the PC because they do
not have one at home in order to practice.

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Pre- Teacher gives To prepare PC T- 5 min
Task students an students for Class
interactive quiz the text and
relevant to the text the
that follows. Asks worksheet 1
from the students to (so that
answer the questions. everybody
Some questions are: participates).
By praising
 every right
answer
Robin Hood lived
Teacher
in…..
captures
their interest
The first name of the
English writer
Shakespeare was…

The teacher
encourages the
students to
participate in the quiz
by giving them a pen
for every right
answer.
Task After engaging all To Electron Pairs 10
1 students in the quiz comprehend ic work- min
mentioned in the Pre- students the
sheets
Task and after a short context of
discussion about the the lesson. In
answers given, this way also
Teacher offers a the Teacher
magazine article in helps
which people talk students to
about films. Then foster
Teacher offers them collaborative
Worksheet 1 which learning.
contains various
questions about the
article. Teacher asks
 students to have a
short look at the
article and then to fill
in the answers.
Students are asked to
work in pairs and
report to the class.
Task Teacher tells to To help PC Indivi 15
2 students that they will students to duals min
talk about for film express
mistakes, for example themselves Board
Teacher asks: using the
new
vocabulary
How important are from the
the small mistakes? context.
To enhance
learner
Do you think that
autonomy.
looking for these
mistakes might spoil To learn
the film even more? students to
work as a
team.
Then Teacher gives to
students the
Worksheet 2 and
asks from them to fill
in the worksheet (all
the exercises contain
vocabulary from the
text) in groups.
 Teacher writes on the
board every unknown
word and walks
around the students
to see if there are any
further questions.
Students report to the
class.
Task Focus on Grammar. To help PC Pairs 15
3 Teacher gives the students to min
Worksheet 3 and revise the
asks students to work causative
in pairs and to fill in form, gerund
the chart. After that and infinitive.
they should complete Through
the sentences using team
words from the chart. working to
understand
Students report to the
the use of
class.
grammar.
To help
Then Teacher tell the students to
students to go to the process
next exercise where language on
they have to read the their own.
uses of the Gerunds
and Infinitives and
complete the
sentences. Then
follow other three
similar exercises.
After that Teacher
asks from the
students to tell what
do they know about
the Causative.
Teacher explains if
there are any
questions.
Teacher now asks
students to do the
two following
exercises about the
Causative form on
their own.
Students report to the
class.
An extra exercise is
given where students
have to complete the
second sentence so
that it has a similar
meaning to the first,
using the word given.
They should do this
exercise working in
groups.
Students report to the
class.
 Teacher writes on the Students PC Indivi 5 min
board the following learn to work -
Follo
address of a URL : with a PC duals
w–
http://www.learnengli and use the
up
shfeelgood.com/eslvid internet in a
Task
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tml. Which is a clip The
from the animations: Simpsons are
The Simpsons . adored by
Students have to students in
watch carefully the these ages
clip and write down and makes
every sentence which learning the
is in the causative foreign
form. language a
pleasure.