LESSON PLAN

TEACHER:

DATE:

TIME:

SCHOOL:

CLASS:

11 year-olds, A1

Teaching unit :

Module 2: In the Park

Type of lesson :

Presentation, practice, skills work

Sources:

Challenges 1 Students' Book; Workbook; Teacher's Handbook

Aims and objectives :

Developing Ss communication skills (speaking and writing a text message).

Teaching methods :

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

Class management :

whole class, individual work, pair work, group 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

Introduce the
topic, elicit ideas
and vocabulary,
spark interest

Check homework.
Warm-up: Ask Ss if they remember what the groups interests are. Explain that
in this unit the group have new exercise interests. Ss look at the photos and
match the people with their exercise.

T SS
SS T

Revise
vocabulary and
target language
in context

Exercise 2: Ss read and listen to the dialogue and check their guesses from
the previous exercise.

T SS
SS T

Practicing a skill
Present target
language
Present target
language

Exercise 3: Check that Ss understand any new vocabulary in the dialogue. Ss

read the dialogue again and complete this exercise.
Extra: Play the recording of the dialogue again for the Ss to focus on
pronunciation, stress and intonation patterns. Ss work in groups of three,
reading aloud the dialogue and taking turns to be Rajiv, Alex and Lucy.

10
min

SB
CD
CD player

25
min

T - SS
T SS
SS T

Exercise 4: Point out the use of the question word How.

Exercise 5: Read the dialogue with the class. Elicit suggestions of other
activities, school lessons and opinion adjectives, e.g. boring, interesting, cool,
brilliant. Ss work in pairs taking turns to be Speaker A and Speaker B. each
pair then chooses one of their dialogues for the class to hear.

SB
CD
CD player

T SS
SS T

board
SS T

Practicing a skill

partFinal

Your Challenge: Exercise 1: Look at the text message abbreviations with the
class before they write Toms message in full sentences. If some of your Ss are
not used to text messages, they can work with Ss who are.

Use target
language

Ending the lesson:

Your Challenge: Exercise2: Tell Ss to choose abbreviations from Exercise 1 to
use in their messages. Give time to Ss to finish their messages and then ask
them to read their partners messages.

T SS
SS SS

SB

10
min

Homework: Time Out, p. 108, exercise 6