SIT TESOL Certificate Course Lesson Plan Form

Teachers Name:

Boris Marte

Level:

Intermediate-Advanced

# of Students:

25

Date:

Action Points from previous teaching:

(Based on your own reflection, and feedback from
trainers and peers, what are two things that you will
try to do in this lesson to help your own learning as a
teacher?)

1. Prepare activities that involve all Ss so they can all be engaged in the lesson and not
waiting until some of them finish writing on the board.

What skill and content are you teaching? (Check

the main lesson focus; also provide details / list of
items)
Culture
Grammar/Vocabulary
Speaking
Listening
Reading
Writing

Reading:

Main Objectives:
(What do you want the Ss to be able to do with the
new material that they couldnt do before?)
(There might be subsidiary objectives. Feel free to
include them.

By the end of this lesson SWBAT:

Arrange the events that occurred in a story in the proper order and discuss an alternative ending in small groups.

Assumptions:
(What do your students already know what can they
already do in relation to todays lesson?)

The Ss know common verbs and nouns used on the reading: pumpkin, pie, passing by, praise, ungrateful.

Challenges/Opportunities for Teaching:

(What will be new for your students? What aspects
of the lesson do you anticipate they might find
challenging / difficult?)

The Ss may not know what is skimming or scanning.

Solutions for challenges:

(How will you avoid and/or address these problem
areas in your lesson?)

I will model how to skim or scan a reading if necessary.

Assessment:
(How will you assess to see that Ss are ready to
move on to the next stages of the lesson or have

I will see how they organize the events presented in the reading listen to their alternative endings.

2. Continue to adjust my pace to make sure Ss understand everything.

The pumpkin pie.

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reached the final learning objective?)

Time
2 min

Framework
PDP
And stage objectives
Pre-Reading
Create Interest

Focus: S;
S-S; T; T-S
1. Activity or task:
- Discuss what we should do when someone is new in the neighborhood. In Pairs
Teacher:
Show Ss a poster with a question and
three possible answers.
Ask Ss to answer raising the hand to
select one of the options.
Ask Ss to discuss the answers with
each other.

2 min

5 min

Pre-Reading
Activate schema
FOWSAK

Pre-Reading
Vocabulary

Students:
Will select one of the answers.
Will discuss in pairs why to choose
one option and why not to choose the
rest.

2. Activity or task:
- Categorize a list of words.
Teacher:
Will provide each group with a list of
words.
Will ask Ss for the words they dont
understand.
Will explain any word Ss dont
remember/know.

Students:
Will categorize the words depending
on their previous knowledge, if they
have an idea of the meaning of them,
if they know the word or if they dont
know the word at all.

S-S

Students:
Will FITB using the words they
received.

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Board, markers, eraser.

Poster with one question.

T-S, S-S.

S-S

3. Activity or task:
- FITB activity.
Teacher:
Will provide Ss with incomplete
sentences.

Materials/Aids
VAKT

Little cards with words

from the vocabulary used
in the reading.

Copies of a FITB activity

Little cards with words
from the vocabulary used
in the reading.

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5 min

During
Get general idea

10 min

During
Get details and
discriminate between
facts and
assumptions.

10 min

During
Scan for details

4. Activity or task:
Skimming the reading. Answer the questions:
How many people are mentioned in the reading?
Is this happening in a house, a neighborhood or a city?
Is it about cooking, dancing or singing?
Teacher:
Student:
Will ask if they know what skimming
Ss will skim the reading and then
is.
answer the questions presented.
Will model skimming.
Will provide the Ss with a copy of the
reading.
Will post questions on the board.
4. Activity or task:
Organizing events presented on the reading.
Teacher:
Will provide Ss with a list of events.

5 min

Post
Use the information
from the reading
creatively.

S-S

Copies of the reading

Copies of the reading

Cards with description of
events.

Copies of the reading

Copies of the reading

S-S, T-S
Student:
Will scan the article looking for the
details requested.
Raising their hand, they will provide
the answers for the questions.

4. Activity or task:
Discussion alternative endings. Groups of 4.
Teacher:
Will provide Ss with guidelines about
the activity.
Will ask Ss about their opinions on
who is right.

Student:
Will discriminate between events
presented on the reading, events that
are not presented but they can
assume that happened and events
that are impossible to happen
according to the reading.

4. Activity or task:
Read looking for specific details.
Teacher:
Will write on the board 3 to 4
questions for specific details.

S-S

S-S, T-S
Student:
Will discuss which one would be an
alternative ending in the reading.
Ss will select a person from the team
to share their ending.
Ss will discuss whos right and share
their opinion.

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