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CEP Lesson Plan

Teacher/s: Yijun Zhong
Level: I1
Date/Time: Wednesday, October 28, 2015, 9-11AM
Goal:
1. Listening: criteria
2. Talking about differences/similarities: (not) as as
Objectives
Students Will Be Able To
1. brainstorm criteria in choosing a restaurant;
2. listen to a conversation for information;
3. learn to use (not) asas by rewriting the sentences from the
conversation;
4. practice talking about differences in a preference activity.
Aim/Skill/Microskill

Activity/Procedure/Stage

Preview and Review

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Theme: choosing a
restaurant

preview content for today

homework
listening practice: criteria
(not) as as

Interac Tim
t.
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t-ss
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2. go over the weekly resolutions t-ss

and ask ss how they are doing

3. homework
3.1 Workbook p.18 go over as
whole group
3.2 Textbook p.24 ss compare
answers

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restaurant

Link & Transition:

1. Did you all have breakfast? What
did you have? Who didnt? Who is
hungry now?
(call on ss)
2. Who is having dinner today in a
restaurant? (talk about the word
and its pronunciation stressed
syllable)

Activity 1: listening

Pre-stage:

s-s
5
t-ss

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for criteria 45
Criteria: (sing.
criterion)
Rules or standards to
judge or decide sth.

Our criteria

Womans criteria

P.26

teenagers
parents of young
children
grandma and grandpa

1. Lets just say that we will have

our dinner today in a restaurant.
We have to pick one right? What
are some criteria you will use to
choose a restaurant? Do you know
the word criteria?
2. What would be your criteria
to choose a restaurant? For me,
because Im a lazy person and have
a lot of things to do today, location
will be one of my criteria.
3. What about you? Think of 3
criteria.
t-ss
(collect some criteria & write on
board)
During stage:
1. Now were gonna listen to a
conversation. A woman is asking
a man about two restaurants. I
want you to listen and write down
the criteria the woman is using.
Remember to listen for the words.
(go through criteria, write on board,
compare w/ ss criteria)
2. (follow-up Qs) Now which
criterion is the most important for
the woman?
Which restaurant does the man
often go to?
3. Lets open our textbook and
s-s
turn to p.26. Look at . Well listen
to the conversation again. This
time, listen more carefully. Check
the restaurant that goes with each t-ss
criterion.
(call on ss, go through answers)
Post-stage:
1. Now if you have to choose
between these two restaurants,
which one would you choose? Talk
to each other. Ill give you 2
minutes. (call on ss)
2. Do you think different groups of
people may have different

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criteria?
3. Lets look at the two restaurants
again. If we want to compare them,
how do we make complete
sentences with each criterion? (do
the 1st one as example: Andys
restaurant is cheaper than Starlight
Diner.)
4. What about the rest of them?
(call on ss, write on board)
Activity 2: talking
about
differences/similarit
ies: (not) as as
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Pre-stage:
1. You know, sometimes when we
compare two things like here, it
would look like we are criticizing
the one thats not so good. Do you
know criticize? What does it
mean?

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t-ss

Criticize (v.): to talk

about the faults of sth.
t-ss
Critical (adj)
During stage:
1. So we want to soften things a bit.
To make it not so hard. This is what
Starlight Diner is not
we do. We use not asas
as cheap as Andys
instead of than.
restaurant.
Can we make here (is not) even
shorter? How do we say it?
2. Can we rewrite the rest of
them? What about the next one?
(go through sentences w/ whole
Andys restaurant isnt group)
as expensive as
3. We can also reverse the
Starlight Diner.
sentence like this.
4. Now what do we do if, lets say
the man in the conversation made
a mistake. It turns out that Starlight
Diner is also very cheap. How do
we change the sentence? We just
need to delete one word.
Similar (adj.) almost
5. So we use asas to talk about
the same
similarities.
Similarity (n.)
(talk about the word similarity & s-s
similar)
(do all sentences as whole group)
1. Pair work
2. Which do you
Post-stage:
prefer?
1. I have some words here. Were

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Eg. oranges/bananas gonna do a pair work. Each pair

I prefer bananas
will get 2 words right? Youre gonna
because they are
share which one you prefer. For
sweeter than
example, if you have these two.
oranges/they are not
One of you will ask the question
as sour as oranges.
Which do you prefer? The
Accurate!!!
other will answer it. You can say
something like this.
Remember to be accurate. Try to
slow down and not to make
grammar mistakes.
2. Everybody got it? Ok. Lets start
sharing.
3. Now. Pass your word to the next
pair. Lets look at the new words.
Start sharing again! (do this for
several rounds)
Wrap-up

1. Now. Lets think about what we

learnt today. Lets go back to 9
oclock. We did we do? (go through
the lesson again)
Homework:
1. Workbook p.19
2. Textbook p.23 p.25

Materials:
1. Blackboard, whiteboard, makers and chalks;
2. Unit 3 audios;
3. Words for preference activity.

t-ss

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