Lesson Plan 10

Date: 2016.10.26.
School: Szegedi Dek Ferenc Gimnzium
Teacher: Simon Jnos
Class: 10/D
Level: Pre-Intermediate
Age: 15-16
Topic: Robin Hood and Dick Turpin (outlaws of Britain)
Aims: Students learn about two outlaws of the British lands. The foci of this class are culture and the
difference between a figure in history and fiction.
Competencies: Cultural competence
Assumed knowledge: pre-intermediate language proficiency level
Anticipated problems: Students may not care about the stories and are demotivated by the audio-visual aid
if its level is too hard for them.

Aids: Printed handout, video, digital board, Students Book.

Stage

Activity

Production

Crime Scene
presentations

Checking
Homework

Students Book
p.121./6.

Production

What do you know

about Robin Hood?

Practice

Production

The Legend of Robin

Hood:
Students Book
p.86./4.
Robin Hood text
conversation

Aim
Improving
communication and
presentation
skills
Practice
reported
speech and
check if
students work
at home too
Improving
communication skill

Time

Interaction

Aids

Procedure

6 min

Presentatio
n in pairs

A3 paper
sheets

The remaining pairs of students give their presentations

(last lessons exercise).

3 min

Frontal
work

Workbook

The teacher calls students to read their answers. If some

students didnt complete their homework, they have to
learn excerpts from a previous reading text from the book
for next class.

3 min

Open
conversation

Pre-reading conversation about Robin Hood.

Improving
reading skill

10
min

Individual
work

Improving
communication skill

3 min

Open
conversation

Students Book

The teacher asks the students to open their books at page

86 and read the text about Robin Hood, completing Task 3
in the meanwhile. They have six minutes for this.
Afterwards, the teacher asks the students if there were any
vocabulary items that were new to them, especially the ones
marked with yellow background in the text. Then, the
students read the text sentence by sentence, with the gaps
in it filled.
The teacher asks questions about the text to check if the
students have understood it (focusing on the difference
between the legend of Robin Hood and the supposed
historical character). Then he asks them if they know any

other British outlaws. After listening to the students, he

introduces the character of Dick Turpin (a few words only).
Practice

Dick Turpin text

Practice

Dick Turpin video

Production

Conversation about
outlaws

Homework
assignment

Learn the text about

Robin Hood

Improving
reading skills

Improving
listening skills

Improving
communication skill
Content-Based
Instruction

10
min

7 min

3 min
-

Individual
work and
frontal
work

Individual
work

Open
conversation
Studying at
home

Handout
Video played
on digital
board and
handout:
https://www.yo
utube.com/wat
ch?v=WYUvSh7ORA

The teacher distributes handouts with a text about the

fictional figure of Dick Turpin and asks the students to
summarise it afterwards (one student per paragraphs).
To contrast the fictional figure of Dick Turpin, the teacher
plays an enacted video clip of a song about Dick Turpin.
The students have to decide whether the statements on the
handout regarding the video are true or false.
After playing the video once, he asks if it was hard and if
the class wants him to play it again. After the optional
replay, they check the answers together.

The teacher asks for similarities and differences between

the legends of Robin Hood and Dick Turpin.

Students Book

The students have to be able to talk about the legend of

Robin Hood in the next few classes.

Dick Turpin text

Richard Dick Turpin was a highwayman of the 18 th century city of York. He was baptized in 1705 and grew up to follow his
fathers profession and became a butcher. By the early 1730s, however, he had joined a gang of thieves. This led to him becoming
a poacher, a burglar, a horse thief, and a killer. He committed many highway robberies, yet, what he is the most famous for is a 300
kilometres long overnight horse ride from London to York on his horse, called Black Bess.

Fifty years after his death Turpin had been virtually forgotten - and would have remained so had it not been for the attentions
of a Victorian novelist called Harrison Ainsworth. Ever since boyhood, Ainsworth had been obsessed with highwaymen, and in 1834,
he published his first novel, Rookwood, a romantic historical novel.
Ainsworth used Turpin as a plot device in his novel, describing him in a manner that made him lively and interesting. Turpin is
introduced with the pseudonym Palmer, and is later forced to escape on his horse, Black Bess. Although fast enough to keep ahead
of those in pursuit, Black Bess eventually dies under the stress of the journey to York. This scene appealed more to readers than
the rest of the work. Turpin was depicted as a likeable character and made the life of a criminal seem appealing.
According to tourist guides that like to give credit to the legend, Dick Turpin is buried in a grave on the outskirts of York. It's
an unusually large grave, but then it had to be: Turpin's horse, Black Bess, who carried him on his legendary ride from London to
York, is buried there too. Faithful to one another in death, they lie side by side between what is now a council estate and the
Tramways Working Men's Club.

Dick Turpin video while-watching exercise

True or False?
1. Dick Turpin was a butcher is Essex.
2. The Gang of Gregory taught him how to be a good robber.
3. Dick Turpin and Matt King robbed banks.
4. Dick Turpin had a horse called Black Bess.
5. He changed his name to John Palmer after running away to Yorkshire.
6. His postman taught him how to sing.
7. Ha ran away from the police and lived happily ever after.

Robin Hood text and task