Teaching Plan

Title Things get you annoyed

Teacher Wenwei Li
Class Advanced conversation
Time duration 45~60min
Objective Students be able to identify and describe annoying things
of daily life in NYC.
Review/learn vocabs and expressions to complain.
Use idioms to express unfortunate experience.

Pre- During Post-

Activity Take a look at this picture. Heres a
1 She is Give me some questionnaire to
words to finish this test what annoys
sentence: she is you. Lets see what Ask What does
What bothers you more in a pain in the
annoys 1. Possible words: neck/pulling
annoyed, crazy, life.
you? teeth/ sick to
bothered, irritated, 1. Choose the stomach/ pulling
frustrated, furious ones that hair/ want to
2. (Circle annoy, annoys you bury head feel
bother, irritate) Is more than the like?
she annoying or others.
annoyed? Whats the 2. If you finished,
difference between find out the Have ever you
adjectives with ed idioms that had similar
and ing? are associated feelings?
3. Are you easily with the
annoyed? People who pictures
gets annoyed easily below. And Do you have
are said to have a think about, similar
_____________. Or they are they expressions in
are called a different? your L1? Do they
____________ person.
 4. Can you think of mean the same
anything that annoys thing as they do
you? in English?
Have you ever felt like
this?
Activity Is living in NYC annoying? Here are some
2 Is living here more pictures I found
Living annoying than living back online. From an
in NYC home? article called: 25
is annoying things
What are something about living in NYC.
someti annoying you here? Did you feel
mes 1. Talk with your better after
annoyin partner: what complaining this
g is happening with us? Why?
in these
pictures? Why
is it
happening? How do you deal
How do you with these
feel? situations next
2. (With a class) time?
Do you have Suggestions?
similar
experience
here? Does it
happen in your
hometown?
(Encourage
students to
complain
about
unfortunate
situations)
Wrap- What did we learn today?
up 1. Vocabulary
2. Idioms (Form,

2
 meaning, differences)
3. Let out your
frustrations