Theme: Festivals and celebrations

Writing lesson Plan (Grammar)

Sessions Resources
Time Topics/activities

Lesson 1 Grammar lesson Conjunctions All the skills but

Grammar the focus is mainly
2 Hours Coordinating conjunctions: (in addition, on writing
however, also, moreover, although)
Connecting words: (because, because of, due
to, in order to, since, as)

10 Activity 1 Warm up: Teacher discuss the

Minutes topic festival and celebration and in a whole
class activity, teacher plays a short video of
friends planning a weekend at a music Video
festival. Link to the video:
http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/gra
mmar-vocabulary/grammar-
videos/conjunctions-and-or-so-because-and-
although
20
Activity 2 content: Teacher provide context
Minutes
for input
The teacher asks questions about the video. Sentences with
The teacher write down several sentences on conjunction words
the board and asks students to notice the and connecting
grammar rule or figure out the grammar topic. words
Then the teacher explains the function of each
grammar word through using it in sentence.
(Teacher only explains three examples)
 30 Activity 3 Brainstorming: Teacher asks BBL discussion
Minutes students to figure out the rest of the board, laptops or
conjunctions and linking words function. In iPads
groups of three the teacher asks students to
use the conjunction words in a meaningful
sentences or context. Then they should
present it to their peers in class and upload
their work to the discussion board in BBL.

15 Activity 3 Story Scramble: For this activity

minute the teacher will use several sentences
s
featuring conjunctions. Before the activity,
the teacher will create a handout with several
scrambled sentences (a random word order).
The teacher will asks students to pair up give
them out the handout. Students must attempt
to unscramble the sentences, placing
everything in the correct order. Once students
unscramble the sentences they then will be
asked to put the story together in the correct
sequence and reveal the secret story.

45 Activity 5 writing: the teacher asks students

minute in pairs to pick any festival from around the
s world and write about it. The key in this
activity is for them to use the vocabulary
words learned before in the unit about
festivals and celebrations and use the
conjunctions and connecting words when
appropriate.