CEP Lesson Plan of Intermediate Conversational English Course

Teacher: Joey Cheng-Hsun Hsu

Level: Intermediate
Date/Time: April 7, 2017, 11:30 AM12:15 PM

Demographic Context: This is an intermediate conversational English course. This is

Week 8 of a ten-week course. There are three female students in this course, including
one native speaker of French, one native speaker of Korean, and one native speaker of
Russian.

Previous Lessons: The previous lesson was on how to give compliments, where the
students used the expressions they learned to give compliments. Today, we will continue
the lesson on how to respond to compliments, where the students will learn how to
respond to compliments in a socially and culturally appropriate manner.

Goal: This lesson will enable students to respond to compliments in various situations
and in a socially and culturally appropriate manner by using proper speaking strategies
and expressions.

Objectives (SWBAT):
Students Will Be Able To
1. use a variety of expressions to respond to compliments appropriately in various
situations.
2. employ appropriate expressions and adopt speaking strategies to respond to
compliments in order to produce pragmatically appropriate speaking outcomes.

Theme: Compliments

Extensions: Students will work on the extended task in the handout.

*This lesson plan follows the sequence of the sections in the handout.
Aim/Skill/Microskill Activity/Procedure/Stage Interaction Time

Review or Preview (if Linking & Transitioning to rest of (for example:

applicable) lesson: SS-T)

Agenda How to respond to compliments? T 11:30-

(first half) 11:31
TED Talk (second half)
Preview Think about it. T elicits answers to T-Ss 11:31-
the following questions from Ss: 11:34
How do people in your country
give and respond to a compliment?
How easy is it for them to give and
accept a compliment? Give an
example.

Discuss the case where T T-Ss 11:34-

responded to his friends comments 11:37
on the picture he posted on
Facebook.

Activity: 1.1 Pre-Stage:

T introduces some common ways T-Ss 11:37-
of responses to compliments. Ss 11:47
Accepting compliments
Downgrading
Questioning
Shift credit
Returning
Ss identify the category of
compliment responses.
Ss also supplement some other
possible compliment responses
they were supposed to find as their
homework.

1.2. During Stage:

Task: Ss will watch the video and Ss-Ss 11:47-
discuss the following questions in T-Ss 12:00
pair.
1. How does the woman accept
the compliments? Give
examples and match them with
the associated category of
compliment responses we
discussed just now.
2. What does the woman imply
when she says, Listen, do you
want something?
 1.3. Post-Stage:
Task (role-play): Ss will practice Ss-Ss 12:00-
giving and accepting compliments T-Ss 12:13
in a variety of situations that are
assigned.

Wrap-up T reviews todays lesson with class and T 12:13-

has Ss complete an exist ticket. Ss 12:15

Materials:
1. Computer and projector
2. Handout
3. PowerPoint

Anticipated Problems & Suggested Solutions:

Ss may not be able to give compliment responses appropriately in role-play.
Solution: Metalinguistic explanation about the use of the responses will help. After the
explanation, Ss will be asked to perform the same task again in order to address teacher
feedback, so their modified output (Swain, 1995) can, therefore, serve as their
comprehensible input to reinforce their speaking skills.

Contingency Plans (what you will do if you finish early, etc.):

Ss work on the extended task in the handout.

Relevant Theories and Teaching Techniques Implemented:

1. Each part of this lesson scaffolds and prepares Ss to perform role-play in the end.
2. Metacognitive awareness is enhanced in every task of this lesson.
3. Multimodalities of the input of the materials can accommodate as many learners as
possible with different learning styles.