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Lesson Plan
Candidate Name: Mutlaq Almutairi
TP Number: 3rd
Type of Lesson: Writing
Date: 12 / 6 / 2019
Level: Pre-intermediate
Length of Lesson: 45 minutes

Main aim:
By the end of this lesson, the learners will have practiced writing a short story.

Subsidiary aim(s):
By the end of this lesson, the learners will have:
- raised awareness of the content and text organization of a short story
- practiced reading

Personal Teaching Aim(s)

i.e. action points from your previous TP feedback report that can be achieved in this lesson
Keep working on my instructions; prepare, script, rehearse

Materials & Resources Used in the lesson

e.g. coursebook title and publication, URLs of Google images used, etc.
Life, Pre-intermediate Student's book, Unit 4e, p.53:

Anticipated problems… Suggested Solution(s)

…related to tasks
The story order provided in Ex.3 might not be clear for LS Draw a timeline on the board and put each element in its order
... related to classroom equipment
e.g. laptop, the interactive board, handouts, internet, other materials
The classroom could be too small for Ls to go around and read their Ask Ls to post their story right behind their chairs
partners’ stories
... related to skills & sub-skills
e.g. reading, listening, speaking, writing
Ls may find it hard to write short story because of the lack of enough Give support to Ls with words or phrases that they want to use in their
diction writing
... related to the learners
e.g. their needs, interests, background knowledge, strengths, weaknesses
Ls might not want to write about their personal life story Tell Ls to write about Imaginary story
... related to language
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e.g. form, use, meaning, pronunciation, appropriacy
Some words of the text might be new to LS, such as “typical” Elicit the word to the Ls before the start to write

Language Analysis 4
(to be used only for Speaking/Writing Lessons)

Language to be produced by the learners

What type of text will the learners produce (Writing)?
What type of interaction will there be in the speaking task(s) (Speaking)?
The text is a short story taken from Life, Pre-intermediate Student's book, Unit 4e, p.53, about teenagers who went fishing and got lost in the
sea.
Language features
Do the learners need to use any specific vocabulary / style/ grammar / pronunciation, etc to do the writing/speaking task successfully? What vocabulary / style/
organisation / grammar / pronunciation, etc exactly? How will you present it and how will you check understanding?
Vocabulary: Ls will use (successfully) the time words provided by the coursebook; everyday / one day.
Style: Ls will be asked to write in same order provided in Ex.2

 There will be no focus on grammar

Procedure of the Lesson

Time Procedure aims Teacher activity Learner Activity Interaction Comments

(this is where the candidates observing make their notes)
3-4 Warm up / Lead-in T will introduce the topic to Ls and ask Ls will work in pairs to Pairs
Introduce the topic to Ls them to guess what the story is about. discuss the topic and guess
what story is going to be
Ex.1 about

CCQ
6-8 Pre-writing stage: T will ask Ls to look at Ex. 2 and try to LS will read Ex.2 and predict Pairs
think about the questions in that the answers before reading
Ex.2, 3 exercise. the text

T will give Ls prompts such as who, Ls will read the text and Pairs
when, where, what was the problem answer Ex. 2

Feedback
T will give Ls feedback, then do ex. 3 in Ls will receive the feedback Pairs
pairs put the order of the events (text and will be asked to do Ex. 3
organisation) on the board. in pairs
Finally, ask learners to do ex. 4 and elicit
more time words if you want.
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6-8 Feedback: T will give Ls feedback about previous Ls will be asked to write 2 Pairs
Ex.4 exercise and introduce time words (one short sentences using “one
day/ everyday) day/ everyday” in each one of
them and share them with
T will elicit some difficult/ new words to their partners Whole
Ls (e.g. typical)
8-10 While-writing stage: T will ask Ls to write a short story from Ls will spend 8-10 minutes Individuals
there life or from the news using the writing 80- 100 words short
same structure provided in Ex. 3 story applying the same
Ex. 5, 6 order they get in Ex.3
T will monitor Ls and give support Ls
with words when needed
8-10 While-writing stage: T will post the Ls’ story on the walls Ls will post the short stories Individuals
around the class and ask the Ls to go they write on the walls
around and read them around the class and go
Ex. 7 around the class and read
them

T will ask Ls to vote for the Ls may be asked to take group

best/happiest/saddest
T will ask Ls to vote for the best one in
terms of text organisation.
notes about other partner’s
stories and nominate, for
instance, the best, saddest
story

*feel free to add as many rows as you see fit

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Materials to be used in your lesson

(please, include a copy of the exercises, activities and tasks, pictures, slides, coursebook/workbook pages, etc)

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