Name: Fatıma Elif ŞIRECI

LESSON PLAN

STUDENTS’ AGE : 16
PROFICIENCY LEVEL : A2
CLASS SIZE : 30
TOPIC : Movie Genres
PLACE : Classroom
Scholl : Anatolian High School

TIME ALLOTED
Total class time. (40 min.)

The students will be able to:

 differentiate the movie genres by looking at posters.

Objectives  express their preference of movie types in speaking context within
limited time.
 design a poster including plot summary according to movie types as a
group.
 indicate their opinions about their friends’ plot summary by writing at
least two sentences.

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 Activities
Activity Activity Description

The teacher asks students how their weekend was and talks about a
movie which she watches at the weekend. She will talk about its topic
Introduction and the type of the movie. Then she will attach some movie poster and
(10 minutes) introduce their genres. For example, she shows Lord of the Ring poster
and asks what kind of movie is it? Does anyone know? She gets the
answer or explain the genre as fantasy and give more information like
fantasy movies includes magical things, dragons or monsters etc.

Warm-Up Students will work as pair and ask each other what kind of film do you
(i.e., pre-writing like and why? This will take around 5 minutes. After they finish, teacher
activity) select two or three volunteers and they will perform their conservation at
(10 minutes) the board.

Teacher hands out a kind of movie poster with its plot and she asks a
volunteer to read it aloud. After that she asks students to guess the genre
Main Activity of that movie and wants them to explain why they thought like that.
(i.e., While writing Then, she separates the students in groups. In each group, there will be
activity) 5 or 6 students. Teacher will give students a blank poster and some
(20 minutes) materials to design their own movie poster by inspiring the given one. In
order to design that poster, student will select a movie and they will write
its plot and its movie genre. They will also add their names on the
posters. They will be free to decorate their posters with colors, different
shapes, different types of hand writing etc.
Teacher also indicates that they need a blank part to the following
activity.

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Follow-up Activity The groups change their movie poster. Then teacher ask them to their
(i.e., post-writing opinions about the movie whether they have seen it before or not.
activity) Teacher will also indicate that their response should be more than two
(5 minutes) sentences. After that every group will put on their cards to walls and
everybody go around and look their poster if they want they add more
comments.

If the students have a trouble about any kind of activity, the teachers will
Anticipated offer another instruction to make the activity more comprehensible.
Problems and
If some students don’t want to attend the activity or being passive in their
Solutions
groups, those students will be encouraged by teachers and group
members.

Before the lesson starts, the technological devices will be set up.
Back-up Plans
for technology

Materials/teaching  PPT / An example of movie poster

aids needed  Materials to create movie poster