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LESSON PLAN

Teacher: Roxana – Delia Onit

Grade: 6th
Level: pre-intermediate
Frequency: 2 hours / week
Textbook: Generation 2000, Macmillan
Lesson: Are you a TV-addict?
Type of lesson: acquiring new information (Vocabulary and Grammar) and practising
communicative skills (Speaking)
Skills: reading, writing, speaking, listening1
Purpose: the purpose of this lesson is to introduce scanning versus skimming reading
techniques to pupils
Didactic strategies:
 Methods and procedures: observation, reading aloud, translation, match and say,
make sentences, questions and answers, didactic games, conversation practice
 Organization: pairwork, lockstep, individual work
 Materials and equipment: textbook, blackboard, audio files, coloured chalk,
notebooks
Objectives:
1. To create interest in the topic of scanning/skimming and to introduce vocabulary
related to pastimes to Ss
2. To use the target language in communication
3. To enrich pupils’ vocabulary and general knowledge
4. To practice vocabulary / grammar spoken and written
5. To apply the information received from the teacher in a verbal exchange
6. To verify reading comprehension through a text-related task
7. To promote self-correction gestures and peer correction
8. To identify and select the necessary information in order to carry on with a task
9. To enhance cooperative learning among pupils
10. To allow structured feedback at the end of the lesson
Timing: 50’

PROCEDURE

Recent work: the students have been studying question words through discovery
activities followed by language practice

Warm-up Interaction: T-Ss; Ss-Ss

Timing: 6’
Speaking

Aims: 2, 7, 9

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1 The listening skill is ensured by pupils listening to audio files, to the teacher and to their colleagues during the
cooperative learning process
 The pupils and the teacher greet each other
 The pupils present their homework orally
 The teacher has the role of an observer and interferes only if necessary
 Peer observations and corrections are encouraged

Lead-in Interaction: T-Ss; Ss-Ss Timing: 10’

Speaking, reading and writing

Aims: 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8

 T writes the title on the blackboard and elicits what it is about; Ss translate it
 T indicates exercise B on page 46. Ss read the adjectives in the box.
 Then, by quickly looking at the text, Ss try to find these words in the article and to
express what they describe. The new words are read aloud, translated and written
on the blackboard.
 Then, T tells Ss they are going to speak about scanning a text (to find specific
information) versus skimming a text (for gist/general idea).

Activity 1 Interaction: T-Ss; Ss-Ss; Pairwork Timing: 10’

Listening and speaking

Aims: 1, 2, 3, 6, 8, 9

 T points to exercise A on page 46.

 T explains that Ss have to ask and answer several questions.
 Following the example, Ss must work in pairs and say: How many hours a week
do you watch TV? Around 10-12 hours a week.
 Ss report back to the class at the end of the activity.

Activity 2 Interaction: T-Ss; Ss-Ss Timing: 10’

Writing and reading

Aims: 2, 4, 7, 8, 9

 T begins this activity by directing Ss’ attention towards exercise C on page 47

 Ss have to listen to an audio file and decide whether the sentences in the book are
true or false.
 Then, Ss read aloud and translate the new sentences.
 Other Ss are paying attention to correct any possible mistakes.
 T has the role of an observer and a feedback provider.
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Activity 3 Interaction: Ss-Ss; Pairwork Timing: 8’

Speaking, writing and listening

Aims: 2, 4, 7, 8, 9

 Ss are told to look at the article on pages 46-47.

 T tells the class that they are going to talk about themselves.
 Ss have to work in pairs and put down some ideas on what it would be like if we
had no TVs.
 Ss write down the correct sentences as in: If there were no TVs, people would
spend more time talking to one another.
 Ss report back to the class in the end.

Follow-up activity Interaction: T-Ss; Ss-Ss; Timing: 6’

Speaking and writing

Aims: 2, 3, 10

 Together with Ss, T quickly revises the new structures taught during this lesson.
 T encourages Ss’ feedback at the end of the lesson.
 T assigns the homework for the next English class: exercise D on page 47. Ss
must write a brief article similar to the one in the coursebook. The topic of the
article is to pretend that your TV was taken away for a month—how do you feel?