LESSON PLAN

NAME: Beşliu Maria

DATE: 8th May 2019
CLASS: advanced students – first year
TIME OF LESSON: 16:00-18:00
TEXTBOOK: CAE Gold Plus
UNIT: 6 Family ties
LESSON: Reading

LESSON AIMS: 1. Develop reading skills (read different texts and answer comprehension questions)
2. Teach vocabulary related to the texts
3. Teach substitution and ellipsis
4. Consolidate the grammatical notions through exercises

MATERIALS:
1. Coursebook
2. blackboard

ACTIVITY 1
AIM: reading for the main idea - skimming

PROCEDURE INTERACTION TIMING

Ask students to look at 2 T-st 2 min
sentences and identify which of Individual work
them describes a nuclear family
and which describes an extended
family.
Ask students to make a list with T-st 5 min
advantages and disadvantages of St-st
living in a nuclear and an
extended family, respectively.
Ask them to group them
according to the different tpes of
members in the family (parents,
children etc).
Ask students to tell which of the 3 min
two family kinds is typical for
their country.
Ask students to quickly read the T-st 10 min
texts silently and complete ‘This Individual work
text is about ….’ for each of the 3
texts

ACTIVITY 2
AIM: reading for specific information - scanning
PROCEDURE INTERACTION TIMING
Check the answers to the previous T-st 5 min
 question and do a quick follow-up
reading activity.
Ask students to read the texts T-st 5 min
again silently and find out what Individual work
are the reasons for the category of
people described in each text for
choosing or not to live in an
extended family
Ask students to read the texts T-St 5 min.
silently and underline any Individual work
unknown words

ACTIVITY 3
AIM: teaching vocabulary items in the text
PROCEDURE INTERACTION TIMING
Write unknown words on the T-st 5 min
blackboard and elicit translation
Ask students to match the words T-st 5 min
in column A to their meaning in
column B

ACTIVITY 4
AIM: reading for detailed information – answering comprehension questions
PROCEDURE INTERACTION TIMING
Nominate one student to read aloud the T-st 5 min
first paragraph while the rest are Individual work
looking for the answer to the first two
comprehension questions.
Discuss the answers with the class St-st 5 min
T-st

PROCEDURE INTERACTION TIMING

Nominate one student to read aloud the T-st 5 min
second paragraph while the rest are Individual work
looking for the answer to the third and
fourth comprehension question.
Discuss the answers with the class St-st 5 min
T-st

PROCEDURE INTERACTION TIMING

Nominate one student to read aloud the T-st 5 min
last paragraph while the rest are looking Individual work
for the answer to the fifth and sixth
comprehension question.
Discuss the answers with the class St-st 5 min
T-st

ACTIVITY 5
AIM: preliminary examples and identification of Substitution and Ellipsis
PROCEDURE INTERACTION TIMING
 Ask students to go again through the T-st 5 min
text, paying close attention to the Individual work
examples selected of words that indicate
substitution
Ask students to go through the text once St-st 5 min
more and identify the places marked, T-st
that indicate ellipsis

ACTIVITY 6
AIM: teach Substitution and Ellipsis
PROCEDURE INTERACTION TIMING
After having looked at the examples of T-st 2 min
substitution, give the explanation and
the rule for it.
Ask students to solve the exercise with T-st 3 min
substitution provided in the textbook. Individual work
After having looked at the examples of T-st 2 min
ellipsis, give the explanation and the
rule for it.
Ask students to solve the exercise with T-st 3 min
ellipsis provided in the textbook. Individual work
Ask the students to solve the rest of th T-st 5 min
exercises with substitution and ellipsis Individual work
Appendix
Textbook:

Kenny, N., Newbrook, J. and Acklam, R. (2008). CAE Gold Plus. Coursebook. Harlow: Pearson
Education, pp.72-75; 197.