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Lesson Plan




Creating a Lesson Plan & Teaching Your
Lesson




Cut and paste your scenario choice HERE: You will plan to teach a lesson to students
learning English as a new language. Since this course is about linguistics and
grammar, you will choose a topic related to grammar and pronunciation. Keep in
mind that teaching grammar does not always have to be explicit; it can be a part
of a listening, speaking, reading or writing lesson. You will choose an age group
you want to teach in the future and take into account their proficiency level
(beginning, intermediate, or advanced).

Before you being writing your lesson plan think about & note down:

Students: age, needs, expectations, level of proficiency, motivations for learning English

Learning Context: type of school, mission, expectations for teachers

Lesson:

Rationale (why is this lesson relevant and useful for students?)

Skill (reading, writing, grammar, vocab, speaking, listening, cultural competency)

Topic (at a restaurant, at a store, travel, sports, museums, etc.)

Function (What will Ss be able to do with the language? Give directions, make suggestions,
persuade, complain, etc.)

Objectives (What will students be able to do by the end of the lesson? Max. 3 objectives)

Target Language (What are the grammar structures, vocab words, or expressions they will
learn? Max. 5 target language items.)


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Lesson Plan Instructions:
• Fill in all sections. This lesson should be about 1 to 2 pages filled in.
• Clearly write out your hook, lesson goals, and pre- assessment strategies.
• Build Instruction with details of your lesson. Make sure to model your lesson.
• Follow with Applying Instruction, student practice and student assessments.
• Conclude Instruction with a detailed reflection.
• Pre-assessment and reflection/integration are critical components and should have some detail.












































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Lesson Plan

Name: Russell Fung
Grade/ Age of learner: High school to adult. English as a new language.
Subject/Topic: Greeting people and speaking properly at a job interview.
Time allotted: 20 minutes

Time Activity
2min Starting Instruction
Hook: You need money. Who here needs money? You need a job. Who here plans to get a job? In
order to get a job, you need to speak with proper grammar and pronunciation. How do you speak
to somebody at a job interview? Do you speak the same way to your friends? What do you wear
at a job interview? We will watch a movie scene from “The Pursuit of Happyness” and let’s look
at how we speak in a place of business.

Goals:
#1 Learn words and phrases such as: “I’m (state name), “Good morning,” “How are you?” “You
have a good day.”
#2 Learn cultural context to phrases and vocabulary.

Pre-Assessment: Let’s review these phrases: “Hello,” “Good morning,” “How are you?”
“Goodbye,” “You have a good day.” After that, we’ll watch how they are used in the clip.

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Building Instruction-Content Delivery
Inquiry prompt: Watch this clip one more time, with subtitles. Listen for places where Will Smith
introduces himself and uses the phrases we just learned.

Teacher-directed instruction: Play the clip two times. The first time, let the students soak in the
entire scene. Next review the words and phrases for students to look out for. Play the clip again.

Student involved modeling: Let’s review things that Will Smith said and didn’t say. First, he
doesn’t say ,”Hello,” or “Hi.” That is okay sometimes, depending on the situation. Here, he just
says his name. The appropriate phrase is supposed to be, “Hello, my name is….” Or “Hi. I’m…” All
are okay. Next, we’ll go over, “Yes sir. You have a great day.” This is another way of saying
goodbye. In this context, it is better to wish someone a great day than to just say bye. Onto the
next phrases…what else did you find? Click here to enter text.
Applying Instruction
Student practice: Play the clip for the third time, but go line by line. Have students repeat the
phrases out loud. One every student has finished saying the phrases, have them pair up and
reenact the scene. Click here to enter text

Student self-assessment: As students do line-readings, correct anything that deviates from
proper pronunciation and grammar. Ask them questions to see if they can answer without
looking at the clips.
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Concluding Instruction
Reflection and integration:
After the scene reenactments, ask students questions:
Where is Will Smith? What’s his character’s name? What is he trying to do? What does he wear in
the first scene? What does he wear in the second scene? How do the other people react to his
presence? How does he greet every single person in the room? Is this appropriate? How does he
phrase his greetings? How polite is he? How rude is he?

Finally, review the key phrases: “Good morning,” “How are you?” “You have a good day.” These
are variations of the greetings in standard basic English classes. But in context to an important
task, like finding a job. Learning this in addition to using more casual ways of saying hello and
goodbye are important to distinguish. Pronunication and grammar are more formal.
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