Teacher: Classlevel 

: First Year Baccalaureate

Textbook : Ticket to English Classsize :
Unit 4: Environment&Ecology Lessontype : Writing
Title : Writing a paragraph School :
Class period : 1 hour Date :

 General Objective(s): Students will be able to write a paragraph.

 Students Performance Objectives (SPO): By the end of the lesson,students will be able to:
 Recognize the layout of a paragraph; and
 Write a short paragraph about an environmental problem in their city or neighborhood and suggest
some solutions.
 Material(s): BB.

Time Procedures Techniques

3 Warm-up
minutes -T greets SS. Greeting
-T: Good. Welcome to my class.
-T asks one of the SS to write the date on the BB.
20 minutes Pre-writing stage
Brainstorming: Setting the scene
-T raises SS motivation and awareness about the topic.
-T: Are there any environmental problems in Youssoufia? =>SS: Yes.
-T elicits and writes SS problems on the BB
 Pollution: Water, air, land. Semantic map
 Waste, garbage, rubbish, trash, no dustbins
 Smoke of some companies…etc
-T: Why do we have such problems? What are the reasons/causes?
 Lack of people’s awareness of the importance of our environment.
 Lot of cars and tracks…etc
 No Cleaning/ people keep throwing waste in the street.
 Companies don’t care about waste, they just get rid of it by anyway.
-T: How can we solve these problems?
-SS provide their answers.
Providing enough dustbins
Diagram
organizing compaings about Recycling
environment protection waste
collect rubbish from the Not producing waste a
street lot

-T writes, with the help of SS, the format of a paragraph on the BB.
Topic sentence…………………………………………………………………………..
.………………..……………………………………………………………………………
Supporting ideas……………………………………………………………………. (paragraph
…………………… format)
…………………………………………………………………….……………………
Concluding +
sentence……………………………………………………………………………………
…………………………………………………………………………………….. Outlining

While writing stage

Drafting:
-T asks SS to write a paragraph about anenvironmental problem and suggest solutions.
20 minutes -T monitors the class by going around the rows and checking SS’ work and progress. Drafting
Revising:
-T asks SS to exchange their drafts and revise.
Editing:
-T asks SS to edit their first drafts if there are any mistakes and write the last draft. Revising

Editing
17 minutes Post-writing stage
Publishing Publishing (oral
-T has SS read out their final drafts in front of each other. presentation)
-T writes a paragraph on the BB with the help of SS. (Whole-class production).
-T asks SS to copy on their copybook, part of writing.