LESSON PLAN

School: Liceul Teoretic “Pavel Dan”, Campia Turzii

Class: 11th B
Date: January, 21st 2021
Name: Ioana Mandik
Number of students: 27
Textbook: Upstream advanced
Title of the lesson: Growing concerns: Crime prevention
Time: 45 minutes

General aims

• Developing productive skills: speaking

• Developing receptive skills : reading, listening

* Lesson aims:
* to develop communication during class
* to check comprehension
* to arouse the pupils’ interest in the subject of the new lesson

• Output:

By the end of the lesson students will be able to:

- express personal opinions
- write a short paragraph on the topic of the lesson

• Materials: textbook
www.youtube.com

Language skills:
• Speaking- productive skill
• Reading, listening - receptive skill
Teaching techniques:

• Conversation
• Questions and answers
• Discussion
Evaluation Techniques: Group monitoring and feedback

ORGANIZATION OF THE CLASS: individual work, group work

 1. ACTIVITY ONE – Conversation – 10 minutes

- organization of the class ( the attendance of the pupils)

- checking homework.

2. ACTIVITY TWO – brainstorming – 5 minutes

The teacher writes on the screen : „ I can see you...” and asks the students to say whatever comes to their
mind when they see/ hear this phrase. Based on the students previous knowledge , they will be able to make a
connection between the sentence and the topic of crime. Then the teacher writes : „Big brother is watching you”
and asks the students to explain what they understand from this expression. After hearing their explanations, the
teacher tells them that it is a phrase used for government surveillance as a means of controlling and suppressing
the will of the people. The teacher announces the title of the lesson: Crime prevention.

3. ACTIVITY THREE : pre-reading – 5 minutes

The teacher plays a short clip( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uReVvICTrCM ) and asks the

students to give their opinion on it. ( How do you feel about being filmed without your consent? Is it moral/
ethical? Does it help with crime prevention?)

4. ACTIVITY FOUR : while reading – 15 minutes

The teacher asks the students to read the headlines of the text on page 75 and predict what the text is
about. Then , in groups they have to read the text and answer the questions in exercise 1 d.

5. ACTIVITY FIVE: post-reading – vocabulary practice, discussion -8 minutes

The students are asked to do an exercise where they have to match some words from the text with their
synonyms ( ex 2 / 75) . The teacher asks the students which of the surveillance methods mentioned in the text
seem the scariest and give arguments for their choice.

6. ACTIVITY SIX : feedback and homework – 2 minutes

The teacher announces the homework- write an opinion essay on the following quote: “ Privacy is a
social norm of the past”- M. Zuckerberg