HAIR TODAY, NO HER TOMORROW LESSON PLAN

A. Warm up
1. The teacher writes “arguments” in the middle of the board. If needed, the teacher
explains what argument means (an angry discussion with someone in which you both
disagree).
2. The teacher and the students brainstorm on the concept of arguments and the
teacher writes the words students say on the board.
B. Pre-Reading
1. The teacher asks students about their most recent argument. If there aren’t many
students, each student can answer this.
2. The teacher writes the name of the poem on the board and asks the students to
guess the topic of the poem. The teacher asks questions like “Wat is it about?”
“What do you think you will read?” etc.
C. While-Reading
1. The teacher distributes the papers face down. When the distribution is complete, the
teacher gives them a few seconds to quickly skim the poem. After the given time is
complete, the teacher asks students to turn the papers over and explain what they
remember or understood.
2. The students turn the papers again and the teacher asks the while reading questions
which are already prepared.
i. How many times is the word “cat” used in the poem?
ii. How many times one of them asked a question?
iii. How many times one of them requested something?
3. Then the reading process begins. First students read the poem silently on their own.
Then the teacher models the pronunciation stress etc. by reading the poem. Finally,
a few students read the poem out loud.
D. Post-Reading
1. The teacher asks the students some general questions like “Did you like the poem?”
2. Then she starts asking already prepared comprehension and discussion questions.
i. What happens in the poem?
ii. What colour is the hair she found?
iii. Do you think he cheated?
iv. Do you think she cheated?
v. What do you think about their relationship? Were they happy or not?
vi. Do you think if they will get back together or not?
3. The teacher asks students to write the argument they had, which they explained in
the pre-reading activity, in the same format as the poem.
E. Language Focus
1. The teacher delivers a reading passage whose language focus is reported speech.
2. The teacher asks the students that the two texts include sentences that people say
but what is the difference between them.
3. Then the teacher explains reported speech.
4. The teacher delivers a grammatical worksheet.
F. Final Activity
 1. The teacher asks the students to write the poem as a paragraph using reported
speech.
G. Homework
1. The teacher asks student to write their argument poem, which they did as a post-
reading activity, as a paragraph like they did in the final activity.