Group: B1 Students Date: 20/09/2022 Time: 60 minutes No.

of students: 25

Recent topic work: Recent Language work:

Conducting a Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing, and Critical Thinking skills.
debate: Do you
think that applying
to the Universities
of Ecuador is a real
challenge?
Aim:
➢ By the end of this lesson, students will be able to describe the advantages and
disadvantages of applying to Universities in Ecuador by using the target language and
vocabulary learned.
Objectives:
➢ Students will relate their ideas, knowledge, and perceptions about the real challenges
that graduated students face to enter in Universities of Ecuador.
➢ Students will design an essay related to the main topic by putting the acquired
vocabulary into practice through communicative activities to express opinions.

Assessment:
➢ Make a presentation about the students' essay.
➢ Conducting a debate ‘‘Advantages and disadvantages of applying to public Universities
in Ecuador’’
➢ A project; Mini Open House about ‘’University life in different countries’’

Materials:
➢ Slides
➢ Vocabulary (English Pedagogical Module 2-BGU)
➢ Tutorials
➢ Information from websites.
➢ Activity Sheets
➢ A guide (Brochure)
➢ Moodle
➢ Template
➢ Rubric

Anticipated problems:
➢ In case the platform fails, students will have adequate time to work on the assignment
(Moodle)
➢ In case the students do not remember the essay’s structure, they will analyze an essay
structure guide.
➢ In case the students’ internet connection is low, they will review the materials and
recorded classes on the platform (Moodle)

Timing Teacher activity Student activity Success Indicators

Before class ➢ Teacher asks ➢ Students Students will
students to investigate on summarize the most
➢ 1 days (24 research different important facts that
hours) information on websites they found on the
internet about information web in order to
‘‘Admission in about write them in a
different ‘‘Admission in Forum (Moodle) in
Universities of different which their
Ecuador’’ Universities of classmate provide
Ecuador’’ opinions.
During class ➢ Teacher presents ➢ Students pay Students will
the slides to give attention to the analyze the
➢ 15 important teacher and they provided
minutes. information. Then, categorize the information and will
the teacher shows different parts of distinguish the
the template of an essay different parts of an
the hamburger paragraph. essay paragraph.
essay and explains
its use to create
an essay
paragraph.

During class ➢ Teachers asks ➢ Students Students will

students answers express their ideas
questions based effectively the and opinions about
on what they teacher’s what they found on
found (Admission questions. the internet.
➢ 5 minutes. in different
Universities of
Ecuador) to
ensure their
knowledge about
the topic.
During class ➢ Teacher asks ➢ Students create Students will design
students to create an essay an essay paragraph
an essay paragraph using about ‘‘Advantages
paragraph about the provided of Private and Public
➢ 10 minutes (Advantages of template. colleges’’ using a
Private and Public template as a guide.
colleges) providing
a template.
During class ➢ Teacher gives an ➢ Students create Students in pairs will
opinion essay’s pairs and share prepare an opinion
template and asks their ideas to essay regarding to
students to create design a draft of the topic applying
pairs to write a an opinion essay the template given
➢ 15 draft of an opinion according to the by the teacher.
minutes. essay about required topic.
‘’Advantages and
disadvantages of
applying to
Universities in
Ecuador’’
During class ➢ Teacher asks ➢ Students answer Students will discuss
students ‘’Do you the question to according to the
agree that the teacher. topic where the
applying in a Then they form teacher monitors as
public college of two groups. moderator.
Ecuador is easy? After that,
➢ 15 minutes Yes, or not?’’ Then students conduct
teacher asks a debate about
students to ‘’Advantages and
conduct a debate disadvantages of
applying the applying to
stated information public
in the previous Universities in
activity (essay Ecuador’’
draft) called
 ‘’Advantages and
disadvantages of
applying to public
Universities in
Ecuador’’ After
that, according to
the answers given
by the students in
the previous
question, the
teacher asks
students to group
as follows; a group
that answered
yes, and a group
that answered no
(one group is for
advantages and
the other one for
disadvantages)
where the teacher
is the moderator.
After class ➢ Teacher asks ➢ Students form Students will apply
students to create groups of five all the information
groups of five and design a learned (vocabulary
people and then project ‘’Mini and information
the teacher asks Open House: about the topic) to
students to design University life in prepare a Mini Open
a project. different House ‘’University
In the project students countries.’’ life in different
will create a mini countries.’’ Taking
‘’Mini Open House; into account the
University life in rubric provided by
different countries’’ the teacher.
The teacher asks
➢ 7 days (168 students to choose
hours) one country and
present relevant
information about
University Life in the
chosen country, and
how an Ecuadorian
student could access
that education.
Teacher will provide to
students a rubric in
which they can find
the points that will be
evaluated and their
respective scores.

Additional possibilities:
1. Students will indicate through a forum how they felt doing the activities during
the class. They will also express if they require additional explanation about the
essay’s structure.
2. Students will express their opinions about the debate by answering some
questions given by the teacher.
Homework/Further work:
1. The students will conclude the essay based on the draft they did during the class
about ‘’Advantages and disadvantages of applying to Universities in Ecuador’’
2. The students will examine information about ‘‘University life in different
countries’’ through deep research on the internet in order to choose relevant
details for their project.