LESSON PLANNING/RECORD SHEET

Date :
Class : Teens
Length of lesson: 45 min
Materials : Handouts, video material, audio material

Learning aims Plan (What I intend to do) Record (What I actually did)

Grammatical Different types of questions: general question,

Wh-question
structures
Echo answers and echo words

Functions To review useful phrases and expressions for

making small talks
To learn appropriate small talk subjects

Vocabulary To reinforce the vocabulary in the sphere of

everyday communication, daily routine

Pronunciation To practice pronunciation and intonation for

showing interest, surprise or agreement
To train intonation in echo questions and by using
echo words

Skills To practice communicative and speaking skills

making small talk in a variety of situation
To improve active listening skills

Learning Outcomes Ss will be able:

- to understand what subjects are appropriate to
talk about for small talk;
- to make different types of questions
 - to hold a short conversation in the situations
close to the real-life

Other non-linguistic aims To find common ground and shared interests.

Social, psychological, To overcome social discomfort and improve
cultural, educational spontaneity
/cross-curricular, To investigate the cross-cultural role of small talk
citizenship education during workplace socialization

Multimedia:
Video/CALL

Classroom Group work, pair work

arrangement

Anticipated difficulties To find appropriate topic for conversations

To make Wh-questions
To feel awkwardness during performing the role-plays

Evaluation: Did I
achieve my aims? What
worked well? Why?
Why not? What would
I do
differently next
lesson? Why?

PROCEDURE
P STAGE Materials/Multimedia TIM
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A Beginning the Teacher writes questions on the board: 5 min
N lesson ∙ (5 min) - Can you remember what the first day at your vocational school was like?
How did you feel?
Warm up - Do you remember the first time you met each of your groupmates?
(Discussion)∙ - What can be difficult about meeting new people?
Ss answer the question

Inform pupils of Teacher draws the “Mind-Map” with the term“SMALL TALK”. Ss give the associations.
lesson aims
(Class Brainstorm)

D Activity/task Ex. 2. Ss read the tips on how to start the conversation and to introduce
O cycle 1(3 min) themselves.
Making Introducing yourself in English is very simple: “Hi, I’m ______”
introduction Usually the other person will share their name and you can respond with;
“It’s great to meet you, (name)” If the other person doesn’t tell you their
name, you can say: “I’m sorry, I didn’t catch your name.”
Top Tip: Once you know a person’s name, use it immediately. This will
make the other person feel more comfortable in your presence. It will also
make it easier for you to remember that person’s name the next time you
meet them.

Ss practice to introduce themselves in different ways

Pre-watching task. Teacher introduces the new vocabulary and Ss write

Activity/task them down. Then they do the exercise by matching the new word- https://wordwall.net/uk/resource/
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Match these words and phrases from the video with their meanings:
1. Cultural intelligence
2. Temperature check
3. Mirror one’s behavior
4. Extraneous information
5. Be all business
 A. one person unconsciously imitates the gesture, speech pattern, or attitude
of another
B. things that are not relevant to the subject you are talking about
C. somebody asks a quick question to see if you will reply
D. think and talk only about work
E. skill to relate and work effectively in culturally diverse situations

While-watching task. While watching the video Ss have to pay attention to

Watching video the information which help them to answer the following question: (The
for specific questions are written on the blackboard)
information - How does the man describe small talk?
- How many questions does the man suggests as good questions for
small talk?
- What are three questions the man suggests asking? https://www.youtube.com/watch?
- If you are speaking to someone who takes 30 seconds to answer a v=gHUjpVnaasc
question during small talk, what should you do?

Post-watching task. Teacher organizes Ss into groups of four or five and

Group work/ gives them a limited time. They scan the QR-code, link the Mentimeter and
Discussion write the answers.Teacher monitors Ss as they work, encouraging them to
find appropriate answers.

Teacher gives handouts to each student and explains how to use echo- https://www.menti.com/al7tc3wavq89
Activity/task questions to encourage someone to speak and show interest in what they
cycle 3 (10 min) are saying. Don’t forget to point out that the echo-questions are not question
Practice the tags.Ss reply to the questions using echo-questions
intonation. Echo
questions, echo Reply to the statements using echo questions
words and Wh- 1. I like pop music
questions 2. She works as an accountant
3. I went to Egypt last year
4. It’s a very nice place to visit

Then, the teacher goes through the echo-words with the class. Ss do
exercise and reply the questions with echo words
1. I’m going to Italy next week/
2. It takes me two hours to get there
3. Harry is looking for new job
4. I saw Sofia yesterday
 Teacher moves on to asking Wh follow-up questions to help keep the
conversation going. Ss write 5 question to the sentence to get the additional
information

I went to the cinema yesterday

Then Ss follow the teacher and practice the phrases with rising intonation

Practice the
intonation

Activity/task Ss go through the link to the Wordwall and do the task. They have to sort out
cycle 4 (5 min) the questions according to the topics and situations
Practice using
questions for
appropriate
subjects
Activity/task Teacher groups the Ss into pairs and hands them out the situation. Ss read
cycle 5 (7 min) the situation, make the role-plays and act them out
Pair work
Practice
speaking skills https://jamboard.google.com/d/
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R Ending the lesson
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I Summarise the The exit-ticket for the lesson is a 3-2-1 Reflection. Ss write three things they liked, two Conversation Starters -
E things they learnt and 1 thing they would like to learn more.
W Randall's ESL Cyber
lesson (fun activity) Listening Lab

- Ss go through the link, listen to some conversations and do the task online.
Set homework - Make the role-play and present them at the next lesson