Following is a template of an ESP lesson plan that you may use in your teaching.

It is divided
into three parts:

1. Class Description and Background Information

2. The Aims of the lesson
3. The Resources, Tools and the Process of the lesson

LESSON PLAN

Name of Instructor: Bistra Vassileva

Topic/ Theme of Session: Self-Driving Cars
Course: English for Transport Engineers

Date: 08.03.2023………………..
Time: 10:00……………….

1. Class Description and Background Information

The students:

First year, Second Semester, Transport Engineers, approx. 12 persons (5 students present)
The classroom:

Classical one, whiteboard, 1 Projector Tables in row

The course:

English

Assumptions on what students already know:

Parts of the car, autonomous vehicles, structures to talk about the future

The Previous Session:

Innovations in automobile industry, electrical vehicles

The Next Session:

The Ethical Dilemma of Driverless Cars

Anticipated Problems: Proposed solutions:

Language to make predictions about Revision and practice of structures
the future; expressing and
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 argumenting opinions; agreeing and
disagreeing
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2. The Aims of the Lesson

General Aim:
Express ideas about some future trends in automobile industry using appropriate language

Specific Objectives:
Sharing ideas based on an article about the future trends in the development of driverless cars.
Revising language to make predictions and express opinions, discussion of the advantages and
disadvantages of driverless cars.

Expected outcomes:
Students can use a range of language to make predictions about the future and participate in
the discussion, sharing ideas which are well argumented.

3. The Resources, Tools and the Process of the lesson

Resources:
Lesson plan from linguahouse.com
Self-Driving Cars

Tools:
Projector, handouts with the lesson and the tasks

Procedure: (Total amount of time: 1 Hour = 60 min)

Activities/ Tasks Modes of Procedure Time

Classroom (Approximately)
Organisation
English Glossary related to Dialogue 5 min
cars and driving
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Discussion of trends in Discussion 15 min
driving- how it has changed
over the last 10 years and
what innovations are
expected in the next 10
years

Article reading Individual work 4-5 min

and vocabulary tasks Pair work, discussion 5-6 min

Revision of language to Pair work, revision with

make predictions about the teacher explanations, 10 min
future discussion

Pair work, class discussion, 20 min

Practical tasks Teacher feedback
Grammmar transformations
practicing language
expressing future
predictions
Discussion of advantages
and disadvantages of
driverless cars
Summary

Method of Student Assessment:

Practical vocabulary and grammar tasks; tasks which require using appropriate language to express
and argument opinions, agree and disagree with peers.

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