LESSON PLAN

School:
Teacher’s name:
Date:
Class: 8th grade
Class size: 28 students
Time allowed: 50 minutes
Level: Intermediate
Textbook: Snapshot Intermediate by Brian Abbs and Ingrid Freebairn
Unit: I wish…
Lesson topic: The new materialists
Approach: Communicative
Learners’ preferences: Class shows interest in communicative activities
Anticipation of learners’ problems: Difficulties may occur in completing some sentences using causative have
Previous work: Fast Rewind (the 1st Conditional, Relative Clauses, Time Clauses in the Future, Present Perfect Simple and Continuous)

Lesson Aims:
1. to encourage students to speak about teenagers’ attitude towards money
2. to revise and expand vocabulary
3. to increase awareness of the differences and similarities between British and Romanian teenagers
4. to provide practice in using the 2nd Conditional and the structure I wish/If only…

Skills: Speaking, Writing, Reading

Teaching aids: handouts, slips of paper, blackboard and textbook
Competences:
By the end of the lesson, the students will be able:
1. to complete a questionnaire (You & Money)
2. to write some sentences using causative have
3. to talk about what they would change in their appearance or character, using the 2nd Conditional
4. to express regrets about a current situation (I wish/If only…)
Procedure

Stage Time Teacher’s Activity Students’ Activity Interaction Skills Comments

1. Lead-in 2’ T. reads two jokes on the Students speak about their own T-Ss Speaking - to warm-up
relationship between teenagers relationship to their parents. Ss-T - to create
and their parents. interest in the
topic
2. Checking 3’ T. checks Ss’ answers about Students read their answers. T-Ss Reading - to check
homework Ross Regan, a British teenager. Ss-T homework
3.Communicative 5’ T. asks Ss to speak about Students answer some questions: Are T-Ss Speaking - to develop
stage Romanian teenagers’ attitude young people in Romania more Ss-T communicative
towards money. materialistic than they were in the past? skills
Is this good or bad? What are the
Romanian teenagers’ interests?
4. You & Money 5’ T. gives Ss handouts with a Students work in pairs to read the T-Ss Reading - pair work
Questionnaire questionnaire about materialism. questions and the three possible Ss-Ss
answers. Then, they choose the answer Ss-T
that is closest to what they think.
Afterwards they check their score.
5. Causative have 10’ T. asks students to name some Students write down the sentences: T-Ss Speaking - causative
(have something things they would arrange for Mr. Poor makes his breakfast himself. Ss-T &Writing have
done) someone else to do for them if Mr. Rich has his breakfast made for
they were rich and writes an him. Then they complete the next
example on the blackboard. sentences: Mr. Poor repairs his car
Then they complete some himself. Mr. Rich…
sentences about Mr. Poor and Students complete some dialogues,
Mr. Rich using causative have. using the correct tense of have and the
cues in brackets. The most difficult
ones are written on the blackboard.
6. Nobody is 10’ T. asks Ss to talk about what Students make at least six sentences as T-Ss Speaking - speaking
perfect (2nd they would change in their the ones in the examples: If I were Ss-T &Writing about unlikely
Conditional) appearance or character. T. taller, I would get this job. Unless I situation in the
 writes some phrases on the
blackboard: be older/younger,
have a better sense of humour,
be more sociable, be more
generous, be less shy, be less
bad-tempered, do more
exercises, be good at, get up
earlier…
7. I wish/If 10’ T. writes on the blackboard
only… some sentences using this
structure: I wish I had more
time/ I wish I could play the
piano/ If only people were more
honest!
8. Assigning 2’ T. asks Ss to write some
homework exercises from their coursebook
using the 2nd Conditional and I
wish/If only…
9. Evaluation 3’ T. assesses the Ss’ answers and
performance of the class as a
whole.
10. Up-sleeve T. writes only the beginning of
activity some sentences that the Ss
should complete.
worked harder, I wouldn’t pass the present or
exam. future
Students try to use as many phrases as
possible and then they make the rule of
the 2nd Conditional.
Students pay attention to the tense used T-Ss Speaking - expressing
after I wish/If only…and give more Ss-T &Writing regrets about a
examples. Afterwards, they write on a current
slip of paper their most important wish, situation
without signing their names and give it
to the teacher. T. will read out some of
the class’s wishes. Students speak
about the most surprising wish, the
most common kind of wish (wishes for
material things, for changes in one’s
situation).
Students pay attention to what they T-Ss Writing - for more
have to do as homework. Ss-T practice
T-Ss
I would be delighted if…
I would be very disappointed if…
I would find it very funny if…
I would feel very worried if…
I would not like it unless…
I would be surprised if…