Lesson Plan

Activity: Situational Talk (Conversation)

Focus: Developing Speaking Skills (Interaction)

Age Group: 14+

Objectives:

1. To develop the ability to ask questions and respond to questions in an

interaction
2. To Use simple questions using wh– words to elicit answers
3. to know how to interview

Stages of lesson:

Stage 1: (1 to 2 minutes)

The teacher introduces the lesson by asking a question:

You must have won trophies, medals, certificates in co-curricular activities. Did your
friends congratulate you? What did they say? (Congratulations! Well done! etc.)

Imagine you are a reporter from The Times of India. Krish from your class came first
in the Grade 10 board exam. How will you congratulate him? What questions will you
ask Krish?

Probable students’ responses/questions/prompts will be written on the blackboard:

How do you feel now?

Who would you like to thank?

What will you study next?

Stage 2 : Taking the interview (2-3 minutes by each pair)

Teacher forms pairs (A, and B). A will play the role of Krish and B will be a reporter.
The reporter will ask questions about Krish’s performance and Krish will answer.

He tells the students to use the questions written on the blackboard. Teacher
monitors and helps the students when needed.
Teacher uses a rubric to assess students participation/speaking. Students to be
assessed on the basis of their i) number of turn taken, ii) structures used to ask a
question, iii) structures used to respond to a question.

A group of students having an understanding of the above rubric could be engaged in

the task of taking a note of students’ performance.

Stage 3 : Feedback (2 minutes for each pair)

Teacher and students discuss the performance/use of language to ask and to respond
questions by participants.

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