LESSON PLAN
TEACHER: DATE: TIME: SCHOOL: CLASS:
Class profile: 15 year-olds, A2B1
Teaching unit : Module 1: Communication; www.radiochill.org
Type of lesson : Skills work
Sources: Challenges 4 Students' Book; Workbook; Teacher's Handbook
Aims and objectives : Read and listen to the Challenges story; learn expressions for opinions; listen to short conversation
Teaching methods : conversation, presentation, reading comprehension, listening comprehension, speaking
Class management : whole class, individual work, pair work
Teaching aids, materials
and equipment : students book, workbook, CD; board, chalk, CD-player
STAGES
TIMING
Aims and Class organization procedures and activities Interaction Teaching Possible problems
objectives aids and and solutions
materials
1
partIntroductory
Homework check. T-SS
Introduce the WB
topic, elicit ideas Warm-up:
and vocabulary, Exercise 1: Ask students to look at and talk about the picture, saying where the T-SS SB 5 min
arouse interest people are, how they are feeling and what they could be talking about. S-S
Give students time to work in pairs, looking at the body language of the people
and answering the questions. Students tell the class their answers and see how
much general agreement there is.
Check reading Exercise 2: Play the recording for students to read and listen and check their T-SS
Main part
comprehension answers from Exercise 1. Check with whole class.
Present target Exercise 3: Read aloud the explanation to the class. Ask students to repeat the T-SS
language questions after you. Check that they use a rising intonation at the end of the
questions.
Use target T-SS
language Exercise 4: Students work individually, completing the dialogue. After checking S-S SB
answers, students work in pairs, reading the dialog. CD
T-SS CD player 35
Present target S-S board min
Exercise 5: Ask Ss to read through the key expressions and classify them. Students can
language
compare answers in pairs before checking answers as a class.
Learn a study T-SS
skill Exercise 6: Read aloud the advice. Ask students if they enjoy and feel confident S-S
when taking part in discussions in English and in Bosnian. Encourage them to
discuss any difficulties they have in class discussions in English.
Use a study skill T-SS
Exercise 7: Ask two students to read aloud the example dialogue. Give students S-S
time to think about each of the topics. Students work in groups of 35,
discussing each topic in turn. Monitor but do not interrupt students fluency.
Make a note of any general problems to go over with the class afterwards.
Everyday Listening
Check listening T-SS
comprehension Exercise 1: Give students time to read through the questions and answers. Play
the recording once for students to listen and answer the questions. Play the
recording again and pause it after each conversation to check the answers.
Check listening T-SS
comprehension Exercise 2: Play the recording, twice if necessary, for students to listen and
underline the stressed word or words.
partFinal
Revise target Ending the lesson:
language Ask four Ss to read the dialogue aloud (assign roles). T-S SB 5 min
S-S
Homework: Exercises 8,9