English Lesson Planner

Abdullah Hazzouri

TP3 - upper intermediate level

TP3
upper intermediate level

Description

In this lesson students will have a reading text and practice on new vocabularies, and have a speaking tasks, lesson starts with a couple questions and will be shown a video as a warm up. then they will discuss about their answers and they will take some practices on the reading text and it will generate a useful discussion atmosphere and in the end they will have a speaking task to use the new words they have learned in their speaking task.

Materials

Short Video

Questions Hand-Out

Strips of papers (ex1)

Cut-Up Ex1a

Cut-Up (Ex2)

Hand-Out (Ex3)

Hand-Out (ex4)

Short Video

Questions Hand-Out

Strips of papers (ex1)

Cut-Up Ex1a

Cut-Up (Ex2)

Hand-Out (Ex3)

Hand-Out (ex4)

Main Aims

To provide reading practices and develop their reading skills and specific information and detail in the context of history and scientific theories.

Subsidiary Aims

to give the students an opportunity to learn and practice new vocabulary and use them in speaking task.

Procedure (25-45 minutes)

Warmer/Lead-in (3-5 minutes) • To set lesson context and engage students

T start the lesson with discuss some thoughts with students about theories, and then put them in pairs by giving them strips of paper with numbers in it and each S set with his peer who had the same number. T hand them Questions hand out and ask them to answer them while they watch a short video about Galileo Galilei. T do some FB about the video and the questions.

Pre-Reading/Listening (2-5 minutes) • To prepare students for the text and make it accessible

T show the students 4 images represent the four theories "Gravity - Evolution - Heliocentrism - Big Bang" Elicit The Answers from the students. give the Students the strips of paper to match each of the Theories to their definition. T do FB on that exercise.

While-Reading #1 (5-7 minutes) • To provide students with less challenging gist and specific information reading tasks

T tell the students that they are going to read about Galileo and ask them to put the cut up he will hand them to put it in the correct order. T do FB by giving them Key answers and ask them to check their answers in pairs.

While-Reading #2 (5-10 minutes) • To provide students with more challenging detailed, deduction and reading tasks

T tell the students that they will work on the next task individually and give them the hand-out T keep monitoring them After they finish T ask them to check their answers in pairs. T do FB by nominate from the students and praise them

Post-Reading/Vocabulary (2-5 minutes) • To provide with an opportunity to respond to the text and expand on what they've learned

T write on the WB the vocabulary one by one and elicit the answers from the students and when needed he do some demos and give some examples. T give them the hand out Ex4 and ask them to answer it in pairs. T do FB on WB

If Time Practice (3-6 minutes) • make them able to use the vocabulary they have learned by practicing on it.

If there was time, T give the Ss Cut up practice from the workbook and let them work in pairs. T do FB on WB

Speaking (5-7 minutes) • Use the activity to give the students some speaking practice.

T ask them to work in pairs to retell the story of galileo's tral in their own words T monitor by their speaking and try to stay in front of the class T do FB by nominate from the pairs and do air correction when needed.