New lesson plan: Summer Holiday Lesson Plan Week One Day Three

Thomas Songer

Summer Holiday Lesson Plan Week One Day Three - Intermediate ESL Grades 9-12 English Students Proficiency L5 Ages 15-80 Internet Wi-fi Television - School level

Summer Holiday Lesson Plan Week One Day Three
Intermediate ESL Grades 9-12 English Students Proficiency L5 Ages 15-80 Internet Wi-fi Television - School level

Description

Students will demonstrate their ability to choose a hotel to stay based on reviews, availability, location and pricing information; students will be able to book an hotel over the phone, explaining their requirements, needs and wishes

Materials

Hotel review g294212 d1146087 reviews hilton beijing wangfujing beijing

Website

Main Aims

To provide scan reading practice using a text about reviews in the context of travel

Subsidiary Aims

To provide detailed reading and discussing hotel reviews; - Students will be able to make their informed choice of hotel

Procedure (47-58 minutes)

Warmer/Lead-in (5-8 minutes) • To set lesson context and engage students

- Ask students if they liked the hotels they read about the reviews. - Ask them if they've found the reviews helpful and why. - Tell that today the students are going discuss hotel reviews and chose the best offers in various cities - Explain the students that this is what they are going to do or probably already do when traveling.

Exposure (8-10 minutes) • To provide a model of production expected in coming tasks through reading/listening

Speak about different parts of reviews – scores, personal experience, the ways people may express and mask their complains; separating facts from opinions in the reviews (hard facts vs. opinion); Analyze one of the reviews as an example (model)

Useful Language (8-10 minutes) • To highlight and clarify useful language for coming productive tasks

Working in pairs; give each student a couple of reviews and ask each pair to compare two hotels and pick the best one and the best offer.

Productive Task(s) (18-20 minutes) • To provide an opportunity to practice target productive skills

One student in each couple makes a presentation explaining their choice of hotel.

Feedback and Error Correction (8-10 minutes) • To provide feedback on students' production and use of language

Go over the list of vocabulary from students. Go over a list of the typical requirements for a hotel, i.e. free wifi, free parking, pet-friendly, vegetarian restaurant on site, gym, etc.