LING 427 TESOL Internship

Summer 2014
Lesson Plan
Internship teacher: Andrew Chambers

Class: Intermediate (class 6)

Number of learners: 13

Level of learners: Varied (intermediate)

Duration of class: 50 mins.

Date and time of lesson: 17/08/2014 9:00am

Materials: Workbook p. 67, Workbook p. 68, Workbook p. 69, Workbook p. 70, TCOs: Word Stress Cards (1
set/pair)

Overall aim of the lesson: To increase Ts knowledge of vocabulary related to word stress as well as their
listening and speaking abilities in relation to word stress.

Objectives:
By the end of the lesson, learners will be able to
Understand vocabulary related to teaching word stress patterns.
Identify the stressed vowel in words.
Produce the stressed vowel in words.

Stage

Timing

Activity

Procedure

5 mins.

Warm-up

Welcome Ts back to class from break. Go over task objectives with Ts.
Have Ss. repeat vocabulary words read from the instructor.

15
mins.

Springboard

Have Ts complete the crossword on page 67 in their workbooks. Discuss

the benefit of a crossword in the classroom.

5 mins.

Study

10
mins.

Practice

15 min.

Slap game

Elicit from Ts the answer to what a syllable is. Write move, describe,
linguistic and intuition with syllable markers underneath on the board and
have Ts tap out the syllables with their hands. Dictate words to the Ts and
have them say the amount of syllables each word contains.
Have Ts complete the listening discrimination activity on page 69, while
the instructor reads the words aloud. Draw stress patterns on the four
words written on the board earlier. Explain the rules of stress. Have Ts
complete the Listen for stress patterns activity on page 69 of their
workbooks.
Give Ts the TCO for the slap activity and explain the rules of the activity.
(The Ts must flip cards in partners and race to slap and pairs that have the
same stress pattern.) Model one round for the group. Have Ts record these
words into the Word Stress Chart on page 70 of their workbooks and tell
them they can record any new words they hear in this chart.

Homework: N/A

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2014 Briercrest College. Lesson plan created by David Catterick

LING 427 TESOL Internship

Summer 2014

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
2014 Briercrest College. Lesson plan created by David Catterick

LING 427 TESOL Internship

Summer 2014
Internship teacher: Andrew Chambers

Date and time of lesson: 14/08/2014

Looking Back
(What went well/not so well and why? What went differently than expected? What were the challenges
you faced and how did you respond? Etc.)
Todays lesson went really well in terms of Ts engagement with the lesson and the energy that they brought
to class. The crossword took much longer than I had anticipated and this set the rest of the lesson behind. I
chose to give them much more time to complete it rather than to pressure them to finish faster. This actually
worked to my advantage in the next lesson because I was able to skip the slap activity and another activity in
the next lesson and combine and adapt them into a much better one that was both beneficial to the Ts and
saved me a good 20 mins. of time that would have caused us to be quite behind. The students were very
engaged with the syllable part of the lesson and they were very good at distinguishing between the minimal
pairs and numbering the amount of syllables in the example words. Overall I was very pleased with this
lesson.

Looking Ahead
(What are the key learning points and how will you apply them? How might you do it differently next
time? What skills would you like to develop to teach this sort of class better? Etc.?)
I wouldnt have really changed anything. The lesson turned out better than I thought and the timing issues
led to a really great activity in the third period. The things that I would work would be connecting the tasks
more to the Ts real life and making the objectives clearer to them. Had the next lessons activities not gone
so well, I would have liked changed the lesson plan to give the teachers more time with the crossword
activity and slow the pace of this lesson down.

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2014 Briercrest College. Lesson plan created by David Catterick