LESSON PLAN SAMPLES

Teacher:

Class
Profile

Number of Ss:

Level: A1, A2, B1, B2 etc. OR

Upper Intermediate, Lower
Intermediate etc.

Book
Lesson
Stage

Age: e.g. 12 OR 2025 OR adults

BOOK TITLE
LESSON TITLE

Time: 45
mins

TOTAL AMOUNT
OF TIME

Aim

WHY YOU DO IT

Procedure

Interaction

HOW TO DO IT

WHO

FOR EACH
STAGE

Ss will understand
e.g. T draws a picture on the
T&Ss
and be able to use
board of a landscape (forest,
1
6 mins
lexis necessary for
villages, river, hills etc.). T
the story in stage 3.
elicits vocabulary
T teacher; Ss students; pairs; small groups etc. T&Ss usually means that T talks to Ss

X mins

Y mins

Ss will become more

confident a
nd accurate at using
English.

T asks Ss to recap by asking

them to describe a new route.
How would you get from A to B?

Ss will get practice

using English more
creatively to invent a
story.

T writes up 10 prompt questions,

e.g. Whats the name of the
hero? Where does the journey
start? T asks Ss to draw their
own landscape and invent a story
according to propmpt questions.

Pairs

Small
groups

Ss practise forming
and asking questions.
5
Z mins
SS practise narrating
Small groups
stories using target
items.
Materials: things you need for the lesson, e.g. laptop, cardboard, scissors etc.

Teacher:

Class
Profile
Book
Lesson
Stage

John Smith
Number of Ss: 20

Age: State the age

(NO BOOK TITLE IN THIS CASE)

(NO LESSON TITLE IN THIS CASE)
Time: 45
mins

6 mins

10 mins

Level: State the level

8 mins

Aim

Procedure

Ss will understand
and be able to use
lexis necessary for
the story in stage 3.
Ss will learn and
practise prepositional
phrases.

T draws a picture on the board of

a landscape (forest, villages,
river, hills etc.). T elicits
vocabulary
T uses cut-out paper character
(and sticky tape to attach to
board) to elicit details of a story
of a walk through the landscape,
especially including
prepositional phrases (over the
bridge, around the lake, etc.). T
gets Ss to repeat frequently.
Concept-check new items as
they appear.
T asks Ss to recap by asking
them to describe a new route.
How would you get from A to B?

Ss will become more

confident and
accurate at using
English.
Ss will get practice
using English more
creatively to invent a
story.

T writes up 10 prompt questions,

e.g. Whats the name of the
hero? Where does the journey
4
11 mins
start? T asks Ss to draw their
own landscape and invent a story
according to propmpt questions.
Ss practise forming
T asks Ss to swap groups and
and asking questions. show their landscape, then (a)
SS practise narrating ask yes-no questions to elicit
stories using target
story; (b) hear the story from
5
10 mins
items.
new partner. Optional: re-swap
partners so that people have to
tell a story that was originally
not theirs.
Materials: chalk, board, paper, sticky tape, scissors

Interaction
T&Ss

T&Ss

Pairs

Small groups

Small groups

Adapted from: Penny Ur, A Course in Language Teaching, Cambridge University Press.

Teacher:

Class
Profile
Book
Lesson
Stage

Number of Ss:

Time: 45
mins

Level:

Age:

Aim

Procedure

Interaction

Materials:
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