LESSON PLAN

Name:
Yohana Rojas

Date:
10/19

Week:
3

Lesson number:
5

Lesson type:
Skills Lesson: Listening
Lesson Aim(s)

Level:
Pre-Intermediate

Length of lesson:
40

Number of students:
10
Tutor:

By the end of the lesson, students will have developed their listening skills in the context of life in
Sweden.
As a sub-aim, Ss will be able to talk about their own experiences living abroad.
Materials

Appropriate lesson
aims?
(please circle)

YES
NO
Tutor:
Sources
acknowledged?
(please circle)

American Headway 2, John and Liz Soars, 2001, p. 45

YES
NO
N/A
Tutor:

Language Analysis:

Sufficient language
analysis?
(please circle)

I have completed a) a language analysis sheet (vocabulary)

YES
N/A
Trainers comments:

Points to work on (action points):

Comments on the lesson plan and language analysis:

Lesson plan grade (N/A for TP 1 and 2):

standard for this stage of the course.

BELOW

AT

ABOVE

NO

Tutor
_____________________________
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Signature

Assumptions What do you expect the students will already know about the language/content of your
lesson?
Ss might be familiar with most of the topics they will hear in the text. These are the seasons, work, vacations, the
weather and houses.
Anticipated problems

Solutions to these problems:

Ss might turn up late and miss the lead-in.

They will spend the first 5 minutes talking about

what they did at the weekend. The lesson will start
5 minutes later as a result.

Ss might be tempted to work on the worksheet

during the listening for gist.

Ss will be asked not to unfold papers.

Ss with the same nationality might not have

much to say in the last activity.

SS will be paired to someone who comes from

another country.

Personal Aims - What action points from your

previous lesson(s) are you working on?

Where are these on your lesson plan? What is your

strategy to improve in these areas?

I am working on time management. I tend not

to give the right time to each activity and thus
running out of time for the last activities.

I have talked to my tutor about the time each

activity should last and I have been given advice I
am going to follow.

Board Plan: At each stage of the lesson the board will look like this:

Contextofthelistening
picturesofSweden
Preteachingof
vocabulary
questionforthe
gistactivity

Answerstoactivities

Topicstotalk
aboutinthe
productive
followup

TIM
E
5

STAGE & AIM

Lead-in
To create awareness
and interest in Sweden.

INTERACTI
ON

T-Ss
Ss-Ss

PROCEDURE

Ss look at pictures of Sweden and ask each

other the following questions:
What do you know about Sweden?
What is the country like?
What are the people like?
Feedback from Ss who want to volunteer

Pre-teaching of
Vocabulary
To enable Ss to have
sufficient vocabulary to
do the tasks and to
prevent blocking of key
vocabulary central to
the topic.

Ss are presented 3 words: Set , rise, cottage

T-Ss

For further analysis look at appendix 1

T-Ss

Tell Ss they will listen to Jane talking to her

friend Carla about her life in Sweden. Jane
comes from the United States, but three
years ago she married a Swede and went to
live and work in Stockholm.

Listening for gist

5

To give Ss a reason to
listen at a general level

Individual
work

Listen to Carla and notice her reactions

when Jane talks about her experience.
T elicits feelings on the board:
T-Ss

Angry, surprised, bored

Open class feedback: Carla is surprised

12

Listening for Detailed

understanding

T-Ss

Ss are asked to unfold their work sheet and

work on exercise 1.

To give Ss a reason to
listen for more detail
and to allow them to do
a more specific task

Individual
work

Ss go through the sentences and look for

new words to be clarified
Meaning clarification of words is given

Ss-Ss

Ss work in groups of three and discuss

whether the sentences are true or false.

Individual
work

T monitors
Open class feedback by noting down their
answers on the board without comment.
Ss listen and check

15

T-Ss
Ss-Ss

T provides right answers and asks Ss to

discuss why they are false

T- Ss
T-Ss

T elicits answers.
T asks Ss to remember their first reactions
when they arrived to live in new York.

Productive follow Up
Ss-Ss

Ss work with people from the same

nationality and in groups talk about the
differences between their hometown and
Sweden or New York. Topics to consider: The
seasons, work, vacations, the weather and
houses.

TRAINERS COMMENTS

Ss-Ss
Open
class
feedback

Ss are paired with a person from a different

nationality. They talk about and ask each
other about their experience living abroad.
T provides examples of good language and
provide error correction of collected
mistakes.

Language Analysis Sheet Vocabulary

Word / phrase: set
Meaning:
to go down below the horizon

Teaching
I will convey meaning by
Drawing

Anticipated problems with meaning:

CCQs with answers:

Ss might wonder about similar words.

If the sun sets, does it go up or down? DOWN

Pronunciation /set/
Anticipated problems with pronunciation:
No problems anticipated

Solution(s):

Form verb, used to talk about the sun or moon

Anticipated problems with form: No problems
anticipated

Solution(s):
------

Word / phrase: rise

Meaning
To move upwards
Anticipated problems with meaning:
No problems anticipated
Pronunciation (phonemes, stress):

Teaching
I will convey meaning by
drawing
CCQs with answers:
If the sun sets, does it go up or down? UP
Solution(s):
Makes a vibrating sound

Anticipated problems with pronunciation:

/z/ sound
Form verb
Anticipated problems with form: No problems
anticipated
Word / phrase: cottage
Meaning : a small house, especially in the country
Anticipated problems with meaning:
No problems anticipated
Pronunciation (phonemes, stress):
Anticipated problems with pronunciation:
Ss might pronounce last word e

-----

Solution(s):
----

Teaching
I will convey meaning by
Pointing a picture in their sheet
CCQs with answers:
Are they big elegant houses? NO
Solution(s):
Show silent letters

Form Noun
Anticipated problems with form:
No problems anticipated

Solution(s):---

Word / phrase: luxurious

Meaning

Teaching
I will convey meaning by
Exemplifying with hotel names
CCQs with answers:
If sth is luxurious is it comfortable? Yes
Is it cheap? NO, its expensive
Solution(s):
Tell Ss its similar to the sound in She but with a
vibrating tone.

very comfortable; containing expensive and enjoyable things

Anticipated problems with meaning:

No problems anticipated
Pronunciation

Anticipated problems with pronunciation:

Ss might find it hard to make /z/ sound
Form adjective
Anticipated problems with form:
No problems anticipated

Solution(s):
----

Exercise1:WhatdoyouknowaboutSweden?

Exercise2:DiscussthesestatementsaboutSweden.Doyouthinktheyaretrue(T)orfalse(F)?
1. In winter there is only one hour of daylight.
2. Swedish people look forward to winter.
3. The houses are cold in winter.
4. In Sweden, it gets much hotter in summer than in New York or Washington ,
D.C.
5. In parts of Sweden the sun never sets from May to July.
6. Many people in the United States work longer hours than people in Sweden.
7. Swedes always start work early in the morning.
8. Country cottages in Sweden are usually very luxurious.
9. All houses have a sauna.
10.The whole family likes to sit in the sauna together.

Exercise3.CompareyourcountrywithwhatyouknowaboutSwedenorNewYork.

AdaptedfromAmerican Headway 2, John and Liz Soars, 2001, p. 45