LESSON PLAN

Form: 7th grade

Level: Intermediate
Unit: Earth SOS
Lesson: Gentle Gorillas, Violent Times
Skills: speaking, reading
Time: 50 minutes
Classroom interactions: individual, pair and group work;
Objectives:

Students will be able to speak about environmental problems

Students will be able to express their pro / counter opinion related to animals in captivity
Students will be able to identify the overall meaning of a spoken message

Materials: textbook, blackboard

Methods: conversation, exercise, explanation
 Objectives STAGES OF ACTIVITIES Methods/Classroom Time
THE LESSON interactions/ AIDS
To capture learners attention Lead-in T asks Ss if they like to go to the Zoo. Why/ Why not ? T Ss
5 min
Ss T, S - S
To expose opinions and
viewpoints

Pre-reading T asks Ss to look at the pictures at page 110 and read the TS 7 min
activities messages on the pictures. S-T
To activate knowledge of some
facts Ss are asked to write in a sentence why the animals in the Individual work
pictures are in danger and provide a solution.

T provides feedback. TS

T asks students to read the table at ex 7. Pair work 7 min

Ss are asked to discuss in pairs the problems of pollution,

their effects and bring their own solutions.

Ss present their answers.

T provides feedback.

While reading T asks Ss to read the text at page 107. Individual work 10 min
activities
Ss are asked to work in pairs and solve ex 1 based on what Pair work
they read.
 T asks students to select the words in text that describe Individual work 10 min
To decode unknown vocabulary Post-reading gorillas. T clarifies the unknown words.
in context activities
T asks students to say which were the dangers that gorillas
have faced.

T asks students to solve ex 3 at page 108. 5 min

Homework T asks students to make the test at page 111 How Individual work 2 min
environmentally friendly are you