LESSON PLAN

NAME: Ana Corina VOICU

CLASS: 10D
OBJECT: ENGLISH
LEVEL: INTERMEDIATE
DATE: JUNE 9TH 2017
TIME: 50 minutes
NUMBER OF STUDENTS: 26
LESSON TOPIC: WRITING A REPORT ON SUPERSTITIONS

SKILLS FOCUSED:
Writing
Reading

GENERAL AIMS:
to develop students' abilities to organize information and produce a coherent report

SPECIFIC AIMS:
students will be able to use a vocabulary related to the topic superstitions/report/survey
students will be able to write a report over a survey on superstitions and to draw conclusions
students will be able to distinguish between a formal and an informal style of writing a report

TEACHING TECHNIQUES:
Brainstorming
Reading individually
Diagram drawing
Pair/group work
Student-group reports by committees from the class

ORGANIZATION OF THE CLASS: group-work, pair-work, individual work

AIDS: textbooks (Mission 1 by Virginia Evans and Jenny Dooley, Express Publishing, 2000), handouts and
blackboard
 Lesson Stages

Stage Stage Aim Procedure/Techniques Inter- Time

action
Lead in To introduce the topic The teacher reminds the students that they studied the text The T:Ss 5 min
Village Lamp where the focus was on superstitions.
A brainstorming exercise - the students are asked to think of
words in connection with superstition. Then they are asked to
name some of the most popular superstitions. The teacher writes
the word ~superstition~ and some related words on half of the
blackboard.
Aim Presenting the aim of the The teacher tells the students that today they will learn how to T:Ss 1 min
introduction lesson write a report on superstitions. The teacher writes the title of the
lesson on the blackboard.
Key notion A definition of the notion The teacher asks the students to think what a report is and to give T:Ss 3 min
understanding of report examples of reports (brainstorming technique). Defining words
are written down on the blackboard. The idea of survey is made Ss:Ss
clear.
Hand-out Use Reading and Students read individually the sample reports given by the Ss:Ss 6 min
comprehension teacher
Group work Further comprehension of The teacher asks the students to make groups of four and then to Ss:Ss 15 min
the text discuss the texts previously given.
1. The students will observe the structure of the reports (the
four paragraphs, each having one theme).
2. After having named the themes, one student of each group
will draw a diagram that reflects precisely the results of the
survey from the texts. The teacher will check each group`s
findings.
Theoretical Understanding the styles Brainstorming exercise style comparison between the two T:Ss 5 min
approaches of writing a report reports from the hand-out. The teacher summarizes the main Ss:T
features of both formal and informal styles
Task pair Task presentation and The teacher asks the students, grouped in pairs, to produce their T:Ss 10 min
work completion own reports, using one of the writing styles discussed previously. Ss:Ss
 The reports should contain between 120 160 words. The
students start writing
Feedback/Eval Checking the students` The teacher observes the pairs in their process of discussing and T:Ss 4 min
uation progress/evaluation of writing and offers assistance when needed. Ss:T
written reports The teacher evaluates the reaching of today`s learning goals by
observing the written reports.
Follow-up The teacher assigns the In case there are unfinished reports, the students are required to T:Ss 1 min
homework conclude their work individually at home.