Lesson Plan: Task 3

Name of class: IEP 0940 Academic Writing for University Exams IV

Number of students: around 14-15
Class date: TBA
Class time: TBA
Teacher: Melinda D. Childs
Materials: Instagram/cell phones, pre-made worksheets

BASED ON ELLIS (2003) FRAMEWORK

Goal
To practice note-taking and active listening; to provide an opportunity to employ
content-related vocabulary related to Human Geography unit; to practice academic
writing based off notes, examples; to convert writing prompt questions to topic sentences
Input
Pictures of home countries, word documents graphics, and more.
Conditions
Information gap (e.g. split information), divergent, open
Procedures
Pair work, during-task planning time, delayed feedback, group discussion/reporting
Predicted Outcomes
Product: open; short answer (5-7 sentences) reporting on the human geographical
landscapes of the campus
Process: negotiation for meaning of academic vocabulary related to content (linguistic),
paraphrasing and re-forming topic sentences from writing prompts (cognitive/linguistic),
contrasting two different scenes and discerning important differentiation factors
(cognitive)
LESSON PLAN OUTLINE
Time Interaction Description
Warm-up: Quizlet Live
11:00 Ss-Ss Classroom management: taking attendance
11:15 (learner Collaborative activity in small groups, working together to
centered begin comparing countries.
activities)
Students mingle to find a partneranother S who is not
from the same home country
11:15 Upon successfully locating each other, student pairs go back
Pre-task
11:20 to their seats
stage
Teacher walks students through what to do to begin looking
over their picture to begin writing

Short answer writing

Ss-Ss
(learner Content based: gender empowerment in home country, LDC
centered, vs. MDC distinction contrasted to home country, primary vs.
11:20 learner- secondary sector jobs in home countries, HDI as an
driven) accurate measure of development
12:00
Students spend 5-10 minutes preparing and planning what
they are going to write.
Students spend time writing paragraphs with a partner.
Task
They will be given 5-10 question types they can answer
(like ones they will see for their final project)
Editing task reflection
Ss-Ss
12:00-
(learner- Students stop at this point and switch with another group.
12:15
driven, Students then begin reading and editing another groups
teacher work.
mediated) Teacher is available for questions and aiding students