Lesson plan One of the core ideas of the National Guidelines is to plan and deliver active learning for

active citizenship. Develop this concept by framing it into a lower/upper secondary school level programme . Describe the different steps, including the optional ones you can come up with. The aim of this teaching unit is to promote the idea of young peoples active citizenship (EFQ competence), to practice if-clause type 2 and to revise the use of verb tenses (past and future tenses) (grammar knowledge acquisition) . The school target is the 3rd year of a Scientific/Language Lyceum and the methodology used is task-based. Cooperative-learning is integral part of the whole TU. The teaching tools are: use of IWB, reading passages, the Internet. The lesson will be developed in one lesson of 60 min. The pre-requisites of the class group are those corresponding to level B1 (CEFR). At this level students are expected to be able to interact and express opinions in a simple and coherent way. Students are supposed to have already studied and practiced the use of ifclause 0 and 1, as well as the use of past and future tenses. If-clause 2 was explained in the previous lesson. EU topics have been dealt with. Step 1 Warm-up session: (reading and listening) students are showed the EU official websites and in particular the one related to them, the Youth Portal. The teacher chooses one of the reports by Italian teenagers and reads it to the class. It is about a group of young people who have decided to regenerate a decrepit area of Genova, (their hometown), where some teenagers used to meet. The bus stop was the usual meeting point and this was cause of trouble for the people living in the area. The students report on how they managed to take action and improve the area despite the difficulties they had to overcome. Step2 The teachers writes questions on the IWB alongside the written report that has been read: -Whats your opinion? Have you ever thought? What would you do if? Step 2

(Speaking) Students make up their answers with the teacher eliciting ideas, encouraging the conversation/interaction and reinforcing the correct practice of if-clause 2 in particular. Step 3 Group/pairwork: students exchange ideas on what they would do to improve an area in their hometown and have to write three sentences by using if-clause 2. (speaking and writing) Step 4 Guided meaningful practice: students are given prompts to build up new ifclauses (reinforcement) A follow-up lesson might involve a project-work with students preparing a website page showing their project. The students will be assessed on their grammar knowledge acquisition with a written test based on a variety of exercises PET-structured and on linguistic accuracy in a piece of writing (free production) related to the matter. Possible disciplines related in a language school: L2 and L3. In a Scientific Lyceum: art.