Lesson plan

Form: 12 th grade
Level: intermediate
Lesson: Love Is More than a Dream
Aims:
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to introduce new vocabulary;

to make students to argue their point of view and support their position with exemples;

to develop speaking and communicative skills.

Skills: speaking, writing, reading

Classroom interactions: individual work, whole class
Aims

Techniques and interactions

WARM-UP

To activate the
students personal
experience

Problem questions individual work:

-

To involve and to
motivate them to
participate in the
activity

The teacher asks the students to define the notion of love and to
explain, then to look for the meaning in dictionary and to
compare with their definition.
The teacher asks the students whether they consider that love
can make a person better.
The teacher writes on the blackboard love for and students
should explain what each kind of love means to them.
PRE-READING

Conversation whole class:

-

To personalize
topic

To make the
students share
thoughts and
feelings

The students are asked to guess by title what the content of the
essay is
The teacher asks students if they had to write their own essay
with the same title, what it would be about.

WHILE-READING
Skimming; summarizing individual work
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To promote global
reading for
meaning
To introduce new
vocabulary
To encourage the
students to infer
the meaning of
unknown items
from context

The students are asked to skim the text and write down, in one
sentence, what the text is about; the students read their
sentences and the teacher writes the best variant on the
blackboard
Scanning individual work:
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The students scan the text and state its main idea

Sentence level reading whole class:

-

The student take turns and read the text aloud; the new words
are discussed and written down;

POST-READING
Comprehension questions individual work:
-

To get feedback on
the comprehension
of the text

The students answer to some questions, according to the

information on the text

Grammar practice pair work:

-

To practice
grammar

To develop
speaking and
communicative
skills

The students find in the essay pairs of antonym and write them
down in their notebooks
- The students are asked to add prefixes and suffixes to the
words bellow the text and form new words
- The students find compound nouns in the essay and tell how
are they formed
Discussion whole class:
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The students discuss what kind of mood does the last sentence
bring to them

LISTENING ACTIVITY
-

To develop
listening skills

To preparate
students for
homework

Listening practice
- The students listen to a few love songs and explain the main
idea of each of them
FOLLOW- UP
Writing- individual work :
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The students should write their own essay on the topic Love
and to learn by heart one of the poem they like mostly from the
page 52.