Lesson plan

Lesson: Natures perfect killing machine

Learner: 1st year student of General English
Level: Pre-intermediate
Learning time: 60 minutes
Stage/Time

Aims

Teacher's activities

Students' activities

Teaching content

Predicting
problem

Pre-reading (15 minutes)

Two stages:

Stage 1 - To make students

Warm-up
curious
and
exciting about what
Activity 1
they are going to
(8 minutes)
study.
Activity 2
(5 minutes)

Stage 2 -Lead- To lead the

students to what
in (2 minutes)
they are going to
learn today

Stage 1 - Get ready to warmup with some activities:

Activity 1: Puzzle game
- Give the rule of the puzzle
game to the students.
- Make questions and correct
students answers.
Activity 2: Show a video clip
about crocodile Cros Kill with
Strongest Bite

Stage 1 - Get ready to

warm-up
with
teachers
activities:
Activity 1: Puzzle game
- Join in the game
- Answer teachers questions
Activity 2: Cros Kill with
Strongest Bite.
- Watch the showing videoclip,
listen to important information
and answer questions.
- Guess something relevant to
new lesson

Activity 1: Puzzle game

There is a picture that hired behind
6 question boxes. The students need
to give a correct answer for each
box in turn until the hidden picture
is completely flipped.

Tight time
teacher
and
the
students
should keep
activities
under
the
Activity 2: Video Clip. Link: given time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v
=kogAaRm314U
- Question: What is the main
content of the video?/How do you
think about the content of the
video?
- Key: The dangerous nature of the
Crocodile/Crocodile is very a
dangerous animal.

Stage 2 - Lead straight

Stage 2 - Lead straight
towards the new lesson. Teacher towards the new lesson
should say: I am sure that - Open the book and going
everyone is recognizing what we straight towards the lesson.
are going to study today. Right?
1

Yes, It is about crocodile or

Now, lets come to the lesson
today to know more about this
kind of animal etc.
While-reading (35 minutes)
Three stages:

Stage 1 - To help the

Proof Reading students to have an
(5 minutes)
overall idea on the
passage
and
recognize
some
new words
Stage 2 -
To
provide
Teaching
students necessary
vocabularies
information of new
(15 minutes)
words.

Stage 3 - To revise reading

Teaching
skills, skimming,
Reading
scanning
and
comprehension
reading for details
(15 minutes)

To
practice
reading
comprehension

Stage 1 Reading the text

- Give the students a certain
time for proof-reading to have a
main idea and to find some new
words

Stage 1 Reading the The text " Nature's perfect killing

text.
machine" in the book American
- Read in silence to have an English File
overview of the text and
underline some new words.

Stage 2 Teaching
vocabulary
- Ask students new words that
students do not know
- Show the students meaning,
parts of speech, pronunciation,
synonyms, antonyms, ect of the
new words.
- Command the students to
practice the pronunciation by
listening to teachers speeling
and then repeat.
Stage 3 - Revise and practice
reading skills
Activitiy 1: Work in pairs
- Require students to work in
pairs
- Revise reading skills in groups
- Apply those skills in the text to
do the exercises b. c. & d.
- Require each group give the
answer

Stage 2 Learning
vocabulary
- The students will ask the
teacher to explain some new
words
- Students will take note those
new words in their notebooks
- The students listen to their
teacher and then repeat the new
words

New words asked by students:

For example :
Crocodile (n) /krkdl/ : a large
predatory semiaquatic reptile with
long jaws, long tail, short legs, and
a horny textured skin, using
submersion and stealth to approach
prey unseen.

Stage 3 - Revise and The exercise b. c. & d. of the text

practice reading skills
" Nature's perfect killing machine"
in the book
Activitiy 1: Work in pairs
- Pay attention to the teacher
- Work in pairs to do the
exercise and answer some
questions from the teacher
- Some students go to the board
to write their answers

Irrelevant
problems,
especially
pronounciati
-ation,
teacher may
spend more
time
to
correct the
students
pronounciati
-ation

teache just
correct
important
and common
mistakes; for
some
particular
ones,
the
students
should selfpractice at
home.

Post reading (10 minutes)

Two stages:

Stage 1 To check quality

Writing story (9 of
students
minutes)
understanding.

To
enhance
students writing
skill and their
grammar.

Stage 1 Writing story

- Ask students to use what they
have learnt to write a short story
(about 150 words)
- Give the requirement of the
story on the board (Knowledge
on the lesson + Vocabulary +
Grammar)
- Answer any question of the
students on the lesson.

Stage 2 To give a Stage 2 Conclusion

Conclusion
(1 conclusion on the
minute)
lesson

Stage 1 Writing story

Imagine you are facing with a
- Memorize and brainstorm crocodile and have a fight with it.
what students have learnt in the Write a story to describe that fight.
passage. Then use it to write a
story.

Some
possible
questions on
the lesson
teacher give
directions
and student
self

research.

Stage 2 Conclusion