teacher Dounia Rouchdy

Date 29th March 2017

Class level 2nd year baccalaureate
Class period 55 minutes
Text book Ticket to English
Unit 8 international organizations
Lesson type Teaching function: giving and responding to good
and bad news.
Materials Visual Aid (sad person and happy person)/ expressions
worksheet
SPOs By the end of the lesson, students should:
Giving bad and good news
Responding to good and bad news
Time Procedure Techniques Working
mode
5 minutes Warm up:
T: good morning
S: good morning
T: have you done the exercise of yesterday?
T corrects the homework of the table of the reading text
10 minutes Presentation stage:
T asks ss to tell about a time where they heard some news about themselves or their Story telling Individually
family; from whom they got it, and what kind of news they got: bad or good. Ss - teacher
Ss: from my mom
Ss2: from my friend
T: what are the words they used to tell you the bad/ good news?
T: What did you do when you heard the news, how did you respond?
Ss: oh my god! / How wonderful!
10 minutes Motivation activity:
T displays a picture of a sad person and next to him a happy person. Visual Aid Teacher-Ss
T: what kind of news do you think they have?
T: we will call him Mr bad news, and she is Mrs good news.
T: Mr bad news is an investigator for an international children organization. And Mrs Drilling
Individually
good news is working as a child care assistant. They both have news to tell the Qs-As
secretary of the organisation:
Mr bad news: a child died because of cold
Mrs good news: I saved a child from hunger
T: can you tell me how each one of them is going to tell the news?
T writes the answers on the blackboard.
T: now imagine you are the secretary. How would you respond to each news?
T writes the question on the blackboard and asks ss to work in pairs Blackboard In pairs
Focus questions:
1. How would you respond to Mr bad news?
2. How would you respond to Mrs good news?
Ss - teacher
T elicits answers and writes them on the board. Drilling
10 minutes Practice
T gives ss worksheet of expressions of giving bad/ good news and responding to bad/ Worksheet
good news and asks ss to use those expressions to imagine what other things Mr Bad In pairs
news and Mrs good news said to their secretary.
Ss give bad news and good news
Practice: oral practice Ss - teacher
T asks about the response they would say using those expressions
Individually
 Ss respond to bad good news
Ss write the examples on the blackboard. blackboard
15 minutes written practice:
T divides the class into two groups.
Two groups
T writes problems on the board separated.
In pairs
Group A should give bad news to: (group B should respond to bad news)
A friend of group B had a bad accident. you have to tell the news to group B
Group B had 0 in Math. Role play
Group B should give good news to: (group B should respond to good news)
Group A had 20 in English class.
Group A won the prize of the best school magazine.
T asks each group to give bad/ good news to a pair of matters, while the other group
should respond to it.
T asks ss to work in pairs and write examples of telling and responding to news.
Ss - ss
T elicits answers and asks ss to write on the blackboard to form a dialogue. blackboard

5 minutes Follow up: (or assignment)

T: in pairs, write a dialogues between two friends, one of them has good news and the
other is responding to it advice.