LESSON TITLE: Fascinating planet Lesson #: 1

TEACHER NAME: Runzi Wang

DATE: 3/20/2018

Fascinating Planet

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Preparation/Planning
ESL Course: Listening 4
Level
Topic/Theme:
Listening
Objectives
Speaking
Reading
Writing
Bridging
What background knowledge
do the students already have?
What will you do to activate
or link students’ prior
knowledge or experience to
upcoming content?
Engagement with New Material
What will you do to engage
students in the active learning environment. Then I design three activities for maintaining students’
of the new material?
What will you do to ensure
that all students are engaged? they understand what we are doing. And I will ask students to explain
Application
What opportunities will you
provide students to practice
and apply their
knowledge/skill to meet the
objectives for this lesson? To vocabularies again. What’s more, they need to listen to the tape for
apply to other contexts?
Assessment
How will you assess their
learning of the objectives?
Beginning Intermediate Advanced Multilevel
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The students will be able to watch a video and listen to the instructor
and other classmates presenting about natural parks.
The students will be able to share their opinions in pairs and also in small
groups.
The students will be able to read short articles and answer questions
about what they read.
The students will be able to write down what they learn today after
discussing with group members.
It’s a new unit for students. But I will ask them about their opinions
about their countries’ natural parks, which they can share with
classmates in class.
I start my lesson by showing some pictures. By seeing those pictures, I
hope students can guess what they will learn today. I choose the
pictures from the students’ country because I hope it can attract them.
By playing a video about Tsingy in the beginning, I animate the class
engagement.
I walk around the classroom to check on each student and make sure
my instructions for making sure that they understand.
After reading the new vocabularies, I ask students to complete
sentences by using the vocabularies. Also, after listening about
Jiuzhaigou national park, students need to circle the correct word
choice in the short passage. Thus, students practice the new
each activity. It also helps them practice listening ability.
I assess students’ learning by three activities. First, after learning new
vocabularies, students need to complete sentences by using those
words. Second, after listening a short passage, students need to discuss
what they have listened. Third, after listening a new short passage,
students need to take notes what they have listened, and then they
 should retell the short passage by the notes. All of the activities assess
if students understand the listening or not.
Closing
How will you help students I sum up for what they read and do today.
recap the learning and link it
back to the original purpose of
the lesson?
Technology
If applicable for your context I used power point to display my lesson visually.
and your lesson, how will you
meaningfully integrate
technology into your lesson?

Reflection
What went well? How do you
know?
What didn’t go as planned?
What contingency plan did
you employ?
What would you do
differently next time?
Did your students meet the
purpose and objectives for this
lesson? What is your
evidence for each?
What do your students need
next? How do you know?
What did you learn about your
glows and grows as a teacher?
What can you do to work on
your areas needing growth?
 Lesson plan: Fascinating Planet (1 hour)
Opening (2 mins)
Teacher will ask if students remember last week’s topic: reproduction
life

Warm-up activity (5 mins)

1. Showing four pictures.
2. Asking students to guess today’s topic.
3. Watching a video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDYBgUf4NvU

Building Vocabularies (10mins)

1. Students read the vocabulary list. (12)
2. Using the vocabularies to do bingo game.

Listening: Meaning from Context (30 mins)

Exercise A: (10 mins)
1. Students read about Jiuzhaigou national park and circle the correct
word choice. (The word is from the vocabulary list)
2. Then listen and check answers.
3. Students discuss with group members about the short passage.
Exercise B: (20 mins)
1. Student read about glaciers and circle the correct word choice. ( The
word is from the vocabulary list)
2. Then listen and check answers.
3. Students do the “listen, draw, and retell” activity in three groups.

Writing assessment (8 mins)

1. Discussing with group members about the three questions. (3 mins)
2. Writing one paragraph for one question with group members. (5 mins)

Sum-up (5mins)
1. Sum-up with students
2. Asking students why we do each activity.
Vocabulary list
1. Crack (noun): a line on the surface of something along which it has split
without breaking into separate parts.

2. Deep (adj.): extending far down from the top or surface.

3. Dissolve (verb): (with reference to a solid) become or cause to become incorporated into a liquid so
as to form a solution.

4. Erode(verb):(of wind, water, or other natural agents) gradually wear away (soil, rock, or land.

5. Form(verb): bring together parts or combine to create (something)

6. Lack (noun): the state of being without or not having enough of something

7. Protect(verb): keep safe from harm or injury

8. Rare(adj.): (of an event, situation, or condition) not occurring very often

9. Sharp(adj.): (of an object) having an edge or point that is able to cut or pierce something
Complete the sentences.

1. This wall has a in it. I can see light coming in from outside.

2. Sophie can’t swim very well, so she won’t go into water.

3. A knife can cut into an apple very easily.

4. After it rains, small streams of water come together and a river.

5. I almost never eat sweets, so chocolate is a treat for me.

6. If you put sugar in a cup of coffee, it will .

7. This mountain used to be much higher, but wind and rain have it.

8. He’s new at this job, but customers don’t seem to notice his of
experience.

9. Most of the farmers wear hats to themselves from the sun.