TP Lesson Plan

Name Dionysios Gkouskos Week Day Thursday

Length 30 minutes Level Elementary Date 04/11/10

Class Profile: Multi lingual class of 8 adult learners

Gregory – Mother Tongue Greek, slow learner(difficulty might be due to age), is doing the course a second
time, depends on translation a lot
Valentina – Mother tongue Russian, highly motivated
George – Mother tongue Greek, new to the class
Ahmet and Hassan – African
Irina –very fast at all activities – from Ukraine
Karina- doesn’t participate much in the lesson-mother tongue Russian.
George – Mother tongue Greek, enjoys playing the games

Lesson Aims/ Objectives for students Evidence

Pictures, predicting before reading, matching vocabulary
Primary Aim(s):- reading and writing skills through the the
context of culture shock.
- reading in order to look for language. exercise, discussion about culture shock, examples of written
- writing to maintain and ensure confidence email for the writing task

Secondary Aim(s):- To revise the comparative form

through the context of culture shock Building a context before presentation, exercises for
.- to practice the comparative form mostly in affirmative practice of the comparative form
sentences

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Target Language Examples Concept Questions
Grammatical Structures/Functions Grammatical Structures/Functions
Comparative form of adjectives Which place do you like more?
Happier, freer, stronger, more beautiful

New Vocabulary New Vocabulary

Shock, invented, common, nervous, Is this person worried?
foreigner, angry, forever, adjustment, Am I bored?
acceptance, happy, bored, scared, Are these people sad?
worried, worse, sad

Source Aids/Handouts global elementary Ss book, mcmillan

Linguistic assumptions Vocabulary : angry, worried, happy, bored, forever, shock

Grammar: affirmative sentences with comparative form of adjectives. Eg: I feel happier in Greece than in
Russia.

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Anticipated Language Difficulties
Vocabulary: some words in the text
are difficult to explain. E.g:
adjustment, acceptance.
Solutions/Remedies
Vocabulary: vocabulary matching exercise after reading, mime actions and
pictures of feelings with facial expressions

Grammar :
• difficult for students to
remember which adjectives
• Presenting different examples of adjectives with different endings.
need the word more to be
• Exercise with the written form of adjectives for students to practise.
transformed into the Eg: clean- cleaner.
comparative form • Presenting some rules but not very thoroughly. Eg: words that end in y
• Spelling problems with the like lazy in the comparative form they become with –ier (lazier)
common comparative form.
Eg : happy-happier, Sad-sadder.
• Also irregularities of forms
will not be easily understood.
Eg good –better.

Timetable Fit Ss are already familiar with free time activities in English from previous lessons.

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Board Plan(s)
Culture shock
Which feelings people feel when they first go to a new place until they feel
ok?

Clean – cleaner
Good – better
Dangerous-more dangerous
Happy- happier
Cheap-cheaper
Serious-more serious

Fine –finer
Free-freer
Lazy-lazier
Bad-worse
Beautiful-more beautiful
Sad-sadder

Dear ________
It’s my first week here and I love it/hate it. People are better here than at
home We went to a bar last night and it was great/awful.

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CELTA Lesson Plan Name Dionysios Gkouskos Date 04/11/10
PROCEDURE

Stage Teacher Learner Activity Aims Materials Interactio Time

Activity n
Warm up T show pic and Respond briefly and To arouse interest Pic Class 2’
writes title on brainstorm
wb words/collocations for
people who go to other
countries

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 T shows pics on Ss produce known words To revise known Pics Class 3’
Pre-reading projector and and listen to new words words and
elicits words or collocations and to
presents the present new
words orally, collocations
drilling involved

T checks Students answer Pics Class 2’

understanding
of words by
asking questions

Pair work T shows Students converse with To prepare students Class in pairs 2’
pictures of each other about what for the reading that
facial feelings might one is going to follow
expressions and encounter with
encourages
students to
discuss
different
feelings that a
person in a
foreign country
may experience

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Reading T gives Students read the text Adapted Class- 4’
handouts of for overall idea text Individually
text to Ss

Vocabulary T divides class Ss pick up the strips of Το motivate ss to Strips with 2 groups 4’
practice and into two groups paper and try to match understand the words and
reading and hands out the words with their vocabulary and definitions
comprehension strips of papers actual definitions simultaneously the
with words and text more
meanings and profoundly
places them up
side down in
front of ss.

free practice T asks ss for To motivate ss to To practice the Pair work 3’

(speaking) feedback practice the new words collocations orally.
freely and talk about To build ss
their own experiences confidence

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Grammar T creates a Ss try to brainstorm and to revise and help Exercise 1 Class 5’
revision and context for afterwards to find the the t presenting some p. 95 on separately on
presentation presenting comparative form of grammar rules WB WB
comparative form various adjectives.
of adjectives and
then gives a
revision exercise
to see how much
they already know
T urges students
to come on the
WB and write the
comparative form
of an adjective
each. At the
same time
depending on what
mistakes students
make T also
explain some rules
and does some
drillings

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Grammar T gives handout Ss try to match the To revise known and handout Class in pairs 5’
Practice to students with correct adjectives with further understand
exercise gap filling the sentences. the comparative form
exercise
regarding the
comparative form
of the previous
adjectives

Controlled T presents what Ss try to find suitable To motivate, and Coursebook Class 3’
practice Kind of email words in the gaps in prepare students for WB individually
(writing) someone that order to fill the exercise their own writing
lives in a foreign
country has
written and gives
handout of
exercise in p.132
to fill the gaps
Free practice T gives Ss try to elaborate on Το motivate Ss to Exercise 2 2 groups 8 – 10’
(writing) instructions about their ideas and write as practice the new p. 95
new activity much as possible vocabulary and
And tells students grammar
to take tips from
exercise 2 in
order to continue
the email with
their own words

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Feedback T asks for Ss exchange their emails To ensure ss leave Written Class in pairs 5’-7’
feedback with others and present the classroom feeling emails
some ideas with one they have acquired
another new language

Strips of paper

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Invent Create new ideas, machines

Common Widely known, usual

Foreigner Someone from another country

Adjustment A change in the way of thinking

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Acceptance When we cannot change
something so we learn to live
with it

Forever For all the time

Worse Comparative of the word bad

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