LESSON PLAN 8

Topic Aims and Objectives

Teenage Problems
Oracy
Revision and reinforcement of language for: making and responding to suggestions expressing obligation and lack of obligation expressing and responding to attitudes and emotions talking about the present talking about the past and the future predicting expressing intention expressing degrees of certainty and doubt talking about ability talking about (im)probability, (im)possibility and hypothesis talk about conditions and consequences giving advice Talking about Family/Personal Relationships, School Expressing opinions Agreeing and disagreeing

Level:

Breakthrough Literacy

Intermediate

Advanced

Reading comprehension: predicting text highlighting information in a written text identifying attitudes and emotions in a written text understanding other peoples opinions in a written text expressing opinions making assumptions (using the conditional) giving advice understanding a text with information presented in present, past and future tense

Knowledge about Language Intercultural Understanding Language Learning Strategies

Prior Learning Resources / equipment

A - PowerPoint: Teenage Problems B Worksheet: Teenage Problems

Minutes

Activity
Teacher Pupils

Resources

Comments

Starter
10 mins

Explain Starter activity: Ask students to work in groups, brainstorming what problems teenagers typically have. Collect homework assignments from previous lesson while students are engaged in starter activity (= Lesson 8; Writing Assignment 1)

Group work: Students discuss the kind of problems teenagers typically have Collect different types of problems in bullet points on large sheets of paper in large writing.

Large sheets of paper Marker pens

This lesson does not follow on directly from the previous one, as the teacher will need to mark the homework assignments first before this can be followed up.

10 mins

20 mins

10 mins

Plenary
10 mins

Lead discussion about starter activity: Orchestrate feedback session from starter activity. Each group to present their bullet points; encourage students to categorise the problems according to types, e.g. problems with parents/siblings/friends/ love relationships/school/work etc. Whole class activity: Explain to students that they are going to see the letter of a young girl to the problems pages of a teenage magazine. They will see the letter one sentence at a time and need to predict what the next sentence is going to be about. Ask three students for each slide and then show the next slide, which will reveal the next sentence. Determine who was closest to the revealed sentence and use praise/reward etc. Guided discussion / questioning: Distribute the worksheet, which includes the text from the PowerPoint (= passage ) and inductively revise modal verbs of deduction by asking questions such as, "What must have happened to the boy?", "Do you think he might have lied to the girl?", etc. Ask students for advice on what the person should do (reviewing the modal verb 'should'). Collect on the board with the students modal verbs and phrases they have used during the discussion which will help with the homework; go over questions on the homework worksheet, e.g. will/should/might/may/must/could.. might have been must have had should have done may have been etc. B Worksheet: Teenage Problems

Whole class activity: Students feed back on their discussions, using the bullet points they have collected. Whole class activity: Individual students volunteer to read what is on the PpowerPpoint slide and predict the next sentence. After three volunteers the sentence is revealed and the class decides whose guess was closest. Another three volunteers predict the next sentence etc. Students answer using verbs of deduction, e.g. He must be He might have had Students respond by making suggestions and giving reasons for their advice. Volunteer phrases Copy from the board/take notes

Large sheets of paper, complete with student answers (bullet points) A - PowerPoint: Teenage Problems

B Worksheet: Teenage Problems

Board B Worksheet: Teenage Problems

Homework