LESSON PLAN

TEACHER:

DATE:

TIME:

SCHOOL:

CLASS:

Class profile:

11 year-olds, A1

Teaching unit :

Module 6: Across Cultures 3

Type of lesson :

Skills practice

Sources:

Challenges 1 Students' Book; Workbook; Teacher's Handbook

Aims and objectives :

Learning about living in the UK, especially what it is like for foreigners; acquiring new vocabulary, talking about their
own country.

Teaching methods :

conversation, presentation, reading comprehension, listening comprehension, writing, speaking

Class management :

whole class, individual work, pair work, group work

Teaching aids, materials

and equipment :

students book, workbook, CD; board, chalk, CD-player

STAGES
partIntroductory
Main part

Class organization procedures and activities

Interaction

Introduce the
topic, elicit ideas
and vocabulary,
spark interest

Check homework.
Warm-up: Ss use their own experience and general knowledge to answer the
questions. Teach new vocabulary as necessary.

T SS
SS T

Revise
vocabulary and
target language
in context

Exercise 2: If you have a large world map, display it for Ss to find the Czech
Republic, Colombia and Iran. After checking answers, check Ss understanding
of any new words in the texts.

T SS
SS T

Exercise 3: Note that some adjectives may fit into more than one category. If
Ss disagree, encourage them to give reasons for their answers.

T - SS

Present target
language
Practice target
language
Listening
comprehension

Practice target
language

Exercise 4: Ss work in pairs to figure out what things can be described with the
given adjectives.
Exercise 5: Ss write sentences about their country individually, and then in
pairs or small groups read their sentences aloud.
Exercise 6: Tell Ss not to worry about understanding everything in the
recording at this stage but to focus on the things Helen misses about the UK
and the things she likes in Spain.

Teaching
aids and
materials

Possible problems
and solutions

TIMING

Aims and
objectives

SB
CD
CD player

10
min

SB
CD
CD player

25
min

T SS
SS T
T SS
SS T

board
SS T

Exercise 7: Give Ss time to read the sentences and complete them from
memory. Play the recording again for Ss to check their answers.

SS T

Exercise 8: Give Ss time to read the sentences and see if they can guess the
missing words before they listen to the recording.

SS SS

partFinal

Exercise 9: Play the recording again and encourage Ss to copy the speakers
pronunciation as closely as possible.

Use target
language

Ending the lesson:

Exercise 10: Play the recording for Ss to listen and repeat the words and
sentences. Emphasise the difference in length between the two sounds to help
Ss hear the difference.

T SS
SS SS

Project: Read the poster with the Ss and elicit suggestions of what they like

T SS

SB

10
min

and dont like about living in their country before they make their poster for
homework.
Homework: Poster