CEP Lesson Plan

Teacher: Joy Dong

Level: Pre-Intermediate 2

Theme: Description
Goal: Describe things, places and people
Objectives:
Students Will Be Able To
1. recognize, and understand the meaning and form of relative clauses
2. use relative clauses to describe things, places and people

Listening Activity/Procedure/Stage Interaction Time

Pre-stage Listen to a description of a new type of glasses. T-S 2mins
During-stage Listen to the audio for general ideas. S-S 15mins
1. Read the questions carefully in NO.3 on page 94, predict the
answers
Listen again for details, and answer the questions
1. Read the statements carefully in NO.4 &5 on page 94, predict
the answers
Listen again, and check if your predictions are right
After-stage Language focus
1. Read the scripts & listen again (page 172) T-S 3mins
2. Underline the sentences that start with that, who, and
which
What are those sentences for?
--describe people/things/places.

Reading Activity/Procedure/Stage Interaction Time

Have you noticed if there is any pattern in the language that you use to
Pre-stage describe the words? T-S 3mins
What language can we use to describe things, people and places?

During-stage
I. Read an article about the descriptions of your friends T-S 10
1. Go over the article. You will have 3 minutes to read S-S mins
2. Do you have any comments? Is there anything that you think
should be changed?

II. Read for details

1. Read again, find answers to these questions
Where is Jiseons favorite place? Why?
Who is Ismarlyn?
What is Joss favorite sport? Why?
After-stage Language focus
1. Underline the expressions with the clauses that start with which,
where, that. T-S 8 mins
E.g Jiseon is a software engineer who loves playing Kendo. S-S
--Students underline the expressions, then come back to the class as a
whole
--Teacher write them down on the board
2. Put all the clauses that start with that start with who together.
Do the same with where and that
3. Think about what they have in common. Can you summarize a
rule for relative clause by yourself?

Writing Activity/Procedure/Stage Interaction Time

Pre-stage Read the article again, turn the page over
-- Can you write something to describe Joy? Write at least 2 true facts, T-S 3mins
and 2 fake facts about Joy and your other friends in class.
During-stage Students write down their own descriptions. S-S 12mins
Share with your partner
Read your sentences to each other. Your partner must try to
figure out whether each sentence is true or not.
After-stage Language focus
1. Anything you want to report to the class about your friends in T-S 5mins
class or outside of class?
2. Correct mistakes as a whole

Game ~15mins Activity/Procedure/Stage Interaction Time

--Taboo
Pre-stage Have you played Taboo before? What is a taboo?
- things that people are not allowed to talk about. T-S 2mins
The game we are going to play is called Taboo. You are asked to
describe the word on the card, without saying the word itself.
- For example, give students a demo.
--give instructions of how to play Taboo.
During-stage Students play Taboo S-S 10mins
Make it a competition, record the scores
--take notes while students are playing the game.
After-stage Language focus
1. Have you noticed if there is any pattern in the language that T-S 3mins
you use to describe the words?
2. What language can we use to describe things, people and
places?
 Describe your friends
Jiseon is a software engineer who loves playing Kendo. Her favorite
place in New York City is Central Park which is very famous around the world.
Jiseon said I love Central Park so much because it is
a place where I can take walk and I can just rest and
relax.
Ismarlyn is Jiseons good friend. Ismarlyn is an
architect who currently works at a gym. She is from
Dominica Republic which is a country in South
America. Ismarlyn is a big fan of food (foodie ). Her
favorite food is Burrito that is a kind of Mexican food.
Ismarlyn speaks Spanish, so does Jos. Jos is from
Columbia, a country which is in South America too. Jos is a
busboy who works at his sisters restaurant at Queens. He loves biking very much. Jos
said biking is an activity that makes me feel excited and relaxed!
I can spend the whole day just biking!
Jiseon, Ismarlyn and Jos all have a friend who is in Paris
now. Her name is Yoriko. Yoriko is a Japanese nail technician
who works in New York City. She loves going to bars drinking
with her friends. She said I loves bars because bars are the places where I can rest and
enjoy drinking alcohol.

Jiseon, Ismarlyn, Jos and Yoriko all have a friend who is also their teacher . Can you
write something to describe Joy? Write at least 2 true facts, and 2 fake facts about Joy and
your other friends in class.