LESSON PLAN

BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
School: Colegiul Național "Octavian Goga"
Name: Luana Ivan
Date: 14th of May 2018
Level: 10th grade
Time: 50’
Topic /Title: Unit 5 – Writing: For-and-Against Writing
Teaching point: For-and-Against Essays
Lesson aim: To introduce the steps in writing a for-and-against essay
Objectives: By the end of the lesson, the students will be better able to:

 O1: develop thinking and communication skills

 O2: get acquainted with the structure of the For-and-Against essay
 O3: identify and analyse the style and content of a For-and-Against essay
 O4: practise the use of linkers in a For-and-Against essay
 O5: revise the notions taught at the beginning of the class

Teaching techniques: elicitation, conversation, explanation, demonstration

Aids/Materials: students’ book, blackboard
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 Stage Procedure Tasks Objectives Interaction Time
(What the teacher does) (What the students do)

1. Homework check Asks ss to read and correct the hw Read, check and correct T-SS 5'
2. Warm up Asks ss: “Is the internet bad for Participate in the debate about O1 T-SS 5'
young people?” and elicits a why the internet is or is not
brainstorming discussion. good for young people by
giving oral arguments.
3. Lead-in to new Introduces Ss to the new lesson by Write the title of the O2 T-SS 15'
language writing “For-and-Against Essay” on blackboard, answer T’s
the blackboard; then asks Ss if they questions.
have ever heard of argumentative
essays used in L1.

Invites Ss to read the theory box on Read the paragraphs in the O2

page 94, together with the linkers theory box, one at a time.
on page 95.

Makes the scheme of what the Ss Ss copy the scheme in their O2

have read on the blackboard while notebooks while answering T’s
asking them questions: “What do questions.
we do in introduction/main
body/conclusion?”, “What linkers
can we use in the introduction/main
body/conclusion?”
4. Presentation Directs Ss to ex 1p.94, reads out the Listen and answer the O3 T-SS 5'
rubric, goes through the questions, questions. SS-SS
and elicits answers around the
class.

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 5. Practice Directs Ss to ex 2a,p.94 and asks Ss Take time to complete the task. O4 T-SS 15'
to read the model and fill in the Report answers to class. SS-SS
gaps with the appropriate linkers.
Allows Ss time to complete the
task. Checks Ss’ answers.

Directs Ss to ex 2b,p.94, reads out Listen and answer the O3

the questions and elicits answers questions.
around the class.

Directs Ss to ex 2c,p.95. Explains Take time to complete the task. O3

the task then allows Ss time to Report answers to class.
complete the task. Checks Ss’
answers.
O3
Directs Ss to ex 2d,p.95, reads out In pairs, Ss decide on an answer
the question and elicit answers from with their partner and report to
Ss. class.

6. Production/Feedback Asks Ss what the structure of an Revise the notions taught O5 T-SS 5'
argumentative essay is and what during the lesson.
linkers we use in the main body and
the conclusion.

Homework: T asks Ss to write a Write the task in their O5

for-and-against essay on the topic notebooks.
discussed at the beginning of the
class: “Is the internet bad for
young people?” making use of the
notions taught in class in writing a
for-and-against essay.