Lesson Plan

Level: 12th grade - advanced Number of students: 36 Length of the lesson: 50 minutes
Topic: Unit 1 – Home Life (basic) Teaching Date: Feb 15, 2017

Main aim: By the end of the lesson, students will have general knowledge about conflicts between parents and children in domestic
chores, be able to tell a story about and express their opinion on the matter.
Subsidiary aim:
Personal aim: Through the teaching process, a moral lesson is intended. Students are also expected to personalize their language
usage.
Assumption: Students have learned the simple present tense and the adjectives used in practice phase.
Anticipated problems & solutions:
Problem: Students may have trouble overcoming embarrassment in telling a personal story and may encounter difficulties
understanding and recognizing the form of new grammar points.
Solution: The teacher will encourage students by giving their own examples and simplify explanations.
Stage/Time Stage Aims Teacher’s activities Students’ activities Int.
- Help Ss speak simple Write the question “When was the last time you did your
English to loosen their chores?” and draw a chart to mark the time on the board.
tongue and face
muscles. (what) yes 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 … 30
- Help students relax in ter day
their English usage and day s
be encouraged to talk ago
more.
- Activate their memory
on the intended topic of Chain the question/answers by have one student answer the Students try to
the lesson in order to use question, then mark the answer on the chart. Have another remember recent
Warm-up/ their personal student next to the previous one to do the same. Repeat untilhistory to answer the
Introduction experience in the Task. all students have answered. Comment on the result questions. Memorize
5-10 minutes afterwards. the details by
themselves to prepare
Write another question “Have you gotten nagged for not doing for the Task.
chores? When ?” on the board. Chain the question/answers.

Ask some students how did they respond to the experience

and how they felt at the time:
- “How did you respond/react to your parents?”
- “How did you feel at the time? Angry? Frustrated?
Shameful? Or you just didn’t care at all?”

Comment on students’ response and introduce the Task.

- Help students speak Instruct the students to form a story about the time they got nagged
English fluently by their parents.
- Help students
Provide students with chart (1) to help students arrange their ideas.
personalize their
language use After X minutes, have the students to practice telling the story with
their friends.

Task Cycle
Instruct a few students to stand up in class to tell their stories.
 - Improve students’ Point out some of the pronunciation/grammar mistakes that the
accuracy students told the stories in front of class, then allow the students to
- Help students correct the mistake themselves. If the students cannot correct the
express their own mistake themselves, ask other students to do the same for their
opinion friends. Should that fail, step in to correct the mistake for the
- Improve students’ students.
Language Focus moral Discuss with students on some of their ideas/opinions.

If students have negative opinions about the experience, attempt to

convince the students to reflect on their behavior.

If the attempt is successful, teach the students on how to apologize

properly.

- Help students speak With the time left, instruct the students to discuss tell each other (in
English fluently group) more similar stories. However, advice students to include the
- Help students opinion of what students should have done in their stories.
Free Practice
personalize their
language use further
-
 I didn’t do (the chores)

The reasons why I didn’t do the chores

My parents nagged me My parents did something else

Yellow
part is
optional

How I felt at the time

What I did in response

How I feel now