TP Lesson Plan

Name Dennis Gkouskos Week 3d Day Tuesday

Length 30 minutes Level elementary Date 19/10/2010

Class Profile: elementary level (multilingual, mixed ability, mixed gender)

Lesson Aims/ Objectives for students Evidence

Pair work
Primary Aim(s):different ways of talking (-I love action films.
About likes/dislikes -really? I don’t like them at all)

Students think of three places they

Secondary Aim(s):revision of past simple,
difference between various types of films visited last year and expand on them,
pictures illustrated with the projector.

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Target Language Examples Concept Questions

Grammatical Structures/Functions Grammatical Structures/Functions

 I like action films not I like the
Which type of film do you like?
action films or I like action film.
Which was the most popular type of film in your
 I quite like comedies. group?
 I really like sci-fi films
 I hate love stories
 I dislike historical dramas
 Horror movies are ok but they
are not my favorite.

Source Aids/Handouts: face to face p.54 Unit 7A LICENCE TO KILL 1)a),b)

Linguistic assumptions
past simple, types of films, ways of talking about likes/dislikes

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Anticipated Language Difficulties Solutions/Remedies
• Pronunciation  Repetition of sentences
• Past simple imperfections  Revision
• Wrong use of words in sentences  indication of how to form
regarding film types this type of sentences
• Trying to introduce sentences that  synonym sentence
students (italic letters on board
plan)

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Timetable Fit
This lesson will take place in first 30 minutes and aims to remind some very basic
structures of the past simple, to outline different types of films and also to demonstrate
different ways of talking about likes/dislikes.

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Board Plan(s)

3 places you visited last year

f.ex: I went to London last year. I liked it very much. It was very
beautiful/amazing/fantastic/great.
Or I didn’t really like it/It was not anything special.
And how long did you stay? Or how many people live there?

Types of films
A film (British)
A movie(American)

Horror, action, sci-fi films

Thrillers, cartoons, love stories , comedies, historical dramas, westerns,

Singular –plural

Thriller (θrɪl.ə)
Sci-fi (saIfaI)
Horror (hɒr.ə)

I don’t mind action films

I quite like comedies
I really like sci-fi films(speech bubbles: me too. Or really? I hate them.)
I hate love stories
I dislike/don’t like historical dramas
Horror films are ok but they are not my favorite
I am very fond of movies generally.

Which was the most popular type of film in your group?

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CELTA Lesson Plan Name Date
PROCEDURE

Stage Teacher Learner Activity Aims Materials Interaction Time

Activity
Quick review T encourages Pair work Revision of the simple Example on Class in pairs 4’
students to think past and ways of talking the
of three places about likes/dislikes whiteboard
they visited last
year and discuss
with their partner
in pairs about
likes/dislikes of
the places
Pre-teach vocabulary Students Students Brainstorm to distinguish between Coursebook Class 2’
exercise individually tick words they might already known and unknown words individually
the words they know and get prepared to
know and check learn new words
their answers

T shows pictures
Vocabulary of films on the Students see the Learning new words Pics and new Class 5’
presentation projector and unknown words in written words
elicits the words form and guess about the presented on
in written form types of films shown on WB
the
Projector

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 T drills in words in Learners are shown some Collocations and WB class 5’
Vocabulary, group and collocations and repeat pronunciation practice
presentation individually and after the teacher for
indicates the pronunciation.
pronunciation of
some of them,
afterwards check
understanding of
words, collocations

practice Students go to Match pictures with Practice of collocations Coursebook Class 2’

page 136 of types of film And revision of the individually
coursebook and do former words
matching exercise
Pair work preparation T elicits different Students try to Learning new ways of WB Class 3’
ways of talking remember ways of saying the same thing
about answering to each other and interact with others.
likes/dislikes and about likes/dislikes
shows more f.ex:- I like action films.
collocations -really? I hate action
films.
Pair work T interferes only Learners collaborate Repeating of phrases, Class in pairs 5-7’
to encourage some with their partners discuss about opinions,
students that are interacting with each
reluctant to other, build students
participate in the confidence
activity or to
correct.
feedback T urges students Students say some Socializing and gain more class 2’
to present their sentences out loud confidence
dialogue to others

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T asks for feedback To gauge the
reaction of the
class
You can add lines through the “Table” menu or simply by a carriage return outside the table (on the right side)