GIVING ADVICE / A class 1st Experimental Gymnasium Athens. Teacher: Jenny Papadopoulou
1ST EXPERIMENTAL GYMNASIUM OF ATHENS
Demonstration Lesson
Teacher: Papadopoulou Eugenia
Class: A2
Number of students: 28
Textbook: Think Teen! (1st Grade of Junior High School – Advanced Level)
Lesson: Unit 3, lesson 2: “Teen matters – Your problem sorted”
Mode of work: Group work
Date: January 26, 2011
Time allotted for the lesson: 40 minutes
LESSON PLAN
Pre-reading stage
Objectives: - to activate learners’ background knowledge
- to provide the context for the material used in the lesson
- to present new language in context
Procedure: students work in groups in order to match short passages with pictures and discuss what the lesson is about
Time: 5 minutes
Reading stage
Objectives: - to involve students in skimming a text to understand the general meaning & scanning a text to locate specific information
- to integrate reading with speaking
- to present language of giving advice in context
Procedure: students work in groups in order to locate specific facts (Tasks 1 &2) and notice the language forms in the input text so as to work out the language for giving advice for themselves (Task 3)
Time: 20 minutes
Post-reading stage
Objectives: - to involve students in writing a letter of advice and apply the knowledge gained from the previous stages
- to integrate writing with speaking
- to supplement the material in the textbook listening to an authentic song, exposing in this way the students to real language
Procedure: students discuss in groups ideas for advice for the teenager they have chosen. Then, they are assigned for homework to write a letter of advice using Agony Aunt’s letter as a model and the ideas they have discussed. Finally, they listen to an authentic song, the final verses of which they can rewrite using the Advice Language they were taught.
Time: 15 minutes
Teen matters-Worksheet for demonstration lesson.doc (35 kB)
P.S. In the discussion after this demonstration lesson one teacher mentioned that when she had taught this chapter she had asked Ss to write a personal problem to a teenage magazine annonomously. She then mixed them up and handed them out to other students to write their 'advice'. She said it was very successful.