Irene Zabiela

Learner Profile

TESOL 2

LESSON PLAN: One-to-one Lesson

Teacher: Irene Zabiela Date: 07/09/12 Time: 1 hour Level: FCE level Sub-aims: Number of students: 1 Age Range: 27

Main Focus: By the end of the lesson the student will be able to skim through a text in order to get the main ideas. 1 - Language Aims: The student will revise, as well as being introduced to functional language for expressing opinions and giving advice. 2 Skills and Sub-skills: Reading-Previewing and Predicting from the text, top-down processing, skimming-; Speaking-responsive, making suggestions, giving opinions-. 3 - Vocabulary: The student will encounter new vocabulary about Food and Nutrition such as fatty food, munchies, overeating, drugs, gut,etc; expressions to give opinions and make suggestions. 4 - Phonological Aims: Falling and rising intonation when giving opinion and making suggestions. Anticipated Learner Difficulties: The student may have some difficulties with skimming texts, using specific vocabulary for Nutrition and expressing her opinions and giving suggestions. It is expected that the student already know: In order to understand the text the student should know how to manage a wide range of verb tenses such as present simple, present continuous, past simple and present perfect and some lexis related to food and eating habits.

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STAGE

LESSON CONTENT AIM

STUDENT ACTIVITY

TEACHER ACTIVITY

5'

Irene Zabiela

LEAD-IN

To introduce the topic, check background knowledge and activate content and formal schemata.

Student watches the presentation while she recognizes and names introductory vocabulary. Student guesses which the connection among pictures may be.

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INTERACTI ON PATTERN

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Teacher introduces the T-S topic by showing some S-T pictures through a Ppt template. Teacher elicits vocabulary encouraging the learner to participate in the process of discovering and understanding language. Afterwards, she asks the student how all those pictures are connected. Teacher shows some T-S pictures to the student to S-T introduce and teach new vocabulary from the text. Teacher asks the student to have a quick look to the article but only to pay attention to the title, subtitle and first sentence. Teacher explains to the students that she just has to get an idea of the overall direction of the text by reading the title,subtitle and first sentence.

Ppt template Laptop

TESOL 2

15'

PRE-READING To preteach vocabulary from the text. For the student to develop previewing and predicting strategies by reading the title, subtitle and the first sentence to guess what the text is going to be about.

Student looks at the pictures and tries to come up with their meaning. Student reads the article titles, subtitle and first sentence to predict what the article is going to talk about.

Flash cards Slips of paper with the names of the items introduced Printed copy of the reading text

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WHILEREADING

Part 1

St answers T/F for the To skim the text quickly to questions given . gather the most important information and skip irrelevant details in order to get the gist of it. St carries out the activity.

Teacher asks the student to T-S read the text and answer T/F questions to get the main ideas. Teacher monitors students IW performance

Worksheet 1 Worksheet 2 Worksheet 3

Student reports her answers to After student finishes the the teacher. activity, T asks the student

T-S S-T

Irene Zabiela

Learner Profile

TESOL 2