LESSON PLAN

Date: May 23
rd
, 2013 Textbook: New Headway
Duration: 45 minutes Unit 11: What if?
Teaching point: Who knows? Level: Pre - intermediate
I. Objectives
By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
1. Knowledge:
- Know how to use might.
- Compare the differences between will and might.
2. Skill:
- Practice the might exercises correctly.
- Practice saying about possible future plans by using might.
3. Attitude:
- Consolidate self-consciousness and awareness in studying English.
II. Skills
- Reading skill
- Speaking skill
III. Method
- Integrated, mainly communicative approach.
IV. Language content
- Who knows?
- Grammar: might
V. Teaching aids
- Textbook
- Computer
- - Projector
- - Chalk + board

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VI. Procedure
Stages and
time
Contents
Teachers
activities
Students
activities







Warm up
(5 minutes)
- Greeting

- Show Nisa Isaacs & Viktor
Panovs picture. Then answer
the questions:
Where do they come
from?
What are the differences
between their lives?
Suggested answers:
Nisa Isaacs comes from
South Africa. Viktor
Panov is from Rusia.
Nisa Isaacs looks very
poor and miserable.
Viktor Panov comes
from a rich family. He
looks very optimistic.


- Ask students to
greet teachers
- Ask students to
look at the Nisa
Isaacs & Viktor
Panovs picture.
- Ask students to
think of the
questions
- Invite students to
answer the
questions
- Give the
feedback to
students answers
- Greet teachers

- Look at the
pictures





- Answer the
questions

- Listen to the
teacher









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Pre
teaching
(3 minutes)
- New words
shanty /'nti/ (n)
junk /dk/(n)
ambition /m'bin/ (n)
architect /':kitekt/ (n)
afterwards/`:ftwdz/ (adv)
make money


- Teach the new
words

- Ask students to
read the new
words
- Write down the
new words

- Read the new
words









While
teaching
(30 minutes)









Activities 2 (page 88)
Activity 2: Listen to
them talking about their
ambition and complete the
texts.
Suggested answers:
Nisa Isaacs
am taking
am going to get
want to go
am going to work
am hoping to be
Viktor Panov
might become
might study
might live





- Ask students to
listen (2 times)
and complete the
texts.
- Invite students to
read their answers
- Give feedback to
students answers

- Ask students to
read the full texts









- Listen and
complete the
texts

- Read the
answers
- Listen to the
teacher

- Read the texts








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Activities 3 (page 88)
Activity 3: Answer the
questions.
Suggested answers
1. Nisa is certain. Viktor
isnt.
2. Nisa is more ambitious.
She comes from a poor
family, but she studies hard
and wants to become an
architect.
3. She lives in shanty town.
Her parents sell newspapers
and junk.
4. He likes studying Art.
5. Viktor likes to live in
another country.
6. Nisa wants to be an
architect. Viktor wants to be a
designer.

Activities 4 (page 88)
Activity 4: What are
some of Nisas plans and
ambitions?
Suggested answers
Shes going to get
Shes going
Shes going to
Shes going to be


- Ask students to
work in pairs to do
the activity 3
- Invite students to
answer the
questions
- Give feedback to
students answers








- Ask students to
do the activity 4
- Invite students to
read the answers
- Give the
feedback to
students answers





- Work in pairs


- Answer the
questions

- Listen to the
teacher








- Do the activity

- Read the answer

- Listen to the
teacher




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Activities 5 (page 88)
Activity 5: What are
some of the possibilities in
Viktors life?
Suggested answers
He might become
He might study
He might live
Grammar: might
The form

Usage: Used to express
a future possibility.

Practice: Discussing
grammar
Activity 1. Work with a
partner. Choose the
correct verb in the
sentences.
Suggested answers
1. Were having .
2. Itll be
3. He might be
4. Im having
5. I might

- Ask students to
do the activity 5
- Invite students to
read the answers
- Give feedback to
students answers


- Teach the usage,
form of might
- Emphasize the
differences
between might
and will

- Ask students to
work in pairs to do
the activity 1
(p.89)
- Invite students to
read the answers
- Give feedback to
students answers





- Do the activity

- Read the
answers
- Listen to the
teacher



- Take notes
- Listen to the
teacher




- Work in pars


- Read the
answers
- Listen to the
teacher


Might + V
(bare

infinitive)


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Post
teaching
(5 minutes)











Homework
(2 minutes)

- Talk about students
possible future plans
after the lesson
this evening
at the weekend
on summer holiday
after graduation






- Grammar reference:
Activity 3 (on p. 141):
Complete the conversations
with might / might not or
will / wont
- Review the lessons
- Prepare the next lessons
Vocabulary and Speaking,
Everyday English (p. 92, 93)


- Ask students to
work in groups to
talk about their
future possibilities
- Invite some
students to present
their future
possibilities
- Give feedback to
students
presentation




- Ask students to
do the activity 3
on page 141
- Ask students to
learn the lessons at
home
- Ask students to
prepare the next
lessons

- Work in groups



- Follow the
teachers request


- Listen to the
teacher






- Take notes

- Listen to the
teacher

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