Lesson Plan

Name:
Date:
Level: Lesson Type
Lesson No
Lesson Length
Veronica
09/12/10 Inter
Reading and
4
50 min
Herrera
Grammar
Main aims: (What do you want the students to be able to do by the end of the lesson)
By the end of the lesson students will be able to use reported speech correctly and develop
their reading and speaking skills.
Subsidiary aims:
To review and practice verb tenses.
Personal aim(s) (What do you want to improve in your own teaching)
I would like to improve my timing and be able to give clear instructions. I would very much
like to engage students from the start of the lesson, I think this will be a challenge because
the content of this lesson is quite challenging even for me.
Timetable fit and presumed student knowledge: (What do you assume the students already know to be
able to cope with your lesson)

By now students have learnt most of the English tenses i.e. Present and Past simple, Future
and Present and Past perfect. They will use these tenses when practicing reported speech.
Students have also practiced gist and intensive reading before in a wide range of topics.
They have used many regular and irregular verbs along the course.
Anticipated problems: (What problems do I think the students will have with this lesson?) Be specific and number your
points to correspond with your solutions in the next section

1 The students will probably find it difficult to remember all the English tenses and their
relationship when practising reported speech.
2 The students will probably find it difficult to complete the reading related tasks and maybe
they will take longer than expected.
3 Maybe the students will find this lesson a bit tedious and hard.
Possible solutions: (What am I going to do about these problems?)
1 Ill give them a handout with the mains rules for the use of reported speech.
2 After giving the instructions of the activities Ill complete the first two questions as
example. Ill be monitoring and helping them if I see them confused.
3 Ill try my best to keep them focused and I have also prepared a card game to consolidate
the grammar (reported speech).
Materials and/or teaching aids I will use in the lesson Handouts, Projector, Class CD, and
Cards.
Tutor evaluation of plan:

satisfactory* or unsatisfactory*

*for this stage of the course

Lesson Plan
For a language focused lesson, complete the first section.
For a skills lesson, complete the second section
If you include both components complete both sections
What is the form of the language you are teaching?
We usually change the forms of verbs when we report what was said in reported
speech:
Present forms change to Past forms
Present Simple (subject + verb (-s)) Past Simple (subject + verb -ed)
Present Progressive (am/are/is + verb -ing) Past Progressive (was/were +
verb ing)
Present Perfect (have/has + past participle) Past Perfect (had + past
participle)
Present Perfect Progressive (have + been + verb ing) Past Perfect
Progressive (had + been + verb ing)
Past forms change to Past Perfect forms
Past Simple (subject + verb ed) Past Perfect (had + past participle)
Past Progressive (was/were + verb ing) Past Perfect Progressive (had +
been + verb ing)
Some modal auxiliaries also change in reported speech
Will Would
Can Could
May Might
Shall Should
*must, ought to and used to do not change in reported speech.
What is the meaning of the language?
Reported speech refers to a sentence reporting what someone has said. It is almost
always used in spoken English.
What is important about the phonology of the language?
Contracted forms of auxiliary verbs such as is (s), are (re), have (ve), had (d).
Regular past verb forms finishing in ed can have three different
/t/ Verbs ending in voiceless consonants such as p, k, s, sh, ch, th
/d/ Verbs ending in voiced consonants such as b, v, l, r, z, or a vowel
/id/ Verbs ending in t or d

Which specific skills will students practice? (reading for gist, controlled speaking)
Gist and intensive reading and controlled speaking.

What new vocabulary/lexis? (include word stress/word class)

to be separated (verb): to be split up by someone or something else
a tattoo (tattoo): a mark in the skin of a drawing, picture, etc
an owl (noun): a bird
to phone in sick: to telephone your workplace to say that you will not come to work
because you are ill

Board work (you may want to include this on a separate sheet)