Xiayu Guo
1. L2 learners between beginner and intermediate low/mid level. The first languages are
3. The topic of this lesson is “food”. Specifically, teacher introduces some foods in
supermarket.
4. There are individual work, pair work and whole class work in this class.
Pre-lesson Inventory
Lesson objectives:
1. Content objectives: Enable students to identify common foods in supermarket and discuss
2. Language objectives:
Enable students to use “a glass of, a packet of, a bottle of, etc.” to modify uncountable
nouns.
Enable students to express their idea in the sentence pattern “What kind of food would you
Purpose: This activity can motivate class and activate the schemata. This is an activity about
vocabularies. In this activity, students are able to think about the words what they have learned
Procedures:
1. Teacher provides a word they may familiar with. For example, the word is “cream”.
2. Students have 3 minutes to think about other words about food whose initial letters are c,
r, e, a, m. Students must give at least 2 words in each category. They can write the words
3. After 3 minutes, teacher collects students’ answers. In this step, students can shout out
Transition: Teacher follows up by eliciting learners’ response and word list on the board.
“Yes, it’s common food in our life and we cannot live without them. So how can you quantify
Purpose: This activity helps students listen to the gist. This video is a conversation in
supermarket. There are many words with food in the video. Students can understand
1. Teacher shows some slides with target or related expressions of listening. Students read
4. In worksheet, there are 4 multiple choices. Students should finish the tasks individually at
the first time (2 min). Teacher will play the video again. During the second time, students
5. Teacher collects feedbacks and gives correct answers. In this step, students should give
Transitions: Now teacher will play the video again. Students should finish exercises in next
activity. (1 min)
Purpose: This activity makes students get to know the countable/uncountable nouns briefly and
Procedures:
1. Teacher plays video. During the listening, students should fill in the blanks in the script.
(2 min)
2. Teacher plays video again. In the second time, students should check their answers. (2
min)
LISTENING AND SPEAKING LESSON PLAN 5
Transitions: After listening activity, students look at the listening conversations. Teacher asks
students “Do you have any questions or words you don’t know in conversations?” If they have,
Speaking activity: “What kind of food would you like?” (18 minutes)
Purpose: The activity demonstrates language-focused learning with target sentence patterns and
words.
Procedures:
1. Teacher shows pictures of food in supermarket. Maybe some students don’t know the
2. Teacher writes the sentence pattern on the board “What kind of food would you like? I’d
like …/I’d like to have…” Students should read after teacher. Teacher has a short time to
3. Teacher tells students they should work with this type of question and answer with food.
4. Teacher hands out to students the worksheet. There are many foods on worksheet (the
food in step 1). Students should go around the classroom and find classmates to ask the
questions. If there someone would like this kind of food, he/she can write down the
person’s name on the corresponding box. For example, the food is spaghetti. Student A
should ask classmates, “What kind of food would like?” If Student B says “I’d like some
spaghetti.” The student A should write B’s name on “spaghetti”. (10 min)
5. If students finish early, teacher will give them opportunity to ask classmates from other
HW assignment: None
Announcement: None
LISTENING AND SPEAKING LESSON PLAN 7
Appendix
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lcIm6zvhkc&t=102s)
Woman: Oh, really? How did you come to know about it?
Woman: Good morning. I would like to have two dozen eggs please.
Man: It’s in aisle 3, right next to the store’s main entry door.
LISTENING AND SPEAKING LESSON PLAN 8
Woman: Excuse me. I bought this packet of noodles yesterday but it’s the wrong flavor. I don’t
A. Condensed milk
B. Spaghetti
C. Cheese
3. In the second conversation, how many kinds of food does the woman buy?
A. 3
B. 4
C. 5
4. In the third conversation, why doesn’t the woman want the noodles?
B. It tastes bad.
Appendix D: Cloze
Woman: Oh, really? How did you come to know about it?
Man: It’s in aisle 3, right next to the store’s main entry door.
Woman: Excuse me. I bought this ___________ noodles yesterday but it’s the wrong flavor. I