TESOL Lesson Plan

Name: Xiao (Echo), Zhang

Course: TESOL Student Teaching
Instructor: Bill Baker
Date: January 29th, 2015 Quarter: Winter. 2015

Context
Subject: Conversation
Student level: Beginner to Low-Intermediate
Ethnicity: ESL students
Class size: 20+ students
Time: 50minutes
Objective
Students will start, continue and end a conversation.
Students will be able to create dialogues and use spoken expressions in their own
conversation.
Rationale
This lesson will help students to use new information and communication skills into
their real conversation, transform receptive vocabulary into productive vocabulary.
Also, it will focus on accuracy in conversations.
Materials
Handouts(copies for context; meaningful drills; communicative drills)
Procedure (50mins)
- Pre-task activity(5mins)
1. Before the class, T will prepare 20 pieces of paper, on which there is a number(120). Each student picks one number, and sits on the chair which has the same number.
2. T walks into class and greets Ss: Good evening,everybody. How are you feeling
today? Ss answer____.(good/nice/tired...)
T: I`m your student teacher, Echo. Nice to meet you guys. Ss answer: Nice to
meet you, too.
T: Are you familiar with each other? I was not here last week. How about we have
a brief introduction? I`ll give you 30seconds to get known with your neighbors. After
that, we will play a game. I would like you to introduce the name and the job of the
person either on your right hand or the left hand side.
(30 seconds...)
T: Are you ready? OK, let`s start with me. My name is Echo, I am from China.
I`m a senior student in university. Then T delivers an item(such as a ball, a soft toy
or a bottle,etc.) to Ss, back to them and beats the board. No matter when the T stops,
the person who grabs this item will introduce his/her neighbors. There are 3-5 rounds.

- Performing the task(4mins)

1. When game is over, T says: Good job! All right, let`s back to business(our
today`s topic). I`m giving you a short paragraph. This paragraph shows us two close
friends(Mark&Chris) discussing what to do on the weekend. Read it and create a very
short dialogue with your partners. After 3mins, I want some volunteers to do the role
play. Excited? Then T plays a short video where a couple of people perform the task
I want the Ss to perform. IF few Ss are clear, T repeat the direction; IF less than half
of them are not clear, T gives them 15 seconds to talk with each other and makes sure
all of them know what`s going on.
(3 minutes...)
2. T hands out scenarios, on which there is a short paragraph talking about two good
friends making plans for weekend. T lets students make up a conversation, according
to this story. T can solicit some model sentences from students to describe how to plan
an activity. (E.g: - What are you going to do this weekend? - I want to....)
- Role play(4-6mins)
1. T asks for volunteers to perform role-play with their dialogues. When one pair is
performing, the others listen carefully, then give these volunteers comments (avoid
negative words). It`s OK to take notes about the use of prefabs and expressions.
2. When each group finish, other Ss give comments. T can also comment, but on
other Ss` suggestions.
3. If time permits, preferably more groups perform.
- Focus on the context (10mins)
1. After the role play, T passes out copies of context, in which there is a dialogue
talking about making suggestions. T calls on two students to read this dialog.
2. T elicits Ss to analyze this dialog, sentence by sentence, mainly focusing on how
to start a conversation, how to continue it and how to close it. Meanwhile, Ss compare
their own version with the context, and think about expressions which they can put
into their dialogues.
3. At this part, T passes out expression handouts for starting, continuing, and
wrapping up a conversation.
- Post-speaking (5mins)
1. T says: Now you know how to make a conversation. Please talk to you partners
and add some of these new words in your own dialogues in 2 mins, I will ask several
groups to do the role play again.
2. When Ss are discussing, T walks around and take notes.
3. After that, T calls on pairs to perform their dialog. It`s better to call on the same
pairs. ( When time permits. If there are some pairs did not perform before, call on
them; if all of them performed before, T can ask for volunteers.)
4. Then the others students comment volunteers` performance, and say the different
points compared to the former dialogue.

- Presentation(4mins)
1. T tells Ss this dialogue is a conversation about making suggestion, then guides Ss
to find all the expressions that we use when making suggestions in context, orally.
2. Then T gives Ss handout about such expressions, and tells Ss function of these
expressions.
- Practice(6mins)
1. T hands out copies of exercises. Give Ss 3mins to practice the patterns of
expressions which are used in making suggestions. There will be 5 groups in this part.
Each of the group do exercise simultaneously. T, with the class, does the first one as
an example.
2. When Ss are practicing, T walks around and observes their performance.
3. After 3 mins, T calls one several students to share their answers with the class.
- Production/ Communicative Practice(10mins)
1. T: OK, pretend you are the teacher, can anyone tell us what we learned tonight?
If there is anyone who do not understand today`s lesson, make sure they can figure
out from their partners first. Then T gives a hand to them; if no one put up their hands,
T says: Wow, you guys are amazing! Great job. OK, right now, I`ll give each group a
colored stick. Make your conversations on these topics(feel sick/ seeking job/ go to
market/ travel abroad/ making plans for vacation,etc). Don`t forget to use the
expressions we learn today. T continues: Still remember what we learn tonight? Ss:
Making suggestions. T: Yes! Go ahead.
3. When Ss are practicing, T walks around and observes their performance. Do not
interrupt Ss even if they have some grammatical errors.

Scenario

Create a dialog according to the following story. Using any

conversation skills that you know.
Mark and Chris are good friends. One day they meet in campus.
After greeting to each other, Mark asks Chris whether Chris would
like to do something with him(Mark) this weekend. Chris accepts
and asks what to do. But Mark has no idea. Chris suggests to watch
movie Iron Man. Mark finds that it a good idea, but he wants to
see a funny movie: Mad Doctor Brown, Chris agrees. The movie is on
at 8 o`clock, so they decide to eat something in a new Chinese
restaurant before the film starting. At the end, they say bye to each
other.

Context
Make suggestions
Mark: Hey man, what`s up?
Chris: Not much.
Mark: Would you like to do something with me this weekend?
Chris: Sure. What shall we do?
Mark: I don`t know. Do you have any ideas?
Chris: Why don`t we see a film?
Mark: That`s sound good to me. Which film shall we see?
Chris: Let`s see Iron Man.

Mark: I`d rather not. I don`t like violent films. How about going to Mad Doctor
Brown? I hear it`s quite a funny film.
Chris: OK. Let`s go to see that. When is it on?
Mark: It`s on at8 o`clock at the MAC. Shall we eat something before the film?
Chris: Sure, that sounds great. What about going to that new Chinese
restaurant?
Mark: Great idea! Let`s meet there at six.
Chris: OK. I`ll see you there at six. See ya.
Mark: See ya later.

Source form:
Dialogue: Making Suggestions - Level B - Teacher Ackie
http://tx.english-ch.com/teacher/ackie/level-b/dialogue-making-suggestions/

Exercises

Making suggestions
Situation Question:
I need money. What should I do?
I need to improve my grade. What should I do?
My parents are angry at me. What should I do?
Write your own situation question:
__________________________________________________, what should I do?

You are going to pass this paper around the classroom, and your peers
(classmates) are going to write their suggestion for your situation.
Student #1__________________________________________________

Student #2__________________________________________________
Student #3__________________________________________________
Student #4__________________________________________________
Student #5__________________________________________________
5x4

Conversation starters

General greetings and inquiries

How`s it going?
How`s everything?
How`s life?

Asking about present activities

What`s up?
What`s happening?

(what are you doing now?)

Asking and telling about recent events

What`s new?
Guess what?

(what interesting has happened since I last saw you?)

(I want to tell you something. Ask me about it.) -----What?

Bringing up a serious topic

Can I take to you for a minute?
Do you have a minute?
Got a minute?

Close a conversation
Before closing
It's been nice talking to you.
Nice talking to you too.
(I'm sorry, but) I have to go now.

Closing

Good-bye
Bye.
See you later.
See ya
(informal)
Catch you later
(informal)
Sources from:
Conversation starters
http://www.eslgold.com/speaking/conversation_starters.html
Closing a Conversation
http://www.eslgold.com/speaking/closing_conversation.html

Making suggestions
Making suggestions:

Lets ... (revise our lessons).

What about ... ? (going to the cinema tonight)
How about ... ? (playing cards)
Why don't we ... ? (do our homework)
Couldn't we ...? (invite your grandmother to our party)
Shall we ... ? (have a walk along the river)
What would you ... ? (say to a cup of coffee)
Don't you think ... ? (it is a good idea to watch TV)
Does it matter if ... ? (we use your car)
I think you should...
I don`t think you should...
Why don`t you...
Why don`t we... (do something together)

Accepting suggestions:

Ok. Yes, let's....

Yes, I'd like/love to.
What a good idea!
Why not?
Yes, with pleasure.
That sounds like a good idea.

Refusing suggestions:

No, let's not...

No, I'd rather not.
I don't feel like it.

Source form:
EFL/ESL speaking lessons - Suggesting (making asuggestion in English).
http://www.myenglishpages.com/site_php_files/communication-lessonsuggesting.php#.VLtul9Jff84
Making suggestions
http://www.eslgold.com/speaking/making_suggestions.html