Amys English Class

<60min Based Entire Lesson Plan>

A. Title Mastering English through an American comedy.

Lets practice Speaking & listening from Friends

B. Learning Objectives & Expected Results:

Students will be able to recognize what the actors and actresses talking about in different
situations by listening the actual conversations of native speakers in the video clip.
Students will be able to define the meanings of phrases while filling the blanks.
Students will be able to identify appropriate collocations by searching the phrases from the
COCA.

C. Students

Target students: High school students in Korea

Target level: Advanced low

D. Setting

This lesson is going to be taught in public High school, especially after the regular school class.
I am going to use my laptop and will connect to the projector in class. I will provide the paper
worksheet as Korean high school does not allow the students use their laptop in class. The students
will fill the blanks on the paper while listening the video clip.
Target population: 20-25 students
Target time of teaching: After school class

E. Procedures / Timing:
* This lesson is based on 60 minutes class period.
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Warm-up (sharing personal experiences with partners) : 10min

Listening & fill the blanks : 10min
Guessing and learning the blanked meanings: 15 min
Introducing COCA: 5 min
Role-Play: 10 min
Review game: 10 min
1. Warm-up (Speaking activity): The theme of the video clip is Thanksgiving day.
Because some Korean students never heard about the Thanksgiving day, I will
briefly explain what the Thanksgiving Day is. Then, in order to make students get
involved in the video, I will have the students share their stories with their partners.
The students might share their stories that happened in Chu-seok, which is the
Thanksgiving Day for Korean.
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There will be some possible questions that the students can share with their partners.
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(Ex: Do you have any memorable event regarding of the Thanksgiving Day? / What did you do? /
Why the event is unforgettable? / What makes the Thanksgiving Day special? )
2. Listening & watching video clip: I will play the video clip three times total.
Students will fill in the blanks by listening carefully to the video. After, students will
guess the meanings of the missing parts based on what they have written down.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaLaPEnjeqY
3. Searching at the COCA: I will pull up the COCA site and search some phrases
or expressions that the students had hard time to guess the meanings or that I think
the students need to know.
http://corpus.byu.edu/coca/
4. Role-play: Students will do the role-playing with their partners. In this activity, the
students can actually use the phrases that they learned in class.
5. Review game: Using Kahoot, students will solve quizzes as a group. Because they do
not have their own laptop, I will show it through projector, and they will write the
answers on the paper and hold it up. I will mark their points as a group, and will give
candies. The questions will be made based on the phrases and expressions learned
from this lesson.
6. Homework: Students will record using either the Voice recording program or the
Audacity to practice the conversation. While they make a recording, not only they
will practice the useful phrases and expressions but also can be familiar to the
intonations and stresses of native speakers. The students will send me their recording
file via email.

F. Reflect
Through this class, I learned how it is really useful to use many technologies in English teaching
environment. I did not know that there are many different ways of using the technologies in teaching
English. Especially, I really like using Kahoot as checking the students comprehension. Teachers can
create any kind of quizzes and can apply it into class. It is not only good for assessing the students
understanding of a lesson but also fun and exciting. Also, I like using many websites that provide many
useful learning materials. There were tons of information and videos as well. I will let my future students
all know about those websites and learning materials so that they can study by themselves and have fun in
learning English. Overall, I really liked this class because I learned many skills that I can use it for
designing my lesson in my near future. Thank you so much brother Christensen.

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