NYPL Lesson Plan

Teacher: Jean Choi

Level: ESOL Literacy 1-2

Date/Time: October 21, 2015 / 7:00pm 9:00pm

Goal: To ask about personal information using wh-questions and possessive adjectives.
Objectives (SWBAT):
Students Will Be Able To
1. Review vocabulary for basic personal information.
2. Listen and write down the names and numbers they hear.
3. Use greetings and identify names using the different forms of possessive adjectives.
4. Write sentences giving personal information about themselves and others using the different
forms of possessive adjectives.
5. Identify and use wh-questions What and When.
6. Use the simple present tense of the copula be.
7. Identify and use the preposition in.
Theme: Personal Information
Aim/Skill/Microskill

Activity/Procedure/Stage

Review or preview
T goes over the class agenda.

Interaction Time
7 min
T-S
2 min
T-S

2 min

T-S, S-S

5 min

1.1 Pre-Stage:
Ss share their celebrities w/each other.

S-S

15 min
5 min

1.2 During-Stage:
T should encourage Ss to use their smart
phones/technology to share pictures of their
celebrities especially if they arent well known.

T-S, S-S

5 min

Attendance

Warm-up:

Review area code, phone number, first

name, last name by boarding a fake
number & name, and circling different
portions of it.

Linking & Transitioning to rest of lesson: Did you

do your HW?

Activity 1: HW review

1.3 Post-Stage:
Review as a class, making sure Ss are using the
correct possessive adjectives.
Transition to #2: Lets
review.

Activity 2: First name,

last name, spelling

T-S, S-S

5 min

T-S, S-S

30 min
5 min

T-S, S-S

10 min

S-S, T-S

15 min

T-S

25 min
5 min

Tangible Outcome & T. feedback/peer feedback:

Written work using possessive adjectives.

2.1 Pre-Stage:

T boards Q: Whats your first name?

T reviews reading & pronunciation w/Ss.

T boards A: My first name is _________.

T reviews reading & pronunciation w/Ss.

2.2. During Stage:

Transition to #3: Ready

for a game?

Ss practice w/their neighbors.

T boards Q: How do you spell that?

T reviews reading & pronunciation of Q

& A w/Ss.

Ss practice w/their neighbors.

2.3 Post-Stage:
Repeat process using the last name.
Tangible Outcome & T. feedback/peer feedback:
Fluency practice, writing using basic vocabulary
for personal information.

Activity 3: Hangman
vocabulary review

3.1 Pre-Stage:
T divides class into 3 teams.
T gives each team a marker.
T boards blank spaces for a vocabulary
word: first name, last name, area code,

phone number, zip code, country

3.2 During Stage:
Each team rotates through a different
person every turn.
Teams guess a letter in their turn until the
word is guessed.
The team that guesses the complete word
receives a point.

T-S, S-S, S

10 min

3.2 Post-Stage:
Review the word.
Continue playing Hangman.

T-S, S-S, S

10 min

T-S, S-S

25 min
10 min

Tangible Outcome & T. feedback/peer feedback:

Identifying & spelling vocabulary words for basic
personal information.

Transition to #4: Whens

your birthday?

4.1 Pre-Stage:
Activity 4: Whens your
birthday?

T boards Q: Whens your birthday?

T reviews reading & pronunciation w/Ss.

T boards A: My birthday is in ______.

T reviews reading & pronunciation w/Ss.

Do round-robin practice as a class.

S-S

5 min

S-S, T-S

10 min

T-S

25 min
5 min

T-S, S-S

10 min

4.2. During Stage:

Ss ask their neighbor the Q & answers.

Ss write down their sentences.

Share as a class.

4.3 Post-Stage:
Ss get up and practice the dialogue in moving
parallel lines.

Tangible Outcome & T. feedback/peer feedback:

Writing, fluency practice.
Transition to #5: Whats
her/his birthday?

5.1 Pre-Stage:
T boards sentences: Whens his birthday?
Activity 5: Possessive
Whens her birthday?
adjectives third person
5.2. During Stage:

T reviews the pronunciation & reading of

the Qs.

What would the answers be?

T boards the answers: His birthday is in

_____. Her birthday is in_____.

S-S, T-S
10 min

T reviews the pronunciation & reading of

the As.

5.3 Post-Stage:
Round-robin practice as a class.
Transition to Wrap-up:
Do you want to be
famous?

Tangible Outcome & T. feedback/peer feedback:

Listening practice, pronunciation, fluency
practice, spelling.

T-S

20 min
5 min

Activity 6: Possessive
adjectives practice

6.1 Pre-Stage:
T boards: First name, Last name, Are
code, Phone number, Birthday.
T goes over the instructions.
T passes out pictures of famous people to
Ss.
6.2 During Stage:
In pairs, Ss show each other the pictures.
They ask each other: Whats his/her first
name? Whats his/her last name? Whats
her phone number? Whats her birthday?
Ss should write down the information.
Encourage Ss to use How do you spell
that?
Ss need to ask each other questions and
tell each other the answers.

S-S

10 min

6.3 Post-Stage:
Review as a class.

T-S, S-S

5 min

Celebrity portrait cards

Tangible Outcome & T. feedback/peer feedback:

Fluency practice, asking and answering questions
using possessive adjectives, written answers.

Transition to Wrap-up:
Dont forget your HW.

Wrap-up

Homework:
Ventures Basic Workbook, p. 10-11

Materials: whiteboard markers, whiteboard

Handouts: Celebrity portrait cards, Ventures Basic Workbook, p. 10-11
Contingency Plans (what you will do if you finish early, etc.):
We can play celebrity Q&A.
We can begin to ask Qs about countries and cities of origin.

T-S

2 min