LESSON PLAN

Level: upper-intermediate
Textbook: Going for Gold, Longman
Topic: Unit 8 Land of the Pharaohs
Relative clauses (who, that, whose, which, where)
Time: ! min
Teaching aids: te"t#oo$s, #lac$#oard, handouts, note#oo$s%
Type of lesson: grammar consolidation
Skills: reading, writing, listening, spea$ing (integrated receptive and productive s$ills)
Lesson aims:
- to review students& $nowledge of the use of relative pronouns (who, whose, that, which)
and adver#s (where) in relative clause
- to develop students& reading-comprehension s$ills
- to get the students to e"press thoughts and personal opinions in 'nglish%
Objectives: () the end of the lesson, learners will #e a#le:
- to produce ela#orate sentences using relative pronouns and adver#s%
- to e"press personal opinions using the 'nglish language%
- to state a sentence descri#ing pictures that are shown%
- to identif) specific information in a te"t
Assmptions: *s have #een taught the relative pronouns #ut the) ma) still #e at a loss when dealing with
them
Anticipated p!oblems: *ome *s ma) have difficulties in e"pressing their point of view, so the)
will #e prompted #) the teacher +
"idactic st!ategies: , -rocedural resources: elicitation, conversation, e"planation, reading
comprehension, matching e"ercise, fill-in the gap e"ercises+
Teache!#s !ole: coordinator, advisor, monitor, resource, help
Evalation:
$ initial: homewor$ chec$-up% summar) of the theor)
- continue: through activities, error correction
- final: through oral feed-#ac$ and homewor$
Stages of the lesson:
Activity % : &a!m$p
Aim: to create a pleasant environment for the *s
'ethod: dialogue
P!oced!e: . greets *s, as$s them informal /uestions, who is a#sent+ ** answer informal
/uestions, get read) for the lesson+
. informs ** on the structures that the) are going to practise+
(nte!action: .-*% *-.
)lass management: whole class activit)
Timing: 0 min
Activity *: +Lead in,
-ene!al )ompetence: to develop positive attitude towards learning 'nglish
Specific competence: to review students& $nowledge related to the use of relative clauses
'ethod: dialogue, matching e"ercise
P!oced!e: .eacher (.) chec$s if *s had an) homewor$+ 1n case the) did, *s read their
homewor$ and correct it if necessar)+
. engages *s in a matching e"ercise in order to remind them the use of relative pronouns and the
t)pes of relative clauses+
.hen *s are as$ed to tell the difference #etween defining and non-defining relative clauses and to
solve an e"ercise individuall) (e"ercise 0, page 23, Going for Gold)+ 1n case *s have difficulties
in remem#ering the definitions, the . provides *s with a handout containing the theor) and
e"amples+
*s answer the teacher&s /uestions, give e"amples, definitions and solve the e"ercise indicated #)
the teacher+ . chec$s *s& answers+
(nte!action: .-*s% *s-.% *s-*s
)lass management: whole class activit)% individual wor$
Timing: 8 min
-ene!al )ompetence: to understand and interpret a written message in 'nglish
Specific competence: to identif) specific information in a te"t
'ethod: conversation
Aids: te"t#oo$%
P!oced!e: . gives the *s a few minutes to loo$ through the entire te"t and as$s the *s if there
are an) un$nown words+ . e"plains the un$nown words and then as$s the *s to read the te"t
silentl) in order to answer the /uestions from e"+ 45 page 80+
*s read the te"t+ . as$s *s for their answers+
(nte!action: . *s% *s-.
)lass management: whole class activit)
Timing: 6 min
Activity .: Post$/eading
-ene!al )ompetence: to develop interest in the discover) of socio-cultural specific e"pressed in
te"ts in 'nglish
Specific competence: to write a different ending for the stor) #ased on the evolution of the
events and character