LESSON PLAN

Info about the learners

Class / Age:
Level: B2
School status: examination / non-examination class, common core / elective, 1st language / 2nd language etc., no. of hours
per week, vocational / professional / primary / highschool / after school etc.
Learner profile: class structure (gender, age), background (social, ethnic, religious where relevant), ability, type of
intelligence, motivation, preferences, special needs, special considerations etc.
Info about the lesson
Title, topic:
[Type of lesson]: teaching (as in teaching something new), revision, consolidation / practice, assessment, culture and
civilization, project work etc.
Aims: writing an informal email to a friend [say which skill/subskill, type of text etc.; be as specific as you can in terms of
genre, style, register]
Teaching aids and materials: Which coursebook? Which movie? Which song? Which CD / DVD etc.? Blackboard /
whiteboard / smartboard? Chalk / markers / (colour) crayons / highlighters? Which stationery? Computer / laptop /

concordancers / software, internet connection, website / any other technology? Handouts / worksheets [slips of paper,
photocopiables make sure you give them titles and order numbers for later reference]? Realia, toys, other objects?
Pictures, maps, albums? Dictionaries, phrase books? Exercise books? Literature books? Costumes, masks, business cards,
name cards, personal info cards etc.?
Procedure: a) The Text-based approach
Stage
Warm-up

Activity
Ex. 1 p. 37 (Ss guess family members and

Interaction Time Observations (backup plan, possible

T-S

difficulties)
-

age) Warm-up is a stage of the lesson,

not an administrative stage. It does not
mean calling the attendance, checking the
homework etc. If you need 2 minutes for
admin stuff, its the 2 minutes BEFORE
Warm-up. Warm-up is PART OF todays
lesson on todays topic, not outside it. Do
not lecture about the necessity of writing
letters!
Presentation Handout no. 2 Family, ex.4. Ss read a

Handout no.2 Family, ex.2

text Mothers Day (see Annex) silently

[say how] and an email attached, and
answer comprehension questions in
Handout 1 ex.1 [always give the reading
text + task attached, not just the text].
Then they check the answers in pairs /
with T [feedback is part of the same stage,
Controlled

not a different activity].

Practice on language (grammar,

practice*
Semi-

vocabulary) and format

Practice on layout, beginnings, endings, or

controlled

missing fragments

practice*
Free

Ss write an informal email for a given

practice*

situation

* For each activity in which Ss are expected to communicate something in writing, they need hints as to the content of that communication (like a script).

Procedure: b) The Writing-as-process approach

Stage

Activity

Interaction Time Observations (backup plan, possible

Warm-up

Ex. 1 p. 37 (Ss guess family members

T-S

difficulties)
-

and age) Warm-up is a stage of the

lesson, not an administrative stage. It
does not mean calling the attendance,
checking the homework etc. If you need
2 minutes for admin stuff, its the 2
minutes BEFORE Warm-up. Warm-up is
PART OF todays lesson on todays topic,
Presentation

not outside it.

Handout no. 2 Family, ex.4. Ss read a
text Mothers Day (see Annex) silently
[say how] and an email attached, and
answer comprehension questions in
Handout 1 ex.1 [always give the reading
text + task attached, not just the text].
Then they check the answers in pairs /
with T [feedback is part of the same

Pair work

Handout no.2 Family, ex.2

stage, not a different activity].

Brainstorming T presents a situation that requires an

S-S

informal email. Ss give ideas as to what

should be written and how all ideas are
important whether they refer to content or
Selection

layout.
In pairs or groups, Ss select the most

Group

appropriate and agreed ideas for the

work

email in terms of content (what to say),

style and register (where the case), and
editing (how the final product should
Ordering

look).
Ss establish an agreed order of the

Group

selected ideas (especially the content,

work

what should be written). These ideas will

be developed in sentences and
First draft

paragraphs.
Ss write the first draft of the email based

Individual

Editing

on the selected ideas in the agreed order.

This stage includes feedback (peer or

Group

teacher feedback) and correction

work

(grammar, spelling, vocabulary,

punctuation) with supplementary
practice where needed plus other
editorial decisions: layout, pictures, titles,
Second draft

margins, colours, attached documents etc.

Ss write the second draft of the email
Individual

Feedback

the final version.

Peer review, teachers feedback, and

Group

publication decisions.

work