CEP Lesson Plan of Intermediate Conversational English Course

Teacher: Joey Cheng-Hsun Hsu

Level: Intermediate
Date/Time: March 3, 2017, 11:30 AM12:15 PM

Demographic Context: This is an intermediate conversational English course. This is

Week 4 of a ten-week course. There are five female students in this course, including one
native speaker of French, one native speaker of Japanese, one native speaker of Korean,
one native speaker of Russian, and one native speaker of Spanish.

Previous Lessons: The themes and the content of this course are primarily designed to
reflect students learning interests and needs obtained from the needs assessment
administered in the first class of this semester. The previous lesson wrapped up the first
unit Home sweet home where the students presented their home country as a travel
agent. Today, we will begin the second unit Lets hang out! where students will learn
to invite and accept and decline invitations using speaking strategies and appropriate
expressions.

Goal: This lesson will enable students to invite and accept and decline invitations in a
socially and culturally appropriate manner by using proper speaking strategies and
expressions.

Objectives (SWBAT):
Students Will Be Able To
1. identify purpose, audience, and register of a discourse in order to produce
pragmatically appropriate speaking performance.
2. select appropriate expressions and employ effective speaking strategies for
inviting and accepting and declining invitations.

Theme: Event invitations

Extensions: Students go out of the classroom, invite people on campus (with whom they
might be familiar or with whom they might not) to some campus events, and observe the
language people use to respond. Students, then, report a repertoire of speaking strategies
and expressions they collected to class.

Aim/Skill/Microskill Activity/Procedure/Stage Interaction Time

Review or Preview (if Linking & Transitioning to rest of (for example:

applicable) lesson: SS-T)

Agenda Unit 2: Lets hang out!inviting T 11:30-

and accepting and declining 11:31
 invitations
TED Talk

Preview T elicits answers to the following T-SS 11:31-

questions from Ss: 11:36
1. How do you invite people?
2. How do you accept an
invitation?
3. How do you decline an
invitation?

Activity: 1.1 Pre-Stage:

T introduces purpose, audience, T 11:36-
and register and relates them to Ss 11:38
responses in the Preview section.

1.2. During Stage:

Ss watch the video and discuss the SS-T 11:38-
examples from the video in light of 11:45
purpose, audience, and register.
T reviews the expressions from the SS-T 11:45-
video and asks Ss when they will 11:50
likely use them (See Worksheet
Expressions I).
T offers more expressions Ss can T
use for inviting and accepting and
declining invitations (See
Worksheet Expressions II).
Ss identify the expressions of SS-SS 11:50-
inviting and accepting and 11:55
declining invitations and match
them with the appropriate register
(See Worksheet Expressions II).
T checks the answers with Ss (See SS-T 11:55-
Worksheet Expressions II). 12:00

1.3 Post-Stage:
Instructions of the two tasks
Task 1: Invite someone who can SS-SS 12:00-
join you for an event. 12:07
Task 2: Work in pair. Use the SS-SS 12:07-
expressions and speaking strategies 12:14
you just learned to satisfy the
demands of a given situation.
Wrap-up T reviews todays lesson with class and T 12:14-
has Ss complete an exist ticket. SS 12:15

Materials:
1. Computer, projector, and speaker
2. Website: https://www.voicetube.com/videos/9745
3. Worksheet

Anticipated Problems & Suggested Solutions:

Ss may have difficulty matching the expressions with the appropriate register (See
Worksheet Expressions II). Solution: Examples, practice, and a metacognitive
explanation about the expressions will help.

Contingency Plans (what you will do if you finish early, etc.):

Ss work on the rest of the situations in Task 2.

Relevant Theories and Teaching Techniques Implemented:

This lesson essentially follows the teaching speaking cycle, as shown below.