Lesson Plan Tuesday August 7th

Activity Step-by-step
Class opening Welcome the students, ask them how they have
~5 min been. They are funny, crack a joke or something.
Ask a student to say a prayer. Some of the
students don’t like to be called in front of other
people, try and ask one of the people who
arrived early in the classroom. These are the
students who said they could pray in the
beginning of the semester.
 Ale
 Chris
 Adela
 Daniel
 Pamela
 Guisela
 Abinadi
 Ben
 Rafael
 Daphnee
 Rina
 Rosie
 Cindy
 Ronald
Don’t be surprised if the student picks a paper to
read from while praying. We had a lesson about
how to say a prayer correctly in English and I said
they could cheat from it any time.
LEAP Exercise Because we are having a short week with all that
~25 min is going on, this exercise is going to take a lot of
your time today. I sent you the Power Point and I
have a step-by-step written in the comments. You
are free to modify anything in it. Do whatever
makes you comfortable.
Intonation Review and Though Group I also have written down what I have in mind for
Presentation this presentation in the comment session in the
~30 min PowerPoint. Once again, feel free to make any
changes you like. The PowerPoint already has
Practice and Production exercises in it. I’m also
sending you the handout for the practices.
Review Ask the students what they learned in this class.
~5 min Sometimes they will be unwilling to volunteer
what they have in their minds, so feel free to call
them out.
Lesson Plan Wednesday August 8th

Activity Step-by-step
Class opening Welcome the students, ask them how they have
~5 min been. They are funny, crack a joke or something.
Ask a student to say a prayer.
 Ale
 Chris
 Adela
 Daniel
 Pamela
 Guisela
 Abinadi
 Ben
 Rafael
 Daphnee
 Rina
 Rosie
 Cindy
 Ronald
LEAP Exercise Use the LEAP 36 PowerPoint and do the last
~10 min three prompt with the students. Divide them in
pairs and follow the procedures from the day
before. They know what to do. �
Warm-up to book activities (These are only suggestions, as you have taught
~5 min with this book before, you can do what you
usually do)
Until now the students have been doing the
homework about “the silk road” but we haven’t
even touched on the subject in class. Ask them
what the homework exercises are about. Have
them share what they know.
Connect to the topic Ask students to open their books (page 52). Ask
~7min a student to read the paragraph which
introduces the topic, have them do the exercise
in pairs.
Build your vocabulary Read what the question asks for them to do,
~7 minutes remind them that the exercise is on both pages
53 and 54. Go over the answers as a group.
Focus your attention Make a small review of what were some of the
~7min taking notes skills they have already worked on
this semester. We talked about organizing main
ideas and details, using symbols, T chart for
contrasting ideas, etc.
Present the idea of writing the details and dates
as the book presents. (Sometimes the students
get bored by this because we have already went
 over many of the techniques, you may skip if you
feel like your getting behind or if it’s not
important. Play the CD, or read the “try it out”
script for them to practice.
Listen to the lecture Ask the students to close their books and find
~15 min some paper to take notes. Read the “Before you
listen” information. Play the lecture and ask
them to answer pages 56 and 57 after. I play the
video from the book website. Go over the
answers, explain any misunderstandings.
Talk about the topic Read what questions A and B (page 58) ask them
~5min to do. Play the video on the book website. Go
over the answers.
Review Ask the students what they learned in this class.
~5 min Sometimes they will be unwilling to volunteer
what they have in their minds, so feel free to call
them out.
Book website:
https://wps.pearsonlongman.com/contemporarytopics/246/63020/16133215.cw/index.html

Just some reminders:

The students will be recording the LEAP throughout the week. I try to grade them once a day, tell them
what words they have to record again. Each correct word is worth one point. They have 3 times to get it
right. For each new attempt, they only have to record the words they pronounced wrong.

Homework is worth 20 points for the week so, each day is worth 4 points. If they miss a day, they will
lose those points.

Participation is worth 4 points each day. If the student missed class, -2. If they are late, -1. Homework
and participation are worth 1 point each.

See Adela’s presentation situation.

Have students send you the slides for their presentations the day before. Time each presentation
minimum 8, maximum 10 minutes. Be strict about it. Time is short!

I’ll leave the books and cd’s in your box on Monday. The Teacher’s Pack (white book) is mine, you can put
it in my box. The rest belong to the ELC.

They have a final test on Friday 10th on canvas. (I usually open the test on Thursday at 10:30 am and close
it on Friday 3pm.

Have fun! The students are great!