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Tang Ruhan
April 18, 2019
30 min
Advanced
17
20-30s, IELTS Instructors,Chinese, CEFR Level Upper B2-C1
By the end of the lesson, students will be better able to writing body paragraphs
using Point-Example-Explanation pattern.
By the end of the lesson, students will have practiced reading topic related article
to glean ideas and have read a couple of sample writing.
By the end of the lesson, students will have practiced writing the following task:
“Some people believe famous people's support towards international aid
organizations draws the attention to problems, while others think celebrities make
the problems less important. Discuss both views and give your opinion.”
Time: 30 min may not be enough for covering a full writing task
Latecomers: students may come in late.
Fastflyers: in group work some student may take the lead, feeling bored

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Cultural sensitivity: examples of celebrities may offend some students who idolize
them.
Classroom: seating may make it difficult for some to see the screen
Time: leave the task for homework
Latecomers: arrange them to groups that are going well and encourage peer
teaching
Fastflyers: encourage them to paraphrase sentences that they/others have
generated. Peer correction
Cultural sensitivity: mind the language and ask if anyone idolize these celebrities a
lot.
Classroom: pre-arrange seatings before the class starts, switch seats so everyone
can have a good view. Send the ppt to students’ digitial devices.
PPT, Worksheet
 Timing Stage / Procedure Interaction Reason for doing the
activity
Lead-in:T shows Ss pictures of T-C Use visuals to
2-4 min celebrities doing charities. T asks create interests in
questions: the topic. Elicite the
1. Who are these people? idea of celebrities
2. Are they famous? doing charities.
3. What are they doing?

2min PreteachT gives out Pre-teach Vocab on T – C Unblock words for

PPT upcoming tasks
T asks CCQs to check Ss understanding
of the following Vocab:
Hindrance,Refugee,Trivialise,Jeopardise
Prediction: T shows students a picture T – C Encourage students to
of A.J.T encourages Ss to read caption Ss in pairs/groups activate their
4-5 min on it and discuss in pairs/groups. preknowledge about the
“What is she doing in Syria?” Topic.
“Is she doing a good job or not?”
“Do you think all celebrities can do this
job well?”
T monitors and give feedback

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 2-3 min Reading for Gist: T gives Ss each a piece S works individually Collecting ideas from
of article. T asks Ss to read quickly to reading.
get the gist. T gives Ss 2 min. T checks
understanding with 3 T/F questions. T
Monitors and gives feedback.
4-5 min 4 corners: T groups Ss. T asks Ss to Ss work in groups. Organize Ideas.
discuss in pairs/groups for 4 min to T-Groups
choose 1 of the four corners. Agree or
Disagree with the article or not.
T asks Ss to take their corners and
present their points. T asks questions
to elicite ideas:
1. How does this belief come
about?
2. How may others oppose your
belief?
3. How do you support your belief?
4. What does this belief imply?

2-3 min Noticing: T presents students 2 T-Class Developing a formal

paragraphs under the given topic. T writng style
color-codes the sentences in the
samples and asks Ss to notice the
similarities and differences. T elicit the

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 organization of a paragraph.
Connector-Main Idea-Example-Explain.
6-8 min Semi-controlled practice: T asks Ss to Ss work in pairs/groups
work in pairs/groups. T gives Ss
worksheet of exercise 1&2.
T asks Ss to discuss and write the rest
the paragraphs given, following the
pattern C-M-E-E
2 min DEC:T asks Ss to swap writings with Ss work in pairs/groups Improving langauge
other pairs/groups. T encouraged peer T-C
correction.
T monitors
T do Error Correction.

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