Lesson planning is important for successful teaching and learning activities in class. The better the Lesson plan, the bigger the chance for the class to run well.
For a new teacher, it will take some time to get used to lesson planning activity. But soon, lesson planning becomes something spontaneous, creative, and fun to do!
I want to share my lesson plan for my regular intermediate class.
Class type : General English (GE)
Length : 120 minutes (2x60 minutes)
Level : 7 (middle intermediate)
Number of students : 8
Lesson type : grammar (2nd conditional)
Materials : Cutting Edge 3rd ed. Unit 10; Teach-this.com
Lesson Main Aims:
- by the end of the lesson, students should be able to use 2nd conditional form when expressing unreal situations in speaking and writing.
- Students are able to differentiate between real and unreal situations.
Lesson Plan:
First Session:
- Guessing game about horror or ghost movie titles. There are 12 titles they have to guess.
- Leading the students to imaginary situation, students answer the following questions,
"So, what is horror movie usually about?"
"Ghosts."
"Can you see ghosts?"
"No."
"So, are they visible or invisible?"
"Invisible."
"Good. Now, I have a question for you. What would you do if you were invisible for a day?" (writing it on the board)
- Highlighting meaning by focusing on one answer from student: "if I were invisible for a day, I'd rob a bank." Elicit from students: Is it real situation? Imagined situation?
- Highlighting pronunciation by drilling students saying one Sentence and focusing on the I'd pronunciation.
- Highlighting form by writing the sentence on the board and eliciting the form or tense of the two clauses in it. Negative and question forms as well as modals other than would (could, might) are also elicited.
- Doing controlled practice 1, taken from the course book. Students dealt with exercises focusing on the forms of 2nd conditional.
- Doing controlled practice 2. There are nine grammatically incomplete questions in which students have to decide whether the questions are for real or unreal situations. After successfully writing the correct questions based on the situations, students pair up to compare their sentences.
Second session:
- Pair work. The material is from teach-this.com entitled "I Think You Would...". Students have to complete 10 sentences about their partners but they aren't allowed to ask. They just look at their partners and guess. The sentence is like this: "If you were an actor, I think you'd be ......" When finish, they read the sentences to each other. If the sentence or guess is wrong, they have to ask the correct one. In the end, students count how many true guesses they have about their partners.
- Still related to the previous pair work, students create three of their own sentences about their partners. They can be as creative as they want and the worksheet can be the source of ideas in making interesting, funny, or unique sentences.
- Group work. In groups of 4, students ask questions about moral dilemmas from the course book and discuss the answer. There are 10 questions they have to do. One student in the group starts asking, "Would you ever lie to someone close to you?" Then he asks follow-up questions, "Why not?", "When?" "What kind of lie?' etc. From three friends he asks, he then chooses the most interesting answer. As for feedback, students share their friends' interesting answers.
YEAYY, the lesson plan is done! It's time to go to class.
Happy teaching, teachers!!
