LESSON PLAN

TEACHER: Aurelia Bazbanela

CLASS: 10th
TIME OF LESSON: 50 minutes
TEXTBOOK: Mission 2 Coursebook
UNIT/TOPIC: When shopping is a problem
LESSON AIMS: -

to identify the global meaning of a message

to teach vocabulary associated with shopping
to talk about shopping in a corner shop compared to a department
store

SKILLS: listening, speaking

METHODS: brainstorming, group work
MATERIALS: textbook, whiteboard, tape recorder, flipchart

POSSIBLE DRAWBACKS:
- Ss may find it difficult to understand the whole message of the text just
listening to it
- Ss may have some problems in understanding the new words
- Ss may find it difficult to contrast the two types of shops: corner shop,
department store

Stages
Checking
Attendance
Time: 2 minutes
Introducing
of new
activity
Time: 3 minutes

Ts & Ss activity
Interaction Focus
Teaching materials
T checks attendance Is anybody absent today? T - Ss
Speaking

T announces the title of the lesson: When

shopping is a problem and writes it on the
whiteboard
T asks Ss to look at the images in the book (page
108) and say what the people in the image are
doing.
T asks Ss two questions:
Pre-listening
1. Do you enjoy shopping? Why/Why not?
activities
2. What do you think a shopaholic is?
Time: 5 minutes Ss will answer them giving their own views.

T Ss
Ss - T

Speaking Whiteboard

T Ss
Ss T

Speaking Textbook
Flipchart

T writes some sentences on the flipchart and Ss

must guess if they are true or false.
eg: Everyone loves shopping

T - Ss

While-listening
Time: 7 min.

T asks Ss to listen to a person talking abut

Shopping
Ss can also follow the text in the book and
underline the new words while listening to it
Ss also have to think of a suitable heading for
each paragraph of the article

T-Ss

Listening Tape recorder

Textbook

After-listening
Time: 8 min.

T writes the new words on the whiteboard and

translates them or gives synonyms for them:
tedious - boring, addiction dependenta

T-Ss
Ss-T

Speaking Whiteboard

Ss - Ss

Writing

T asks Ss the following question: What pieces of

advice would you give a shopaholic?
T writes some types of shops on the whiteboard
and Ss have to say what one could find in these
shops. Ss also have to come up with some other
items that they can find in these shops.
Eg. fishmonger: cod
chemist: aspirin
newsagent: TV guides
Notebook
Group
Activity
Time: 10 min.

T will ask the Ss to divide into two groups:

- one group will write in their notebooks
advantages of going shopping to a corner shop
and disadvantages of shopping in a department

store
advantages: - close to your house
- open long hours
disadvantages: - crowded
- noisy

Acquiring
Performance
Time: 10 min.

- the other group will write in their notebooks

advantages of going shopping to a department
store and disadvantages of going to a corner shop
advantages: cheap
choice of products
more staff
disadvantages: expensive
limited range of goods
T asks Ss to read in turn what they wrote in their Ss T
notebooks loudly.
Ss Ss
Group A will present the advantages of going
shopping to a corner shop and group B will
come up immediately with some disadvantages
of going shopping to a corner shop.
Group B will present the advantages of going
shopping to a department store and group B will
say some disadvantages of going shopping to a
department store.
Ss - SS

Assigning
Homework
Time: 5

Finally they will draw a conclusion expressing

their own views about shopping to a corner shop
and shopping to a department store
T tells Ss to write about going shopping alone vs. T - Ss
going shopping with one of their friends or with
one of their family members.

Speaking

Speaking

Writing

Textbook