LESSON PLAN

TEACHER: DATE: TIME: SCHOOL: CLASS:

Class profile: 15 year-olds, A2B1

Teaching unit : Module 1: Communication; The Blog Generation

Type of lesson : Skills Work

Sources: Challenges 4 Students' Book; Workbook; Teacher's Handbook

Aims and objectives : Read about blogs; learn about the use of for and since; learn about multi-part verbs

Teaching methods : conversation, presentation, reading comprehension, writing, speaking

Class management : whole class, individual work, pair work

Teaching aids, materials
and equipment : students book, workbook, CD; CD player, board, chalk
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TIMING
Aims and Class organization procedures and activities Interaction Teaching Possible problems
objectives aids and and solutions
materials

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partIntroductory
Homework check.
Introduce the T-SS WB
topic, elicit ideas Warm-up:
and vocabulary, Exercise 1: In turn, students tell the class which things in blogs they would like to T-SS SB 7 min
arouse interest read or write.

Provide key Exercise 2: Students work individually, reading the article and noting the types of T-SS
Main part

vocabulary and blog that are mentioned. Check with the whole class.
target language
in context Exercise 3: Ask Ss to read the sentences and decide whether they are true or false. When checking T-SS
answers, ask students to correct the false sentences.
Present and
practice study Exercise 4: Tell students not to worry about understanding every word but to read for T-SS
skills gist comprehension in order to match the texts and photos. SB
CD
Present target Exercise 5: Students work individually or in pairs, finding the verbs and completing T-SS CD player 30
language the expressions with somebody or something. min
board
Practice target Exercise 6: Set this exercise for homework. Elicit a couple of examples. T-SS
language
Exercise 7: Give students time to read through the verbs. Elicit one or two sentences
Present target from the class. T-SS
language Give students time to look at the Multi-part Verbs section in the Word Bank before
Practice target they write their own sentences. S-S
language Working individually or in pairs, students write as many sentences as they can. If
you wish, give a time limit of two minutes. Monitor and check students sentences.
Students read aloud two or three of their sentences to the class.
Present target T-SS
language Exercise 8: Ask Ss to read the sentences and elicit the correct uses of for and since.
Practice target
language Exercise 9: Give students time to read through the verbs. Elicit one or two sentences
from the class.
Set the exercise as homework.
partFinal

Ending the lesson:

T-SS SB 8 min
Use target Exercise 10: Read aloud the stages of the activity. Check that students S-S WB
language understand what to do.
Students may find it helpful to work through an example as a class, building
up three or four blog entries on the board.
Students then work in groups, agreeing a topic and writing their blog entries.
Homework: Exercise 6,9