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Safir Teaching Practice Lesson Plan Date:

Trainee: ---- Time: 30 min

Number of Students: ------ Level: 205

Page no.: 92-93 Module: Reading

Acheivement Aim(s): By the end of the lesson the learners will be better able to read about
events and happy ending.

Procedure Aim(s): What the students will do during the class

Talk about their experience, watch a video and talk about events

Materials:

Handouts, pictures of celebrities, a video from Youtube,

Assumptions about the students' knowledge and abilities:

It is the end of the unit, they are familiar with narrative tenses and vocabulary related to
injuries and accidents

Anticipated Problems Solutions

1. The language in the video Pre-teach some of the blocking words
might be incomprehensible
2. Lack of ideas on the Give them handouts with information
students’ part
3.
4.

My personal aim(s):
- Maximize STT

- Clear instructions

- A relevant context

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Interaction
Stages Time Aim Procedure(s)
patterns

Greeting 1 min T-CL Building up a. Set the scene (The table

rapport position, the audio CD, the
markers)
b. Greet the class & ask how
they feel

Lead-in 5 min T-CL

(Engagement) Sustaining a. Talk about happy events in
interest & raising life, ask students to come
enthusiasm, up with examples in their
Ss-Ss
orienting the own lives. (think-pair-share)
class positively b. (Context) Ask them if they
towards the know anything about
lesson and Dwyane Johnson (show
creating the them a picture).
context c. Pre-teaching words:
1. Ask them if they know
what he did before his
acting career. Pre-teach
wrestling. Show a picture
for conveying the
meaning.
2. Pre-teach ruin (v).
CCQs
1. Ask them, “If you
ruin something is it
good or not?” Not
good.
2. When you ruin
something, do you
build it or destroy it?
Destroy it.

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Interaction
Stages Time Aim Procedure(s)
patterns
Context 4 min T-CL To introduce the a. Tell them they are going to
and theme and the watch a video about the most
preparing topic important decision in his life.
students to They need to answer two
start the questions:
reading 1. What is the problem? He
didn’t get in the team.
2. Did his story have a happy
ending? Yes
b. After they watch the video,
ask them to discuss their
answers in pairs.
c. Ask the following questions to
pre-teach some blocking
words in the reading through
MECDIBLE:
1. Why do you think Dwayne
lived in a small apartment? He
didn’t have enough money.
(pre-teach couldn’t afford)
2. How often these moments in
life happen? Not so often. (Pre-
teach occasionally)
3. After you overcame your
problems, does thinking about
them make you sad or laugh?
We laugh at them. (make you
laugh)
a. Ask students to read the title
and one story (randomly) and
guess what it means
b. Pair-check, then class check
Gist reading 2 min S Understanding what
a. Assign the students one of the
the title means (every
cloud has a silver stories to read individually to
lining.) answer the same questions
they had for the video.
Scan reading 3 min S To find specific (Gemma, Elena, and Chin-ho)
information b. Pair-check.
c. Then they join others and talk
about the stories. +FB
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Interaction
Stages Time Aim Procedure(s)
patterns
Detailed 4 min S Reading for a. Instruct the students to read
reading specific the whole text this time and
(scanning) information answer the questions in part C.
Ask them to first read the
questions and then find the
answers in the right section.
b. Pair-check
c. FB. (show the jpg file
“answers” on the screen)
d. To focus on the language of
Focus on 2 min S-S Focusing on the the text, give them handouts
the new words in the and ask them to match the
language text. words with their definitions in
pairs.

a. Ask them to work in pairs and

choose their favorite story and
Reaction to 8 min S-S To activate the say why.
theme and the TL a. Put students into two groups,
the reading
in a free way interviewers and celebrities
Ss-Ss (grouping techniques)
Freer
b. Interviewers have 3 minutes to
practice
write questions to ask
celebrities about the most
important event in their lives.
c. Celebrities are given handouts
with beginning of their stories
(dark cloud), they need to find
their silver lining. They have 3
minutes to match and get
ready to talk about their
stories.
d. They begin and in the end
they have to choose one story
to publish. (Meanwhile,
celebrities can get together and
share their stories)

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Board use

ruin (v.) 1. What was his problem?

wrestling (n.)

can’t afford (v.) 2. Did his story have a happy ending?

make sb laugh (v.)

occasionally (adv.)

Black Cloud: When Charlize was a 15-

Silver Lining: But she didn’t know, it year-old farm girl, she watched her mother
was also her first successful audition. kill her terrible father in self-defense. She
Talent manager John Crosby, waiting moved to Manhattan to be a dancer, but
to use an ATM, was shocked by the she injured her knee and said goodbye to
gorgeous young woman. A few that dream. At 19, she was broke and had
months of acting classes later, she got no money, so she asked her mother for
her first screen role. money to keep herself alive, a Hollywood
bank refused to cash her 500$ check. So,
she got really angry and started shouting in
front a large crowd who were standing in
the bank.

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Focus on the language exercise

1. To happen in a particular way, especially one that you did not expect
2. Bad-tempered and easily annoyed
3. An adverb used to say you have heard something is true, but you are
not completely sure about it
4. A piece of paper on which a doctor writes what medicine a sick person
should have

a) prescription
b) turn out
c) grumpy
5. apparently

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