LANGUAGE PLAN FORMAT

LESSON PLAN: Receptive Skills - Reading

Lesson Plan: Vidya Premkumar
Lesson No. 1
Grade: High Level Learners Duration: 40 minutes
Lesson Type: Receptive Skill – Peer Learning
Topic – Recycling
Lesson Targets
a. Final Objective:
By the end of the lesson, students should be able to use the target language, from their reading task and answer with about
20% accuracy.
b. Qualifying Objectives:
1. For the students to feel relaxed and comfortable.
2. Respond to questions by identifying the answers in the given text.
3. To interact using the target language related to the text.
4. To comprehend the Questions and participate in the discussion using the target language.
Vocabulary Taught: within the given text.

ALLOTTED TEACHER’S ACTIVITY STUDENT’S ACTIVITY ANTICIPATED PROBLEMS

TIME
5 minutes Teacher greets the student Students greet the teacher Teacher forgets to greet
Students don’t respond
Warmer
Word Scramble Game: Students respond likewise Teachers forget to greet.
Teacher writes sentences with scrambled Students don’t respond
letters on the board. Students are divided properly.
into teams. The team that’s the fastest in
unscrambling the words is the winner.
3 to 5 Context Setting
minutes
Teacher asks relevant questions on the Students respond to the questions Questions not relevant.
 warmer done to elicit context and writes
the topic on the board ‘Recycling’: (so
simple it’s easy)
Teacher has already pasted the reading text
in the four corners of the room.
20-25 Content
minutes
Teacher divides the class into pairs or Students respond.
groups.
Teacher hands out the texts to them.

Skimming Teacher gives the Students 2-3 minutes to
browse the text.
Teacher instructs students to keep the
scripts face down.
Next Teacher gives instructions/ explains
the quiz rules about answering three types
of questions
1. True or false (yes/no)
2. Sentence completion (gap fill)
3. Referential questions (Wh questions)
Teacher asks the group to select a runner
for each group
Teacher instructs the runner to identify the
line that has the answer to the Question
that the teacher will ask, and run to his
respective group and point out the
answers. (Groups to keep the script face
down till the runner comes back to them. )
The group with the most number of correct
answers is the winner.
Teacher models 3 sample questions with
the runner and the group before the actual
quiz.
Students quickly browse the text Time not sufficient
Students listen and understand Instructions not clear
Students listen and understand
Students select a runner
Students work in groups and interact Runner no an active reader.
with their respective runners. Text not clear.
Runner does not
understand the questions.
Miscommunication between
the runner and the group
member.
Group members don’t
understand the runner’s
answers.
Scanning Next teacher asks 3-4 questions on each Questions are complicated
type, and asks them to write down the Questions out of context.
answers.
Teacher declares the winner after checking
the answers. (Set time limit for the quiz and
individual questions)
Class Division (Optional) Students respond Lack of time.
Teacher asks inferential/general questions
for language generation in the class.
Productive Skills (Optional) Students speak and write Lack of time.
Not able to write properly.
Speaking and Writing
(Teacher discusses the text with Students)
Teacher asks the group to discuss the text
among themselves and writer 3-5 lines on
‘Recycling’

5 minutes Cooler
(on a Teacher give them scrambled sentences
special and asks them to put them in order and
diet) read out aloud.