Lesson Plan

Teacher’s name:
Class:
Level: 3 VSTEP
Subject taught: Reading skills: Unit 4 Chapter 1 (A Student Budget)
Course book: How to master skills for the TOEFL iBT reading (Basic) (2010) by Timothy Hall, Authur
H.Milch, Denise McCormack, HCM Publishing House
Teaching goals:
- Introduce to students the reference question type in TOEFL and the different words type that can be
referred.
- Provide students with new vocabulary related to the topic being introduced in each reading
- Give students chance to practice and improve their reading comprehension skill.
Teaching Objectives:
By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
- Effectively answer reference questions in TOEFL test.
- Use skimming to get the general idea more efficiently;
- Use scanning to acquire specific information to complete general comprehension questions;
- Guess words meaning based on the context;
Lesson structures:
Stages Teacher’s activities Students’ activities Objectives
- Greet Students - Greet teacher.
Homework Check
- Use Kahoot to check - Use smartphone to - Have fun.
student’s vocabulary connect to the game
- Check student’s
practice on page 24 and compete with each
homework from Unit 1
other

- Show students an - Discuss the question

 example of reference being shown
question in TOEFL
Warm-up

- Facilitate what is
being asked and help
students analyze the - Answer teacher’s - Introduce the topic for
answers questions Unit 2

- Write the title of Unit

2 on the board

- Give examples of the

4 different types of
pronouns that appear
on the TOEFL test.

Pre - R - Ask students to - A quick overview on

identify what type of the different type of
pronouns those words - Answer the teacher’s
pronouns that can
are question
appear on the TOEFL
test

-Practice with the 2

example questions for -Practice with example
each type of pronouns reference questions
on page 28-31 - Underline the
information being
referred in the
- Provide new words
paragraph and compare
for students
it with the 4 options
provided
- Explain any potential
new words and content
of the example
paragraph
 - Practice with first 2
short passages on page
32 and 33 and first 2
long passages on page
36 and 37

While - R
- Ask students to skim
the passages for main
idea

- Ask students to - Follow the teachers’ - Help students practice

analyze comprehension instructions to find the their reading skills
questions and scan for main idea, answer
answers inside the comprehension
reading questions and reference - Help students practice
question in TOEFL reference questions
test. type in TOEFL test
- Ask students to
underline potential
information being - Help students obtain
referred in the text then new vocabulary
compare it with the 4
options provided in
reference questions

- Explain potential new

words

Post - R - Summarize today’s

lesson with the 4 types
of pronouns that can
appear in reference - Make sure students
question type remember and
understand the lesson.

- Show tips on how to

identify correct referred
information - Note down the useful
tips provided by the
teacher.
- Give homework on
page 34,35,38 and 39