Lesson Plan (grade 11 – advanced)
Period 115 : Preparation date :2 /4/2008
Unit14 : Lesson : Speaking
I. Aims :
- By the end of the lesson, the students are able to express degrees of certainty.
- By the end of the lesson, the students are able to give reasons to talk about their plans for
future.
II. Lexical items :
-pale -holiday activities
III- Structures :
- I might go to Da Lat next summer vacation.
IV- Teaching aids:
- textbook - Handouts
- chalk - cards
V- Techniques :
- skill-based ( listening, speaking)
VI- Procedures :
State/time
Teacher’s and students’ activities Blackboard Material
s
1. warm-
up
(7’)
Games: Flashing the Pictures
-Arrange SS to work in tow groups, A and B
-Flash a picture quickly and ask SS to say what it is (
Appendix 1a)
- With a correct sentence about the picture, the group
-
Handouts
scores one point. The group with more point wins the
game.
-Keep a running total of points for each group on the
board.
-Declare the winner
-Ask SS ‘why is the baby crying?’
-If the answer is ‘He is hungry/…’ ask SS how they
know that.
-Ask SS what to use when they just guess, but not sure
of something.
( Add a clock to the picture to show time in order to
elicit more answers with high degree of certainty like
‘He must be…’.) ( Appendix 1b)
-
( expected: May be/Perhaps he’s hungry. /He might be
thirsty. /He must be sleepy. / …)
Transition : -So when we are not sure of something, we
can only tell the possibility. Today we will practice
expressing possibility through different degrees of
certainty
-Write down on the board :
Unit 14 : Speaking
– Talking about
Possibility
2. Pre-
Speaking
1.Eliciting and Introducing useful language
-Make questions to elicit and then introduce the
Chalk
(7’)
language used to express possibility.
-Draw a continuum to show the degree of certainty the
modals express.
Degrees of Certainty
Low degree high degree
( Less Certain) (More Certain)
Modals: may should must
Might can’t
Could ( sure or almost sure)
Adverbs: maybe
perhaps
and board
3. while-
Speaking.
(23’)
Activity 1: talking about the situation(tack a, p. 195)
-Ask SS to work in pairs, read the situations and make
a sentence using a suitable modal to express possibility.
-Go around to monitor and give help if necessary.
-Call on pairs of SS to act out the exchanges for the
situations
-Give feedback and comments.
Activity 2: talking about the pictures
-Ask SS to work in pairs
-Give each pair a set of pictures(Appendix 2)
-Tell SS to study the pictures and talk about what
might happen in each case using suitable modals to
express the degrees of certainty.
Textbook
4. Post-
Speaking
(7’)
5.
Homewor
k
-Show are picture and modals an exchange to give SS
an example.
-Go around to monitor unobtrusively.
- Call on SS to talk about the pictures and invite the
class to express their opinion and to give comments.
-Give feedback and comments.
Activity 3: talking about plans for next summer
vacation (task b, p.196)
-Arrange SS to work in small groups.
-Ask SS in their groups to talk about what they plan to
do next summer vacation. Tell them to use the model
the example exchange.
-Have SS do the task.
-Go around to check and give help if necessary.
-Call on some students to report about their groups.
-Give feedback and comments.
Writing about your plans
-Tell SS to write a few sentences about what they
might do next summer vacation.
- Ask SS to form small groups of 4 or 5, exchange their
writings for correction and share ideas.
- give feedback and comments
What’s in common?
-Ask SS to write a short paragraph about their group or
Textbook
Handout
(1’)
class plans for the next vacation, beginning with:
Most of us in the group / class are not sure of what to
do in the next summer vacation. Some might…