Lesson plan 12-Unit 5-Reading

Date of preparation : 18.10.2008. Unit 5 : HIGHER EDUCATION
Date of teaching : 22.10.2008 Period: 1 Section: Reading.

I AIMS AND OBJECTIVES :
 Language content:
- To help Ss read for specific information about higher education
- To introduce some new words relating to the topic
- Vocabulary: campus, challenge, blame, daunting, scary, mate
- Structure : the past simple and present simple, the present perfect
 Language function:
- Understanding the passage about Ss’ first impression of university life
- Arranging the sequence of an event
Educational aim :: Students should know about their first impressions of university life.
Skill : Integrated skills
II. TEACHER AND STUDENTS’ PREPARATION:
1. Method : Communicative Approach.
2. Techniques: Repetition, explanation, group work, asking – answering.
3. Materials needed : Textbook, pictures, real thing.
4 Students’ preparation : Reading the lesson at home.
5 Previous exercises:
III. PROCEDURE IN CLASS.
1. Stabilization : (1m)
a. Warm – up : Greetings.
b. Checking absence : Who’s absent today ?
2. Checking up previous knowledge:
Time needed: (5ms)
Questions :
Key to questions:
3. Presentation of the new material :
Time Teacher’s activities Student’s
activ

ities
The content of the lesson
4ms
1 Warm up :
- Ask Ss some questions:
1. What are you going to do after you
finish high school?
2. Which university would you like to
attend?
3. Where will you live if you study at a
university far from your house?
- Get feedback
- Lead Ss to the new lesson: higher
T- whole
class
Unit 5 HIGHER
EDUCATION
Period 1: Section : Reading
8ms
5ms
10ms
education
2 Pre- Reading:
- Ask Ss to work in pairs, ask and answer
the following questions:
1. How do you say in English the names
of these universities?
2. What university would you like to
apply for and why?
- Get feedback.

- Give Ss suggested answers.
- T Introduces some new words.
+ Campus (n)
+ challenge(v)
+ blame (v)
+ daunting(a)
+ scary (a)
+mate (n)
- Checks understanding : ROR
3. While – Reading.
Task 1 :
- Introduce the task: Complete the
following sentences, using the right
forms of the words in the box.
- Ask Ss to complete the following
sentences, using the right forms of the
words in the box.
- Go around class and help Ss if they
need.
- Call on Ss to give their answers.
- Correct mistakes.
1. scary 2. campus 3. challenges
4. mate 5. daunting 6. blame
Task 2:
- Introduce the task: Find out who:
a. attended a party on the first weekend
at college.
b. didn't get on very well with the
roommate.
c. was not used to meeting different

people every day at college.
d. liked having a chance to be creative.
e. was very excited about going to
college.
f. enjoyed the first year at college.
- Go around class and help Ss if they
Work in pairs
Give the
answers
Repeat
Copy down
individually
Read in
silence
Copy down
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ndividually
I. New words
+ Campus (n)
+ challenge(v)
+ blame (v)
+ daunting(a)
+ scary (a)
+mate (n)
Task 1 -
1. scary 2. campus 3.
challenges
4. mate 5. daunting 6.
blame
Task 2 -

Sarah: 1- a. attended a party
on the first weekend at college.
10ms
need.
- Call on Ss to give their answers.
- Correct mistakes.
Sarah: 1- a. attended a party on the first
weekend at college.
2- e. was very excited about going to
college.
Ellen: 3- b. didn't get on very well with
the roommate.
4. c. was not used to meeting different
people every day at college.
Brenden: 5- d. liked having a chance to
be creative.
6- f. enjoyed the first year at college.
Task 3:
- Introduce the task: Answer the
following questions.
1. What did Sarah do on the first
weekend?
2. Why did Sarah feel so lonely at the
party?
3. What problems did Ellen have with her
roommate?
4. What did Brenden think about his first
year at college?
5. What does the social calendar of the
colleges provide him?

- Guide Ss to answer.
- Go round the class to help Ss if
necessary.
- Call on some Ss to give their answers.
- Correct mistakes.
1. She went out with her new
friends, walking around the
campus.
2. Because at the party everyone
was busy playing some games
and no one seemed to noticed
her.
3. Her roommate left the window
open when it was cold outside.
She went to bed early. She
blamed Ellen for making her
sick.
4. Brenden thought the first year at
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individually
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2- e. was very excited about
going to college.
Ellen: 3- b. didn't get on very
well with the roommate.
4. c. was not used to meeting
different people every day at
college.
Brenden: 5- d. liked having a
chance to be creative.

6- f. enjoyed the first year at
college.
Task 3:
1 She went out with her
new friends, walking
around the campus.
2 Because at the party
everyone was busy
playing some games
and no one seemed to
noticed her.
3 Her roommate left the
window open when it
was cold outside. She
went to bed early. She
blamed Ellen for
making her sick.
4 Brenden thought the
college was the best and most
challenging of his life.
It provides him plenty of opportunities to
meet non-engineering students as well as
other engineers and many of them have
become his best friends.
4. Post -Reading
5. Consolidation
Confirms the content of the lesson.
first year at college
was the best and most
challenging of his life.

5. It provides him plenty of
opportunities to meet non-
engineering students as well as
other engineers and many of
them have become his best
friends
4. Homework: (2ms)
- Read the passage again.
- Learn by heart all of the new words
5 Preparation for the next lesson ()
- Prepare for section : Speaking
1. Self – evaluation : ………………………………………………………………………….
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