Reading

LESSON PLAN 3

Background information:

Teacher: Maria Mazurowska

Date: 27th September 2011
Level: beginners, 6th grade
Location: SP no 1, Koźmin Wlkp.
Topic: “Jamie and the Selkie”, p. 1 – reading for general understanding.
Duration: 45 minutes
Coursebook: ‘New Friends 3” Pearson Longman

Description of class: 13 Polish students, the group of boys. The class is very active (although there are some students who sometimes do not work to participate in the lesson, especially, when they do not understand something or are not prepared), students are quite good at English. There aren’t such big problems. Teacher uses English as much as possible.

Timetable fit: Last time the students read about favourite animals, they learnt about Stative Verbs and how to write a description of an animal. They also had a review of Present Simple and Continuous (but separately).

Aids for the lesson:
- a big physical map of England and Scotland – appendix 1 (photo),
- a little map for each student of the Orkney Islands – appendix 2
- materials for the newsletter about the Orkney Islands (words, pictures, maps, photos, texts) – appendix 3,
- text, page 10 – appendix 4,
- the enlarged picture from the text (to pin the key vocabulary) – appendix 5,
- words presenting key vocabulary – appendix 6,
- small pieces of paper for everybody to make notes – appendix 7,
- ex. 2, page 10 – appendix 8,
- ex. 1, page 8 – appendix 9,
- ex. 4, page 9 – appendix 10,,
- a table of Present Simple and Continuous (comparison) – appendix 11,
- little table with the information about tenses for each student to stick in the notebook – appendix 12,
- a grey table in the activity books (language diary, ex. 1, page 8) – appendix 13,,
- text about seals to complete – appendix 14,
- Ex. 5, page 11 – appendix 15,
- CD 1, rec. 9 – appendix 16,
- Ex. 6, page 11 – appendix 17.

General assumption:
- to teach students the difference between Present Simple and Present Continuous and how to use it in natural situations,
- to teach students the new vocabulary,
- to practice receptive skills: reading for general understanding,
- to develop productive skills: writing,
- to practise answering different questions – to check the understanding of the written text,
- to practise a new vocabulary.

Anticipated problems and possible sollutions:
a) They may not understand some words
Solution: teacher pins some key words to the main enlarged picture from the book, teacher explains difficult key words with some help of another students.
b) they may not understand ...