Raisa's+Lesson+Ideas

by [|Raisa Istomina] - Tuesday, 11 October 2011, 03:40 AM ||
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 * || Lesson plan -- "Escape Artists"

Level: advanced Theme: Travelling Focus: reading, speaking Aim: To describe a proper place

1. Pre-task warmer Brainstorm exotic places the students have visited. If none, they'd like to visit. Why? What's special about the place? (Teacher puts the ideas on the b/b.)

Divide the class into halves (5-6 students in each), distribute roles:secretary, timekeeper, ... 2. Research Each group gets the name of the place to visit, but they keep it in secret. They have time-limit (15 mins) for reading the info about the place. Main research site: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page 3. Post-task activity The groups present the info about the place in the format they prefer: acting, making a dialogue. The main idea of the activity is to describe the place not giving its name. The task of another group is to guess the name. While presenting students use active vocabulary.

( Edited by [|Liudmyla Klymenko] - original submission Sunday, 9 October 2011, 09:46 PM ) [|Show parent] | [|Reply] || by [|Liudmyla Klymenko] - Tuesday, 11 October 2011, 03:44 AM || could you comment on your choice of the student proficiency level? Is there any opportunity to use the lesson plan for lower levels? In this case, what changes would you make to the lesson, if any? [|Show parent] | [|Reply] || by [|Raisa Istomina] - Wednesday, 12 October 2011, 09:29 PM || Thanks for your comment. I teach senior university students, it's why I designed that plan. as for changes, it's possible. I think that the procedure can be the same but topics and information for them relevant to secondary school students. I think the topics like "Animals: wild and domestic", "Fruit and vegetables", etc. can be more appropriate. A pre-stage task: - matching pictures with names of ...., - sorting out them according categories,
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 * || Dear Raisa,
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 * || Lyuda,

As for presentation: students should follow some models/patterns to practise vocabulary and grammar structures.

[|Show parent] | [|Reply] || by [|Tetyana Yarmysh] - Saturday, 15 October 2011, 03:44 PM || I would like to ask you some questions about you lesson plan as topic Travelling is the one I always try to think of something new on. Warm up. Do you think it would be better to brainstorm exotic places within the limit of not more than three countries or one continent? Research. Are the names of the places for research taken from the list made during the brainstorming or they have been planned by you before? If the second and they have not been mentioned by the students, don't you think it would be a challenge to guess their names in the post-task activity? [|Show parent] | [|Reply] || by [|Raisa Istomina] - Saturday, 15 October 2011, 05:20 PM || Thanks for these questions. When brainstorming, the focus is not only on the names of the places but also on commom features. My question: "Why would they like to visit it?" - helps them to concentrate on smth specific, unusual. Choosing one continent for brainstormimg can be reasonable.
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 * || Dear Raisa,
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 * || Dear Tetyana,

As for this point in my lesson plan, I choose two places in advance, read the information, evaluate how relevant it is to the level, topic. And it helps me to set right time-limit. I pay much attention to this "ingredient" of Classroom Management.

Is it easy or not to guess the name of the place? It depends on the quality of presentation. Sometime very easy, more often not easy. at first the students present general info about the place, then they describe a famous place of interest. ||