Conversation Lesson - Holidays

Class Level: Intermediate              

Lesson type and subject: Speaking and Role-plays- holidays.
Materials: Travel magazines, price list, hand-outs, quiz.
Lesson objective: Students learn new vocabulary and phrases and can converse on subjects to do with holidays and travelling.

Basic Tenses

Date 16/03/2012           Class Level: Intermediate             

Lesson type and subject: Introduction to tenses- Conjugating verbs for present simple/present continuous and past simple/past continuous tenses.
Materials: Timeline, worksheet, handout, picture flashcards, board game, overhead projector. Realia- ball, board rubber, pen. 
Lesson objective: Students are able to conjugate verbs efficiently and recognise the difference between the tenses that are created.

Listening Skills - Weather

Class Level: Beginner                         Length of Lesson:  1hour

This listening exercise will use a short recording that is one-minute and thirty seconds in length of a weather report. The material has been edited for beginner level and includes several different kinds of weather for each day of the week.

Lesson type and subject: Listening
Materials: Recording, (there are many free materials on the internet, here is one example http://www.englishclub.com/speaking/weather-report.htm weather power-point presentation, overhead projector, sentence strips, aural cloze worksheet. 
Lesson objective: To learn new vocabulary and understand conversations to do with weather.
Assumptions: Students will understand how to include new vocabulary within previously understood sentence structures.
Anticipated problems and solutions:
1. Students may struggle identifying new vocabulary within the context of the recording.
2. Listen several times to the recorded material and include at least two different activities in the practice stage.
1. When giving information back to the class, students may struggle with the pronunciation of freshly learnt vocabulary.
2. Make sure to listen for mistakes and give the correct sound wherever needed except for the production stage (take notes).

Adjective Forms - Comparative Writing

Class Level: High Beginner                Length of Lesson: 1 hour

Lesson type and subject: Grammar point with guided writing- Writing comparative sentences.
Materials: Realia - ball, apple, cup, pencil, book, water (non-count noun). 2 dice (see below for template). Strip essay. (Design your own using correct adjective forms). 
Lesson objective: Students can describe and write about the differences between two or more objects using comparative and superlative adjectives.
Assumptions: Students have a good enough vocabulary to use in the tasks. Basic awareness of count/non-count nouns. Basic understanding of articles. Knowledge of sentence structures.
Anticipated problems and solutions:
1. Knowing when to add “er” or “more” to a comparative adjective.
2. During presentation, quickly talk about the general rules for adding “er” and “more.”
1. Knowing when to add “est” or “most” to a superlative adjective.
2. During presentation, quickly talk about the general rules for adding “est” and “most.”