Lesson plan 12-Unit 5-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,

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 :

activities The content of the lesson

4ms

8ms

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

education

2 Pre- Reading:

T- whole class Unit 5 HIGHER EDUCATION

Period 1: Section : Reading

10ms

- 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

need

- Call on Ss to give their answers

Work in pairs Give the answers

Repeat Copy down

individually Read in silence

Copy down I

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

2- e was very excited about

- 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

college was the best and most challenging of his life

Copy down

individually

Copy down

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 first year at college

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

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 : ……….