Ниже предлагается анализ 4-х планов урока в виде ответов на шесть предложенных вопросов:
1.How would this lesson fit into a syllabus?
2.What level of English would a student need to use this?
3.What pre- and post-task activities could be used?
4.What computer skills would the students need?
5.What language skills is this lesson practising?
6.What anticipated problems can you think of when using this idea?
1. Lesson plan – An adventure
Level: Young learners
Theme: Going on an adventure
Focus: Reading
Aim: To compose a story about an adventure
To use past tenses to retell a story
1. Pre-task warmer
Explain to students that they are going on an adventure.
Elicit places they would like to visit, how they would like to get there and what they would take.
2. Group Story Telling
Do this as a whole class activity.
Go to www.cubeez.com and enter the site. Click on the third Cubee
(the orange one) to enter Big Book.
(the orange one) to enter Big Book.
Click on the golden book clasp to start. Start by entering in the class name and choosing one of the Cubeez to share the adventure with.
Go through the story, eliciting vocabulary at each stage. Elicit suggestions from the learners for each choice. Allow the learners to select what they want.
3. Individual story making
At individual computers direct students through the same process as above.
4. Student led writing
Once students have completed their story online, ask them to write sentences about their adventure.
Give sentence heads as necessary, for example:
• I went to the [jungle/seaside/park]
• I went by [train/ship/helicopter]
• I took [an umbrella/a cap/boots]
Analysis of the 1st Lesson Plan "An Adventure":
1. This lesson plan's compatibility with the school course depends on the choice of the grade in which this lesson would be put into action.
2. Pre-intermediate level
3. Possible pre-task activity:
Tell students about various famous fiction and non-fiction adventures.
Possible post-task activities:
Advice student to read one of the widely-recognized adventure stories.
Watch an adveture movie.
4. Basic IT skills:
web-surfing, searching and analysis of the information found on web
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6. Students will need close monitoring because of the possibilitiy of them surfing entertaining and not educational web-sites.
2. Lesson Plan – New wonders
Level: Intermediate, upper primary or secondary
Theme: Three of the new seven wonders of the world: Great Wall of China | Colosseum | Machu Pichu
Focus: Reading
Aim: To describe information about one of the 7 Wonders
1. Pre-task warmer
Write the names of the three wonders on the board and ask if the students have heard of them. Brainstorm as much information as possible: where they are, what they were for etc. Put their suggestions on the board in three columns.
Divide the class into pairs. Assign each pair one of the three wonders.
2. Research
Ask each group to research their topic using at least two of the sites below and to confirm or correct the information on the board. Tell them also to make brief notes on the main points they have missed and other interesting information they find so they can report to the rest of the class later. Set a time limit of 20 minutes.
Main research sites:
• Britannica – free encyclopaedia http://www.britannica.com/
• Encarta – free encyclopaedia http://encarta.msn.com/
•Wikipedia – user-generated encyclopaediahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
• Official New 7 Wonders site – http://www.new7wonders.com/
• Cambridge
Divide the class into new groups of 3 so each person in the group has looked at a different wonder. Give them 5 to 10 minutes to exchange information. Each group appoints a spokesperson who reports to the rest of the class on the main points of interest.
Analysis of the 2nd Lesson Plan "New Wonders":
1. This lesson plan's compatibility with the school course depends on the choice of the grade in which this lesson would be put into action.
2. Intermediate, upper primary or secondary
3. Pre-task activity:
Show to student the presentation about Seven New Wonders of the world, accompanied by pictures and videos.
Post-task activity:
Propose the Newest Wonder of the world.
4. Basic IT skills:
web-surfing, searching and analysis of the information found on web
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6. Lack of student's background knowledge.
3. Lesson plan – Superheroes
Level: Pre-intermediate, upper primary or lower secondary
Theme: Superheroes, personalities, abilities
Focus: Speaking
Aim: To use descriptive language to describe the attributes of a superhero.
1. Pre-task warmer
Brainstorm superheroes that the students know and write them on the board, e.g. Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman and get students to say something about their personalities (good, evil etc.) and abilities (Superman can see through walls etc).
2. Building a superhero
If possible demonstrate how to create a superhero using the website:
http://www.ugo.com/channels/comics/heroMachine2/heromachine2.asp
Ask students to work in pairs/threes and go to the website and make their own superhero on their own computers.
If you have access to a colour printer, the students can add colours to their superhero. If you don’t have colour printers, then print the superheroes out blank and the students can colour them in themselves.
3. Language focus
Ask students to write about their superhero using the following prompts:
• My superhero’s called _______________________.
• My superhero’s personality:
• My superhero’s appearance:
• My superhero wears…
• My superhero can…
• My superhero can’t…
• My superhero likes….
• My superhero doesn’t like…
Ask students to describe their superhero to different groups.
1. This lesson plan's compatibility with the school course depends on the choice of the grade in which this lesson would be put into action.
2. Intermediate, upper primary or lower secondary
3. Pre-task activity:
Tell students about the creation of superheroes: who were the first people to think of them, tell them about the existing comic books.
Post-task activity:
Write an essay "Superheroes/ heroes in the real life".
4. Basic IT skills
5. Speaking, writing
4.A lesson plan – Film reviews
Level: Intermediate, secondary
Theme: Films
Focus: Reading
Aim: For students to produce a short written review of a film
1. Ask learners to discuss which films they have seen recently.
Check what is currently being shown locally and ask learners which films,
if any, they would like to see. A few copies of local papers or
entertainment guides would be useful here.
Check what is currently being shown locally and ask learners which films,
if any, they would like to see. A few copies of local papers or
entertainment guides would be useful here.
Harry Potter films in about 150 to 200 words (or any other
recent release if they haven’t seen any of them).
Go to this site for the plot summary of the forth film Goblet of Fire.
(There are other reviews available through BBC
Newsround at http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/reviews/default.stm)
(There are other reviews available through BBC
Newsround at http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/reviews/default.stm)
1. Who directed the film?
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2. When was it released?
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3. What negatives does the reviewer mention?
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4. What is the Newsround rating?
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5. What sub-headings are used?
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6. Click on the link at the bottom Click here to say what you thought of it!
Are the readers’ reviews generally positive or negative?
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Analysis of the 4th Lesson Plan "Film Reviews":
1. This lesson plan's compatibility with the school course depends on the choice of the grade in which this lesson would be put into action.
2. Intermediate, secondary
3. Pre-task activity:
Show to students few trailers of up-coming movies and discuss with them their names, the starring actors, the targeted audience.
Post-task activity:
Look up the biorgaphy and the career path of one of the famous critics.
4. Basic IT skills
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