Name of the Teacher Date Level of the class Length of lesson
Bianca Barnard 08/01/2021 Upper-Intermediate 1 Hour
Lesson Type:
Four skills- Reading
Lesson Topic:
1969 Moon landing history
Lesson Aims: Lesson Outcomes:
By the end of the lesson, students will be better able to… By the end of the lesson, students will have…
Read for specific information and to understand what they are Read about and discuss the topic.
reading. They will also be able to do different reading techniques Learn new vocabulary
like ‘reading for gist and scan reading and predicting’ Look up the meaning of words they don’t understand.
Answering question about the text.
Anticipated difficulties: Suggested solutions:
1. All the students first language is Spanish, so they might 1. I will make a rule that only English is aloud to be spoken at
want to talk in Spanish during the class. all times.
2. Pronunciation of difficult words. Students may not fully 2. If a student doesn’t understand a word, I will let them
understand the meaning of the article due to poor word highlight the word. Then allow them to look it up in the
recognition, especially with more complex words and dictionary and write down the definition so that they
phrases. remember it.
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, 3. Reading isn’t fun for everyone, and the students can lose 3. Create activities to make it a fun learning experience. These
motivation. activities will get the students more engaged in the lesson.
Authentic Text (insert reading text here or link to the listening recording)
1969 Moon Landing history
On July 20, 1969, American astronauts Neil Armstrong (1930-2012) and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin (1930-)
became the first humans ever to land on the moon. About six-and-a-half hours later, Armstrong
became the first person to walk on the moon. As he took his first step, Armstrong famously said,
"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." The Apollo 11 mission occurred eight
years after President John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) announced a national goal of landing a man on
the moon by the end of the 1960s. Apollo 17, the final manned moon mission, took place in 1972.
The American effort to send astronauts to the moon had its origins in an appeal President Kennedy
made to a special joint session of Congress on May 25, 1961: "I believe this nation should commit
itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning
him safely to Earth."
At the time, the United States was still trailing the Soviet Union in space developments, and Cold
War -era America welcomed Kennedy's bold proposal. In 1966, after five years of work by an
international team of scientists and engineers, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
(NASA) conducted the first unmanned Apollo mission , testing the structural integrity of the proposed
launch vehicle and spacecraft combination.
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Bianca Barnard 08/01/2021 Upper-Intermediate 1 Hour
Lesson Type:
Four skills- Reading
Lesson Topic:
1969 Moon landing history
Lesson Aims: Lesson Outcomes:
By the end of the lesson, students will be better able to… By the end of the lesson, students will have…
Read for specific information and to understand what they are Read about and discuss the topic.
reading. They will also be able to do different reading techniques Learn new vocabulary
like ‘reading for gist and scan reading and predicting’ Look up the meaning of words they don’t understand.
Answering question about the text.
Anticipated difficulties: Suggested solutions:
1. All the students first language is Spanish, so they might 1. I will make a rule that only English is aloud to be spoken at
want to talk in Spanish during the class. all times.
2. Pronunciation of difficult words. Students may not fully 2. If a student doesn’t understand a word, I will let them
understand the meaning of the article due to poor word highlight the word. Then allow them to look it up in the
recognition, especially with more complex words and dictionary and write down the definition so that they
phrases. remember it.
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, 3. Reading isn’t fun for everyone, and the students can lose 3. Create activities to make it a fun learning experience. These
motivation. activities will get the students more engaged in the lesson.
Authentic Text (insert reading text here or link to the listening recording)
1969 Moon Landing history
On July 20, 1969, American astronauts Neil Armstrong (1930-2012) and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin (1930-)
became the first humans ever to land on the moon. About six-and-a-half hours later, Armstrong
became the first person to walk on the moon. As he took his first step, Armstrong famously said,
"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." The Apollo 11 mission occurred eight
years after President John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) announced a national goal of landing a man on
the moon by the end of the 1960s. Apollo 17, the final manned moon mission, took place in 1972.
The American effort to send astronauts to the moon had its origins in an appeal President Kennedy
made to a special joint session of Congress on May 25, 1961: "I believe this nation should commit
itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning
him safely to Earth."
At the time, the United States was still trailing the Soviet Union in space developments, and Cold
War -era America welcomed Kennedy's bold proposal. In 1966, after five years of work by an
international team of scientists and engineers, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
(NASA) conducted the first unmanned Apollo mission , testing the structural integrity of the proposed
launch vehicle and spacecraft combination.
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