Assignment A - Lesson Plan Template
• Can students construct meaning from the provided reading text?
Lesson Type: Reading Lesson Aims:
• Increase student vocabulary
Upper- • To identify new vocabulary within context
Level of Class: intermediate (B2) Lesson Objectives: • To apply scanning/skimming skills to comprehend specific details
• To practice reading comprehension skills
• To practice fluency skills
Length of Lesson: 60 mins • Laptop
• Projector
• 18 Reading texts for students
18 Dutch
Materials • 18 x printed form of pictures
students (10 x
Number of Students: • 18 x vocab matching exercise
women, 8 x
• 18 x comprehension tasks
men)
• 18 x pen and paper
Use the standard reading comprehension lesson procedure.
Do NOT use jigsaw or jumbled paragraphs.
You must use the reading text provided.
If you need to, add more rows to the plan.
Inter-
Stage Aim Timing
action
Teacher Activity Student Activity
1. Warmer Introduce the topic and 1 T-C grps ✓ Greet students. Tell students to sit in 3 teams of 6. ✓ Students sit down in 3 teams
get students to predict them today we’re going to do a reading exercise. of 6 and listen to intro.
some of the content of the 1 ✓ Tell them we’re going to read an article by a ✓ Students receive reading text.
reading text. famous documentary maker. Show headline of article
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, on screen. Hand-out reading text to students.
3 T-C/grps ✓ Give instructions for group work. ✓ Working in groups of three
1. What is the article going to be about? (tables), students have 3 minutes
2. Describe how the documentary maker’s family to discuss the two questions.
history leads to her choice in career.
✓ Monitor as they work.
2 T-C/St-C ✓ Feedback on both questions. ✓ One student from each group
provides answers.
2. Introduce and To familiarize students 5 T-C/St-C ✓ Use pictures and context to elicit: ✓ Students suggest
practice with vocabulary they will award (noun) and reflect (verb) words/phrases. Students listen
vocabulary items read in the text. ✓ Use context to elicit/introduce: and repeat. Note down words in
from the text diplomat (noun) their vocabulary books.
column (noun)
(to) influence (noun and verb)
(to be) expected (adjective and verb)
protest (noun and adjective)
alternative(noun and adjective)
communities (noun)
enterprise (noun)
determined (adjective)
conventional (adjective)
✓ Drill items as they are introduced.
To practice/consolidate 1 T-C ✓ Hand out vocab matching activity and provide ✓ Students work in groups on
new items. instructions (4 minutes time limit) vocab matching.
4 grps ✓ Monitor. (Feedback on any problems if necessary.)
1 T-C
Assignment A - Lesson Plan Template
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• Can students construct meaning from the provided reading text?
Lesson Type: Reading Lesson Aims:
• Increase student vocabulary
Upper- • To identify new vocabulary within context
Level of Class: intermediate (B2) Lesson Objectives: • To apply scanning/skimming skills to comprehend specific details
• To practice reading comprehension skills
• To practice fluency skills
Length of Lesson: 60 mins • Laptop
• Projector
• 18 Reading texts for students
18 Dutch
Materials • 18 x printed form of pictures
students (10 x
Number of Students: • 18 x vocab matching exercise
women, 8 x
• 18 x comprehension tasks
men)
• 18 x pen and paper
Use the standard reading comprehension lesson procedure.
Do NOT use jigsaw or jumbled paragraphs.
You must use the reading text provided.
If you need to, add more rows to the plan.
Inter-
Stage Aim Timing
action
Teacher Activity Student Activity
1. Warmer Introduce the topic and 1 T-C grps ✓ Greet students. Tell students to sit in 3 teams of 6. ✓ Students sit down in 3 teams
get students to predict them today we’re going to do a reading exercise. of 6 and listen to intro.
some of the content of the 1 ✓ Tell them we’re going to read an article by a ✓ Students receive reading text.
reading text. famous documentary maker. Show headline of article
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, on screen. Hand-out reading text to students.
3 T-C/grps ✓ Give instructions for group work. ✓ Working in groups of three
1. What is the article going to be about? (tables), students have 3 minutes
2. Describe how the documentary maker’s family to discuss the two questions.
history leads to her choice in career.
✓ Monitor as they work.
2 T-C/St-C ✓ Feedback on both questions. ✓ One student from each group
provides answers.
2. Introduce and To familiarize students 5 T-C/St-C ✓ Use pictures and context to elicit: ✓ Students suggest
practice with vocabulary they will award (noun) and reflect (verb) words/phrases. Students listen
vocabulary items read in the text. ✓ Use context to elicit/introduce: and repeat. Note down words in
from the text diplomat (noun) their vocabulary books.
column (noun)
(to) influence (noun and verb)
(to be) expected (adjective and verb)
protest (noun and adjective)
alternative(noun and adjective)
communities (noun)
enterprise (noun)
determined (adjective)
conventional (adjective)
✓ Drill items as they are introduced.
To practice/consolidate 1 T-C ✓ Hand out vocab matching activity and provide ✓ Students work in groups on
new items. instructions (4 minutes time limit) vocab matching.
4 grps ✓ Monitor. (Feedback on any problems if necessary.)
1 T-C
Assignment A - Lesson Plan Template
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