Your name: Date of submission:
Jemma Dyson 27 June 2024
Analyse the information in the class summary. What are your learners’ strengths and weaknesses?
My students’ main areas of weakness are listening, writing and speaking skills respectively. These skills held the lowest
band scores for 2 learners each, whilst the reading skill was the strongest skill for all my students.
Which two skills have you chosen to teach in this lesson? Why?
For this lesson I have chosen to cover the skills of Listening and Writing. There were three pillars that needed attention,
namely listening, reading and speaking, but since I could only choose 2 to focus on in this lesson due to time constraints. I
chose the 2 skills that had the lowest band scores overall, excluding speaking, because the lowest score for this band was
5.5, but Listening and Writing both had the lowest band score of 5.0.
I have also chosen these skills to allow the learners to practice a receptive and a productive skill in this lesson.
I have chosen part 3 of the listening test as it is a conversation and practicing listening in this context will be beneficial to
my students in their everyday life and vital in getting a good band score in their IELTS exam.
I have decided to have students complete writing task 1 as it is the less time-consuming task and writing task 2 is more
appropriate for a stand-alone lesson, or as a homework task.
Which lesson topic have you chosen? Why? (minimum 100 words)
I have chosen the topic of health and fitness as it is relevant to all my learners, either in their field of work (such as Ana
who wants to become a nurse) or study, as well as in their daily life as it is important for everyone to have some form of
physical activity and maintain their health. The topic of health and fitness also overlaps with other topics such as hobbies
as some people enjoy playing sports in their free time, or even just watching sport on TV- covering this topic will provide
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, students with a bit more vocabulary and understanding on these themes which they can use in the IELTS exam.
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…
Work out the meaning of unknown words in the Practiced deducing the meaning of unknown words
IELTS academic listening exam. from the context of the listening piece.
Show their understanding of a listening piece by Improved their listening skills and broadened their
extracting information to correctly answer questions understanding on the topic.
about the text. Practice interpreting the information on a visual aid,
Show their understanding of and ability to convey the talking about it and drawing conclusions from the
information given on a graph. information.
Anticipated difficulties: Suggested solutions:
Students are all different ages with different Use topics that will appeal to and benefit at least the
motivations to take IELTS classes. majority of my students if not all of them.
None of the students have the same L1, so their I will take advantage of the fact that the class is
lingua franca is English. Therefore, I can’t use broad relatively small and use this to my advantage to
correction for all the students as it will need to be provide individual help to each of my students to help
catered to each student’s L1. them in the ways they need.
Some of the tasks in the IELTS exam will seem I will use a variety of topics and activities that will
irrelevant to some of my students, for example appeal to my students to combat any lack of interest.
listening to a lecture may seem like a waste of time to
a student who is looking for a job because they will
never have to sit in a classroom again.
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Jemma Dyson 27 June 2024
Analyse the information in the class summary. What are your learners’ strengths and weaknesses?
My students’ main areas of weakness are listening, writing and speaking skills respectively. These skills held the lowest
band scores for 2 learners each, whilst the reading skill was the strongest skill for all my students.
Which two skills have you chosen to teach in this lesson? Why?
For this lesson I have chosen to cover the skills of Listening and Writing. There were three pillars that needed attention,
namely listening, reading and speaking, but since I could only choose 2 to focus on in this lesson due to time constraints. I
chose the 2 skills that had the lowest band scores overall, excluding speaking, because the lowest score for this band was
5.5, but Listening and Writing both had the lowest band score of 5.0.
I have also chosen these skills to allow the learners to practice a receptive and a productive skill in this lesson.
I have chosen part 3 of the listening test as it is a conversation and practicing listening in this context will be beneficial to
my students in their everyday life and vital in getting a good band score in their IELTS exam.
I have decided to have students complete writing task 1 as it is the less time-consuming task and writing task 2 is more
appropriate for a stand-alone lesson, or as a homework task.
Which lesson topic have you chosen? Why? (minimum 100 words)
I have chosen the topic of health and fitness as it is relevant to all my learners, either in their field of work (such as Ana
who wants to become a nurse) or study, as well as in their daily life as it is important for everyone to have some form of
physical activity and maintain their health. The topic of health and fitness also overlaps with other topics such as hobbies
as some people enjoy playing sports in their free time, or even just watching sport on TV- covering this topic will provide
pg. 1 Lesson Plan 150823
, students with a bit more vocabulary and understanding on these themes which they can use in the IELTS exam.
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…
Work out the meaning of unknown words in the Practiced deducing the meaning of unknown words
IELTS academic listening exam. from the context of the listening piece.
Show their understanding of a listening piece by Improved their listening skills and broadened their
extracting information to correctly answer questions understanding on the topic.
about the text. Practice interpreting the information on a visual aid,
Show their understanding of and ability to convey the talking about it and drawing conclusions from the
information given on a graph. information.
Anticipated difficulties: Suggested solutions:
Students are all different ages with different Use topics that will appeal to and benefit at least the
motivations to take IELTS classes. majority of my students if not all of them.
None of the students have the same L1, so their I will take advantage of the fact that the class is
lingua franca is English. Therefore, I can’t use broad relatively small and use this to my advantage to
correction for all the students as it will need to be provide individual help to each of my students to help
catered to each student’s L1. them in the ways they need.
Some of the tasks in the IELTS exam will seem I will use a variety of topics and activities that will
irrelevant to some of my students, for example appeal to my students to combat any lack of interest.
listening to a lecture may seem like a waste of time to
a student who is looking for a job because they will
never have to sit in a classroom again.
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