XXXXXXXXXX 01/02/ 2025 Pre-intermediate (A2) 60 Minutes
Lesson Type:
Vocabulary Lesson
Lesson Topic:
At the Restaurant
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…
To identify and understand 10 unfamiliar words"Target vocabulary:
1. Restaurant By the end of the lesson, students will have recognised, practiced
2. Menu and produced the ten new English nouns they have learnt by
3. Waiter means of numerous classroom/worksheet activities and through
4. Waitress conversation amongst each other in group activities
5. Dish
6. Main course
7. Dessert
8. Drink
9. Bill
10. Tip
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,Anticipated difficulties: Suggested solutions:
Include one relating to L1/age/level of the students and one for the 10 words
(meaning, form, or pronunciation). 1. As for the vocabulary words that are not related to the /r/ sound,
students may still struggle with understanding and remembering them.
1. To help the students with their pronunciation, the teacher can provide Suggested solutions: To help students remember the target
them with practice drills specifically targeting the /r/ sound. This can vocabulary, the teacher will incorporate multiple activities throughout
include tongue twisters, reading aloud exercises, and sentence the lesson that are designed to reinforce the words in a variety of ways.
For instance, the teacher will show pictures of the restaurant items,
repetition activities. Additionally, the teacher can model correct
have students practice spelling out the words, and incorporate group
pronunciation and provide individual feedback to each student. It is activities where students can use the words in full sentences. To ensure
also important to reassure the students that making mistakes is a understanding, the teacher will also ask students to explain the
normal part of language learning and encourage them to keep meaning of each word in their own words.
practicing.
2. They will form 3 groups of 5 children each. 2. Using group work activities instead of pair work, students will be split
3. The students have short attention spans because they are still young into five groups of three or into six groups of two and one group of
three to ensure all students are given equal opportunities to
(11-12). The teacher needs to have fun and varied activities to keep
participate. This will ensure that the students all feel comfortable
their attention, and the lesson cannot be longer than 60 minutes. and part of activity in similar group sizes
3. The teacher will ensure the learners are active andinvested in
the lesson by including lots of different materials and activities.
The lesson will be fast-paced, fun, organised and interactive. The
teacher will include group activities, games and make the young
students actively participate in the full lenght of the lesson (60
minutes).
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, Language analysis:
Language Item Meaning of the item How you will present Concept Checking Questions Grammatical form Pronunciation
meaning Use the IPA translator
if needed
Example: Example: Example: Example: Example: Example:
huge very big, enormous using a picture of a mouse What’s the opposite of Strong adjective / hjuːdʒ/
and an elephant to show huge? Name a huge
large size mountain.
1. Restaurant A place where you sit I will show pictures of Do people eat food there? Noun /ˈrɛst(ə)rɒnt/
down and eat & drinks different restaurants. Yes
with friends and family (One of China and one of
South Africa)
2. Menu This is n list or book "Show a picture of the Do you order food from it? Noun / menju /
with all the food and different menus you Yes.
drinks the restaurant receive."
have available that you
can order
3. Waiter Is a male serves you at Show them n mal waiter Is he serving food? Noun / ‘weIte/
the restaurants, that is at a restaurant in their Yes.
their job to take your work clothes
order and give it to the
kitchen people
4. Waitress It is the female that Use a picture of a female Is she a woman serving Noun / ‘weItrIs/
serves you at the waitress food?
restaurant, that is their Yes.
job to take your order.
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