Appendix IV
LESSON 1
LESSON PLAN
Class
Primary 6
Time
50 min
Initial information
Date
15/10/2003
Title/Topic
Making a hotel reservation.
(An integrated skills lesson with a
focus on speaking activities)
AIMS
To help students develop speaking skills which they can use for communication.
To help them understand both the interactional and transactional uses of spoken language
To help them understand the differences between spoken and written language.
To help students integrate all language skills and use them appropriately.
OBJECTIVES
At the end of the lesson students will be able to:
relate what they already know about a situation to new knowledge
listen for general and specific information
use spoken language naturally and appropriately in order to solve a problem
transfer information acquired through one mode to another
Students’ Background: There are 16 students in this class. They are all aged 12. It is a
mixed ability class with some students attending afternoon classes and others who do not.
There are many who underachieve and look indifferent. Students are usually asked to
produce controlled language with the teacher focusing on the production of grammatically
correct sentences.
Anticipated problems: Students are not used to producing long utterances or take part in
situations where they have to take under consideration the listener’s feedback. They also
tend to use their mother tongue when working in groups or pairs.
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