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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. 58