Teacher: Philip

Date: 10/09/15

Level:
intermediate

Context: General English

Observer:

Time: 9:00 -12:15

Room: 2

Number of students: 4

Class profile:

Students needs:

This is an intermediate class of 4 learners. The

students are from Switzerland and Italy and
Ecuador, and have lessons for fifteen hours
weekly In this course, they have been following
the Speak-out Intermediate-course-book.

The reasons for learning English are diverse.

Some want to learn English to enhance their
job prospects or to be able to communicate with
English and foreign people while others study it
for academic purposes.

Main aim: By the end of the lesson, learners will understand and be able to distinguish between
the past simple and present perfect
Subsidiary aims:
We will read a text and talk about whether Hollywood films use fact or fiction with a focus on time
markers and prepositions
Personal aim:
To reduce teacher talking time and encourage students to speak and express their own ideas.
Encourage students confidence and enable them to express their ideas as best they can.
Assumptions

Timetable fit
Vocabulary introduction and reading comprehension will
Some students will have had take time and there may be some difficulties for students
experience with the present perfect understanding some phrases.
while others may not have.
Anticipated problems

Solutions

Some vocabulary will be new to the

students and may have difficulty
understanding concepts

The teacher will use pictures, examples and board work

to help the students better understand some of the new
vocabulary.

Resources/teaching aids
Speak out intermediate book UNIT 2.1 and board work

Timing

Stage

5-10 mins

Warmer

15 mins

Teaching
Vocabulary

20 mins

Listening

30 mins

Grammar

10 mins

Speaking

Speaking

Stage aim
Build rapport with the
class and engage the
learners
Lexical set of
language introduced
in context.
Extract specific
information from
listening
Understanding the
present perfect tense
Students are given
the chance to
practise the new
language
Students are given
the chance to
practise the new
language

Procedure

Interaction

Speaking:
talk
historical films

about T-SS
S-S
S-S-S
Introduce new vocabulary T-S
using pictures to help with S-S-T
comprehension
Students listen to a T-S
programme about films
S-T
S
Grammar explanation and S-S
questions to practise the
tense
Get students to speak
S-S S
about films and have a
S-T
class discussion
T-S
Have you ever.....

S-S S
S-T
T-S

Lexis:
single words,
collocations,
expressions and
idioms.

Pronunciation
considerations:
Transcriptions, stress
and intonation.

Concept check questions,

examples and explanations.

Is a full movie a scene?

Scene

Scene
Is a short part of a movie ina particular
place a scene?

_____

Biopic

Is a biopic a movie about robots?

Bi o pic
__ __ __
Is a scince fiction movie about cowboys?

Science Fiction

Science Fic tion

____ __ __

Fantasy

Is a fantasy movie about real events or

factual events?

Fan ta sy
____ ____ ___