Lesson Plan 5 - Exam Teaching

Date: 2015-05-15
School: EKTF
Teacher: Simon Jnos
Class: 10th grade advanced class
Level: B2
Age: 15-16
Topic: Holidays and festivals
Aims: refreshing knowledge about the topic, building vocabulary, improving reading, speaking, and listening skills.
Assumed knowledge: the majority of the students have already passed an intermediate language exam B1 level.
Anticipated problems: students fail to remember known information about the topic teacher describes & explains.
Technical problems all digital materials are available in a written form. We might run out of time The cooling exercise
can be left out if neccessary.
Aids: exercise book, vocabulary, workbook, handouts, tech. (lap-top, loudspeakers, PowerPoint presentation), whiteboard,
and board pens.

Stage

Activity

Aim

Holiday types

Primary: engaging the

students
Secondary: refreshing
knowledge

Presentation

New Words

building vocabulary

Practice

Holidays Text
True or False

Primary: improving
reading skills
Secondary: practicing
new lexical items

Warm-up

Practice

Holiday Text
Loose fit

Primary: practicing new

lexical items
Secondary: improving
students thinking process

Time

Interaction

Aids

Procedure

The students
place the items
one by one

tech.,
The names of holidays are shown jumbled up, with
5
exercise book four holiday categories on the bottom of the picture.
min.
The teacher asks the students one-by-one to place the
given item into the right category.
(ppt. slide #1-2)
The teacher
tech.,
The teacher either shows a picture about the meaning
10
presents the
vocabulary, of the next new lexical item or acts out what it means.
min. new words, the anything else The students hear the new word, then they are asked
students guess
in the
if they know what it means in Hungarian (based on
the Hungarian
classroom
the teachers clues). After that, the written word is
meaning
shown with its Hungarian meaning and the students
have to write it down in their vocabulary. The same
goes for each of the 22 new lexical items.
(ppt. slides #3 19)
Students are asked to read the text and complete the
exercises, both given to them in the handouts.
7
Individual
tech.,
Individual work until most of them are ready or up to
min.
work
handout,
five minutes. The teacher asks each student to answer
(while-reading) exercise book whether the given statement of the task is true or false.
(ppt. slides #20-21; handout p. 1-2)

3
min.

Post-reading
exercise

tech.

The teacher showes four lines of word and the

students have to figure out which word stands out in
each line and why. (ppt. slide #22)
veil, train, buttonniere, bouque
ham, stuffed cabbage, fish soup, nut rolls
registry office, shopping centre, church
reception, brides dance, midnight service

Practice

Top 5 Biggest
Music Festivals

Practice

Festivals Text
Fill the gap

Practice

Cool-down

Primary: improving
listening skills
Secondary: widening
students knowledge
about the world
Primary: practicing new
lexical items
Secondary: improving
grammar structure
recognition

Festival Text
Conversation

Primary: improving
speaking skills

Festivals
around the
world

Primary: making students

relay
Secondary: widening
students knowledge
about the world

10
min.

5
min.
3
min.

2
min.

While-listening
exercise,
individual
work
Reading
exercise (whilereading task),
individual
work
Conversation
(after-reading)
with some
students

Watching a
video, whilewatching task

tech (video),
handout

workbook

tech.,
exercise book

The students are asked to complete the exercise given

in their handouts while listening to / watching a video.
First, they have one minute to familiarize with the
questions, then the whole video is played. Then the
video is played again, but this time, it is divided into
five parts. The students have one more minute to
complete the task, after which the teacher asks the
students one-by-one to give an answer.
The students are asked to complete task B in their
workbook (page 60). They have a few minutes for that
and the teacher checks the answers with them by
asking each student to read one sentence from the task
aloud.
The teacher asks some of the following question about
the previous text and employs follow-up questions
regarding the topic.
Are the residents of the town excited about the
festival? Why? Do you like it when there is a
festival in your town?
What will they do with the proceeds? Have you
ever given anything to charity?
What is the writers favourite part about the festival?
What do you like the most in festivals?
What contest is the auther planning on entering?
Do you like to lip-sync? Do you prefer karaoke?
Are there two similar costumes in the parade? Do
you like to dress up in a costume?
An instrumental video is played about some festivals
around the world. The students are asked to write
down two things that people do at each festival shown
in the video.

Homework

Holidays and
festivals

Primary: refreshing
knowledge
Secondary: improving
unsupervised learning
skills

~20
min.

Interent usage

Internet or
books

~5
min.

4-way choice
exercise

handout,
lesson
material

Festivals featured: Brasil Carnival, Chinese New Year,

Indian Holi and Diwali, Mexican Day of the Dead
The teacher asks the students to find the exact date of
each holiday from the lessons warm-up task.
The handout includes a four-way choice homework
task within the lessons topics.

Handouts:
Read the following text and decide if the statements following the text are either true or false.

Holidays (part 1)
Many countries around the world share certain holidays, such as New Years Day, Easter and Christmas, but not every
country celebrates them in the same way or even on the same day.
We celebrate birthdays, namedays, wedding anniversaries, March 15, Easter, Mothers Day, August 20, October 23,
Christmas and New Years Day.
In Hungary most people get married on a Saturday afternoon. All couples have to get married in a registry office, and those
who are religious have a church wedding, too. In the registry office the couple and their two witnesses sign the register. The bride
wears a long white wedding dress with a veil and a train, and the bridegroom an elegant dark suit with a white shirt and a tie. The
bride holds a bouquet, and the bridegroom has a buttonniere. After the ceremony there is a reception in a restaurant. In villages the
reception is often in a big tent. At the reception several kinds of dishes are served and the new couple cuts the wedding cake. At
midnight the couple change their clothes and the so-called brides dance starts. All the guests dance with the bride and give some
money to the couple to contribute to their new life together.

Namedays arent celebrated in English-speaking countries. In Hungary namedays are almost as important as birthdays and
are celebrated in all families.
At Christmas we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. Christmas is a holiday with a lot of traditions. The most important day is
Christmas Eve, December 24, when the family comes together for Christmas dinner. The traditional dishes are fish soup, stuffed
cabbage and poppy seed and nut rolls. The Christmas tree is decorated before dinner with sweets, brightly coloured lights and
glass ornaments, and Christmas presents are placed under it. At midnight lots of families go to church for the midnight service. On
Christmas Day and Boxing Day relatives visit each other and have lunch together.

True or False?
1. People in Hungary get married only on Saturdays.

T/F

2. Religious people only have church weddings.

T/F

3. The bride and the bridegroom usually wear clothes of contrasting colours.

T/F

4. The reception is in a tent sometimes.

T/F

5. Guests contribute to the couples new life in the form of gifts in order to
dance with the bride after midnight.

T/F

6. Namedays are celebrated all around the world.

T/F

7. Most people spend Christmas Eve with their friends.

T/F

8. Poppy seed and nut rolls are traditional Christmas dishes.

T/F

9. Glass ornaments are placed under the Christmas tree.

T/F

10. Most people have lunch with their relatives on Boxing Day.

T/F

Top 5 Biggest Music Festivals

You are about to see a YouTube video about the five most popular music festivals. The video will be plyed to times: once
in it full length and another time divided into five parts. Mark the correct answer for each question!
1. Which festival is held in America?
O Exit O Tomorrowland O Coachella
Island Festival)
2. Which Festival is held in Belgium?

O Summerfest

O Dunauinselfest

O Exit

O Summerfest

O Dunauinselfest

O Tomorrowland

O Coachella

3. Which Festival has an opening fireworks act?

O Exit

O Tomorrowland

O Coachella

O Summerfest

O Dunauinselfest

4. Which festival started as a student movement?

O Exit

O Tomorrowland

O Coachella

O Summerfest

O Dunauinselfest

5. Which festivals big theme is social responsibility?

O Exit

O Tomorrowland

O Coachella

O Summerfest

O Dunauinselfest

6. What makes the three days long Coachella a five day party?
O Giant tents

O Camp grounds

O Opening fireworks show

O Art showcases

(Danube

7. Which festival names pronounciation is the youtuber not sure of?

O Exit

O Tomorrowland

O Coachella

O Summerfest

O Dunauinselfest

O Summerfest

O Dunauinselfest

O Summerfest

O Dunauinselfest

8. Which festival has spin-offs in Brasil?

O Exit

O Tomorrowland

O Coachella

9. Which festival requires police presence?

O Exit

O Tomorrowland

O Coachella

10. Which festival has over 2000 acts to chose from?

O Exit

O Tomorrowland

O Coachella

O Summerfest

O Dunauinselfest

11. What do they call the first day of Summerfest?

O Explosion Day

O The Big Bumm

O The Big Bang

O Explo-Day

Mark the correct word missing from the lines.

1. The wedding __________ started at 8 p.m. and lasted for eight hours straight.
O party

O ball

O reception

O parade

2. My sister won the most recent beauty __________.

O pageant

O parade

O show

O carnival

3. The __________ wore a stunningly beautiful buttonneire made of blue flowers.

O bride

O bridesgroom

O bridesmaid

O brides mother

4. Official weddings take place in a __________ office.

O post

O registry

O church

O lawyers

5. Last years local music __________ was longer than ever: it lasted for five days.
O parade

O paegant

O show

O festival

6. __________ people usually get married in a church too.

O Rich

O Working class

O Lazy

O Religious

7. Namedays are not __________ everywhere.

O partied

O celebrated

O gone

O paraded

8. __________ seed and nut rolls are traditional Christmas dishes.

O Pumpkin

O Strawberry

O Poppy

O Sweetcorn

PowerPoint Presentation: