LESSON PLAN

TEACHER: Tanase Anca

DATE: the 8th of May 2014

SCHOOL: LICEUL TEHNOLOGIC DE TRANSPORTURI PLOIESTI

CLASS: XI A

LEVEL: advanced

TEXTBOOK: CAE Gold Plus

TOPIC: Language and communication

LESSON TITLE: Family Ties. The Generation Gap

TIME: 50 minutes

FUNDAMENTAL INSTRUCTIONAL AIMS

-to provide oral practice and to encourage conversation based on an

assigned topic;

-to encourage the students to look for information and bring their own
arguments to support their answers;

-to stimulate conversation, to create interest in the topic and to initiate

discussion;

-to give the students a chance to practise their listening, speaking and
writing skills;

-to enrich vocabulary.

OPERATIONAL AIMS

- to get students talking about the generation gap;

- to give practice in reading techniques;

- to give practice in listening for attitude and opinion;

- to give practice in making suggestions and agreeing and disagreeing in

spoken English;

TYPES OF INTERACTION: T Ss; S S (pair work);

MATERIALS

-blackboard;

-notebooks;

- video- projector;

- textbook;

- CD.

ANTICIPATED PROBLEMS:

- Some students may not understand the text while listening and they may
need the tape script in order to do the task;
- Some students may be reluctant to speak and express their own points of
view.
 PROCEDURE
No. Stages of the Activities Timing
lesson
1. Warm -up Calling the role. 5
Organizing the class.
Checking the homework.

2. Presentation The students are asked to watch a movie in 5

order to predict the topic of the new lesson
The generation gap.

3. Productive stage The students work in pairs and discuss about 10

things parents and teenagers have arguments
about. They make a list and then classify the
issues.( exercise 1, page 68 )

4. Reading - The students are asked to read the article 10

quickly and find the points on their list
which are mentioned.
- The students are asked to read the article
more carefully and answer the questions 1-9.
( exercise 2, page 68 )
- The teacher checks the answers after the
students have checked them in pairs.
5. Listening - The students are asked to listen to two 10
extracts from a radio programme about
family life and choose the answer which fits
best to what they hear. ( exercise 1, page 69)
- The teacher checks their answers.
6. Follow - up - The students are asked to work in groups 5
and draw up a set of rules for making family
life run more smoothly. (exercise 2, page 69)
- The teacher plays a video about generation
gap in order to make students reflect more
on the attitude to their parents and
grandparents.

7. Homework and The teacher appreciates the students' 5

assessment performance and asks them to write as
homework the following:
Comment on: First we are children to our
parents, then parents to our children, then
parents to our parents, then children to our
children. Write a reflexive essay in about
200 words.