Unit Plan: Teen Life

Authors
Name(s): Elif Genç
İlayda Demirden
Hüseyin Demircan
Yağmur Demir
Unit Content
Course
English
Unit Title
Unit 2: Teen Life
Grade Level [ASSURE (Analyze Learners)]
8th Grade
Time
6 Lesson Hours
Prerequisites [ASSURE (Analyze Learners)]
Students are to have A2 level listening and speaking skills, and at least A1 level writing and grammar skills on
the CEFR scale of language ability.
A2 listening and speaking skills include basic levels of communication skills and the vocabulary about daily
activities.
A1 level writing and grammar skills include basic understanding and writing of everyday-life related simple
texts such as postcards, short stories, simple comics, short letters, etc.
Sequence of the Content
Daily Routines and Preferences
Regular Activities
Preferences and Opinions
Subjective Opinions, Simple Inquiries and Adverbs of Frequency
Likes and Dislikes
Unit Plan
Month
Week Learning Outcome
Hour
Unit
After attending two hours of the
lesson and joining in-class
activities, the students will:
1. indentify the meanings and
pronunciations of the Teen Life
unit vocabulary that are given in
the coursebook.
1. Week
2. understand phrases and
2
expressions about regular
activities of teenagers.
3. briefly and simply express
themselves orally about their
opinions and preferences about
NOVEMBER
something.
Teen Life
After attending two hours of the
lesson, joining in-class activities,
and doing the assigned
homework, the students will:
1. understand short and simple
texts about regular activities of
2. Week
teenagers.
2
2. identify and talk about the daily
routines and regular activities of
teenagers.
3. distinguish simple adverbs of
frequency.
4. orally express what they prefer,
like and dislike.
Activities
 Coursebook activities:
- Listening
- Matching meanings with words
- Matching pictures with words
- Dialogue forming
-Writing
-Vocabulary repetition drills
 Opinions Dialogue Video
 Prezi Vocabulary Game
 bubbl.us Concept Map: Useful
Language
 Coursebook activities:
- Reading comprehension
- Listening
- Note-taking
- True/False
- Writing
- Dialogue forming and acting-out
- Questions and Answers
(Speaking)
 Find someone who…
Explanations
Measurement & Evaluation
(If any)
 Teacher observation  Opinions Dialogue Video:
Students come up to the board as
pairs to act out different
dialogues in the video.
Pronunciation is to be corrected
by the teacher when necessary.
 Prezi Vocabulary Game: Students
will divide into 2 or 3 groups and
will try to guess the words by
looking at the pictures. The group
that guesses the most words
correctly wins and gets
motivational stickers. Vocabulary
only includes the words and
phrases that are taught in this
lesson.
 Teacher observation  Concept Map: Students will try to
 Homework from Workbook form full sentences using the
pg. 13-16 phrases in the map.
 Find someone who… : Students
are given flashcards. They walk
around the classroom for a
predetermined amount of time
to find one classmate that likes
and one classmate that dislikes
the action or object that is on the
flashcard. When the time is up
students express who likes and
who dislikes the flashcard’s
content in full sentences.
Unit Plan

Explanations
Month

Week Learning Outcome Activities Measurement & Evaluation

(If any)
Hour

Unit
After attending two hours of the
lesson and joining in-class
activities, the students will:
1. write a short and simple
NOVEMBER
 Coursebook activities:  Teacher observation  Storytelling: Students will be
- Writing  Writing activity evaluation handed out comic strips
- Peer Correcting  Kahoot! depicting fun daily routines and
 Storytelling will be expected to form a simple

paragraph about regular activities  Visual Unit Review: Infographic story about the characters’ daily
Teen Life
3. Week

of teenagers.  Kahoot! routines orally.

2

2. write a short paragraph about

their daily routines and their likes,
dislikes and preferences.
3. identify mistakes in a simple
paragraph about regular activities,
likes, dislikes and preferences.