LENGTH 40

NAME Kate WEEK 1 2 3 4 DAY 1 2 3 4 5

minutes
LEVEL elementary DATE 09/07/11 TP # D
TOPIC/THEME: FOOD AND DRINKS LESSON FOCUS: LEXIS/FUNCTIONS

AIMS: By the end of the lesson, students will have…

Main: to be able to order food and drink in a bar or café
Subsidiary: students will have practiced polite request offers with the modal verb “can”
Subsidiary: students will have used the consequent items of vocabulary concerning food and drink: a chicken salad, a tuna salad, an
egg salad, fish, chips, pizza, a chocolate cake, an apple pie, ice-cream, coffee, tea, mineral water, orange juice
Subsidiary: students will have learnt the names of currencies and price values and used them ordering food in a cafe: a pound (GBP)
vs. a penny, a euro (EU) vs. a cent, a dollar (USD) vs. a cent, a hryvna (UAH) vs. a kopeck
Subsidiary: students will have got aware of intonation difference in polite requests patterns and wh-questions
PERSONAL AIMS:
a) To sit down more
b) To give clearer instructions
c) To avoid a teacher-centered approach
d) To make an eye-contact with all the students
e) To avoid echoing
f) To monitor the class more effectively

CLASS PROFILE:

1) The class is a multilingual class of adults, more or less unused to the communicative teaching
approach
2)Totally the class has 12 people but 7-8 students are constantly present
3)The number of ladies – 6, the number of gentlemen – 2
4)They are all Ukrainian
5)The strongest students are Lena and Helen
6)They have both intrinsic motivation for studying a language: the intrinsic aim includes job
opportunities and travelling
7) Their interest are varied: travelling, making photos, cooking, pet-breeding, sports
8) The students are extroverted and self-encourages, so, the dynamics of the class is pretty high, but
new-comers can break it down while being late
ASSUMPTIONS:

a) The students will know about the article usage difference “a/an”
b) The students will have a basic knowledge of some vocabulary items having an analogical equivalent
in their native language, but I am planning to elicit that from them
c) The students have already revised the cardinal numbers in the previous classes
d) The majority of students like travelling and cooking, so their interest will be in direct relation to the
material of the class
e) The ladies will be more knowledgeable about foodstuff
f) The students have also revised personal pronouns that can help not to concentrate on them
ANTICIPATED PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS:

Problem 1: students can be confused about long instructions

Solution 1: use precise language patterns as well as gestures and mime

Problem 2: confusion about long irrelevant pauses between activities

Solution 2: preparing the set of tools for activities beforehand

Problem 3: some students may be late for the class

Solution 3: greeting and letting them get involved into activities

SOURCES OF MATERIALS:
NNHE, internet websites

CELTA TP LESSON PLAN

Hello everybody!

I agree with Judit, Maria, Laia, Thais and Cristina.You have many useful ideas to motivate our students.

As we know, one of the biggest mistakes we make is that we almost always focus on the negative, on what students do
wrong. We can say that most of the time we find flaws in what they do. As highlighted by Henry David Thoreau, "which is
always looking for faults you will find faults even in paradise." The best teachers seek for qualities, not for defects.
Because of this we should be and act as "treasure hunters", always looking for the good in every situation and especially in
the improving of our students. Acting in this way, in most cases, we'll end up finding the good. These are some of the useful
ideas after I've read Oscar González, a Russian blog and points of view of other teachers. I find it very interesting:

1. Make a game to find something positive in every situation.

Make a list of your students with their positive qualities.
For example: What I love about David: Is smart, curious, funny, ordered, responsible etc.

2. Give your students a list with descriptive words for positive character traits. They can find a lot of these qualities in them:

Authority, Accountable, Adaptable, Adventurous, Affable, Affectionate, Agreeable, Alert, Ambitious, Amiable, Amicable,
Amusing, Appropriate, Aspiring, Assertive, Astute, Attentive, Authentic, Aware, Brave, Bravery, Bright, Broad-Minded, Calm,
Candid, Capable, Careful, Caring, Certain, Charismatic, Charming, Cheerful, Clear, Collaborative, Committed,
Communicative, Communicator, Compassion, Compassionate, Comradeship, Connected, Conscientious, Conscious,
Considerate, Consistent, Contributes, Convivial, Cooperative, Courageous, Courteous, Creative, Curious, Decisive,
Dedicated, Determined, Devoted, Diligent, Diplomatic, Directive, Disciplined, Discreet, Does What Is Necessary, Dynamic,
Easygoing, Effective, Efficient, Emotional, Empathetic, Empowers, Endures, Energetic, Enthusiastic, Ethical, Excited,
Expansive, Expressive, Extroverted, Exuberant, Facilitates, Fair-Minded, Fairness, Faithful, Faith In Life, Faith In Oneself,
Faith In Others, Fearless, Flexible, Focused, Forceful, Forgiving, Frank, Friendly, Frugal, Funny, Generative, Generosity,
Generous, Gentle, Good, Goodwill, Grateful, Gratitude, Gregarious, Happy, Hard Working, Hard-Working, Helpful, Honest,
Honorable, Humble, Humorous, Imaginative, Immaculate, Impartial, Independent, Initiates, Innovative, Inquiring, Integrates,
Integrity, Intellectual, Intelligent, Intentional, Interested, Intimate, Intuitive, Inventive, Involved, Joyful, Kind, Knowledgeable,
Leading, Listener, Lively, Logical, Loving, Loyal, Manages Time Well, Mature, Modest, Motivated, Neat, Networker, Nice,
Nurturing, Open-Minded, Optimism, Optimistic, Organized, Passionate, Patient, Peaceful, Perfects, Perseveres, Persistent,
Philosophical, Pioneering, Placid, Planner, Playful, Plucky, Poised, Polite, Positive, Powerful, Practical, Presents Self Well,
Proactive, Pro-Active, Problem-Solver, Productive, Punctual, Quick-Witted, Quiet, Rational, Realistic, Reliable, Reserved,
Resourceful, Respectful, Responsible, Responsive, Right, Romantic, Self-Confident, Self-Directed, SelfDisciplined, Self-
Esteem, Self-Generating, Self-Giving, Selfless, Self-Reliant, Sense Of Humor, Sensible, Sensitive, Sensual, Serious, Serves
Others, Shy, Sincere, Skillful, Sociable, Social Independence, Spiritual, Spontaneous, Stable, Straightforward, Strong,
Successful, Supportive, Sustaining, Sympathetic, Systematic, Tactful, Takes Others Point Of View, Thoughtful, Thoughtful
Towards Others, Thrifty, Tidy, Tolerant, Tough, Trusting, Trustworthy, Truthful, Unassuming, Understanding, Unpretentious,
Unselfish, Versatile, Vibrant, Warm, Warmhearted, Willing, Willing Does, Willingness, Wise.

3. Give your students some positive phrases in order to motivate them learning English:
To be committed to one’s goals, To be successful in something, To boost willpower, To express one’s true self, To have a
goal, To lead/live a life true to one’s dreams, To have the courage, To provoke powerful, positive emotions, To tackle tough
challenges, To take advantage of, To unleash one’s best qualities, Incredibly powerful relationship-management tool, To be a
better “me”, To drive it home.

What do you think about useness of this? Thanks!

NAME: Kate Ruban TP # D
STAGE PROCEDURE AIMS
Lead-in - To tell students a story about usual eating manner, mention meat, fruit, To clarify the meaning and pronunciation
vegetables, etc FOOD, MEAL AND DISH
- Ask students what is meat, fruit and vegetables for them and elicit the
response that it’s “food” (repeat chorally)
- Continue telling about breakfast, dinner, lunch
- Ask students what is breakfast, dinner or lunch and elicit the response that
they are meals (repeat chorally)
- Continue telling about cooking food and eliciting from the students the word
DISH (repeat chorally)
- Highlight the pronunciation and stress of every word elicited
Presentation of currencies - Ask in pairs each other what is FOOD, DISH, MEAL To clarify the meaning of words through p

- To tell students a situation about each currency and elicit the answers from
students about full and short names plus small change and signs. Elicit from
the students by hinting a typical question about asking the price: “How much
is……..?”

- To highlight pronunciation and the stress on the board

- Drill chorally
Freer practice To practice the question of pricing to be ab
life
- Put students in pairs for a “what is a currency name?” activity

Presentation of food and drinks
vocabulary
Freer practice
Presentation of grammar
- To mingle the students with questionnaires and ask them to work all together
by practicing the question type: “How much is your bag?”
- Monitor. Note errors. Correct on the spot if needed
To consolidate new vocabulary
- Ask the students to work with the book page 18 picture block ex 2 and elicit
the names of food and dishes from them
- To highlight pronunciation and the stress of words on the board To provide freer practice of the target voca
- Drill chorally
- Ask the students to finalize the words offered on the board and fill in the gaps
To clarify the meaning and the form of
structure for the students to be able to appl
- To play a class mingling game: (give each student a questionnaire which
he/she should fill in about class partners)
- Monitor. Note errors. Correct on the spot if needed

- Tell the students the story about visiting the store and asking to buy smth,
elicit from them a possible variant of a polite request

- Highlight on the form of a polite request question with the help of the board:
Controlled practice Can + S + V? To provide controlled practice of polite qu

- Stress on the rising intonation

Freer practice To enable the students to order food and d
- The students ask each other in pairs using can-polite-form-question with cafe
action cards: “Can you give me some food, please?

- Ask the students to listen to two conversations and fill in the gaps
- Elicit from the students in which sentences they have a polite question form

- Set the situation to the students that they are in a bar and they want to eat. Ask
them to look at the menu ex. 2, page 18 and order what they want by working
in pairs