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Teacher: Abdel-illah Alioui

Lesson Type:

Writing

Objectives:

Level: 2nd Year Baccalaureate


Textbook: Gateway to English 2
Topic: Argumentative Essay (For and
Against)

Unit 7:

Citizenship

Timing:

55 min (1h)

By the end of this lesson, students will be able to:

Write an argumentative essay by giving solid arguments for and against working
women.

Instructional Aids :

Blackboard / textbook
Lesson Outline
Content

Techniques

Timin
g

Stage
s

War
m-up

Prewriti
ng

T greets Ss.

Mod
e of
Wor
k

Warming-

T presents the topic that Ss should write about as follow:

Nowadays, more and more women go outside to work,


which affects many people both positively and negatively in our
society. Write an argumentative essay in which you state
whether you are for or against this phenomenon.
T elicits ideas and make sure the Ss understand the topic.

up
Presenting
Explaining

T-S
10
min

S-S

Eliciting
Questionin
g

T elicits and explains the general outline of how to write an


argumentative essay (for and against).
I.
While
writi
ng

Introduction: (thesis statement) / (main idea /


topic)

II.
Body: (arguments)
A. Arguments for working women
Argument 1:
Argument2:
Argument 3:
B. Arguments against working women
Argument 1:
Argument 2:
Argument 3:

Guessing

T-S

Eliciting

Questionin
g

10
min

Explaining
Modeling
Illustrating

I.
Conclusion:
A. A summary
B. Personal point of view
T elicits ideas about the arguments for and against working
women:
Arguments for working
women

Arguments against
working women

Children learn to be
Children see their
parents as strangers.
independent in early age.

Women have two jobs


Women help their
rather than one.
husbands in the

S-S

T-S
+
Eliciting

15
min

S-S

Guessing

Questionin
g

Sol
o

Justifying
Illustrating
Discussion

household expenses.
Women become selfconfident and rely on
themselves.
Women become active
citizens in the society.

Women neglect their


children and husbands.
Women and their
husbands may have
some problems related
to money and household
expenses.
T-S

T review and explains the outline / structure to follow so as to


write an argumentative essay about working women:

Eliciting
Guessing
Reviewing

No one can deny that nowadays more and more women


go outside to work, which affects many people both positively and
negatively in the society. So, it is necessary to pinpoint the
arguments for and against working women.
On the one hand, I think that working women have
several
advantages.
First
of
all,
.
Second, .
The
third
argument
for
working
women

Postwriti
ng

On the other hand, some people think that women


shouldnt
work.
To
begin
with,
.......
another
argument
is
that
..............

the
last
argument
.......
To sum up, there are several arguments for and against
working
women.

..... In my personal point of view,


................

Ss write their final draft at home as homework following the


before-mentioned example in the while-writing stage.

S-S
20
min

Explaining
Questionin
g
Guiding
Modeling
Illustrating
Drafting

Sol
o

Writing
Practicing

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