LESSON PLAN

TEACHER: Panduru Carmen

DATE: 16.03.2017

SCHOOL: Liceul Teoretic Zimnicea

CLASS: XI A

LEVEL: advanced

TEXTBOOK: Face to Face

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.

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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.

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 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 order to 5

predict the topic of the new lesson The generation
gap.

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

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 extracts 10
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.

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 Follow - up

6. - The students are asked to work in groups and draw 5

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' performance 5

assessment 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.