Lesson Plan

Teacher: Marcu Corina

School: "Liceul Teoretic J. L. Calderon”, Timişoara
Class: 10th B & D
Date: 5th March , 2014
Level: Upper Intermediate L2
Time of lesson: 50 minutes
Topic: "Money, Shopping and Advertising”
Textbook: “Going For Gold” – Upper intermediate
Approach: communicative
Lesson Aims:
By the end of the lesson the students will be able to:
Understand explicitly stated information on the topic;
Bring arguments to support their position regarding a given situation;
Listen for detailed and/or general information;
Use lexical items related to the topic to exchange opinions;
Solve a great choice of exercises from controlled practice to semi-controlled and free practice.

Skills: listening and speaking;

Methods: conversation, brainstorming, question-answer, multiple choice, fill in exercises, dialogue;

Learning activity: individual work, pair work, group work;
Previous knowledge:
 Students have already been acquainted with most of the vocabulary and problems on shopping and
advertising that come across the unit.
Anticipated problems:
 Students might find it difficult to explain the meaning of some words or phrases in their own words;
 They might find difficulty in identifying the correct explanation for some words;
 Students might feel nervous and find difficulty in playing out dialogues or expressing their point of view.
Materials: Textbook, Teacher’s book, Oxford Dictionary of English Language, handouts, computer, projector,
CD and Cd-player.
 STAGE/ TIME PROCEDURE
Activity 1 (3') a) Greetings and Conversation
Warm up b) Teacher checks attendance
c) Teacher asks the students how they feel
Aim: To create a suitable atmosphere
for the new lesson
Activity 2 (5' ) a) One or two students read their answers related to a report on advertising;
Checking homework b) The other students bring further information.;
c) Teacher underlines the main advantages and disadvantages of advertising from both the consumer’s and the producer’s
Aim: evaluation and checking of how the students point of view.
worked at home
Activity 3 (5' ) a) Teacher presents the students with the following quotations and asks them to comment on them:
In trod u cti on of th e n ew top i c "Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get
money from it." Stephen Butler Leacock
Aim: to make the students enter the atmosphere of "Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better."
shopping and advertising George Santayana
b) Students offer their opinions.
c) Teacher announces & writes the title of the lesson , “Shopping and advertising”, on the board;
d) Teacher announces the objectives of the lesson (at the end of the lesson you will be able to...)

Activity 4 ( 24)
Presentation and practise of the new lesson
Aim: To introduce the new topic;
To practise listening and speaking
a) Teacher refers students to exercise 28 page 110 and explains that they are going to listen to an advertisement for a
large shopping centre. Teacher elicits what people can buy from such places.
b) Students offer answers.
c) Teacher asks students to read through the exercise and try to guess the answers.
d) Teacher plays the CD.
e) Students do the task and check their answers after having listened to the CD for the second time.
f) Teacher asks students to work in groups and do exercise 29 page 110 – answer the questions related to shopping;
g) Teacher elicits useful language for giving directions (turn left, turn right, take the first turning on your left, walk down etc.).
h) Each group receives a map on which they have to mark as many shops as possible (using stickers).
h) Students perform the task and act out their dialogues.
i) Teacher explains task for exercise 30 page 11o and asks students to have a look at the sentences before listening.
j) Teacher plays the CD.
k) Students do the task and check their answers after having listened to the CD for the second time.
l) Teacher presents some ads on the projector and asks students to express their preferences and their impressions using the
language structures as presented in exercise 31 page 110. Teacher also reads through the slogan, eliciting meanings of slogans
from the students.
m) Teacher reads the prompts contained in the prompt boxes aloud and elicits from students which items are formal and
which are informal.
n) Students work in pairs to make up dialogues. One or two pairs are asked to act out their dialogues.

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 o) Teacher explains the task for exercise 32 page 110. Students are going to listen to people talking in four different situations.
Teacher points out that each situation will be heard twice.
p) Students read the situations, then listen to the CD and do the exercise.
r) Teacher checks students’ answers.
s) Students are asked to look at the pictures and describe what the people are wearing. Teacher reads out the first question
and then starts a class discussion by asking individual students to give their opinion about what type of clothes are the most
comfortable and why.
t) Students then go through the other questions.
u) Teacher emphasizes that in the following recording, exercise 34 page 111, they are going to hear speakers expressing their opinions.
v) Students do the task and teacher checks their answers.
x) If time allows, teacher presents the task for exercises 35 and 36 page 111, in order to practise some more listening.

Activity 5 ( 2 ' ) Homework assignment
Activity 6 Evaluation
Students are asked to work in pairs and prepare a short advertising presentation for a product of their choice, using pictures,
Body language, the element of surprise etc.
Evaluation will be used in close connection with the teaching/learning objectives stated at the beginning
of the lesson. It will be done in grades ( e.g. " excellent", "very good", "good" etc.) or in marks
(from 10 to 1 in the Romanian system).

On the board/ projector

"Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it."
Stephen Butler Leacock

"Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better."
George Santayana
Shops:
Department store
Chemist’s
Greengrocer’s
Baker’s
Newsagent’s
Toy-shop
Pastry-shop
Book-shop etc.

Directions:
Turn left, turn right,
Take the first turning on your left,
walk down/up … street

Expressing opinion
On the whole, I like / I dislike
I prefer
Generally speaking I’d say
If I had to choose I’d say