Level 1 courses: Module 4. Part E. Exam question B
Level 2 courses: Module 2.Question 16
If you read the question carefully you will see that you are being directed quite carefully.
For example – the lesson is for 1 hour, to a group of Intermediate level adults. This gives you the timing and the pitch of the material. Also you are instructed that this is a writing lesson. This doesn’t mean that the whole of the lesson is to be spent with students putting pen to paper. However it does mean that the main focus is to be a writing activity and that this should be done ‘in class’ rather than set as homework.
Then you are directed towards a theme. No one theme is designed to be any easier or more difficult than the others – simply choose the one that you think suits you best and that you would have most fun teaching. The choices are:
i) Lonely hearts
ii) Horoscopes
iii) Job Application
The notes in the question guide you to set out the lesson plan, starting with a warmer and presentation which will lead into the main writing task.
- One of the key things here is to not overwhelm your students with too much material. Showing them hundreds of job adverts, lonely-hearts ads or horoscopes will give rise to lots of questions about vocabulary, which may lead your lesson to get sidetracked. Therefore choose your material carefully and don’t focus on too much.
- Also think about giving your students a helping hand by pre-teaching the new vocabulary before you hand out the reading or material. For example, few students will have heard of GSOH (Good Sense of Humour) but it is bound to come up if you are teaching the subject of lonely hearts. Therefore give them some abbreviations and get them to work out what they mean in groups before your launch into the lesson. Similarly with the job advert – if it is in a particular area, brainstorm vocabulary relating to the area before you look at the advert.
- Think about the writing activity – remember that this is the main focus of your lesson and your students should probably be spending more time here than on any other individual segment of the lesson plan. Perhaps a model answer might be a good idea? Certainly give them some parameters as to how much you expect them to write. Also it is worth mentioning what you will be doing here, going around the room helping, making suggestions and prompting your students.
- Finally look to include a follow up activity, perhaps something lighter after all that writing. Some students have had their classes dressing up as Mystic Meg in the horoscopes lesson and making predictions about what is going to happen to their classmates, enabling practice of future forms and a lot of fun.
We ask that you include as much detail as you can, as credit cannot be given if you leave things out. Make sure that you include examples of what you want your students to achieve. You should look to write a minimum of 500 words and note that words from a magazine (or other reading text) article do not count towards the suggested word limit.
If you need some further guidance or examples you might like to look at the suggested reference points listed in the further research box of the writing section before commencing your plan. You are also free to use some of the ideas presented in the writing section itself.
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