Module 3
 QUESTION 4
A Lesson Plan for Making Predictions
Find an action picture which shows things that are about to happen. Think about how you could use the image in the classroom. Paste the picture in the space provided and use the image as the focus for a lesson plan based on making predictions. Think about your lesson objective and what you aim to teach (you can focus on opinions, evidence or both if you wish). State the lesson objective, the class level and student mix. Try to produce a rounded lesson including practice of both productive and receptive skills. Consider the level of the group you are teaching and make the exercises appropriate for the level, as well as timing each part of the plan.
This is a lesson plan which often proves challenging for many students but it is worth 15 marks and you will pick up marks if you follow the following points:
As you have with previous lesson plans, look carefully at the question. It is a lesson plan for predictions, not for plans for the future, so make sure that your examples reflect this.
This is one question where just any picture will not do. You need to find an image that:
- is clear, so that students can clearly see what is happening (note that colour generally works best.
- has some element of action about it, meaning that students will be able say something about what might happen or is likely to happen to the characters in the picture.
- is interesting! What will stimulate the group that you are teaching?
3 marks of the 15 are allocated for finding a good picture – the other 12 are for the lesson plan.
In this question you can choose the time duration, the theme and the objective for your lesson. You can also select the age of your students and their level, so you have an excellent opportunity to shape the lesson to make it successful.
You can focus on evidence or opinion, but you need to make sure that you provide good, clear examples for your students. What it to be the focus of the lesson? What theme is your predictions lesson going to be based upon? This may come from the picture itself.
Think about the material that you will use in this lesson. The question asks you to have a look at predictions for opinions, evidence or both and you will not be penalised if you only decide to look at one form. But you need to put together a full lesson plan, and put a time to each activity to give your plan some balance.
So identify the language structures that you will present in your lesson and ensure that the tasks you use enable students to practice them. For a basic outline of how to present a structure, refer back to the Presentation/Study/Practice model in Module 1.
You may wish to look at both productive and receptive skills. In this way your students will be able to listen to or read the appropriate structures (receptive skills) and understand the meaning that is used. But if you add a productive stage to the plan as well, such as a writing or a speaking task, then your students will also be able to produce the target structures. This will give you a good idea as to whether the structure has been understood fully
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