Lesson Plan

Lesson plan
Group:  Second semester			Length of class:   50 minutes		No. of students: 27			Level: intermediate
Course book: Traveller B1			Recent topic work: Writing a letter giving advice			Date: April 29th, 2013
Class profile			There are 27 students in this group, 17 girls and 10 boys.  They are between 15 and 16 year old. They have greater exposure to spoken English. For example, they can switch off quite easily; especially if they are have a long and not especially interesting piece of reading. However, if they get involved, they can be noisy and enthusiastic.
Timetable fit			In the past lessons, the students have been learning about how to express criticism, possibility and certainly in the past. They have learning about various aspects of modern life including technology, fashion and devices. Next lesson the class the students will read a book review that will help them to familiarize with descriptive language used in books reviews.
Main aim (s):			By the end of the lesson the learners will: 1.       talk about horoscopes 2.       discuss novels and express preferences 3.       make a decision and justify it
Stage	Aim (s)	Interaction		Procedure (s)			Material		Timing
Warm up	*To activate Ss´ background knowledge   *to prepare Ss for the listening task		T - Ss	Ask Ss the two questions and discuss:   *Do you ever read the horoscope section in magazines? Why/Why not?   *Why do you think that so many people are interested in horoscopes?			Pictures of the different horoscopes		5 minutes
Listening practice	*to give Ss practice in listening for details and completing a multiple matching exercise		T – Ss	*Explain to Ss that they are going to hear five people reading their horoscopes for this week.   *ask a student to read out and explain the tip.   *play the CD and have Ss to do the activity.   *Check Ss’ answers in the class.			Student’s book   Class CDs   Audio recorder		20 minutes
Speaking practice	*to give students practice in discussing novels and expressing preference.   *to provide vocabulary and phrases /expressions related to the topic.		T – Ss               Ss - Ss           T-  Ss	*Divide the students into pairs   *Explain to Ss that they need to discuss the novels presented in the course book.   *have them to read the blurbs, the vocabulary boy and the useful phrases/expressions and check understanding.   Explain to Ss that they have to explain their preference and give reasons justifying it.			Student´s book		20 minutes
Finishing the lesson stage	*to give feedback on the speaking activity   * to set homework for the next lesson		T-Ss	*ask the groups to report what they like or not about the books    *ask the students about the most important things they learn today.   * set the homework for next class			--------------		5 minutes