LESSON PLAN

Proficiency level: intermediate

Age: 17

Topic: “Reading and listening to the story. Prediction exercises.”

Time: 45 min.

The goals of the lesson: - to teach ss. the new vocabulary presented during the lesson

- to practice the skill of prediction

- to practice reading comprehension

- to practice answrering comprehension questions on the text

- to show a model of a short story to the students and to discuss the features that make this story interesting for the reader

SWBATs: 1. use the vocabulary taught in the lesson

2. use their general knowlege to guess the answers to reading comprehension questions

3. answer reading comprehension questions to the text presented during the lesson

4. write the story similar to the one presented in the lesson

Lesson Procedure

Warm-up (4 min.)

The T. greets the ss., checks the attendance list and briefly revises the material from the previous lesson. Then, she asks the ss. what kinds of stories they know. The ss. respond. Next, she shows them the picture (something dramatic, eg. bad, stormy weather, dark sky, etc.) asking them what kind of story they are going to read today. Ss respond.

Transition (2 min.)

The T. writes the topic of the lesson on the boad telling them what she expects them to know after this lesson. Next, she asks them whether they know what the word ‘spooky’(adj.) means. The ss. try to guess. Then, the T. writes the word definition on the board.

Pre-reading ( 13 min.)

1.Pre-teaching of vocabulary

The T. pre-teaches some new vocabulary which will appear in the reading material

-hitch-hiking (n.)

-a steering wheel (n.)

-a curve (n.)

-petrified (adj.)

-pray (v.)

-approach (v.)

-soaking wet (adj.)

-pale (adj.)

-utter (adj.)

-a canteen (n.)

-eerie (adj.)

2. Predicting the answers to reading comprehension questions

The ss. work in pairs. The T. asks the ss. to try to answer the questions about St. Valentine using their general knowlege (Appendix 1a).

Reading comprehension ( 8 min.)

1.The T. distributes the story of St. Valentine among the ss. (Appendix 2). They read the story silently. Then, the T. plays the recorded story to the ss. While listening to the recording they look at the text. The T. asks the ss. Whether they liked the story, whether it has been interesting to them. (If time allows we can use the text in a different way. The T. does not read the last paragraph of the text and asks the ss. to make out the ending to the story themselves – just 2-3 sentences. The ss. Work in pairs or groups. Then, a few groups read their stories. Only after this does the T. read the actual ending of the story. This scenario requires at least additional 5 minutes)

2.The ss.answer previously asked questions. This time their answers should be based on the reading material.

Post-reading ( 3 min.)

1.The T. asks the ss. what made the story interesting to read and to listen to. She asks whethet they were able to imagine, to see the scenes presented in the story. Why? ASR: “There were a lot of adjectives used in the text; a lot of details”.The T. explains that if we want our story to soud interesting we have to describe the feelings and emotions of charecters involved in it. Besides, we have to show the scene in a very descriptive way, so as the reader could see it, feel the atmosphere, etc.

Sum-up and Homework (7 min.)

1.The T. asks the ss. what happened in the story they were reading. A few ss. describes particular elements of testory. Next, the T. gives the definitions to some new words and expressions from the lesson. The ss. respond giving the words which match those definitions.

2.As homework the T. asks the ss. to write a similar story to the one they read during the class (150-200 words). They have one week to do this. They can use the dictionary and the words from the lesson while writing their stories. They should write in a very descriptive manner.

Załącznik 1

” A SPOOKY STORY’’ - COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS

BEFORE READING AND LISTENING TO THE STORY TRY TO PREDICT THE ANSWERS TO THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS.

1. What weather conditions were there on the terrible night?
2. What was strange about the car?
3. How did the man get of the car?
4. How did he feel?
5. How did the people in the Cantina react to his story?
6. Who were the men who appeared in the Cantina later on?

AFTER READING AND LISTENING CHECK YOUR ANSWERS

Załącznik 2

This happened in a little town in Mexico, and even though it sounds like an Alfred Hitchcock tale, it's absolutely true! This guy was on the side of the road hitch-hiking on a very dark night in the middle of a terrible rain storm. The night was rolling and no cars were on the road. The storm was so strong the guy could hardly see a few feet ahead of him. Suddenly, he saw a car come toward him and stop. The guy, without thinking about it, got in the car and closed the door - and only then did he realize that there was nobody behind the wheel! The car started to move very slowly. The guy looked at the road and saw a curve coming his way. Petrified, he started to pray, begging for his life. He had not come out of shock when, just before the car hit the curve, a hand suddenly appeared through the window and moved the wheel. The guy, now paralyzed in terror, watched how the hand appeared every time the car was approaching a curve. Finally, although terrified, the guy managed to open the door and jump out of the spooky car. Without looking back, the guy ran through the storm all the way to the nearest town. Soaking wet, exhausted and in a state of utter shock, the pale, visibly shaken guy, walked into a Cantina and asked for two shots of tequila. Then, still trembling with fright, he started telling everybody in the Cantina about the horrible experience he had just gone through with the spooky car with no driver and the mysterious hand that kept appearing. Everyone in the Cantina listened in silence and became frightened, listening to this eerie story; hair stood on end, when they realized the guy was telling the truth because he was crying and he definitely was not drunk.

About half an hour later two guys walked into the same Cantina and one said to the other "Look, Pepe! That's the guy who got in the car while we were pushing it!”