LESSON PLAN

Date: August 23rd, 2010 Level: 6th Time: 90’

Topic: “ e-friend”

Outcomes: The students will read and understand an e-mail concerning to some personality
characteristics. They will identify, understand, and name more complex adjectives.
Students will learn how to compare adjectives in English

Skill(s): Speaking / Reading

Resources: Reading text, handouts, flash cards., board, markers

Time Organization of Contents and Application of Materials

Introduction 10’ The students will greet the teacher and answer the
question: What’s the weather like today?.
The students play “Simon says”.

Core of the class 20‘ The students are introduced to the topic by showing them
Pre-stage flash cards with adjectives they have learned before, and
some new ones. The teacher will ask the students
questions about e-friends and the advantages and
disadvantages of the internet. They will be introduced to a
text by using the prediction technique. The students will
read the text in couples, and underline or highlight the
words they don’t understand.

While-stage 30’ The teacher will read the text with them and will clarify
students’ questions concerning to vocabulary, structures,
and content. The students will answer some questions
about the reading, orally. The students will demonstrate
their reading comprehension through matching and true or
false exercises.
The teacher will show students some flash cards referring
to the new adjectives they have learned in their
comparative and superlative form and they will be asked to
fill in a box with the missed adjectives. The teacher will
give them handouts with the grammatical rules of the
adjectives and will explain it. Students will answer
questions about the adjectives, orally. Students will work
in couples and will compare the physical characteristic of a
character in a picture of a group of classmates following a
matrix.

Post-stage 20’ Students will compare themselves to their classmates

following the teacher’s instructions. They will write down
the names of their classmates they will be compared to.
The students will answer questions orally about the
exercises, trying to use the new words they will learn.

Closing 10’ Students will share their reflections about the previous
exercise. The teacher will give them a summary of the
class and will ask about the thing they learn.
The teacher will give students as homework to describe
one of their best friends using a matrix.
Students say good bye to the teacher.