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LESSON PLAN
TEACHER: Iacob Erzsebet LEVEL: Advanced
DATE: 3rd April, 2017 TEXTBOOK: CAE, Longman
CLASS: XII A (2 hours/ week) UNIT 6: Family ties

TOPIC: Language and communication

LESSON TITLE: The Generation Gap – Reading 2( India’s youth moves out/ More
isn’t always merrier/ Website page from guest speaker Charlotte Allen)
TIME: 50 minutes

LESSON AIMS:

-to provide oral practice and to encourage conversation based on an assigned topic;

-to encourage the students to look for information and bring their own arguments to support
their answers;

-to stimulate conversation, to create interest in the topic and to initiate discussion;

-to give the students a chance to practice their reading and speaking skills;

-to enrich vocabulary.

OPERATIONAL AIMS

- to practise answering global multiple-choice questions on different text types;

- to give practice in reading techniques;

- to give practice in making suggestions and agreeing and disagreeing in spoken English;

- to practise inferring the meaning of unknown words

TYPES OF INTERACTION: T – Ss; S – S (pair work);

MATERIALS

-blackboard;
-notebooks;
- textbooks;
ANTICIPATED PROBLEMS:

- Some students may not understand the text while listening and they may need the tape script
in order to do the task;
- Some students may be reluctant to speak and express their own points of view.
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Str. 1 Decembrie, nr. 40A,
Cod. 535200, or.Bălan, jud. Harghita
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PROCEDURE

No. Stages of the Activities Timing/

lesson Interaction
1. Warm -up Calling the role. 5’
Organizing the class. T→Ss
Checking the homework.
2. Pre-reading Ss are asked to read aloud the sentences that describe the 5’
nuclear and extended types of families and decide which of Ss →T
them matches to which one, then Ss are asked to work in
pairs and come up with a list of advantages and
disadvantages of living in either a nuclear or an extended
family
Answers: ex1. a) extended family
b) nuclear family
4. Reading Ss skim the three texts and get a general idea of each one. 10’
At a first reading they will try to answer a gist question Ss →T
such as: Which text talks about the problems of living in an
extended family?

Ss are divided into three groups. Each groups receives a T→Ss

text: Group A- India’s youth moves out
Group B- More isn’t always merrier
Group C- Netsite from guest speaker Charlotte Allen

Ss read the questions carefully and find the important Ss ↔Ss

words (words that help them in finding the correct answer
in the multiple choice exercise). Then Ss read the assigned 10’
text and decide on the correct answers.
Answers: ex2. p.72.
1B 2C 3D 4B 5A 6D
Ss present what each text was about and share the answers
that they consider to be correct.
5’
The correct answers are given and the Ss check their
answers. T→Ss

5. Post reading Ss are asked to go back to their lists of advantages and 5’

disadvantages and add any other points if necessary to Ss →T
complete them
Ss are asked then to do exercise 3 p.74. They match the
words that they already know and then use the contexts to
work out the correct meanings of the remaining ones. Ss →T
Answers: ex3. p. 74.
1 l), 2 h), 3 a), 4 b), 5 j), 6 g), 7 c), 8 d), 9 e), 10 k),
11 f), 12 i). 5’
6.
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7. Homework and The teacher appreciates the students' performance and asks 5’
assessment them to write as homework the following: T→Ss
Comment on: First we are children to our parents, then
parents to our children, then parents to our parents, then
children to our children. Write an opinion essay in about
200 words.