Lesson Plan Template:

Lesson Plan Title:

The oldest child is smarter and Here’s why

Instructors:		Level		Students		Length
Soyeon Kim(Stella)		intermediate		10		20

Aims:   (Primary Aim goes first, (*) others are assumed to be secondary (+)

* Students will be able to listening a short news

+Students will be able to able to learn vocabulary related to the news

+ Students will be able to figure out how person’s characteristic can be formed due to  order of birth

Language SKILLS:  (Primary Aim goes first, (*) others are assumed to be secondary (+)

I’m going to focus on....

Listening: Listening (+ watching) a short video clip

Speaking: share their personal experience and characteristics

Language SYSTEMS:

Lexis: learn vocabulary related to the video clip

+Phonology: listening to a native speaker (self-correcting the pronunciation)

+Discourse: sharing their opinion about the subject

Materials:

video clip

worksheet with blank, quiz

Assumptions:

students are either have brothers or sisters or maybe they are only child.

students are at a high level to listening to a native speaker speaking.

students are close enough to talk about each other’s characteristics

Anticipated Errors and Solutions:

Students may . . . . .

----Teacher can

-Some students might have a little problem understanding words from the news

Teacher can teach some difficult vocabulary before listening the news

+ Encourage students to guess from the context

-Some students might have a little problem following the speed of native speaker

Teacher can give them a script after hearing one time without script

+ Allow students to hear it one more time

References used in this lesson plan:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61ruJlQ5S9s  (Youtube)

Lead – In (Warm Up, reactivating prior lessons)
Special Materials: (optional)
Time: 3min	Grouping: (interactions) Whole Class	Procedure: (including CCQ’s for required prior knowledge and what will be elicited to further the lesson aims.) Greetings. Hello everyone, How was your weekend? (students respond) Yesterday, I had wonderful time with my brother. We went to dinner yesterday. Lead in by asking some questions about birth order. Guiding Questions: 1.Do you guys have sisters or brothers? 2.If you have siblings, does your mom treat you equally? (students can share their experience to whole class) 3.Guess whether I’m(Teacher) the first born or middle child or the youngest or the only child based on my characteristics (little fun time guessing:) (Teacher can say : If you think I’m the first born raise your hand. If you think I’m the middle child raise your hand....) after this little guessing, tell students the answer and ask them why do they think so. Elicit: Does birth order influence someone’s personality? If so, what facts about birth order gives each person different personality?

Pre-Activity (Presenting stage in a pure PPP lesson)
Special Materials: (optional)
Time: 3mins	Grouping: Whole Class	Procedure: (including ICQ’S and CCQs if there are task-based projects. They are steps in the procedure. CCQ’s to be included_ T: Okay. So you guys think I’m the firstborn because~~ (what students told me). So you are agreeing that birth order has some characteristics, right? Why do you think it works that way? Now we are going to watch a video clip to solve our questions. 1.Before watching a video, Teacher writes some vocabulary related to the video. 2.After vocabulary lesson, teacher will hand out a worksheet which has blanked script and some quiz. (Listen carefully and fill in the blanks + Connection quiz) ICQs: What should you do?

Main Activity (You can break sections up with Romal.Numerals, such as Skimming and Scanning in example lesson plan. This must include CCQ’s, and ICQs if there are any special instructions)
Special Materials: (optional) video clip from youtube
Time 3mins 1min 3min 2mins 1min 4mins	Grouping: Whole Class individuals Whole class Pair individuals	Procedure: Students are going to watch a video called “The oldest child is smarter and Here’s why” After watching the video, Teacher give more time to finish the paper. (While students are discussing teacher write some of useful expressions which was on the video) T: okay class, here are some useful expressions which was on the video. T: Now I am going to show you the video one more time, Watch and listen carefully (shows video clip one more time) T: Okay. Everyone finished? Every body compare the answer with your partner. CCQ: What was it about? (students answer) what are the characteristics of each order?(Literal Q-connection Q on worksheet) Group1: answer Firstborn G2: answer Middle G3: answer Youngest T: Welldone! Okay, now I’ll give you one minute. Guess what birth order your partner might be and tell the class 1 reason. (after 1min) T: So,, who wants to go first? Okay. J you start (Student: I think my partner is youngest because~~~) continue-

Post-Activity

Error Correction:

(Write errors noticed during the discussion and presentation.

If there aren’t any, move to feedback & evaluation)

Feedback & Evaluation:

- Did you enjoy today’s subject?

(Listen to Students feedback on the activity)

Give students the link of the video so that students can review it one more time individually.

See you next class.

Special Materials:  (optional)