LESSON PLAN
Name: Cerneanu Camelia
School: Colegiul National “Victor Babes”
Date: The 26th of February 2020
Class: X A
No of students: 28
Time of lesson: 45 min
Textbook: Mission 2
Unit: Unit 4
Lesson: Exam Focus- Opinion Essay
RESOURCES:
 White board
 Marker
 Worksheet
 Textbook
LESSON AIMS:
 To activate students’ vocabulary;
 To activate students’ prior knowledge related to the topic;
 To familiarize the students with the topic prior to initial read;
 To develop students’ reading for a purpose skill;
 To improve students’ paragraph writing;
 To offer the students practice in stating their opinion and providing arguments.
OBJECTIVES: by the end of the lesson the students will be able:
 To provide at least five characteristics of the opinion essay (useful phrases, linking words, sequencing, paragraph plan etc);
 To recognize an opinion essay;
 To support a position in a group discussion;
 To write the scheme for an opinion essay following the paragraph plan.
SKILLS COVERED: Reading, Speaking, Writing
TIME Stage
Procedure
Interaction
Material
3 min
T greets the SS and creates a warm
atmosphere for the lesson by
interacting with the SS; “Hello,
everyone! How are you today?”
T SS
SS T
None
T tells the SS that they will learn
how to write an opinion essay and
asks the SS to say what they know
about this kind of essay and to try to
intuit some of its features.
T SS
SS T
None
Pair work
T SS
SS T
Textbook
Notebook
Whiteboard
Marker
3 min
15
min
1. Activity
Class organization
Greetings;
Checking
attendance.
2. Activity
Warm-up
activity
3. Reading
activity
1. T tells the SS to open the
book and read the opinion
essay. After that they will
have to say if the statements
below the text are true or
false. The statements contain
features of the opinion essay.
The T tells the SS that they
have to work in pairs.
2. After ten minutes the TT asks
the SS to come to the white
board one by one and write
the true statements on the
Anticipated
problems and
solutions
P: SS might not feel
motivated to think
and answer.
S: T encourages
them to take part in
the discussion.
7 min
15
min
4. Writing
activity
5.Speaking activity
board. The T asks the SS to
give reasons for their choice.
The T asks them to copy the
characteristics on the
notebooks. T clarifies all the
questions the SS may have.
1. T writes on the board the
paragraph plan but mixes
them. (Ex: Introduction –
Paragraph 1: give the other
side of the argument and
reasons etc). The T tells the
SS that they gave to work in
pairs with their desk mate and
rewrite the correct paragraph
plan based on the model they
have just read and discussed.
2. After five minutes T and SS
discuss the paragraph plan.
The T makes sure that all the
SS have written down the
correct plan.
1. T provides the SS with a list
of topics and tells them that
they have to form a group of
four SS and choose a topic.
Following the paragraph plan
they have to write the main
ideas and arguments. They
have to assign a spokesman
who will come in front of the
class and present the plan to
the others.
T SS
SS T
Whiteboard
Marker
Notebook
Group work
SS T
T SS
Notebooks
P: Some SS might
start talking about
other things in their
mother tongue and
might get noisy and
distracted.
S: T supervises the
activity and makes
sure the SS discuss
only the activity
2 min
5. Activity
Assigning the
homework
2. After ten minutes the T asks
the SS to read their ideas and
corrects them if necessary.
The T makes sure that all the
SS have understood the
scheme of an opinion essay.
T explains that the homework is to
develop the ideas written in the class
into an essay. T makes sure that all
the SS have understood what they
have to do for the next time.
and speak only
English.
T SS
SS T
Textbook