Sample Lesson Plan
Aims: For students to read, understand and develop opinions on the text: The 25 Most influential Teens of 2014
Level: intermediate (B1)
Time: 50 minutes
Assumptions:
(i.e. what learners can already do)
Anticipated problems and solutions:
(i.e. what learners will have trouble with, and how you can
help them)
Students have a knowledge of the basic vocabulary
needed to understand the text
Problem: Specific vocabulary in the text may be above the
students level
Students have a basic practical understanding of how
Solution: Identify the vocabulary that may cause problems
to skim and scan texts to extract information
and teach it to the students before they read the text
Text (provide link): http://time.com/3486048/most-influential-teens-2014/
Main Stages
Microstages
Activities
Interaction
Time
Pre-text
Introduce the topic
Show students the headline of the
text and ask them to predict the
teenagers that will be mentioned
S-T
5 min
Explain to the students that the text T - S
was taken from Time Magazine's
Aim: learners know
website
where the text
comes from
5 min
Teach the students the vocabulary T - S
that are likely to cause confusion (list
of words predetermined)
5 min
Students read the text to answer
S - S/
S-T
questions such as: 'Why did the
teenagers earn a place on the list?'
Aim: learners
(they made strides in their respective
understand the main
fields)
idea(s) in the text
Students then compare answers with
each other, before taking ideas from
the collective class
5 min
Aim: learners are interested Aim: learners are
and ready to read
interested in the
topic
Introduce the text
Pre-teach
vocabulary
Aim: learners know
the vocab they will
need to complete
the reading activities
Text
Aim: learners achieve a
detailed understanding of
the text
Reading for main
idea
Reading for detail
Students receive a hand-out to fill in: S - S/
S-T
the hand-out will consist of two
Aim: learners
activities.
understand the text
The first activity contains a list of all
in detail
25 teenagers mentioned in the text
and next to each name the students
must write, briefly, the teenager's
achievement e.g. Rico Rodriguez star of popular series, Modern
Family.
The second activity will involve
answering true or false questions,
correcting the statement if it is
false, e.g. 'Lorde is an Australian
singer' (false, she is from New
Zealand)
10 min
Students will compare answers with
each other, before marking the work
as a class
Analysing language Run through the pronunciation of
difficult words.
Aim: learners learn
and practice
Thisspecific texts contains many
language naturally idiomatic expressions and
occurring in the text collocations. Students must, in
pairs, identify the idioms and
collocations and write down what
they think they mean.
Post-text
Aim: learners respond to ideas in the text
S - T/
S-S
10 min
S-T
As a class, have each student say
which teenager of the 25 mentioned
in the text they admire most and
why.
10 min