Filton College Session Plan
Date: 19/3/12
Time: 9.30am – 12.30pm
Duration: 3hrs
Course: EFL – Upper Int
Subject: General English
Lecturer: Sue Petris
Aims of session: to review and consolidate Reporting Verbs; to complete Module 12 with the
film review writing activity
General Learning Objectives:
Functional Skills Development
By the end of the session learners will be able to:
By the end of the session learners will be able to:
- Identify at least 12 reporting verbs
- Identify the structures that attach See General Learning Obj’s
to these verbs
- Correctly categorise given reporting
verbs
Opportunities to promote E&D, ECM
E&D: L’ s have opportunity to describe own
cultures and experiences
Every Learner Matters (ECM)
- Being healthy: water allowed in
class, comfortable classroom
temperature
- Staying safe: bags & coats secure
and away from pathways; no trailing
flexes or broken furniture
- Enjoying and Achieving: fun
activities & scaffolded tasks to
ensure all achieve; a variety of
teaching styles used to
accommodate different learner
styles
- Making a positive contribution:
ensure team/group work is included
– peer support and co-operation.
- Economic wellbeing: skills being
practised increase employability
Real
Time
9.30
Real
Time
9.40am
Resources/Health & Safety
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Health & Safety:
commensurate with normal classroom
teaching
Resources:
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Tutor’s own resources for Reporting
Verbs
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New Cutting Edge Upper Intermediate
Student’s Book p134-5
Starter
Learning Activities
Include differentiation and functional skills development
Register
Recap: Time phrases in reported speech (P/Point)
Teaching and Learning Phase
Learning Activities
Include differentiation and functional skills development
Grammar focus - Reporting verbs:
HB 1011 Session Plan
Learning Checks
Q+A
Learning Checks
Filton College Session Plan
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10.40am
11am
Peer teaching
Clear up any outstanding issues from last week’s grammar
input
class feedback to board reported speech sentences they
have collected;
peer checking and
assessment
Writing focus: a film review (p135 of coursebook)
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12.20
Tutor monitoring
- complete questionnaire activity from last week, in pairs
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Real
Time
Class f/back: each group goes through their examples on
the board for the rest of the class
Group work
Peer teaching &
assessment
Break
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11.20am
elicit examples from L’s plus constructions that follow
them if they can remember any; give out h/out P1 and go
through examples as a class; then split class into 3 groups
and give each group a separate page of sentences to work
through
Using the examples as a guide, L’s should identify the
correct form of the verb plus the relevant constructions
that follow; they should then insert the verb into the
correct category on the sorting sheet
Brainstorm recently seen films and share with partner
Read the review of ‘Bend it like Beckham’ and do the gap
fill; check in pairs
Make notes as per the heading in Task 3
Use this as a template to make notes about a film of L’s
choice that they have recently seen
Write up the review
Swap with a partner and read each other’s work –
feedback to other pairs
Class f/back
Plenary/ Recap
Learning Activities
Include differentiation and functional skills development
Recap: Reported speech verbs quiz (Smartboard)
Learner records
Evaluation & Notes for next session
HB 1011 Session Plan
Work – peer
assessment
Group work
Learning Checks
Q+A