Syllabus – Antonella Buttazzoni
Class level
Classroom
Lower Intermediate
Student’s house
Progress expectation
The student (Melisa) wants to resume with her English classes, even
though it’s been a while since she has studied it. She expects to learn new
vocabulary and grammar by the end of 10 classes, she will decide after that
if she wants to continue or not.
Studying English for practical uses, such as using the Internet, making and
speaking to friends from other countries, she want to be able to understand
some English songs she likes.
“Improving our English”
The main aim is to improve her English so that Melissa will be able to use
English every day, understanding what she reads or listens to. She believes
that nowadays knowing how to speak English is an important skill needed to
be able to communicate with almost 40% of the world population who speaks
it.
Subject
Topic
Aim
Lesson date
Lesson duration
10 hours – 10 lesson, 1
hour
Melissa has studied English in high school, but since then she has not taken
any class, hence she does not remember most things. Present simple and
future simple don’t represent any problems, but past simple and present
perfect shows some flaws.
Objective
Knowledge assumed
Material & equipment
Learning assessment
Melissa wants to work on her writing and reading skills. Even though her
speaking and listening are pretty good she wants to improve them.
Lesson 1: Cooking and restaurants
Grammar: Quantifiers + countable and uncountable nouns
Vocabulary:
Lesson 2: Love and Friends
Grammar: Past simple
Vocabulary: Relationships, Family tree,
Lesson 3: At work
Grammar: Present simple and present continuous
Vocabulary : Jobs, types of work
Lesson 4: Traveling
Grammar: future simple, going to
Vocabulary: transport, travel items
Lesson 5: Review of lesson 1, 2, 3 and 4
Lesson 6: At the hotel
Grammar: Present Perfect Continuous
Vocabulary: Hotel related vocabulary
Lesson 7: Conditional sentences
Grammar: 1st, 2nd conditional
Lesson 8:Adverbs
Grammar: Adverbs of time, manner, frequency
Vocabulary: Sports and everyday actions
Lesson 9:The sentence
Grammar: The basic word order of an English sentence
Lesson 10: Review or lessons 6, 7, 8 and 9.
She studied English when she was in High School, she has basic
knowledge, she understands when someone speaks but she is a little shy
when it is her turn to speak. She knows present simple, past simple (some
problems with irregular verbs, and doesn’t remember some verbs)
Flashcards of different topics, worksheets, whiteboard, printed test.
The student will have to solve several exercise during the 10 lesson plan
and also will have 2 tests in order to review the learnt knowledge, she
expressed during the one to one interview, she likes tests and that’s the
reason why they are included.
Tasks
Phase Duration
1.
10
Topic
Warmer
2
10
Cooking and
restaurants
3
10
Countable and
uncountable
nouns
4
10
Quantifiers
5
10
Countable and
uncountable
nouns
Teacher activity
Being the first
class the teacher
must break the
ice and make the
student feel
comfortable, for
this is good to get
to know the
student, prepare
some questions.
Teacher must
introduce the
topic, show some
colored pictures
of a restaurant
and kitchen,
teach new
vocabulary
Explain how
countable and
uncountable
nouns works,
show some
pictures of sugar,
coffee, apples
and different
types of nouns,
ask the student
what type areThe teacher must
hand out the
printed
worksheets and
explain the
activity.
Student activity Resources
The student must Printed personal
answer the
questions.
questions asked
by the teacher.
The student must Colored
pay attention to
flashcards.
the new
vocabulary.
The student must Colored
answer if the
flashcards.
nouns in the
picture are
countable or
uncountable.
The student must
fill in the
sentences with
the correct
quantifier. When
finished the
student must read
the answers out
loud.
The teacher must With the
show the
vocabulary
flashcards again learned before,
and ask the
and knowing how
student to
to use quantifiers,
express with the the student must
vocabulary learnt express what she
before to say
Printed worksheet
with sentences to
fill in.
Colored
flashcards
what she sees in
the flashcards.
Hand out the text
to the student.
see in the
flashcards.
The student must Printed text to fill
read and then fill in with quantifiers.
in the text using,
many, no, some,
very little, plenty,
few.
6
10
Quantifiers
1
10
Warmer
2
10
4
20
5
20
The student must
answer if she
knows how
certain member
of a family Is
called, take notes
and pay attention
The student must
pay attention to
the teacher and
repeat the
paradigm.
What did Anna do Hand out a text
The student must
last summer?
where a girl
read the text out
narrates how
loud and then
many members explain how many
her family has
members Anna’s
and what they did family has and
during last
also what she did
summer
last summer
vacations.
vacations.
1
10
Warmer
2
15
Working
LESSON 2
The teacher must
find a way to
introduce the new
topic to the
student, this can
be done asking
who she lives
with or how many
siblings does she
have, in this way
we will introduce
the topic.
Family members The teacher must
draw a family tree
on the
whiteboard,
parents, siblings,
aunt, uncle,
grandparents.
Family memories The teacher must
introduce a
paradigm using
past simple.
LESSON 3
Explain a game
where the student
must in 2 minutes
write down all
words she knows
of a certain
category,
animals,
vegetables, at the
restaurant/kitchen
, and jobs, in this
way we introduce
the topic for the
day
With different
flashcards
including jobs and
The student must Whiteboard
answer the
teacher’s
questions about
her family.
Whiteboard and
colored
flashcards
Printed paradigm
and also a
whiteboard.
Printed text.
The student must
fully participate in
the activity
The student must Flashcards with
take notes and
different jobs and
according to what actions.
actions, the
teacher must
explain how
present continues
works, after a
short review of
present simple.
3
15
4
20
1
10
2
10
3
15
the teacher asks,
she must answer.
Combining
different
flashcards make
sentences using
present
continuous.
What are they
The teacher must The student must Colored
doing right now? have a colored
observe the
flashcard. Office
picture of an
picture and
situation
office day, with
explain what the
people doing
people are doing.
simple task such
as writing,
reading, siting,
talking, listening
to music,
drinking, eating,
with this ask the
student what they
are doing right
now.
Correct use of
Hand out the
The student must Printed worksheet
present
printed worksheet fil in correctly the
continuous.
with sentences to sentences using
fill in using
present
present
continuous and
continuous, 15
then the student
sentences in total must read out
loud and in case
of not
understanding
ask the teacher.
LESSON 4
Warmer
The class before
the teacher asked
the student to
bring an object
that has personal
value to her. Ask
the student to
explain why it has
such a value.
Brainstorm, travel The teacher asks
related
the student what
comes to her
mind when we
say travel, write
all the words on
the whiteboard.
Find someone in Hand out a
your family who… printed chart
where the student
can read several
travel related
action and ask
the student to
read them and
find a family
member/friend of
The student must Object brought by
explain why that the student.
object is special
for her, describing
as accurate as
she can the
details.
The student must Whiteboard,
say any travel
marker.
word related so
that the teacher
can write it on the
whiteboard.
The student must
read the actions
in the chart and
find someone she
knows who likes
or does that thing.
Then tell briefly
who that person
is and how often
he/she does it.
4
20
What are you
going to do in
Europe?
5
5
Homework
1
10
2
20
Review of past
lessons
3
30
Test
1
10
Warmer
2
10
Test feedback
her who does or
likes this thing
Hand out a text
about a
teenager’s plan
for his next trip to
Europe, in the
text there are
plenty sentences
with “will” and
“going to”
Hand out and
explain
homework for
next class.
LESSON 5
Homework review The teacher must
correct the
homework and
ask if the student
had any problem
solving it.
The student must Printed text.
read with detail
the text and
identify the
sentences where
there is a
reference to
future plans or
activities. After
reading the
student must
explain what the
text is about.
Printed
homework/book.
The student must
show the
homework to the
teacher and in
case she had
problems with it,
ask the teacher
for help
The teacher must The student must
sum up the past 4 say if she has
lessons,
problems with a
reviewing the
particular
vocabulary and
grammar tense or
grammar learnt. vocabulary in
specific so the
teacher can
explain It again.
Hand out a brief The student must,
and simple test, using her
where the student previous learnt
can prove she
knowledge solve
understood all
the test correctly.
that was taught
during the
previous lessons.
LESSON 6
The teacher must The student must
introduce the
express her
topic explaining opinion about
that next month certain hotel
she is planning to facilities and
go on a short
features.
vacation but she
is still not sure to
which hotel, ask
the student how
important certain
hotel facilities and
features are.
The teacher must
give back the
Homework done,
pen.
Whiteboard,
marker
Printed test,
relaxing music to
play.
Whiteboard.
Corrected test.
3
15
4
20
5
5
1
10
2
20
3
10
corrected test
from the lesson
before, and go
through it with the
student,
explaining what
mistakes she
made.
At the hotel
The teacher must
play 4 listening of
different situation
at the hotel.
These listening
include
vocabulary
related to the
topic.
Present perfect
The teacher must
continuous
explain the
grammar
structure of
present perfect
continuous, and
ask the student to
make some
sentences with it
Homework
Hand out the
homework, text
filled with “At the
hotel” vocabulary,
and sentences to
complete using
present perfect
continuous.
LESSON 7
Warmer
To introduce the
topic the teacher
can tell the
student that that
morning she
broke a mirror
and she is afraid
about having 7
years of bad luck,
ask the student if
she believes in
this and why. Ask
for another
examples.
Superstitions – 1st Showing some
conditional.
pictures about
worldwide
superstitions, ask
the student what
happens in those
different
scenarios.
Introduce 1st
conditional.
1st conditional
Hand out some
exercises so that
The student must Printed dialogues,
listen to the
listening.
listening and
complete de
dialogues printed.
The student must Paper, pen,
pay attention to
whiteboard,
the explanation
marker.
and then make
some sentences
using present
perfect
continuous.
The student, in
case of not
understanding,
must ask for
another more
detailed
explanation.
Homework.
The student must
give her point of
view about
superstitions and
numerate those
she knows about.
The student must Colored
pay attention to
flashcards,
the grammar
whiteboard.
explanation and
give examples
with the colored
flashcards shown.
Fill in the
sentences with
Printed worksheet
4
20
1
10
2
10
3
10
4
20
5
10
1
10
the student
practices 1st
conditional.
2nd conditional, I Hand out a text
have some
where a girl
problems with…. explains some
problems she
has. Explain the
grammar part of
2nd conditional
and how it works.
LESSON 8
Warmer
Ask the student
what she did
during the
weekend and
what plans she
has for the week,
reviewing past
simple and future
simple.
Adverbs
Explain what
adverbs are, the
types and how we
use them
correctly.
Adverbs.
Pass out pieces
of paper with key
words on it, and
ask her to write a
sentence that
contains an
adverb describing
how that stated
on the paper is
done. These
paper contain
also some sports
and everyday
actions.
Adverbs
Hand out a text
where many
adverbs can be
found, ask the
student to identify
them and say
what type they
are.
Homework
Hand out the
homework for
next class and
explain what
needs to be done.
LESSON 9
Warmer
Show a student
words cut out
from a sentence
and ask her to put
them in order.
the correct use of
the 1st
conditional.
Read the text out Printed
loud. Pay
worksheets.
attention to the
grammar
explanation.
Answer the
questions done
by the teacher
and provide
examples using
past simple and
future simple.
The student must Whiteboard
pay attention and
take notes.
The student must Pieces of paper.
follow the activity
writing sentences
about how
something is
done.
Read the text and Printed text,
identify correctly notebook, and
all the adverbs.
pen.
Then write them
down and classify
them.
Printed
homework.
Put the words in
order to make a
sentences that
makes sense.
Cut sentences.
2
10
3
10
4
20
5
10
Parts of speech
1
10
Warmer, what
would you do
if…?
2
20
Review of past
lessons
3
30
Test
Kind of sentence Explain the
different kinds of
sentences
Kind of sentence Ask the student to
identify what kind
of sentences are
the one given.
Then ask the
student to explain
why she thinks it
is that type
Parts of speech Explain the
and sentence
grammar part of
formulation
parts of speech
and ways to
identify each of
them, provide
several examples
and work together
with the student
to practice
identifying| them.
Hand out a
printed text where
the student needs
to identify parts of
speech in several
sentences.
LESSON 10
Ask the student
what she would
do in different
occasion, fun way
to review
conditionals,
provide fun
examples.
The teacher must
sum up the past 4
lessons,
reviewing the
vocabulary and
grammar learnt.
Age Level
Write down the
type of each
sentence. She
then needs to
explain why she
choose that
answer.
Notes
Printed worksheet
The student must Whiteboard.
pay attention to
the grammar
lesson and take
some notes about
it. Then work
together with the
teacher and
identify parts of
the speech. In
case of not
understanding,
ask about another
explanation
The student will Printed text
identify basic
parts of speech in
a reading
passage.
The student must
say what would
she do in a
certain situation
provided by the
teacher.
The student must
say if she has
problems with a
particular
grammar tense or
vocabulary in
specific so the
teacher can
explain It again.
Hand out a brief The student must,
and simple test, using her
where the student previous learnt
can prove she
knowledge solve
understood all
the test correctly.
that was taught
during the
previous lessons.
Students who attended
Name
.
Whiteboard,
marker
Printed test,
relaxing music to
play.
Melisa Miranda
23
Lower
Intermediate
She is dedicated, intelligent, wants to learn English for
herself. She uses the internet every day and that’s the
main reason she wants to learn English. She studies to
be a dentist, but is not interested in learning specific
vocabulary for her future job.