LESSON PLAN 1 – ADRIANA LORENZO MAORTUA
Class level
Advanced
Lesson date
Classroom
1
Lesson duration
Progress expectation
The students should be able to use compound adjectives to form coherent
sentences with them. They will learn how to describe the character of a
person in a work environment by using personality adjectives, as they will
form sentences and discuss about the meaning of the words.
They will learn compound adjectives and personality adjectives. Usage of
positive personality adjectives and compound adjectives to describe a
person in the working environment at a competent level.
Future working skills
Prepare the students to be able to describe a person in a business
environment and to differentiate between adjectives and compound
adjectives.
The students should be able to know the difference between a compound
adjective and an adjective.
The students should be able to describe a person in a business
environment using personality adjectives and in a formal way.
The students should be able to write some sentences using new words.
They may already know the basic adjectives, how to form sentences using
the vast majority of the tenses, maybe they don´t now the conditionals yet.
They may be able to understand a more or less complicated text and guess
the meaning of some words by the context in which they are placed.
4 copies of exercises and 1 copy of a text for each student
I will ask them to write three sentences about what do they think companies
and human resources teams are looking for when they are starting a
selection process to fill in a job vacancy.
What skills will be needed in the future to be competent in the working
environment?
How will a person need to prepare her or himself to be competent in the
business environment?
The topic looked interesting to them so they were engaged in the class
from the beginning. When we were practicing the exercises they looked
very talkative trying to comment not only in their groups, but aloud, on
every topic discussed during the class. I used everything prepared to work
with them and had enough time to practice the produce activity. As I didn´t
use the back-ups, and one of them had vocabulary words from the text we
worked on at the beginning of the class, I gave them this document so they
could have it.
I feel the plan was not at the right level, the vocabulary words we worked
on, which were the compound adjectives were words maybe a bit too
difficult for them. I am not sure about the text they read, it took some people
longer to read but they didn´t make any comments about it.
All the students were absolutely fantastic, they were participative and active
during every exercise and that made the whole lesson very easy to
practice.
Their level of attention was 100% during the hour it lasted, some made very
good points in the vocabulary practice and really interesting questions. I
have the impression that time went by very quickly for all, the students and
myself.
Maybe my introduction was too long, for next lesson I have to cut it a little
bit and start with the warm up as soon as possible. Most of my explanations
of how to do the exercises were understood very fast but I am not very
confident about the vocabulary instructions, I think I confused them more
than I helped them. To avoid this happening again, in the next class I will
explain the grammar of the vocabulary first and then I will let them practice,
but first I will teach them the vocabulary.
Some of the students were confident and would say there was just one who
Subject
Topic
Aim
Objective
Knowledge assumed
Material & equipment
Learning assessment
Post lesson notes
Thursday September
11th 2014
1 hour
was over-confident, and only one as well who looked a little too shy to me.
In general, giving this class to the students was really satisfying but need to
change the way in which I explain and practice the vocabulary, and have to
be a little clearer when teaching it.
I think all the activities were appropriate for the level, except the text, which
was a little complicated for them and a bit too long, so next time I will make
a shorter text.
I think I didn’t focus on pronunciation that much and think it is a good idea
to try to practice it in the next class, as the way they pronounce is not as
good as it should be in an advanced level.
Tasks
Phase Duration
1
2M
Topic
Introduction
Teacher activity
I will introduce
myself to the
class. Then I will
ask the students
about their
professional life
to engage them
and help them
gain confidence.
Student activity Resources
They will be
None
listening to me for
twenty seconds
and then they will
introduce
themselves, they
will need to
explain the others
what have they
worked at, until
now.
2
4M
Warm up. Oral
activity
I will form groups
and they will need
to give ideas of
things that people
will need to do in
order to be
competent in the
working
environment.
3
7
Reading task
I will organize a
little discussion
about this two
topics:
How will a person
need to prepare
her or himself to
be competent in
the work
environment?
What adjectives
would you use to
describe a
character in a
work
environment?
I will ask them to
read a text and to
debate in groups
about:
What will be
needed in the
future to be
competent in the
working
environment?
They will be
reading and
debating about
the questions by
using adjectives
to describe a
character when
he/she is a
postgraduate
student with
Text
White board
4
12
Presentation of
vocabulary.
5
10
7 minutes
debating
3 minutes
correcting all
together
Vocabulary
practice activity
6
10 minutes
Vocabulary
practice.
7
10
Produce activity
8
5
Wrap-up.
many skills, ready
to work.
I will introduce the They will listen
None.
vocabulary
and then give
exercise and ask some answers.
them what welleducated means.
Once I have the
answer I will start
explaining that
well-educated is a
compound
adjective and
after I will
introduce the
compound
adjectives and I
will explain its
definition.
I will explain the They will be
A document with
activity and
discussing in
two columns, one
separate them in groups of two or for compound
groups of 2 or 3 three how to
adjectives and the
and ask them to match the
other one with the
match the
definitions and
definition, so they
definitions and
the compound
can match them.
the correct
adjective in a list. White board.
compound
adjective.
I will explain them They will be filling Just a document
how to do this
in the blanks by with these
exercise: fill in the their own.
exercises.
gaps. And move
around while they
are individually
practicing it.
Role play:
They will use the They will use the
students will have compound
compound
a conversation in adjectives to talk adjectives they
an office either
about someone just learnt.
talking good or
from their office.
bad about a
This is an oral
workmate.
task. After I will
correct the
possible mistakes
they could make.
I will ask them to They will use the none
talk five minutes words from the
about what
previous
companies and
exercises to form
human resources sentences and
teams are looking answer to
for when they
question the
start a selection question.
process to fill in a
job vacancy. This
is how I will check
if they have learnt
and assimilated
the concepts
explained in the
9
7M
Back up 1.
Vocabulary
activity
10
5M
Back up 2.
Reading activity
class.
I will give them
the vocabulary
from the text in a
paper in which
there are two
columns.
I will give them a
document in
which they will
need to mark
each of a list of
ideas with the
importance it has
for them.
They will need to A document with
match the
the two columns.
definition and the
vocabulary word
from the text.
They will mark
each of the ideas
in a list from 1 (if
it is not very
important) to 5 (if
it is really
important)
depending on
how important
each of them is,
when they are
looking for a job.
A document with
a list of ideas
some people
consider
important when
looking for a job.
Students who attended
Name
Elia Luna
Age Level
22 Advanced
Pilar Benito
55
Advanced
Conchi Peñalver
50
Advanced
Sergio Moreno
40
Advanced
Silvia González
38
Advanced
Guadalupe García 35
Advanced
Alicia López
Advanced
35
Notes
She was very active in the class commenting in every
activity and constructed the sentences very good. Her
pronunciation was on the average level of the class and
she uses the verb tenses correctly.
Very active, speaks well and constructs the sentences
very good although she uses very basic construction
and makes easy sentences. I believe this could be
because she doesn’t have a good grasp of the
vocabulary used in the English language. Her
pronunciation could be a bit better.
She is really sweet and tried speaking all through the
class being very active in the oral activities. Her
pronunciation would be a good skill to work on with her.
Very positive and active trough the class. Has a soung
knowledge of the English language and a vast
knowledge of vocabulary words. His pronunciation is not
as it could be, and will try to work on that if I teach him
again.
Constructs very good sentences and has a wide
diversity of vocabulary words to use, but again, as
happens with the vast majority of the class, her
pronunciation could be a bit better.
She didn’t seem to be as confident in her speaking as
the other members of the class. I don´t think she is in the
right level for her, maybe she should attend some
classes in the upper intermediate level just to gain some
more confidence and fluency not only in speaking but in
writing. This lost in confidence made her appear a bit
shy when participating in the oral activities.
Constructed very well structured sentences and was
participative, active and interested during the class. She
made very good points and said very interesting things
about the vocabulary words we used during the
exercises. Pronunciation, once again, looks like the
activity to work on in the next lesson.