Rebecca Smith

Listening/Speaking Lesson Plan

Unit Theme: Everyday Life Lesson Subject: Describing a daily schedule Speaking Strategy: Using proper time terminology Level: Intermediate-High Beginning Lesson Duration: 50 minutes Materials/Equipment: Computer with internet access and speakers (be prepared with listening recording at http://www.esl-lab.com/schedule/schedrd1.htm), handout with pictures of daily activities, chalkboard/chalk Objectives:

• Terminal: 1. Students will be able to describe their daily schedules. 2. Students will be able to use proper time terminology to report what activities they

take part in at which hours of the day. • Enabling:

1. Students will listen to a dialogue and match the activities spoken about with pictures on a handout, then identify at which time each activity happens.

2. Students will create dialogues, using personal information to speak about their schedules. They will incorporate the speaking strategy (using time terminology) into these dialogues.

3. Students will share what they learned from their dialogues about their partners’ schedules with the whole class.

Sequencing: Review/Warm-up: 5 minutes

• Review daily activity words that were practiced in the last class, since they are necessary for describing schedules (e.g. wake up, eat breakfast, go to school, go to work, come home, etc.). Have students work in pairs for a few minutes to tell each other which activities they participated in yesterday. The teacher will observe the dialogues to check retention from the previous lesson. If the students are struggling with elements from the previous lesson, the teacher will know where re-teaching is needed.

Introduction: 5 minutes • Preface: When you talk about your daily schedule, you often want to share information

about time. • Have a conversation with students about the importance of knowing what time it is in

American culture. Have students share how the concept of time is different in their native culture.

Presentation: 10-15 minutes

• Strategy: Using proper time terminology • Explain how to talk about time in English. • Write several ways people say what time it is on the board: at __ o’clock, at __-thirty,

at half-past __, etc. • Have students repeat each time phrase after you explain it. • Also review the terms: morning, noon, afternoon, evening, night.

• Listen to a dialogue in which a man describes his daily schedule to another person. Students will match the activities spoken about to pictures of activities on a handout, then will write at which time each activity takes place next to the picture of that activity.

• Preview the pictures on the handout. Have students describe what is happening in each picture in small groups, then go over each picture as a class.

• Listen to the dialogue, repeating several times. For the first few times, have students focus primarily on which activities are being described. They should circle the pictures on the handout that correspond to the activities in the dialogue.

• Once they have determined which activities are described and have matched them with pictures on the handout, listen again and have students write the time at which each activity happens next to the picture of that activity.

Practice: 10 minutes

• Dialogue • Put students into pairs. Have them come up with a dialogue similar to the one already

listened to, in which one student asks the other about his/her daily schedule. In the dialogue, the students should give the time at which they usually perform each activity.

• Tell the students that they should describe what they actually do each day, but that they can use the activities on the handout if they need ideas about what to talk about.

• Once the students have come up with a dialogue, they should switch roles, so that the student who just described his/her schedule now asks the other student about his/her daily schedule.

Evaluation/Performance: 7-10 minutes

• Students will take turns reporting what they learned about their partners’ schedules to the whole class.

• As each student performs, the teacher will be able to evaluate how well they have learned to use proper time terminology when describing daily schedules.

Summary: 3-5 minutes

• Review as a class the different ways which can be used to express time in English

Application/Homework: • For homework, students are to interview at least one English speaker about his/her daily

schedule, ensuring to ask about timing. They will take notes during this interview, which will be turned in during the next class period.

Contingency Activity: 5-10 minutes

• In small groups, students will brainstorm about what the president’s daily schedule might be like. They will describe which activities he participates in, and at which times.

Objectives Review:

• Terminal: 1. Students will be able to describe their daily schedules. Listen to the reports that

students give about their dialogues. Are they able to describe their daily schedules? 2. Students will be able to use proper time terminology to report what activities they

take part in at which hours of the day. Did students use this proper terminology? • Enabling:

1. Students will listen to a dialogue and match the activities spoken about with pictures on a handout, then identify at which time each activity happens. Collect the handouts on which students identified the activities and times. Were they accurate in their description of the dialogue? What could be the cause of discrepancies?

2. Students will create dialogues, using personal information to speak about their schedules. They will incorporate the speaking strategy (using time terminology) into these dialogues. Listen as students create dialogues. Are they successfully incorporating time terminology into their descriptions of their daily schedules?

3. Students will share what they learned from their dialogues about their partners’ schedules with the whole class. Listen as students report to the class. Were they able to understand their partners’ dialogues, and are they clear as they share the information?

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