celta lesson plan example

Cambridge ESOL CELTA lesson plan

name

date
4/7/13
tp lesson number
9
level
Upper Intermediate teaching time
60 mins number of students

learning aims (what do you want students to learn or get better at?)
Sts will practice listening and speaking using the audio of a radio show and questions. Sts will also practice using quantifiers which are commonly used.
N.B. include a separate vocabulary or grammar language analysis sheet if you are clarifying language

timetable fit and presumed knowledge (what do you assume students are familiar with?)
This will be introduced as a new topic and therefore the context will be set with the ‘Eureka’ word and its origin. Sts should be familiar with the quantifiers that will be covered in the Grammar and should find the exercises relatively easy.

anticipated problems (what are you or the students going to have problems with?) and solutions (how are you going to solve the problems?)
General
Problem: Level of Sts knowledge on grammar of quantifiers may vary in the class
Solution: Try to pair the weaker Sts with the stronger ones
Meaning
Problem: Some of the words used in the speaking/listening tasks may be unfamiliar to sts
Solution: Give meaning of words where possible and drill for correct pronunciation, use language analysis sheet for meanings.
Form
Problem: Sts may get confused with some of the quantifiers as they are similar to others
Solution: Get Sts to practice their own sentences in pairs and use the exercises to clarify the form.

materials/resources (what are you going to use? Remember to acknowledge the source of any published material here and on the handout i.e. put the title, author and publisher)
Page 92/93 & 142/143 of New English File – Upper Intermediate Students Copy – Latham-Koenig & Oxenden (OUP)
N.B. consider including a separate sheet with a board work plan

personal aims (which areas of your teaching will you be working on?)
To help Sts become more confident at speaking and expressing their views/opinions. To become more comfortable when teaching grammar.

stage (& aim)
(name of the stage and why you are doing it – how the students will benefit) procedure (what is actually happening, what the teacher is doing, what the students are doing) focus (who is talking to who, T – sts, sts – sts etc etc) time (how long you think each stage might take) tutor comments

Lead in to topic of Eureka

Get Sts to try experiment

Intro Listening ex of a radio show

Intro grammar topic of quantifiers

Teach form of quantifiers

Test use of quantifiers

Quiz to test knowledge of science

Write the word ‘Eureka’ on the board and try to elicit the meaning from Sts drill word in necessary and test if any of them know its origin

Give handout and get them to read the first paragraph giving the answers to the questions below

Then ask them the questions of who said it, what was he doing at the time, what had he just discovered.

Get Sts to read he next paragraph and try the experiment on the handout.

Start of by asking Sts what they think the picture on the handout refers to

Play audio track 6.11 and get Sts to discuss in pairs the questions on handout

Feedback as a class with the answers to the questions

Ask Sts to elicit what each of the photos are
Pre teach – Glue – Sticky substance, Weak (opposite of strong), Book token (paper voucher used to exchange for books)

Play audio track 6.12 and ask Sts to take notes.

Discuss in pairs

Play audio track 6.12 so Sts can analyse further

Feedback as a class

Ask Sts to elicit what a quantifier is and to give an example.

Test Sts knowledge of quantifiers by giving exercise on handout, working individually

Feedback of exercise

Teach the following with examples:
All/every/most
No/none/any
Both/neither/either

Between teaching each group get Sts to work in pairs to write their own sentences using each of the quantifiers

Get Sts individually to work through the first exercise where they circle the correct word (pair if they find it difficult)

Feedback

Working in different pairs get Sts to complete the second gap-fill exercise

Feedback

Quiz from page 93, get sts to work in pairs

Feedback and answers

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5 – 7 mins

2 – 3 mins

1 – 2 mins

2 – 3 mins

2 – 3 mins

3 – 4 mins

2 – 3 mins

2 – 3 mins

2 – 3 mins

2 – 3 mins

1 – 2 mins

2 – 3 mins

1 – 2 mins

7 – 8 mins

4 – 6 mins

3 – 5 mins

1 – 2 mins

3 – 4 mins

2 – 3 mins

4 – 5 mins

2 – 3 mins

N.B. please give a copy of your lesson plan and all handouts, preferably stapled together, to your tutor before you start teaching

vocabulary language analysis sheet – topic

item (including part of speech, stress and any problematic phonological features) meaning Innovation (n)

Eureka (exclamation) / juˈriːkə/

Deciduous (a) /dɪˈsɪdʒuəs/

Spectrum (n)

The introduction of new things, ideas or ways of doing something

Used to show pleasure at having found something, especially the answer to a problem

A tree that loses its leaves every year

A band of coloured lights in order of their wavelengths, as seen in a rainbow and into which light may be separated

grammar language analysis sheet – target language

form and phonlogy
Quantifiers:
All/Every/Most -
All – all or all (of) the + a plural or uncountable noun (all can’t be used without a noun) – All animals need food
Everything/Everybody + singular verb – Everything is very expensive
Most of + an object pronoun – Most people live in cities
Every + singular countable noun to means ‘all of a group’ – Every room has a bathroom

No/None/Any -
No + a noun and a positive verb or any + noun + negative verb to refer to a zero quantity –
None + of + pronoun/noun
Any (anything, anyone) + positive verb –

Both/neither/either –
Both/neither/either + of + object pronoun e.g. us, them etc. or + of the + noun

Both = A and B
Either = A or B
Neither = not A and not B

meaning

All= general, all (of) the = specific
All can’t be used without a noun

Use both, either or neither to talk about two people, things actions, etc.