Elementary
Reading
Title: A Caribbean Cruise
Target Language: Vacation vocabulary, Reading.
Description: Students work on different vacation vocabulary such as trekking, cruise, city break, etc. Then they read an ad for a cruise and answer comprehension questions with an optional writing assignment to end.
Duration: 45 minutes.
Lesson Plan / Date: 1R1 / June 2005
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Title: Chinese Lawns
Target Language: There is/are, reading, places of interest in a town.
Description: Students talk about sites of interest in their hometown before reading an article about an unusual property development in China. Some focus on there is/there are for describing towns and their amenities.
Duration: 50 minutes.
Lesson Plan / Date: 1R2 / August 2005
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Title: The Man Who Saves Ships
Target Language: Present Simple to talk about routines, unusual jobs.
Description: An article (quite challenging for this level) about Jake, a man who spends 4 months looking after a lighthouse. Using present simple to talk about routines with a particular focus on forming interrogative sentences. Optional writing activity at the end.
Duration: 55 minutes.
Lesson Plan / Date: 1R3 / March 2007
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Writing
Title: Write To Me!
Target Language: Letter writing, review of elementary grammar.
Description: Some basic letter writing and organising skills are taught, focusing on paragraph content and ordering too. Another letter is used for an error-correction exercise to review this level's grammar.
Duration: 65 minutes.
Lesson Plan / Date: 1W1 / August 2005
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Title: Please Write Soon
Target Language: Giving personal information, conjunctions, writing to a pen pal.
Description: Students write sentences about themselves, learn how to connect them using conjunctions and then respond to a fictional pen pal e-mail.
Duration: 50 minutes.
Lesson Plan / Date: 1W2 / December 2005
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Title: Order Is Everything
Target Language: Basic sentence structure & word order rules for writing.
Description: After a warm-up game based on identification of language parts, students review rules concerning the word order of verbs, adverbs and adjectives. Fun poker-based game to finish with which gets students thinking again about sentence structure.
Duration: 65 minutes.
Lesson Plan / Date: 1W3 / April 2006
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Title: Jenny@Friends.com
Target Language: Writing to a pen friend about yourself, present simple.
Description: Your students have found an interesting person to write to on a pen friend website. They read through Jenny's e-mail and put together their first response. Quick review of elementary grammar included.
Duration: 65 minutes.
Lesson Plan / Date: 1W4 / March 2007
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