Intermediate
Reading
Title: The Shrinking Lake
Target Language: Discussing the environment, reading.
Description: A lesson based around environmental problems which has as its focus point an article about Lake Chad. The lesson finishes with a speaking game about different problems in the environment.
Duration: 70 minutes.
Lesson Plan / Date: 3R1 / August 2005
|
American English
Version
|
British English
Version
|
Title: This Car Is Cheap
Target Language: Discussing car choices, car vocabulary.
Description: Students decide what the most important things to consider are when buying a new car. Reading about four people looking to purchase a new car. Car ad vocabulary.
Duration: 45 minutes.
Lesson Plan / Date: 3R2 / August 2005
|
American English
Version
|
British English
Version
|
Title: The Disastrous Date
Target Language: Internet dating, third conditional.
Description: Students meet Bruce and Sheila who have met on a dating site but now ready themselves for meeting in person for the first time. Three different types of reading - chat, e-mail and diary. Grammar focus: third conditional.
Duration: 70 minutes.
Lesson Plan / Date: 3R3 / August 2005
|
American English
Version
|
British English
Version
|
Title: Hook, Line & Sinker
Target Language: Fishing, the passive.
Description: Fishing and fishermen. The tale of one young angler in a reading with a paragraph gap-fill exercise which gets students thinking about textual discourse. Grammar focus on the passive and the reasons for using the passive.
Duration: 55 minutes.
Lesson Plan / Date: 3R4 / August 2005
|
American English
Version
|
British English
Version
|
Title: The Traveling Wilburys
Target Language: Be Used To/Get Used To.
Description: The reading in this lesson is about a traveling circus family and the difficulty the children of the family have in adapting to a new life every time they travel to another country. Some focus on both the form and meaning of be/get used to structures.
Duration: 55 minutes.
Lesson Plan / Date: 3R5 / October 2005
|
American English
Version
|
British English
Version
|
Title: Alternative Medicine
Target Language: Use of infinitive and gerund in sentence patterns, alternative and traditional health care.
Description: The reading in this lesson is a set of four mini-articles recounting four people's experiences of traditional and alternative medicine. There is also a strong focus on verb patterns and the use of gerund/infinitive after certain verbs, adjectives and prepositions.
Duration: 80 minutes.
Lesson Plan / Date: 3R6 / March 2007
|
American English
Version
|
British English
Version
|
Writing
Title: Reading Yourself
Target Language: Composition writing, student self-correction of written work.
Description: A lesson which looks both at how to go about tackling a composition question, but mainly to get students looking at their own errors they make when writing in English: looking at issues such as verb usage, spelling, punctuation and prepositions.
Duration: 60 minutes.
Lesson Plan / Date: 3W1 / September 2006
|
American English
Version
|
British English
Version
|
Title: The Review
Target Language: Writing a formal letter, deciding on content & style.
Description: A very negative review of your school has appeared in an educational publication. Your students need to formulate a written response to this review, thinking about the content, style and tone.
Duration: 80 minutes.
Lesson Plan / Date: 3W2 / October 2006
|
American English
Version
|
British English
Version
|
Title: Raid On Dawson Industries
Target Language: Writing newspaper article from eyewitness accounts, bias in journalism.
Description: A writing activity based around a raid on an animal laboratory. Your students play the roles of journalists working for different newspapers and magazines - and each publication will present their own side of the story!
Duration: 70 minutes.
Lesson Plan / Date: 3W3 / October 2006
|
American English
Version
|
British English
Version
|
|
