assignment 2 Mariana Garrone Hot potatoes

1. Lesson plan 1 Mariana Garrone
Level: intermediate
Age: 14
Course: 3rd
secondary school
Book: Countdown to FCE. Unit 3
Communicative goal: talking about stories
Grammar focus: -
Vocab focus: types of stories, adjectives
Recycled language: simple past
Class time: 60’
The class will take place in the computer lab. There are ten computers and a board. Students
will use the computers in pairs.
ACTIVATION: Teacher will ask the students about their likes and dislikes on literary genres. (5’)
Then they will do a JCROSS activity on vocabulary: types of stories/ genres. (15’)
Objective: to assess knowledge of vocabulary
Jcross

2. Students will read the text “a Sherlock Holmes mystery story” (book page 25. SEE APPENDIX)
and answer the
reading comprehension questions with JQUIZ. (20’)
Objective: to assess comprehension of the text
Jquiz

3. After doing the jquiz, they will work on vocabulary: adjectives. First they will do exercises 1 and
2 from the book (page 26. SEE APPENDIX) (10’)
Then they will do a JMATCH activity on vocabulary (10’)
Objective: to be able to make associations of vocabulary items with synonyms
jmatch

4. Lesson plan 2
Level: intermediate
Age: 14
Course: 3rd
secondary school
Book: Countdown to FCE. Unit 3
Communicative goal: talking about past events
Grammar focus: past perfect
Vocab focus: -
Recycled language: simple past, past continuous
Class time: 120’
COMPREHESION AND CLARIFICATION
Students will read the text on page 26 “Cottingley fairies” (SEE APPENDIX) to elicit the past
perfect. Then they will do exercise 2 on page 27 (simple past vs past perfect) (20’)
APPLICATION
After that, they will do a JCLOZE activity on past tenses. Ss have to complete the gaps with
simple past, past perfect or past continuous. (15’)
Objective: to practise tenses
Jcloze

5. Teacher and students will discuss orally the format of a story and then they will do a JMIX
activity to practise this structure. They have to put the sentences of a given story in order. (10’)
Objective: to do a pre-writing activity and get acquainted with the structure of a story.
Then the students will write a story to hand in. (60’)

6. APPENDIX