This lesson plan teaches students about traveling to different countries in the past tense. Students will learn how to use mind maps to organize their ideas and will write a short text about a past trip. They will then present their writing to the class, using pictures and magazines. The teacher models writing a sample text about a trip to London and has students work in groups to create their own mind map and text. Students are assessed on their grammar, verb conjugation, and pronunciation during the speaking presentation. To finish, students decorate the classroom with posters about their trip.

1. Travel can be fun!
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2. Lesson Plan
Intermediate – pre-advanced level
Materials:
• Video 1
• Video 2
• Mind map example
• TextTrip to London
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3. Lesson Objectives
**for a 60 minutes class
Students will be able to:
• speak about their travel experience in the past
tense verb
• write a text using a “mind map”
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4. Warm Up and Objective Discussion
• 1. show video 1 (1min)
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5. Video 1
attention catcher (1min)
wait 2 seconds and click to watch the video
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6. 1 - Recalling information
briefing - (1min)
In our last class we learnt:
• Verbs past tense: go, come, to be, see,
Give some examples:
• I went to...
• I was
• I saw...
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7. 2 - Introducing New Information
Today we will learn how to use a mind map to
organize our text:
• Mind Map example:
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8. Mind Map
example
Subject
...
general
what...
What
I...
......
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Like...
dislike
Good things...
bad things

9. 3 - Informing the objectives
Our objectives in this class are:
• Use verbs in the past tense and (grammar)
• Use a mind map to write our text (wrinting)
• Speak about our trip making a class presentation.
(pronunciation) - assessment
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10. 4 - Asking for understanding
Any question about our activity?
Check if they understood how to use the mind map.
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11. Instruct and Model
• Show the vídeo 2
Students have to choose one of these
countries to write and speak about
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12. Video 2
inspiring vídeo
wait 2 seconds and click to watch the video
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13. Instruct
Prior to this lesson ask the students to bring maps and
pictures of places, travel magazines to the class.
They have to write a text with the topics (use the
previous mind map)
Later they have to make a presentation speaking
about the travel
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Mind Map
example
My trip
to...
By...
(transportation)
How it looks
like...
Where...
What I...
Visited...
Me and ...
Like...
dislike
Good things...
bad things

15. Modelling
• Give the text below as an example: (make it in a paper sheet)
My trip to London
I went to London last month with my family. I visited the Tower of
London near the Thames and saw the Beefeaters, the guardians of the
Tower.
Then, we visited Big Ben and Westminster Abbey. Because we were
hungry, we had lunch at the 'Sherlock Holmes Pub' a famous place near
Trafalgar Square. After lunch, we decided to do some shopping at
Picadilly Circus.There were lots of shops there!
When night came, we had dinner at Covent Garden and heard some jazz
bands. We had a good time and tasted the famous Irish coffee. At the
end of the evening, we were walking back to our hotel but we got lost in
the streets! A cold wind was blowing and I got the flu!
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16. Guided Practice
Now with the mind map and the text “My trip to London”:
Make groups of students to work together
They have to make a mind map relating their trip or a dream
country
Organizing ideas:
After finish the mind map they have to write their text (5
paragraphs) in a paper.
Use magazines and pictures to ilustrate.
In this point the teacher has to evaluate the grammar and
organization of the tex.
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17. Independent Practice
At home
Ask to the students to make a poster with
pictures to ilustrate their presentation in the
next class with important phrases.
Use also to decorate the classroom after
finishing the lesson!
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18. Assessment
individual speaking
60 minutes class
Now it is time to present what they have written in the
last class:
• Ask to the groups to come to the front and presente
their “Travel” experience. (prior to begin the class,
calculate how many groups and how many minutes
each one can have to make their presentation)
• They can make a reading or a dialogue presentation
telling to the class what they have writen. Each student
has to speak
• In this point the teacher has to evaluate the
pronunciation and grammar.
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19. Assessment
group/pair writing
60 minutes class
To evaluate their writing use the text made in class
Use the rubric below:
• G – grammar error
• 0-1 errors – very good / 2- 3 good / 4-5 average / above 6 need
to review
• V – verb conjugation error
• 0-1 errors – very good / 2- 3 good / 4-5 average / above 6 need
to review
• Pr – pronunciation
• 0-1 errors – very good / 2- 3 good / 4-5 average / above 6 need
to review
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20. Finishing the work
Decorating the classroom!
This is the best part of this
work, students engaged to
decorating their classroom
with their posters.
Stick their works around the
classroom or in na event in the
school, you can make a
presentation for all the
students.
BELIEVE METHEY LOVE IT!
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