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May 2005

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Rae's / Valerie's / Dennis' / Masaki's / Mary's / Katherine's / Marjorie's

-Rae's lesson plan
Level: High intermediate

Skill: Listening and reading

Goal: Develop academic vocabulary and assessment of previously taught grammar

-Valerie's lesson plan

Objective:

The objective is to have students recognize and learn each other’s effective reading strategies in identifying main ideas, topic sentences, supporting details, transitional relationships within and between sentences, patterns of organization, and vocabulary in context.

-Dennis' lesson plan (http://www.d-oliver.net/PP104/)

Learners:

This sample lesson unit is targeted at intermediate-level adult and young
adult students of English as a Second and/or Foreign Language.

The objectives of this lesson are to provide students with an introduction
to phrasal verbs in terms of their lexical and syntactic characteristics:

• their idiomatic nature;
• their often informal register;
• their syntactic behavior (for transitive phrasal verbs with objects).

Dennis created a blog where he describes the process he followed to design his lesson. Check it out at: http://www.esolthoughts.blogspot.com/

-Masaki's lesson plan

Target: This is for advanced ESL students who are learning in a reading/writing class. The class also focuses on grammar.

Goal: Students will understand the meaning of education in the United States.

Language aim: Gerund

Strategy aim: Summarizing

Objectives:
1. Students will discuss their opinion about education.
2. Students will read and comment the article “Shopping for an Education.”
3. Students will work on grammar exercise on the website.
4. Students will write a paragraph summary of “Shopping for an Education"

-Mary's lesson plan

Function: Writing across the curriculum

Content
Vocabulary for countries, nationalities and languages
Form of be + past participle used in passive voice

The lesson is online at http://www.lessonpro.org/home/my_teacher_lessons.htm
Select teacher: Grove; postal code: 86001; lesson password: id525

- Katherine's lesson plan: Parts of Speech

Level: College

Skill: Grammar and Vocabulary

Objective: Students should be able to:
· communicate effectively.
· identify parts of speech.

-Marjorie's lesson plan: What’s Your Sign?
Course: Reading/Writing
Level: Intermediate/advanced pre-university students
Function: Describing people and personalities
Asking questions
Expressing opinions
Content: Vocabulary—astrological signs, personality descriptors
Grammar—WH-questions, conjunctions
Objective: By the end of this lesson, students will be able to write a paragraph explaining why they agree/disagree with the personality characteristics associated with their zodiac signs.