Cambridge ESOL: SPELT/ICELT 2019-20
Lesson Plan Framework
Name Date & No. of Class Length Level of Skill in Focus/Form/Functi
Time Ss of English Focus on/Genre/Topic
Lesso
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Jennifer 21.08.19 40 09 50 Intermediate Reading Comprehension
mins
1. Main Aim: To enable students to infer, predict and comprehend.
2. Sub Aims: Students will be able to:
Develop reading skills.
Develop the ability to co-operatively in a group.
Develop the ability to deduce meaning from context.
3. Class Profile: The class has an intermediate level of proficiency. However they are some who
are pre-intermediate.
4. Previous Knowledge: They have knowledge and practice of solving comprehension’s questions
for meaning and understanding.
5. Rationale: Through this lesson plan students will learn to infer, predict and form opinion in
context. They will work in pairs to produce briefly explained answers for the comprehension.
6. Assessment and Evaluation:
The Teacher will informally asses participation of each participant in a pair.
The Teacher will formally asses on the basis of the answers each pair produce.
7. Language skills - Integrated skills: listening, reading, speaking and writing.
8. Language Function and system - Inference, prediction, reasoning and forming opinion.
9. Anticipated problems: Some students may have problems to infer.
10. Suggested Solutions: Some examples of inference will be shared with the class.
LESSON PLAN
Stages types of Time Procedure/Activity Skill in Focus Stage Aim
Interaction
Steps to be followed Genre/function
Pre Reading task 5mins The teacher will ask the students Sharing opinions and Speaking
to think, of things they cannot do speaking
Warm up in rain.
The teacher will get students talk
about their favorite things to do in
rain and do they like or dislike
Whole class rain. Why?
While Reading 10mins The teacher will divide the class Reasoning, organizing Develop their ability
task in pairs and give each pair and think logically to work in pairs and
jumbled paragraphs to sequence think logically
Skimming and give each paragraph a topic Speaking
sentence. Speaking
Pair work
(Worksheet A)
The teacher will jot down correct
sequence of the paragraphs and
the suitable headings on board
after discussing with the students.
While Reading 20mins The Teacher will ask students to Using contextual To enable the Ss to
task read one paragraph each reference for forming identify the
(voluntary) answers appropriate
response
The teacher will give Ss Writing
Scanning Worksheet (B) to discuss and fill
in the appropriate responses for
the questions given.
Pair work
Post Reading 10mins The teacher will discuss the Information exchange To enable Ss to
answers of the questions and will identify the
Whole class ask to present a reason for giving Speaking difference between
that answer. inference, detail
Error Correction and forming
opinion.
Post Reading 5mins The Ss will be asked to correct Practice writing To revise
their errors and submit correct
Individual Activity written answers the next day.
Reading Text
Summer Rain
The worst days of any summer are the rainy ones. We spend all year looking
forward to nice weather and long, hot days. All of winter, with its dreary
gray days and bitter cold, we dream of those endless days at the beach,
laying on the sand and soaking in the bright and burning sun. And then,
summer comes, and it rains.
As a child, I would wake up to rainy summer days and come close to crying.
It wasn’t fair. We suffered through months of school and miserable weather
for those scant ten weeks of freedom and balmy weather. Any day that I
could not spend at the beach or playing ball with my friends seemed like a
punishment for something I didn’t even do.
On those rainy summer days, I had nothing fun to do and could only sit
inside, staring out at the rain like a Dickensian orphan. I was an only child,
so there was no one else to play with. My father worked from home, so I was
not truly alone, but he could not actively play with me since he was
technically at work. It was those days that I would resign myself to whatever
was on television or any books that I could find lying around. I’d crawl
through the day and pray each night that the rain would not be there the
next day.
As an adult, though, my opinion of summer rain has changed. When you
have to work every day, summer is not as eagerly anticipated. Mostly, the
days run together, bleeding into each other so that they no longer seem like
separate entities and instead feel like continuations of the same long day.
Everything seems monotonous and dull, and an ennui or listlessness kicks
in. Such a mindset makes you cheer for anything new or different. I spend
the winter dreaming of summer and the summer dreaming of winter. When
summer comes, I complain about how hot it is. And then I look forward to
the rain, because the rain brings with it a cold front, which offers a
reprieve—admittedly one that is all too short—from the torture of 100° and
humid days. Rainy days are still the worst days of the summer, but summer
rain today means positively beautiful—and considerably cooler—weather
tomorrow.
Source:
READTHEORY®
TEACHING STUDENTS TO READ AND THINK CRITICALLY
[Link]
WORKSHEET A
Paste the paragraphs in sequence and write a topic sentence/heading
for each paragraph.
WORKSHEET B
1) The passage makes use of language that is
a. Metaphorical
b. Rhetorical
c. Formal
d. ambiguous
2) According to the passage, summer is different for adults
because
a. Rain brings with it cold temperatures for the following days
b. The weather is much warmer than it is for children
c. They do not get a long time off from work for the season
d. They better know how to occupy their downtime
3) According to the passage, which of the following is a true
statement about the narrator as a child?
a. He or she was often bored on summer days.
b. He or she preferred cooler weather.
c. He or she liked staying indoors.
d. He or she had no siblings
4) Compared to how he or she was as a child, the narrator as
an adult is
a. More realistic
b. Less excitable
c. More idealistic
d. Less calm
5) As used in the final paragraph, the word reprieve most nearly
means
a. A permanent conclusion
b. A short continuation
c. A higher level of pain
d. A temporary break
6) The author of this passage describes his or her feelings about
rainy summer days. In general, how do you feel about such days?
Do you agree with the author’s opinions, or do you not mind this
type of weather? Briefly explain your views below.
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7) In paragraph 4, the author describes why he or she no longer looks
forward to summertime the way he or she used to do as a child. What
do you think of this change? Do you believe that you will come to feel
this way one day? Why or why not?
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8) The author writes in paragraph 4 that he or she “spends the winter
dreaming of summer and the summer dreaming of winter.” On the
other hand, many people would say that they have specific favorite
seasons or times of year. How do you feel? Do you have a favorite
season, or do you always look forward to whatever is to come? Why?
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