Lesson Plan

LESSON PLAN 

Student-teacher: Ecem Nur Okul

Learning Stage of Class: 8^th Grade

Age Level / Grade of Class: 13-14

Size of Class: 30

Time: 40 minutes

AGE GROUP                          : 13-14 LEVEL OF PROFICIENCY  :  Intermediate LESSON TITLE                     : Future Tense ‘will’ DURATION                           : 40 minutes TEXTBOOK                           : - EQUIPMENT NEEDED        : Time machine from cartoon, pictures from future, letters

OBJECTIVES/GOALS: 1. Students will be able to write a short text expressing their future.. 2. Students will be able to describe in simple terms their future. 3. Students will be able to use ‘will’ to make spontaneous decisions, predict about future, give a promise for future. 4. Students will be able to create their own sentences by using ‘will’. 5. Students will be able to distinguish between present and future events.

INTRODUCTION: (How will you introduce the teaching skill/concept?)  Aim: Make the students understand the meaning of future by asking questions and talking about future actions. Time: 5 minutes  Teacher starts the lesson by asking questions to students about Tv serials and talks about one of the Tv serials, ‘’Doctor who’’. Teacher uses the time machine which is placed in the serial to talk about future.

STAGES OF THE LESSON: 1. Lead-in (introduction): Aim: Present the future tense through a text. Time: 2-3 minutes Aids: Time machine from cartoon and letters. Teacher gives students a letter  that includes time traveller’s adventure in the future.  Teacher reads the text to students. Then teacher and students talk about it 2. Elicitation: Aim: to elicit the function of the future from the students using concept questions. Time: 2-3 minutes; interactive patterns: T-S Guide the students toward the new tense and its function through the following concept questions: T: Does Matt Smith travel to future? S: Yes. T: Which year? S: 2100 T: Are there flying cars in the future? S: Yes. T: Are there flying cars now? S: No. T:Will we have robots in future? S:Yes T: Do we have robots now? S: No. T: Do we see these kinds of animals now? S: No. T:Great. So, in this letter, Matt Smith tells us  about some of things that he sees in the future. While we are talking about actions or things that starts in the future, we use ‘will’. We call this tense ‘the future tense’. ( Write the name on the board) 3. Explanation:  Teacher hangs the timeline to the board. Then teacher gives three usages of  ‘will’ ( Prediction, promise, spontaneous speech) with examples. Teacher explains forms of will (positive, negative and question forms). Teacher gives the future time expressions by hanging the cards that are written time expressions on the timeline. Then teacher makes sentences using the cards on the board. 4. Accurate reproduction (controlled practice):  Aim: to check students’ comprehension about the text including future tense. Time: 5 minutes Teacher gives worksheets to each students that includes a dialogue and asks students to read and answer the questions. Then teacher talks to students about their answer. 5. Guided practice (semi-controlled)    :  Aim: To make sentences by using ‘will’ and correct word. Time:5 minutes Teacher gives students worksheets. In the worksheet, there are ten sentences and there are blanks in the sentences. Teacher wants students to fill in the blanks with the correct words from the word box by using ‘’ will’’. 6. Immediate creativity (free practice)  :  Aim:  to make predictions using ‘will’. Time: 10 minutes Teacher divides the class into groups of 9 or 10 and asks students to sit in a circle. Teacher tells the students that they are going to practice writing predictions about their classmates using ‘will’. Teacher gives a copy of the worksheet to each student and tells them to write their name at the top. Also, Teacher tells them to write a year  in future and write this at the top of the worksheet. Students then fold their paper, so the name and year cannot be seen and pass the paper to the student on their right. Then teacher demonstrates the activity, asks the students to look at the first section (Home) and elicit ideas for completing the sentence, e.g. You will live in a mansion / a big house / a small condo / a hut, etc. Students complete the sentence, and then fold the paper so their sentence is hidden and pass it to the student on their right. This process continues until the worksheet has been completed. Then, students give the paper back to the person whose name is at the top of the worksheet. Teacher has the students read their predictions to the group and tells the students to discuss the predictions and decide who will have the most interesting life. Then get feedback from around the class.   CLOSURE :  Teacher makes repetition the forms of  ‘will’ and summarize the lesson. CONTINGENCY PLAN : Teacher asks the students to travel to future with a time machine and write a letter from the future.