Lesson Plan (grade 11 – advanced) Period : 14 ppt

- when the game is over, elicit from Sts the verbs used for the senses.. Transition: Today we will practice using sense verbs to talk about the activities of the senses.. Expected: see,

Lesson Plan (grade 11 – advanced)

Period : 14 Preparation date : 24/9/2011

Unit : 2 Lesson : Language Focus- Word

Study

I Aims :

- By the end of the lesson, the students are able to use verbs of the

senses

II Lexical items :

- sense verbs : see, hear, … - wander

III Structures :

- you could have left it at home

- It must have rained last night

IV Teaching aids:

- textbook - handouts - pieces of paper

- chalk and board

V Techniques :

- writing-based ( communicative approach.)

VI Procedures :

State/time Teacher’s and

students’ activities

Blackboard Materials

1

warm-up

(4’)

Games: Lucky symbol

- Write the words eyes, ears, nose, tongue,

hands, / skin and a lucky symbol on small pieces of paper, fold them up and put them

in a hat

- Tell Sts to work in 3 groups

- a representative from each group will take turns to pick up a piece

The questions used for each word are:

- What can you do with your

… (eyes)… ?

- Who can’t do this?

- What animals are good at ….?

- s

of paper, and read the

word The students

from the other groups

will make 3 questions

for this group For one

suitable answer, the

group scores 1 point

The lucky symbol will

the group 2 points The

group with more points

will win the game

- when the game is

over, elicit from Sts the

verbs used for the

senses

Transition: Today we

will practice using

sense verbs to talk

about the activities of

the senses

Expected: see,

smell, taste, touch, hear

Unit 2: Language Focus – Word Study

- write down on the board :

2 Word

study

(40’)

(10’)

Sense verbs

- Elicit from Sts

sentences with the sentence verbs

- Write down on the board three sentences and ask Sts to

distinguish the verbs used

- T gives feedbacks

- Tells Sts that there are two groups of verbs : Transitive followed by

a I can smell something burning

b This flower smells good

c Its smells like arrange

Senses Trans V Intrans V

Sight see

- textbook

- Chalk and board

(10’)

an object, and intransitive or linking verbs

- T makes notices : these linking verbs and most of these transitive verbs are not used in the present continuous

Activity 1: Talking about the senses (task

a, p31) (10’)

- Tell Sts to work in pair and make questions and answers about the

look

Taste taste taste

Smell smell smell

Hearing hear sound

Touch touch feel

1 eyes

- what do you use

- chalk & board

- Textbook

(10’)

(10’)

senses, based on the words give

- Go around to monitor and note down error for correction later

- Call on some pair ( close and open pairs) to act out their

conversations

- Give feedback and comments

Activity 2 : Answering the quiz ( Task b, p31)

- Ask Sts to answer the questions in task b and then with a partner ask and answer the

questions

- Call on some pairs to

your eyes for?

- I see with my eyes

Without my eyes , I couldn’t se colors, things and people round me

2 ………

The Expected answers:

1 Dogs are good at smelling

2 He uses fingers to touch raised dot on a sheet of paper

3 He uses his

- chalk & board

- textbook

-Handout

act our their exchanges

and go over the answers

with the class

Activity 3 :

Transformation

- T gives each St a

handout of the

transformation exercise

- Ask Sts to read the

sentences and rewrite

them as directed

- Go over the answers

with the class:

1 this coffee tastes

bitter to me

tongue to taste the dishes he has cooked

4 No, he can’t bc he cannot hear

Rewrite the sentences as shown, using sense verbs

Example: I like the smell of this

perfume It’s good

This perfume smells good to me

1 I don’t like the bitter taste of this coffee

This

………

2 that water still feels hot, so …

3 the music sounds terrible to him

2 Don’t touch that water It’s still hot

 That water

…………., so don’t touch it

3 He thinks the music is terrible

 The

………

5

Homework

(1’)

Review vocabulary

Ask Sts to learn by heart the sense verbs and how to use them