Amanda's Lesson Plans

Lesson One: Vocabulary
Lesson Two: Grammar


I had a lot of fun reviewing all of the online creators, so I just decided to make my lessons.  (I define intermediate as TOEFL 430-460)

LESSON ONE

Cell phone in toilet makes it flush hour

URL:  http://www.quia.com/jg/488359.html   -QUIA

Level: Intermediate (Vocabulary)

Procedures:

1.      Open the site.

2.      You have a choice of:

·        Printing the list of terms

·        Doing one of the activities

3.      Complete all activities to prepare yourself for the reading.

4.      Repeat these activities after reading the article to test memory!

 

Aims:  Introducing and reinforcing vocabulary both passively and actively.

Time:  Variable- between 10-30 mins.

Preparation Time:  10 minutes

Resources:

·        The New York Daily News:

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/132543p-118169c.html

·        Google's 'define' option.

NOTE: I would use this activity for both introduction to the reading (my second lesson) and review of that reading.  In lesson two, I want the students to be able to review the grammar rather than getting bogged down in the vocabulary.

 

LESSON TWO

Cell phone in toilet makes it flush hour

URL: http://lang.swarthmore.edu/cloze/cellintoilet_page.htm

Level: Intermediate  (Grammar)

Procedures:

1.      Open the site.

2.      Read the directions.

3.      Read the passage carefully and decide which ending needs to be written (ed or ing).

4.      When you're finished, check your answers by clicking the 'c' next to your answer.

5.      Check the ones you have incorrect.

6.      Clear the answers, and try again. Try to get 100% the second time.

Aims:  Review of simple past and past progressive. This also reviews some spelling rules for these endings. 

Time: 5-10 minutes

Preparation Time: Using the website Headlines-Makers (http://lang.swarthmore.edu/makers/index.htm) this did not take long at all.  It was a matter of finding the article.  For the cloze exercise, you also need to insert the breaks and brackets.  I think if you were to do this first in a word document and then copy and paste it into their editor, it could save you same time and frustration from reading in their tiny little box.  I played with the HTML code, too.

Resources:

The New York Daily News:

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/132543p-118169c.html

 

 


Dafne Gonzalez
May, 2004