Lesson Plan: New Year’s Resolutions
Time: 45 minutes
Level: pre-intermediate (teenagers/adults)
Materials: Worksheet : page1 – introduction and
vocabulary exercises, page 2,3 – main activities focusing on individual and pair work, developing student’s language production page 4 – words from vocabulary exercises for use with smaller groups of teenagers. Dictionaries
Aim: revision of vocabulary and practise speaking on the basis of authentic materials (the survey results)
Procedure:
- Warm-up: Ask students how they spent their New Year’s Eve. Write the expression New Year’s Resolutions on the blackboard and elicit it’s meaning. (3-5 min)
- Distribute Worksheet page 1 and discuss lead-in questions. In question 3 elicit the conclusion that the more specific the resolution is the easier it is to keep it. (5 min)
- Ask students to do vocabulary exercises individually. (5min) If the group is small and they are teenagers you can choose option with Worksheet page 4 where students are divided into two groups . In the first one each student gets either a verb or a noun on separate pieces of paper and they have to find their pair to make collocations. In the other group we do the same but with opposites.(5 min)
- Distribute Worksheet page 2 and 3 with our main activity. Write the word ‘survey’ on the blackboard and elicit its meaning. Ask one student to read the top 10 resolutions from the worksheet (3 min)
- Pair work: students divide resolutions into general and specific and present their work.(2 min)
- Pair work: students make general resolutions more specific – they can use dictionaries – and they present the results of their work (10 min)
- Each student creates his or her own list of resolutions (5 min)
- The last stage of the lesson can be making a class survey results based on students’ individual lists (5min)
Materials
Aleksandra Głaz
