APPLIED LINGUISTICS for BA Students in English
PLANNING
Short-term planning – Lesson plans
A sample lesson plan
Teacher: Ágnes Olgyay
Supervising teacher: Mária Blaskovics
Date: 08.02.2006., 9 o’clock
Duration: 45 minutes
School: György Békésy Secondary School
Class: 10/A
Group profile
There are 16 students in the group. They started learning English at primary school. They enjoy English lessons and some of them speak at pre-intermediate level. They have six lessons a week, and they use English even in the breaks (just for fun).
Place
The classroom has a special English atmosphere. The walls are decorated with the maps of the USA and the pieces of work compiled by the students. The furniture is suitable for groupwork as well as for pair-work.
Main aims
Content aims: The USA and Hungary. To extend the students’ cognitive domain, their global knowledge about American and Hungarian cultures – increasing students’ awareness of the target culture as well as about their own culture by introducing facts and behavior models characteristic of the two cultures.
Language aims: expanding the students’ vocabulary and their language awareness. The Past Simple versus the Present Simple Tenses Vocabulary: Spots of interest, historical monuments of Hungary, Bp.
Thinking skills: metacognitive strategies; centering learning Cognitive skills (e.g. matching, identifying, drawing conclusions)
Social skills: to train students how to cooperate, how to work in teams, share responsibility
Materials
- Handouts / photocopies (charts about Hungary, task sheets)
- CD player and the CD of „Hello Tourist”
- Posters and pictures of Hungary ( + Blue-stick)
- -New Headway Pre-Intermediate Student’s Book and Workbook
