Pedagogy. 2nd Edition

SAMPLE LESSON PLAN

What follows here is a lesson plan" designed for an intermediate level pre-university class at the American Language Institute at San Francisco State University. The 16 students in the class range in age from eighteen to twenty-five. Their general goals are academically oriented. Their native languages are Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Indonesian,Thai, and Arabic.

1. 
   Goal
   

Students will increase their familiarity with conventions of telephone conver-

sations.

2. 
   Objectives
   

Terminal O_*5ectioe^s:

1. 
   Students will develop inner "expectancy rules" that enable them to predict
   

and anticipate what someone else will say on the phone.

2. 
   Students will solicit and receive information by requesting it over the tele- phone.
   

*I am grateful to Karen Tenney for permission to adapt one of her lesson plans here.

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Enabling objectives:

1. 
   Students will comprehend a simple phone conversation (played on a tape recorder).
   
2. 
   In the conversation, students will identify who the participants are, what they are going to do, and when.
   

Students will comprehend and produce necessary vocabulary for this topic.

4 Students will comprehend cultural and linguistlc background information regarding movies, theaters, and arranging to see a movie with someone.

5. 
   Students will infer what a second speaker is saying on the phone by“eaves- dropping" on one speaker only.
   
6. 
   Each student will ask someone to go to a movie with him or her and respond appropriately to a reciprocal request.
   
7. 
   ^{Students will get "live" movie information over the phone.}
   

3. 
   Materials and Equipment
   

tape recorder with taped conversation

a telephone (if possible) or a toy facsimile eight different movie advertisements movie guide page for extra-class work

4. 
   Procedures
   

1. 
   PRE-LISTENING
   

(The teacher places a phone on the front table. It will be used later.)

To point the students’ thinking in the right direction for this lesson, we will start off with the following “model” phone conversation on tape. It is very short and very easy, well below the students’ level. There is no question that they will understand it fully; its purpose is to set up a framework for the lesson.

2.