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LESSON PLAN

A. Students and Setting

Students:

Secondary School Students

Age: 11-14 years old

Level: Pre-intermediate to Intermediate

Setting:

Australia International English School, 182-184-186 Le Van Viet, Tang Nhon Phu B, District 9, Ho Chi Minh
City

Number of students: 14 students

Class duration: from 5p.m. to 7p.m. on Tuesday and Thursday

B. Lesson background

Unit 3: Do it before you’re 30!

Preceded by Unit 2: I think it’s exciting!

C. Aims and Objectives

Aims:

+ Provide students with new words and phrases of extreme sports and activities

+ Help students practice talking about their experiences

Objectives:

+ The students are expected to learn and use new words and phrases of extreme sports and activities to make
sentences

+ The students are expected to practice talking about their experiences

D. Materials and Sources

Materials: Smart Choice 2 3rd Edition – Oxford University Press, Unit 3: Do it before you’re 30!, pages 16-17

Whiteboard, LCD, Laptop, Speaker

E. Procedures

Stages & Anticipated problems

Stage aims Teacher activity Students activity
Timing & Solutions

Warm-up Help the students Divide the class into 2

get in the mood for teams, draw a line on the
(5 minutes) the class board, make the students
stand in two lines

Ask the students from each Take turn and go to Some students may not
Encourage the
team to take turn to go to the board to write remember the spelling
students to
the board and write the sports names and of the words  ask the
recollect names of
name of one sport at a time action verbs students standing in line
sports and action
in 2 minutes to spell the words for
verbs for later use
in the lesson the one writing
Ask the students to do the
same for the second round
but they have to write action
verbs instead in 2 minutes

Count the correct words

from each team, ask the Say out loud the
students to say out loud the correct words
words, the team with the
most correct words wins
and gets 5 points from the
teacher

Lead-in Introduce the Ask for some students’ age Answer the The students does not
lesson to the teachers’ questions know what to they want
students Ask them to look at the title to do before 30  give
(2 minutes)
of the lesson (Do it before them some ideas
you’re 30 years old!) then
tell them what the lesson is
about
Ask them what they want to
do before they are 30 years
old

Pre-teachingIntroduce the term Ask them if they play sports Answer the The students does not
“extreme sports and what sports teachers’ questions know any extreme
(Vocabulary and activities” sports or activities or
Ask them if they want to know too few  give
part) (3 play extreme sports before
minutes) they are 30 years old them some simple ones
that they might already
Explain the term “extreme know
sports and activities” if
some students are not
familiar with it
Ask if they know the names
of some extreme sports or
activities, draw a circle with
the term “extreme sports
and activities” at the center
and write around it the
names elicited from the
students
Tell the students that they
are going to learn some new
extreme sports and activities
today

While- Present the words Ask the students to look at Answer the Correct any
and phrases of the pictures on page 16, ask teachers’ questions mispronunciation if any
teaching
extreme sports and them what those pictures
(Vocabulary activities show (expected answer:
extreme sports/ activities)
part)
Ask them to look at the list
(10 minutes) of words and phrases on the
right, ask them if they are
not familiar with any words
(they may not know what
“bungee” or “parasailing”
mean  explain but in a
way that does not give away
the whole meaning of the
words)
Ask them to try to match Match the words
the words and phrases with and phrases to the
the right pictures pictures

Play the audio file for Listen and check

section 1 on page 16 and their answers
ask them to check if their
answers for the matching
are correct
Go over the words and
phrases again one by one:
 ask them to say the words
or phrases two times and
explain them

Post-teaching
Get the students to
(Vocabulary
practice the
part) (30 vocabulary
minutes)
Once again, divide the class Say the words or
Activity 1 (5
into two teams, ask the phrases and pay
minutes) students to take turn to go attention when the
the board and act out the teacher is
words or phrases the teacher explaining the
tells her or him to, the words or phrases
fastest student to say out
loud the words or phrases
earn one point for his or her
team

Show sentences that have

Activity 2 (5 the learned extreme sports Go to the board, act
minutes) and activities missing on the out the words and
screen (For example: I say out loud the
wanted to be in the sky like words or phrases
a bird so I went to ______.
Answer: fly a plane)
Ask the students to raise Write the answers
their hands and go to the on the board
board to write their answers

Activity 3 (10 Ask the students if they

tried any of the learned
minutes) extreme sports and activities
and if they want to try any

Ask the students to read the

dialogue on page 16 Read the dialogue

Ask the students to practice

the dialogue in pairs, tell Ask the students to
them to replace the Practice the
 underlined words and dialogue practice in a group of 3
phrases with others each if there are not enough
time (For example: bungee students for pairs
jumping  rock climbing,
Stand up to read
dangerous  boring) in 5
newly-made
minutes and then stand up
dialogues
to read newly-made
dialogues

Ask some pairs to read out

Activity 4 (10 loud their dialogues in front
minutes) of the class, correct any
mistakes if any
Use the two teams divided
again, draw a line on the
board, show one word and
one word or phrase from the
lesson on the screen
Ask the students from each Go to the board and
team to go to the board, write sentences
write a sentence using that using the new words
word and one word or or phrases
phrase that they have just
learned (For example:
school/ flying a plane 
My father is flying a plane
above the school.), the
fastest team that writes a
grammatically correct
sentence earns 1 point

10-MINUTE
BREAK

Pre-teaching Introduce the Ask the students to look at Answer the teachers
conversation to the the picture on page 17, ask questions
(Conversatio
students them a series of questions to
n Part) elicit the information from
them (Who are these?,
(5 minutes) Where are they?, What is
the man doing?, How does
the woman look?...)
Write four vocabulary items
of section 1 (vacuuming, a
 motorcycle, a racecar, Ask the teachers the
skydiving) on the board, meaning of these
check if the students clearly words if they do not
understand these items know or have
forgotten
Use English and also
Vietnamese to briefly
explain the structure: “Have
you ever + V3?” to the
students, write some verbs
from the conversation and
provide the students with
their present participle form
(ridden, driven, gone, tried)

While- Get the students to

practice the
teaching
conversation
(Conversatio
n Part) (10
minutes)

Activity 1 (5 Ask the students to listen to Listen to the audio

minutes) the audio file for the file and fill in the
conversation and fill in the blanks the missing
blanks the missing words or words or phrases
phrases

Check the students’ answers

Correct mistakes if
any
Take the role of Doug, say Take the role of
out loud Doug’s lines Clare, say out loud
Clare’s lines

Take the role of Clare, say

out loud Clare’s lines Take the role of
Doug, say out loud
Doug’s lines

Activity 2 (5 Have the students practice Practice the

minutes) the dialogue in 2 minutes dialogue

Ask some pairs to come up Come to the board

 and read the dialogue in and read the
front of the class dialogue out loud
Check the students’ Answer the
understanding of the teacher’s question Some students might
conversation by asking not understand the joke
them why Clare asks Doug of the conversation 
if he had tried vacuuming use Vietnamese to
explain

Post-teaching Get the students to

practice the
(Conversatio
conversations
n Part) (45 using substitution
drill
minutes)
Write 4 new words or
phrases on the board, ask
Activity 1 (5 Come to the board
the students to replace the
minutes) and say out loud the
words or phrases in the
book with them (For conversation with
example: 1. a bicycle, 2. A replaced words or
truck, 3. sight-seeing, 4. phrases
cleaning) and then invite
some pairs to come up and
say out loud the
conversation

Practice the
Ask the students to practice conversation in
Activity 2 (10 the conversation in pairs pairs with the
minutes) using the words or phrases provided words or
in section 2, tell them that phrases and their
they have to add their own own ideas
ideas too

Ask most of the pairs to

come up and role-play the Come up and role-
Activity 3 (10 conversations they have just play the
minutes) made, the most lively pairs conversations
should get 5 points for their
team

Give them another

Activity 4 (15 conversation model that Provide them with
Practice the new present participle forms
minutes) uses the structure “Have conversation model of verbs that they do not
you ever + V3?” to practice
in front of the class know
 Ask them about some Answer the
simple experiences using teacher’s questions
the structure “Have you
ever + V3?”, elicit more
information about the
experience

Review what has

been learned today
(5 minutes)

Homework/ further work: Workbook, Unit 3: Do it before you’re 30!, page xx-xx