Reading Micro-teaching Lesson Plan

“Janitor’s Dream Comes True”: Story from real life ?

Students: 20 Level: Upper intermediate Length: 20 minutes Instructor: Julie Kim, Kyung Sook

Materials: ▪ Worksheet 1, 2 (20cipes each worksheet) ▪ Idiom wall chart ▪ Pictures (4) ▪ Story and questions ▪ Soft ball and stopwatch ▪ Board and marker ▪

Aims: ▪ Main aim: To enable Ss to improve reading skills by idioms and understanding the story. ▪ Secondary aim: Ss will improve idioms by having Ss do worksheet questions about story and answers. ▪ Personal aims: I want to improve my reading skills. I want to improve my ICQ/CCQ delivery. I want to teach English with confidence. I want to provide to students interesting English instruction.

Language Skills: ▪ Listening -Conversations with different voice each partner and classmates′ speaking ▪ Reading -The explanation of simple remides. ▪ Speaking -Participating an activity, comparing answer within groups. ▪ Writing - Matching and exercise worksheets, experience their own notebook.

Language Skills: ▪ Listening -Conversations with different voice each partner and classmates′ speaking ▪ Reading -The explanation of simple remides. ▪ Speaking -Participating an activity, comparing answer within groups. ▪ Writing - Matching and exercise worksheets, experience their own notebook.

Language Skills: ▪ Speaking: Ss discuss with partner and say the answer ▪ Listening: Ss listen from partner and teacher’s instruction ▪ Reading: Ss read the story and worksheet ▪ Writing: Ss write on the worksheets

Language Systems: ▪ Phonology: Sound of different people′s saying and pronunciation ▪ Lexis: Idiom and phrasal verb relate to the story ▪ Grammar: Tense ▪ Function: Non to discuss ▪ Discourse: Non to discuss

Assumptions: Students already know: ▪ Ss are able to read the story and understand ▪ The teacher′s style of teaching and the pace of the class ▪ Ss are at an upper-intermediate level and have already known some idiom

Anticipated Errors and Solutions: Problems Solution ▪ Finish earlier than expected ▪ Free talk more detail for their dream ▪ Not enough time ▪ Cut off post-activity ▪ Understand well ▪ Provide more difficult story to read

References: ▪ Can you believe it? by Jann Huizenga

Lead-In
Materials:
Time 1min	Set Up Whole class	Procedure: <Greeting> How are you? How was your weekend? (Ask the Ss) Very nice…!!

Pre-Activity
Materials: Board and markers, Pictures(4), Worksheet 1
Time 2min 4min	Set Up Whole class	Procedure: <Eliciting> Pictures(4) (Put the pictures with cover on the board) T: My dream was a career woman, but it didn’t come true so far. Because I married early, but I still have my dream. (Ask to 2-3Ss) (Show the pictures one by one) T: Who is this? (Ban Ki Moon-> Barack Obama-> Kim Yun-A-> Lee Eun Gyeol) (After put on the board all pictures) T: Now, their dreams come true. T: Everyone has a dream. But, it comes true or not. T: So, today we are going to read about real story. CCQs Is Kim Yun-A figure skater? <Instruction> I am going to hand out this worksheet 1, and look at the pictures and make short story. You have 2 min and do it individually. T: Wait everybody get the worksheet..!! So, we start together..!! ICQs Are you working individually? (Yes) Are you making a story? (Yes) How much time do you have? (2min) T: Let’s beginning..!! <Ask to Ss> (Ask to 3-5Ss) T: Great job…!!
Main-Activity
Materials: Idiom wall chart, Soft ball, Stopwatch, Questions
Time 3min 2min 5min	Set Up Whole class Group work Group work	Procedure: <Key idioms> Idiom wall chart T: Before we read the story, we are going warming up for some idioms. T: Please, look at the idioms. (Call the Ss) T: (Call one S) Can you help me to read? Please, read the idioms to last one. T: Good. T: First, I make 4 groups. From Ban Ki Moon to Lee Eun Gyeol. (Ban Ki Moon-> Barack Obama-> Kim Yun-A-> Lee Eun Gyeol) T: Please, move to your group Everyone, seat down, please…!! <Instruction> I am going to pass this story and read it with your group. Also, you talk about your dream each other in your group. I give you 2 min. We will start together. T: Please, concentrate when you read the story. It helps you later. ICQs How much time do you have?(2min) Are you working individually? (NO) Do you start together? (Yes) (Distribute the story) (Monitoring) T: 1min left..! 30 seconds left..! Times up..! <Activity> T: We are going to play game. It is stopwatch game. -Demonstration- T: We are 4 groups now. I will give you 30seconds each time around and I said “stop”, and answer who has the ball from the questions. If it is correct answer, the group gets one point. T: For example..! (Demonstration) Start ⇒ (After 30seconds) Stop ⇒ Choose one question and answer ⇒ Pass the ball to next group until stop. (Repeatedly) T: Let’s start..!! (Checking the time) (Teacher can do at random for the time) (After game check the point) T: ________ group is win. Great..!! T: Ok, everyone good job..!!

Post-Activity
Materials: Worksheet 2
Time 3min	Set Up Whole class	Procedure: T: Three times clap. <Instruction> I am going to hand out this worksheet 2, and fill in the blanks. You have 1min and do it individually. ICQ Are you going to fill in the blanks? (Yes) Are you working individually? (Yes) How much time do you have?(1min) <Error correction> the/ books/ Torres/ hit = Torres hit the books. (On the board) <Closing> T: Anyone have a question? T: Good job today, too. T: It is my last lesson. Thanks for attention my lessons and helped me..!! T: Good luck for your future dream..!! Good-bye..!! Extra time If Ss finish earlier than expected. Free talk about Ss’s detail dream.

Worksheet 1

Look at the pictures and make your own story.

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Worksheet 2

Read this true story and fill in the blanks with idioms from the box.

Went by a bookworm came true made an A go back dream of

“Great – great Grandmother Graduates”

San Juan, Puerto Rico At the age of 102, Ana Molina made an unusual decision. She decided to (1)___________________to high school.

Eighty-six years ago Molina had to leave school. Her family had no money, and she needed to work. Many years (2)__________________, but she continued to (3)____________________getting her high school diploma.

Eight months after going back to school, Molina’s dream (4)____________________. She graduated from high school. A native speaker of Spanish, Molina is very proud that she (5)____________________ in English.

Molina is poet and (6)______________________. She reads literature to the children in her poor neighborhood. “I’m in love with life,” says the great-great grandmother.

“Janitor’s Dream Come True”

LAS CRUCES, NM, USA Primo Torres has learned that dreams can come true. Born in Juarez, Mexico, Torres grew up in Texas in a poor family. As a child, Torres was a bookworm and he loved the school. At 15, he already dreamed of being a teacher.

One day at school, young Torres dropped by to see his guidance counselor. He told the counselor his plans for the future. But this guy said, “Primo, you will never be college material.” Torres said, “When he told me that I gave up. He threw cold water on my dream.”

After graduating from high school, Torres got a job as a janitor at Mayfield High school in Las Cruces, New Mexico. He cleaned bathroom and swept floors. The years went by. Now and then, he talked to his wife about his childhood dream of being a teacher.

One day, when Torres was 41 years old, his wife gave him some papers. She had enrolled him in college! “It was strange going back to school at my age,” said Torres. “I felt like an old man around all those kids!” The words of his first professor changed his life. “Everyone in this room is capable of succeeding. You can all make an A,” he said. Torres hit the books and made his first A in college.

Torres finished college, and now he’s teaching at Mayfield High School. His students love him. “Many students don’t realize that I’m the same man who used to sweep the floors in this school,” said Torres.

Questions

1. What kind of child was Torres?

2. What did he dream of doing?

3. What happened when Torres spoke to his counselor?

4. As the years went by, what did Torres talk about?

5. Why did his first college professor change his life?

6. Where did he grow up?

7. How did he make an A?

8. What did he get a job from Mayfield High School?

9. What was his task at the Mayfield High School?

10. Where is he teaching now?

11. What is meaning of “drop by”?”

12. What is expression of “be capable of doing something”?

13. What is the moral of this story?

Idioms

» come true ----------------------------------- become real; change from dream to fact

» be a bookworm ---------------------------- love to read

» dream of(doing) something* ------------ think about something that you want to happen in the future

» throw cold water on something --------- discourage a plan, an idea, a dream, etc.

» go by* --------------------------------------- pass

» now and then --------------------------------- sometimes

» be capable of doing something ------------- have the ability to do something

» make an A(a B, etc.) --------------------------- earn a grade (A, B, etc.) in school

» hit the books --------------------------------- study

*Phrasal verb