Jisoo Yang  Times TESOL Lesson Plan

Reading Lesson Plan 96WD Angela
Title : The Road Not Taken (written by Robert Frost)
Teacher	Student Level & Age	No of Students	Length
Angela Yang	high-intermediate adults	19	50 mins
Materials: -White board and markers -handouts (23 papers)
Aims: -By reading a poem, students will have a chance to share their opinions with each other. -Students will have a chance to read a famous American poem.
Language Skills: Listening: Listening teacher’s instruction & explanation Speaking: Group discussion, Answering teacher’s questions Reading: Reading the poem, vocabularies on the board Writing: Answering questions in handouts
Language Systems: Phonology: Pronounce new words and expressions Lexis: learn the meaning of new vocabulary Grammar: Read the sentences Discourse: Discussing in groups Functions: Questioning, answering, explaining, and comprehending
Assumptions:
Anticipated Errors and Solutions:
References: http://www.onestopenglish.com/5005.file
Notes:

Warmer
Title: What kind of choices you have made?		Aims: -To make students be ready for learning -To make students talk about their experience in groups	Materials:
Time	Set Up	Students	Teacher
10 mins	whole class	-Think about choices they have made and share them with partners.	-Ask students what choices students have made last weekend.
The poem is related with choices that people make in our lives.

Task Preparation or Presentation
Title: Guessing the meaning of new vocabularies		Aims: -To make students guess and think the meaning of words -To make students guess what the poem will be about - To make students be ready for reading the poem	Materials: board and markers
Time	Set Up	Students	Teacher
10 mins	in groups	-Students will guess the meaning of words and what the poem will be about in groups.	-write new words on the board -Elicit from students by asking questions.
Notes: new vocabulary (diverge, undergrowth, grassy, trodden, wood, worn) : Elicit first, then tell students the meaning of words

Task Realization or Practice
Title: Reading the poem		Aims: -To help students get the main idea of the poem	Materials: -the poetry handouts (23 papers)
Time	Set Up	Students	Teacher
20 mins	in groups	Read the poetry. Have a little group talk about the poem (discussion)	Teacher will ask a volunteer student to read the poem out loud. Ask students what the writer wanted to say in this poem.
Notes:

Post Task or Production
Title: Answering Questions (discussion)		Aims: to check the students have understand the poetry	Materials: -handouts, white board, markers
Time	Set Up	Students	Teacher
10 mins	whole class	-Students will have a group discussion and answer the questions.	-Teacher gives students worksheet and make them answer the questions.
Notes:

Worksheets, handouts and lesson materials

[The Road Not Taken]

1) Before you read

Here are some words from the poem. Check that you understand what they mean. What do you think the poem will be about?

( diverge, undergrowth, grassy, trodden, wood, worn )

2) Read the poem

[The Road Not Taken]  Robert Frost (1874~1963)

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim

Because it was grassy and wanted wear,

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way

I doubted if I should ever comeback.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

3) Comprehension - Read the poem and answer the questions.

a) What are the differences between the two roads?

b) Is the author happy with his choice?

c) Do you think it was a difficult decision?

d) What does the poem mean?

4) Discussion - Discuss these questions in group

a) Many people in America consider this their favorite poem. Why do you think so?

b) A Moral is something that you can learn from a story, a poem or an experience. Does this poem have a moral?

c)Think of some major decisions a person makes in their life. Have you had to make any major decisions? Did you take the road less traveled      by?