Listening    Speaking    Reading    Grammar   Writing

Topic:  Blind date

Lesson Plan Template Task Based Lesson (TBL)

Instructor: Hannah	Level: Intermediate	Students: 14	Length: 40 Minutes

Materials:

● Idioms worksheet (13 copies)

● Idioms & sentences strips for matching

● Listening worksheet(12 copies each)

● White board, board markers & tape

● listening scripts of each speaker

Aims:

●Main Aim: To enable students to improve their listening skills by having Ss talk about blind dates.

●Secondary Aim: Ss will talk about blind dates , Ss will match idioms, discuss the advantages and disadvantages of going on a blind date, take the listening dictation of four people, and have a speed dating competition.

●Personal Aim:

I want to adjust my speaking speed to the level of the learner.

I want to improve on my demonstration.

Language Skills

●Speaking: Ss will talk about the disadvantages and the advantages.

●Writing: Ss will take the dictation and create speaker's profiles.

●Listening: Ss will listen about the speaker’s short speeches about themselves

●Reading: Ss will read the worksheets and the scripts about 4 people.

Language Systems:

●Lexical: blind date

●Phonological: None of discuss

●Grammatical: None of discuss

●Functional: Self-PR and Asking people out on a date

●Discourse: 18 idioms

Assumptions:

● Ss have had positive as well as negative experiences on a bilnd date.

● Most Ss have been on a blind date.

● Most Ss know to express positive and negative qualities in people.

● Ss already know:

- How the class is set up and run.

- The teacher’s style of teaching and the pace of the course.

Anticipated Problems and   Solutions:

Students may not be able to follow the passage easily

Follow the task-feedback circle: let them listen to the tracks again until they get the gist of the content

Students may not be able to pick up details from the listening

Chunk the listening (pause-play-pause-play)

Students may need more time to work on the idioms

If it takes longer than 5 minutes, cut answer-checking short by verbally sharing the answers instead of having students write them on the board

If the time is short

Cut post-activity discussion short and only ask 2-3 students to share their opinions about what’s most in a lifetime partner

If students finish their tasks earlier than anticipated

Ask as many students as possible about their idea of a good partner for life, and differences between what they want in a date and what they want in a spous

References:  California State University TESOL Program Listening Module Page64

Lead-In
Materials: Board
Time	Set Up	Student Activity	Teacher Talk
2 min	whole class	Greeting and eye contact	Good morning class! How was your weekend? ____, It's sunny day! what did you do on your weekend? (teacher ask some students questions)

Pre-Activity - Matching idioms
Materials: A Picture of Blind date, Idioms & sentences strips, Idioms worksheet, Board and markers.
Time	Set Up	Student Activity	Teacher Talk
10min	whole class	Answers elicited questions	1. Elicit(visual) ≫What are they doing in this picture? ≫Can you guess? (Teacher write "blind date" on the board) ≫OOO, Have you experienced a blind date? ≫How was your blind date? (Teacher ask some students this questions.) 2. CCQ's ≫When you are going to Blind date, are you meeting a person who you have already known? - No ≫you are going to meet someone who you see first time? - Yes 3. Grouping ≫You guys make groups (Making a group for 3 people) 4. Instruction/demonstration ≫ Now, you have one activity, idiom-matching! ≫You have 8min and you work as a group. ≫ I will give you strips and then you match 18 idioms. 5. ICQ's ≫ What are we going to do? Ss ~~~ ≫ Are you working as a group? S: YES ≫ How much time do you have? S: 8 min. ≫ Don’t begin until I give you this slips and I say “ begin" 6. Run (teacher is monitoring all groups and control limit time.) ≫1min/30sec/10sec ≫Time's up! (teacher give each group 1worksheet) ≫I will give each group 1 worksheet and you fill our blanks about idioms. you have 1 min. ≫Time's up! ≫Who wears a ring? the student comes to the board with your worksheet. ≫write down your answers on the board. (teacher checks all answers with students) ≫OOO, idiom,a matches what? (teacher gives each question for each person)

Main Activity - Running Dictation
Materials: mp3 file and mp3 player, listening worksheet, pictures of speakers
Time	Set Up	Student Activity	Teacher Talk
15min	individually	Ss are working dictation while Teacher is reading. Ss will present ( follow the same cycle and go through all 4 profile sheets) Ss do activity	1. Eiliciting(visual) ≫what do you see in the picture? (teacher shows a picture, David and Judy) 2. Instructions and Demonstrations ≫i will show David, judy(tape on board) ≫what does he/she look like? ≫I will give one person one worksheet ≫you listen this story about someone, David and judy and dictate some information. ≫I’m going to read about David. ≫I want you to work individually and you have 4min. 3. ICQ What are you going to? dictation How much time do you have? 4min Are you working group? No Are you working individually? Yes 4. Run ≫Listen about David (Teacher is reading about the person, David) ≫Listen about Judy ≫I will check the answers (ask Ss about Name, age, Nationality, hobby, who is he looking for) 5. instructions 2 (tape two pictures, Sandra and Chris) ≫I will pick one student who reads this scripts (teacher picks up one student randomly) ≫ The rule is same with former one and you listen and dictate about two people ≫check the answers (ask Ss about Name, age, Nationality, hobby, who is he looking for)

Post Activty - speed dating
Materials: pictures, paper, pen
Time	Set Up	Student Activity	Teacher Talk
10min		Ss will present. Ss will begin the activity	( making seat arrangement - one line shape) 1. Instruction of Speed dating ≫You have 2 min to interview the group of interviewee. ≫You work individually ≫You will be interviewing and writing about things you heard ≫The group of interviewee move the next seat after finishing interview ( give demonstration) 2. ICQ ≫What are you going to do? Asking and writing about the other group each member ≫What is the interview group going to do? Move next seat after interviewing. ≫How many minute to do it each person? 2min ≫Are you working pairs? No ≫Don’t start when I say “ begin” 3. run activity (Monitoring) ≫1min,30 sec,10sec left/ Time’s up 4. Closing lesson ≫Most students have some mistakes, like or likes (teacher writes down I like, she likes, and he likes)
SOS Activities - advantages and disadvantages about the blind dating
Materials: small paper (14 sheets)
Time	Set Up	Student Activity	Teacher Talk
5min	whole class	Ss will present sS answer Ss do activity	1. Demonstrations (Write disadvantages on the left of the board and 'advantages' on the right) 2. Instructions Students write disadvantage and advantage of a blind date on their worksheet for 2 min. 3. ICQ's ≫What are you going to do? ≫How much time do you have? ≫Are you going to work in a group? ≫Are you going to start before I say 'begin'? ≫Begin! 4. Run (teacher is monitoring and timing) ≫1min, 30sec, 10sec ≫Time's up 5. Close ≫Good job! finish today's lesson! Thank you!