Speaking Lesson Plan

Dreams & Nightmares

Instructor: Koh Yo-Han	Level: Intermediate	Students: 7	Length: 30 min

Materials:

-Board markers

-A visual

-‘True or False’ quiz sheets (7copies)

-Wall chart(answers for T/F quiz)

-pieces of A4 paper

- 3 pictures for each group

-wall chart for demonstrations

-wall chart for the post activity question and demonstration

Aims:

-Main aim: To enable Ss to improve their speaking skills by having Ss share their experiences

-Secondary aim: Ss will talk about dreams and nightmares by having Ss do true or false quiz, discussing on dreams and nightmares by questions and answers sheet and making the story of nightmare with their pictures

-Personal aim: I want to improve my teaching pace. I want to improve my fluency as well as confidence.

Language Skills:

-Speaking: Ss will talk about the ideas of dreams and nightmares related to their own experiences.

-Writing: Ss will be engaged in answering the quiz.

-Listening: Ss will listen about each other’s personal opinions in an effort to share ideas with group members.

-Reading: Ss will read the worksheets and will read the questions belonging to the conversation activities.

Language Systems:

-Lexis: nightmare, interpret, interpretations

-Phonology: None to Discuss

-Grammatical: None to Discuss

-Function: Asking people about their experiences using ‘Have you ever p.p.~?’

-Discourse: None to Discuss

Assumptions:

-All Ss have had dreams and nightmares before or know some information on them.

-Ss have had positive as well as negative experiences with their dreams or know someone who has.

-Most Ss have experienced that their dreams come true.

-Most Ss know to express positive and negative points on dreams.

-All Ss have done a T/F activity before.

Anticipated Problems and Solutions:

-Ss might don’t know the words or expression on the sheet and questions.

->Ss can ask the meaning to their group members and have them feel free to ask me while running time.

-Due to time management, each of the groups won’t read and answer all of the questions alternatively. ->I will follow the one-third rule when Ss present and give the rest of the answers on a wall chart.

-I might need more time to complete my 30 minute micro-teaching since some class members could be absent or running late.->I will do SOS activity if I have between 2 to 5 minutes left on the clock.

References:

www.englishclub.com

Lead-In
Materials: n/a
Time	Set Up	Student Activity	Teacher Talk
2 mins	Whole Class	Two students will answer the questions.	Good morning, everyone. How are you today? Q1: Joy. Do you have any plan for the coming summer vacation? (How long will you be there? Who do you go with?) Q2: Yeonjin. What was the most memorable movie you’ve seen? (How many times have you watched that movie?)

Pre-Activity
Materials: Board markers, a visual, ‘True or False’ quiz sheets, wall chart(for answers)
Time	Set Up	Student Activity	Teacher Talk
8 mins	Whole Class pairs	The class answers the Eliciting and CCQs. The class answers the ICQs. The class answers the questions.	Eliciting Show the class the visual and ask “What do you see in the picture? What do you think she is doing? Do you think she is happy now? How do we call it when we have bad dreams?” Today we are going to talk about dreams and nightmares. CCQ Ask the class “I run the lottery in dream, is it nightmare? -No I see ghosts in dream, is it nightmare? -Yes” Ⅰ’True or False“ Quiz Grouping make pairs (not moving, just with person who sits next to each other) Instruction Now we are going to do quiz. I will give each of you the quiz sheet. I wanna know how well you know about dreams. So I prepared the quiz about dreams. You can choose true or false about dreams. Work in paris and you have 3 min. ICQ What are you going to do? Individually or in pairs? How much time do you have? Explicit instruction I don’t want you to start until I pass out the paper and say “begin”. Explicit ICQ Are you going to start when I pass out the paper? Are you going to start when I say begin? Begin! Run While monitoring, check the script and write the question numbers on the board for each group. Give time warning Close Who has the shorter hair in your group? Please write answers on the board. Let the each of the groups read and answer the questions alternatively. It there is no time, just give the answers and move on to the next activity. (answers: 1.T 2.T 3.T 4.T 5.F(other senses are used if the dreamer was born blind) 6.F(one or two hours) 7.F(it is common) 8.T(according to research into the subject))

Main Activity
Materials: pieces of A4 paper, 3 pictures for each group, wall chart for demonstrations
Time	Set Up	Student Activity	Teacher Talk
15 mins	groups	creative grouping The class answers the ICQs. The class works on making the story.	ⅡMaking the story of nightmare regrouping What is today’s topic? It’s dream and nightmare. Let students say night and mare alternatively and say nights here, mares here (with gestures) Demonstration I have three pictures and I made the story of the nightmare reflecting these three pictures and I interpreted it. showing my three pictures (bed, snakes, door) and put them on board Nightmare: I was sleeping on my bed and I woke up in my dream. I felt something strange. So I saw the bed and found out there were so many snakes on my bed. I was so surprised that I ran to the door and opened it. But outside my room, there were much more snakes. I screamed and woke up from my dream. Instruction I will give you three pictures to each group and pieces of paper to write on. You guys will make a story of the nightmare with these three pictures. I will give you eight minutes. Work in groups. ICQ What are you doing? How much time do you have? Work individually or groups? Explicit instruction I don’t want you to see the pictures before I say begin. Explicit ICQ Are you going to see the pictures when I give the pictures? Are you going to start when I say begin? (pass out the papers and pictures) Begin! Run While monitoring, check the script and give time warning. 5 mins left, 3 mins left, 1 min left, 30 seconds, times up! Close And say “night team, who has more accessories? Would you come up here and say your story to the class? mare team, who has more accessories? Would you come up here and say your story to the class?”

Post Activity
Materials: wall chart for post activity question and demonstration
Time	Set Up	Student Activity	Teacher Talk
5min	Individaully	The class answers the ICQs The class follows the direction. .	Ⅲ Ask the question Would you guys read the question? “Do you believe that our dreams mean something in real life? Why or why not?” Demonstration In my opinion, “I think our dreams mean something in our life. This is my grandmother’s story. Sometimes my grandma dreams about important family events. On the day before my sister took Korean SAT, my grandma dreamed that my sister’s guitar strings suddenly snapped while she was playing the guitar. My grandma thought that my sister will fail to enter the university. Surprisingly, my sister had to study one more year.“ Instruction Now like what I did, I want you to think about the question individually. I will give you 2 mins to think. ICQ What are you doing? How much time do you have? Individually or in pairs? Run & Close Giving time warning, 1min left, 30 seconds left, times up! Ask 2~3 Ss about their dreams. Post activity Error correction: I will correct any of the students’ oral mistakes that I’ve noted and If there are no mistakes then I will have Ss complete the sentence ‘Can you remember your dreams?’. Ask the class “further questions?” If there are no further questions, “this concludes my lesson and I will be followed by ben.”
SOS Activities
Materials:
Time	Set Up	Student Activity	Teacher Talk
2 mins	Whole class	Several Ss will answer the question.	Ask the question Demonstration When was the last time you had a dream, either good or bad? “I had a dream 3 days ago, I think I had this dream because I am thinking too much on my wedding nowadays. In my dream, it was wedding day. I was wearing wedding dress but I was in traffic so I just got off the car and ran to the wedding hall. And I woke up.” Instruction I want you to think about the question individually, and I will give you 1min. Run and Close give time warning ask to 1~2 Ss Post activity Error correction: I will correct any of the students’ oral mistakes that I’ve noted and If there are no mistakes then I will have Ss complete the sentence ‘Can you remember your dreams?’. Ask the class “further questions?” If there are no further questions, “this concludes my lesson and I will be followed by ben.”

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