Plans {lesson plan} can have header, including subject/title, preparer, class name or level, time required, objectives, prerequisites needed, skills needed, and resources needed.
heading section
Subject: Making a Doctor Appointment and Using Health and Community Resources. Prepared By: teacher name. Level: Beginning ESL. Time: 3 hours. Objectives are to request doctor appointment, to answer secretary's questions, and to write appointment information obtained. Prerequisites are to identify and verbalize different sickness signs. Language Skills are request information, respond to questions, and describe physical problem. Resources are overhead projector, book, and attachment.
warmup
First lesson-plan part is Warm-Up and Review. Short lecture gives facts and definitions. Class discussion includes what topic is, who has done it, problems encountered, need to know it, and methods to use or alternatives. Personalized story states problem and solution. Demonstration from previous day uses objects and questions. Video shows previous day's work. Audio has previous day's work.
warmup: section
1. Tell class personal story about when call for doctor appointment was necessary. Example is "Last Monday, I got up to get ready for work, but my daughter woke up crying from headache and stomach ache. I felt her forehead. It was very hot. I had to call the doctor." 2. Start discussion using the following questions and answers: How can you find doctor name and number, in telephone book yellow or white pages? How can you use directory assistance, 411 for local calls, to help you find the number if you know the name? How did you get doctor when you needed one? How can you find the doctor you need, from friends and at work?
Review is at class beginning and end.
presentation
Second lesson-plan part is Presentation. Demonstration uses objects and questions. Video shows work example. Audio has work example. Personalized story is about work. Attention is to main words and phrases. There are questions and answers about topic.
presentation: section
1. Show Attachment 1 on overhead projector. Let students name symptoms and sickness types. 2. Draw secretary on one board side and patient on other board side. Then write conversation on blackboard. Read conversation and explain vocabulary. Read conversation and let students repeat after you. Read secretary part while students read patient part and then reverse roles. Let women be the patient and men the secretary, and then reverse roles. Let one side be patient and let other side be secretary and then reverse roles.
practice
Third lesson-plan part is Practice. Worksheets have practice work for filling the blanks, choosing correct answer, or writing summary. Games practice the work, with teams. Group activities, auch as one-act plays with pairs, three or four people, or whole class, practice the work. Practice has two parts, with break between them.
practice: section
1. Pass out handout "Do you want to make an appointment?" Divide class into pairs. Students practice dialogues in pairs. Circulate around class helping and observing. 2. Have student pairs make up dialogues and practice, using handout as model. Class breaks at 1.5 hours, for 10 minutes. Practice: 3. Have students put down handout and practice. 4. Have students write made-up dialogues. 5. Select volunteer pairs to read and act dialogues in class. 6. Select volunteers to make up dialogue in class, without using papers. Students perform step 5 or 6.
application
Fourth lesson-plan part is Application. Do new experiment. Have student-teacher dialog or student-student dialog. Make presentation to class.
application: section
1. Ask students to think about health problems that they or family members have had or about work health examinations. 2. Instruct them to find doctor name in that specialty. Tell them to make real appointment with that doctor for self, friend, or family member. 3. Ask them to be ready to relate how they felt while making that appointment.
evaluation
Fifth lesson-plan part is Evaluation. Oral quiz makes student respond to teacher. Written quiz fills in blanks, chooses correct answer, or writes summary. Class discussion can be about lesson value and improvements, including whether students learned it or not and if it was valuable or not. There can be questions and answers about lesson.
evaluation: section
1. Listen to student dialogues to check language-structure-and-usage mastery. Ask students if they feel confident enough to make real call for doctor appointment at home.
homework
Sixth lesson-plan part is Homework, such as reading, worksheets, or problems.
homework: section
1. Read in textbook. 2. Do worksheet. 3. Practice dialog with friend.
library
Seventh lesson-plan part is Library Materials, with reference list, supplementary materials, and extra reading.
library: section
1. Textbook. 2. ESL teacher handbook. 3. Video.
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