LESSON PLAN FORMAT FOR TESL

Class: Form 2 Dynamics

Date: 7th May 2015
Day: Thursday
Week: 16
Time: 7.45 am - 8.35 am
No. of Pupils: 30
Level of Proficiency: Mixed abilities
Topic: People
Skills: Writing simple letter to friends and relatives
Language Aspect:
Well be focussing on vocabulary. Moreover, focus will be on nouns to reflect on occupation
such as doctor, lawyer and etc. Adjectives also will be focussed to describe the different
occupations of each person of a particular field.
Learning Outcomes:
At the end of the lesson, students should be able to
1. Write an informal letter with 80% accuracy to their classmates using correct format
such as salutation, address, signatures and so on.
2. Students also will be able to write the informal letter to their classmates using correct
nouns, adjectives and verbs relating to the occupation.
Previous knowledge:
Students know the different types of occupation and additionally know
and theyve learned to write informal letters.
Moral Values: Determination, perseverance, friendship.

Teaching Aids:
Stages
Teaching/Learning
(Allocation of Time)
Activities
Presentation/Set Induction Teacher puts up a manila
card filled with pictures like
(5 minutes)
luxurious cars, house and
etc.
Then the teacher will ask
few questions to the
students such as:
1. What do you see from
these pictures?
2. What would want to
become?
3. Do you want to get these
cars, houses and planes in
your life?
4. Are you interested to
become like these
celebrities?
5. Next, the teacher will
provide tiny sticky notes to
the students. Then, the
teacher will write a question
based on the video that
students have watched.
Question would be When I
grow up.. ? students will
have to explain what would
like to become and why?

Teaching Aids
1. Pictures of luxuries cars,
aeroplanes, houses, famous
celebrities, and famous
icons.
2. Pictures of types of
occupations
3.Sticky Notes
4.Manila Cards

6. Students will answer the

question and the teacher will
provide a manila card for
them to stick the sticky pad
on the manila card and
paste the manila card at the
English Corner
Development
Stage 1 (20 minutes)
(This is the explanation
stage/rationale)

1. The teacher will play

a video based on
occupations entitled
as When I Grow Up
under guidance.
2. Students are
required to list down
nouns and adjectives
they found in the

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

A video
Projector
Pictures
Worksheets
Drawings manila
cards

video provided by
the teacher in the
task sheet.

3. The same video is

played again for the
second time for the
students to make
sure they identify
any missing nouns
and adjectives.

4. Then, teacher will

give another task
sheet asking the
students to fill up the
questions based on
what theyve viewed
from the video

Stage 2 (20 minutes)

(This is the practice
stage/rationale)

5. Teacher will put up a

sample outline of
informal letter. Then
the teacher will teach
the students how to
write an informal
letter using correct
format such as
address, date,
salutations,
paragraph and
signature.

6. Then, the teacher

will distribute a
sample of task sheet
letter. Students are
required to underline
the correct nouns,
verbs, and adjectives
in the letter.

7. Then the teacher will

discuss the answers

1. Manila cards
2. Task sheets
3. Notes regarding
Informal Letters

with the students.

Stage 3 (20 minutes)

(This is the production
stage/rationale)

8. The teacher will

carry a box from one
row to another. Each
student is required to
draw out a paper
from the box. The
paper will have the
name of the
classmate who will
be the recipient of
their informal letter.
9.

Then, the teacher

will brainstorm for
ideas regarding
students preferred
dreams and talents.
After that, teacher
will teach and guide
the students on how
to write the letters
with correct
salutations and
content. Then,
students are
instructed to write
the informal letter to
their friend. The
teacher will explain
that the letter must
be less than 150
words.

10. After the students

have finished writing
the essay, the
teacher will randomly
pick a student and
ask the student to
come up to the front
and write what they
have written in their
letter on the
whiteboard.
11. The teacher will then
praise the students
on the correct use of

1. Box filled with

students names
2. Envelope
3. Glue

format, tenses and

such, and gently
correct the mistakes
that the student
made. This will be
repeated with a few
more students.
Closure (10 minutes)
Rationale

Extended Activity
(5 minutes)

12. The students will

have to put the
letters that have
written into the box
that the teacher has
prepared and the
teacher will distribute
the letter to their
friends and after
reading the letters,
their recipients will
have to reply the
letter.
13. Teachers will divide
the students into
groups of 5 with 6
members in each
group.
14. Then each group will
have to create a
scrapbook with
biodata included
(name, picture of
themselves, birth
date, family and
educational
background,
favourite
actor/actress, song
and etc.

15. The students are

required to write
about their
ambitions, hopes
and dreams. The
students are allowed
to use their own

1. A box with the label Post

Box
2.Envelope

imagination and
creativity to present
their ambitions,
hopes and dreams.
The students are
allowed to scribble,
draw, and paint and
even put in pictures
of anything related to
their writing from
various sources into
their scrapbook.

16. The teacher will

show the students
an example of
scrapbook that he or
she has prepared to
give the students an
idea of what the
scrapbook is about
and what is
supposedly in it.

17. Finally, in the next

lesson the groups
are required to bring
in their scrapbooks
and hand in to their
teachers. All the
scrapbooks will be
placed in the English
Corner behind the
class. Moreover, the
group with best
scrapbook will be
rewarded by the
teachers.

SET INDUCTION TEACHING AIDS

PICTURES USED FOR SET INDUCTION

STAGE 1 TASK SHEETS

When I Grow Up (The video dialogues)
Student 1: I want to be an astronaut when I grow up.
Student 2: I want to be an artist and a doctor once I grow up.
Student 3: I want to be a ballerina.
Student 4: I want to be a pirate!
Student 5: I want to be a basketball player.
Student 6: My ambition is a policeman.
Student 7: The police officers duty is to catch the bad guy.
Student 8: I want to be a teacher when I grow up.
Student 9: I want to be fireman.
Student 10: When I grow up I want to be a singer because I love to sing and I've
been singing since I was like three.
Student 11: I want to be a teacher when I grow up.
Student 12: I want to be a marine biologist.
Student 13: I want to be a hockey player when I grow up.
Student 14: I want to be a video game designer.
Student 15: When I grow up I want to be a drawer.
Student 16: I want to be a sports coach when I grow up. It does not matter
which sport.
Student 9: To have a job, it's like to make money and help all your family and
stuff.
Student 14: You make money and help other people.
Student 9: Like you have to buy food for your family and support your family.
Student 8: Helping our community grow.
Student 10: Stuff that will help us keep living, and a house.
Student 15: If someone had a job it will make them feel proud.
Student 5: So I can live a good life.
Student 6: I feel happy when my mom asks me what I want to be when I grow
up.
Student 9: I think it's important for kids to believe in their dreams and for
parents to ask them and other people.
Student 5: I think you should chase what you want to be. Chase your dream.
Student 14: It feels good to have a dream because it might come true.

Student 1: It'll make me be happy if I could be an astronaut.

Student 9: If they don't have dreams then they really don't have like a life. It
would be like just boring old regular... just like sitting on the couch and watching
TV.
Student 15: Don't never give up on your dream. Just try hard as you can and
then one day you can make it.
Student 16: Every kid should have a dream. They should work hard and be
happy when they work for their dream.

Write down the nouns and adjectives that you found in the video.

ADJECTIVES

NOUNS

Answer the questions based on the video that you have watched.

1. What is the video about?

___________________________________________________________________
2. List at least five ambitions that you heard from the video.
___________________________________________________________________
3. Why is it important to have a job?
___________________________________________________________________
4. If someone had a job, what do they feel?
___________________________________________________________________
5. Is it important for children to have a dream, why?
___________________________________________________________________

STAGE 2- TASK SHEETS AND NOTES

Read the informal letter and underline nouns, verbs and adjectives.

________________

________________
________________

Date: ________________

Dear Doreen,
I am in receipt of your affectionate letter. It is always a pleasure for me to
hear form a dear friend like you, whom I have not met for such a long time. My
dear, when do you intend to your own loving friend?
You have asked me about my dreams and ambitions. Every person has his
own desires, and his own aims for the future, some people run after worldly
wealth. They become doctors so that within only a few years they may have cars
and big houses. Others are ambitious for position and power. I, for one, have no
such ambitions. My ambition in life is to become an engineer and serve my
motherland in that capacity. I wish that I can deliver the greatest benefit to my
own people. By this way, I will feel satisfy because I have the ability to make a
change for the better ways of my people.
Anyway, I would like to meet you when I get back. Hope you are enjoying
your holiday. Do write back soon.
Your loving brother,
________________

EXTENDED ACTIVITY EXAMPLE

My Biodata

My Name:
William Gan Chee Siang
My Age:
14 years Old
Studying At:
SMK Seri Perling
My Favourite Actor:
Brad Pitt

My Favourite Actress:
Angelina Jolie
My Favourite Singers:
One Direction
Jessie J
Sam Smith
My Dreams is to become:
Americas Next Top Model
Buy A Porche Car
Live in a Cottage House

These are examples of my dreams:

I want to become a model like her....

I want to get a Porche Car

I want to live in a Cottage

House

My Future Life Roots