Lesson Plan

Teacher: Date: 16/09/09 Level: Intermediate

Time: 17:30 – 19:30 Room: Age: 18 - 35

Topic/Theme: The Royal Melbourne Show

Communicative aim: Students will be able to talk about The Royal Melbourne Show.
Linguistic/Grammar aim: Asking for information, making future arrangements and talking
about events.

Stages Activities and notes Resources

Warm Up Colour Basket.
5 mins
Stand at the front of the class, having students
sitting on their chairs (don’t have any empty
chairs) and say something like “Everybody
wearing black, change seats!” Do a couple like
this yourself and then take one of the chairs. The
student left without a chair then goes to the front
and continues the game.

Pre teach vocab Students to match meaning with word cards in 10x 5 words and 5
5 mins groups of three. meanings.

Demonstrate: Matching word cards with

meanings. Put students into groups of three.

CCQ’s: What will you need for this activity?

Is it in groups?
How much time do you have?
Facilitate: Make sure students know what is
required of them and they are working together.
Take up: Ask students for help in matching.
Showbag means…

Target Ask the students if they have heard of the Royal 15 sheets of A
Language Melbourne Show? If so what do they know about dialogue 15 sheets of
15 mins it? B dialogue.
Dialogue will be split into two different sheets one Dialogue for board
sheet with just dialogue A and another with just
work and pictures of
dialogue B. Students will need to listen to each
other for the missing dialogue. the show for around
Demonstrate: Student A picks up sheet A and sits the room.
on seat with back to student B. Student B picks up
sheet B and sits with back to student A. Student A
starts speaking the first line. Student B fills it in the
blank space. Student B then says the second line
and student A fills it in on their blank space.
 CCQs: What will student A need?
What will student B need?
Facilitate: Make sure students are back to back.
Take up: Put dialogue board work on the board
and have the students read it.
Activity 1 ‘Whispers’ 6 cards with
15 mins Put students in 2 or 3 teams 6 students per team sentences on it.
and arrange them in lines facing the front, one
after the other. The first team member of every
team goes to the front where the teacher is
holding a card with a sentence written on it. They
read and remember it and then whisper it to team
member 2, who whispers it to team member 3 and
so on until the end of the line. The last team
member runs up to the board and writes what they
heard. When all teams have written their results,
read out the original sentence and check which
team was the most accurate. Then have students
at the front move to the back. I will keep the score
on the board. The cards will have facts of the Royal
Melbourne Show on them.
Demonstrate: First student reading the line from the
teacher and running back to whisper line to the
second student. Second student (holding hand up to
ear listens then says line to the next student and so
on then the last student runs to the board and write
there answer down.
CCQ’s What will the first person do?
What will the last person do?
Is this a competition?
Facilitate: Make sure students know what is
required and the activity is running smoothly.
Take up: Is when I read out the correct lines and
check the scores to see which group has won.
Activity 2 Event game 15 event names
15 mins Student A will have a description of an event and 15 event
Student B will have the name of an event. They description cards
will need to walk around the class and find who 15 discussion
matches there event asking questions. Once they
sheets.
find there matches they will read over the
description and discuss the event using questions
from a worksheet.
Demonstrate: Student A will pick up the
description of an event. Student B will pick up a
name of an event. Student A goes up to student be
and says my event has horses jumping objects.
Student B says my event is wood chopping.
Student A goes up to another student and says my
event has horses jumping objects. Student B says
my event is horse jumping.
CCQ’s: What will student A need?
What will student B need?
 Once you find your partner what will you
do?
Facilitate: Elicit full sentences
Take up: Ask a few groups what their event was
and what happens in the event?

Break 10
minutes
Activity 3 ‘I went to the Royal Melbourne Show and I saw’
10 mins Whole class activity I will start by saying ‘I went
to the Royal Melbourne Show and I saw the horse
jumping’ The next student will say the first line
and add on what they saw and so on.
Demonstrate: ‘I went to the Royal Melbourne
show and I saw the horse jumping.’ I will then sit
in the next seat and repeat the first line and add on
and pigs. Then I will ask the next student to go.
Facilitate: Elicit correct sentences and help out
with memory.
Activity 4 ‘Map Game’ 15 Maps
10 mins Each pair gets a map of the Melbourne show and 15 Worksheets
a worksheet with places to find on the map. Once
they find the places on the map they will write
down the co-ordinates e.g. H3.
Demonstrate: With a map and a worksheet find
one of the questions on the map.
CCQ’s: What will each pair need?
How much time do you have?
Facilitate: Make sure all students are participating.
Take up: Ask for a few answers of where places
are on the map.

Activity 5 Groups of 3 the students will make up their 9 showbag

25 mins own showbags cutting out pictures of what worksheets
they would like in their showbag. They will 9 picture sheets
cut out 9 things they would like in there 9 scissors and glue
showbag and write next to the picture what it
is and why they chose that item.
Demonstrate: on the board with a poster size
of my showbag cut out one of the pictures that
I like and answer the question.
CCQ’s: What will you need for this activity?
How many items will you have in
your showbag?
How much time do you have?
Facilitate: Make sure activity is running on
time and all students are participating.
Take up: Ask for some examples of what to
put in my show bag on the board.
Grammar test 30 worksheets
from Aux unit Students to complete 10 questions then mark
10 mins them as a class