Level: upper intermediate

Age: adults
Time: 120 minutes
Number of sts: 12
Aims: students will be able to

understand the story

recycle learned grammatical structures
have a discussion about guns

Type of
activity

Description

Time

Objectives

Resources

Skill

Interaction
pattern

Warm up

Teacher will give

students some
headlines and they
will have to discuss
the topic.
Sunglass-wearing
woman in Hollywood
bank robbery
suspected in Davie
case

10 minutes

-activate
schemata

headlines

Speaking

Whole class

Hero waiter breaks up

brazen street robbery
in Washington
Lochte: 'I
over-exaggerated'
Olympics robbery
story

Problems

Two robbers steal

Mercedes, crash it
into jewelry store and
take off with loot
Police seeking
suspect who racked
up $12,000 in charges
on stolen credit cards
Teacher will ask
students if they
were ever robbed
and if they would
like to share their
story with the class.
Activity/
pre-readin
g

Teacher will tell the

class that they are
going to read a
short story called
Lazy Susan. She
will ask them what
do they think it is
about and the
meaning of the title.

10 minutes

-make
predictions

Reading

Teacher will give

each student a
photocopy with the
story. She will tell
them to read the

15 minutes

-discuss the
story by
answering the
questions

short story

Speaking

Whole class

Reading/
Speaking

Individual
work/ whole
class

first four
paragraphs. After
that, she will ask
them some
questions:
-What does Susan
want? Why?
-How does she
feel?
-What does the
writer say about
Susan She was
right, of course,
except about the
hard-earned part?
Reading

Sts will continue

reading the other
part.
Teacher will ask
them
-Who is the typical
victim of mugging?
What do you think
about that?
-Would you take a
similar class?
-Are the classes
useful? Why?

15 minutes

-analyze the
story by
answering the
questions

Reading/
Speaking

Individual
work/ whole
class

Reading

Sts will read the end

15 minutes

-check

Reading/

Individual

of the story. In
pairs, they will have
to discuss the
ending.
-What effect did
watching the movie
have on Susan?
-What happened to
Susan?
-What do you think
of the story?

predictions of
the story.

Speaking

work/ whole
class

Writing

Individual

Speaking

Whole class

Activity

Students will have

to think of a title for
a news article about
any of the muggings
in the story. Theyll
have to write at
least the first
paragraph of the
article.
Then, they will
share it with class.

20 minutes

-write the first

paragraph of a
news article.
-choose a title

Activity

Teacher will show

students two videos
related to guns.
One of them will be
pro guns and the
other will be against
them.
Students will

15 minutes

-analyze and
discuss the
videos shown.

Video 1
Video 2

discuss both videos

and will give their
opinion.
Activity/
Debate

Teacher will divide

students in two
groups, one who is
pro guns and the
other who is against
them.
They will have to
search for
information and
write their
arguments in order
to debate with the
other group.
Teacher will provide
them with useful
expressions.

20 minutes

-explain their
arguments
-support their
ideas
-discuss about
guns

Useful
expressions

Speaking

Group work

If there are
more sts in a
group, teacher
will make the
groups so they
can be even.