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Grade: 10th Level: Intermediate Course book: Mission Lesson: Best cars of the year Lesson aims: - to develop S's reading competences - to develop S's speaking competences - to give Ss practice in using the degrees of comparison of the adjectives Skills involved: speaking, reading, writing Aids: blackboard, textbook, work-sheets, images Stages: Activity 1 - Warm-up General competence: to interact in spoken or written communication Specific competence: to correct mistakes Method: dialogue Procedure: Teacher (T) checks homework first. Ss had to do some vocabulary exercises related to the previous lesson and an exercise with adjectives, which have been revised. Ss read their homework and correct it if necessary. Interaction: T-Ss; Ss-T Class management: whole clas s activity Timing: 5'-10' Activity 2 - Lead-in General competence: to understand written or oral messages Specific competence: to compare things Method: game Procedure: 1. T asks a student who is good at drawing to come out and draw 2 large palms on the board. He/she has to draw one palm up and one palm down. Then T elicits from the class the vocabulary needed to describe a hand. The words are written on the 2 hands on the board. 2. Then in pairs Ss are asked to compare their hands from as many aspects as possible.

3. Ss form 3 circles. One student is designated by the leader of the group to go round the group and find out who has the biggest hand. When they find the person, they say: 'X has the biggest hand in the group' Successive students are designated to find: The cleanest hand The broadest hand The dirtiest hand The warmest hand The youngest hand The coldest hand The driest hand The most interesting hand The strongest heart line The longest fingers The longest nails The longest life line The shortest fingers Interaction: T-S; S-S-T Class management: pair work and then group work Timing: 10' Activity 3 - Pre-reading General competence: to understand written or oral messages Specific competence: - to classify notions - to express opinions Method: dialogue Procedure: 1. Ss are asked to number some features of a car in order of importance and then they have to explain their decision. Ss work in groups. 2. T asks Ss to read some questions about cars in order to find out their answers when reading the text. Interaction: T-Ss; Ss-Ss-T Class management: group work - individual work Timing: 5' Activity 4 - Reading General competence: - to understand written messages - to interact in spoken communication Specific competence: identify specific information Method: dialogue/discussion Procedure: As the class is split into groups, each group has to read one paragraph of the lesson. They have to find the answers to the questions they have read before. In order to do this they have to underline in their paragraph the sentences that lead them to the questions. Interaction: T-Ss; Ss-Ss-T Class management: group work - whole class activity

Timing: 15' Activity 5 - Post-reading General competence: - comprehension of what the written form means Specific competence: - match specific vocabulary to image Method: dialogue Procedure: Ss are asked to identify the parts of a car. Interaction: T-Ss; Ss-Ss-T Class management: whole class activity Timing: 7' Activity 6 - Feed-back - giving assignment General competence: production of well-formed examples in writing Specific competence: use of the structures to convey meanings in writing Method: dialogue Procedure: Ss are asked to compare two cars for the next class of English Interaction: T-Ss; Ss-Ss-T Class management: whole class activity Timing: 5' Read more: http://articles.famouswhy.com/lesson_plan___best_cars_of_the_year/#ixzz1kI3s0zKP