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Methods II – LCB TTC Task-based Lesson Plan. Process Writing. Third Draft Alejandra de Antoni – 2009 Task-based Lesson Plan Process Writing 3 rd Step The Task: Students are put in pairs or small groups of three and are given a sheet to create a quiz to test their partners’ (another pair) general knowledge. They have to create 12 questions and provide the correct and true answers. The first 9 questions are prompted and the other 3 are going to be completely created by them. Aims: o By the end of the lesson students will have created a quiz to test their partners’ general knowledge. o By the end of the lesson students will have worked on their general knowledge of the world using the target language as a means to exchange information as well as do something that they actually do outside the classroom (answering quizzes is a very well-known pastime). Outcome: The expected outcome is a 12-question quiz to test their partners’ general knowledge. Students must also know its answers. Evaluation Criteria: Peer Evaluation: This a Task-Based Lesson Plan. The aim of the lesson is for students to carry out a task to learn English. Learners doing tasks (i.e. focusing on meanings) will be making free use of whatever English they can recall to express the things that they really want to say or write in the process of achieving the task. There will be a moment, however, in which students will focus on language so as to enhance their performance in doing the task. NB: What is a task? A task is an activity in which the target language is used by the learner for a communicative purpose (goal) in order to achieve an outcome. 1

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This is the 3rd draft (you can look for the first and second drafts in My Docs) of my first Task-Based Lesson Plan as a teacher trainee. In this 3rd draft I improved my lesson plan by means of making it more compact and clarifying the introductory note in which I explain what this plan involves and what a task is.I really hope you like it and please do leave your suggestions and comments!NB I do not own the tasks I present in this lesson plan. They're copyrighted by OXFORD University Press. I included them here to illustrate the lesson plan and make it easier for you to understand what I write.

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Methods II – LCB TTCTask-based Lesson Plan.

Process Writing. Third DraftAlejandra de Antoni – 2009

Task-based Lesson Plan – Process Writing – 3 rd Step

The Task:Students are put in pairs or small groups of three and are given a sheet to create a quiz to test their partners’ (another pair) general knowledge. They have to create 12 questions and provide the correct and true answers. The first 9 questions are prompted and the other 3 are going to be completely created by them.

Aims:o By the end of the lesson students will have created a quiz to

test their partners’ general knowledge.o By the end of the lesson students will have worked on their

general knowledge of the world using the target language as a means to exchange information as well as do something that they actually do outside the classroom (answering quizzes is a very well-known pastime).

Outcome:The expected outcome is a 12-question quiz to test their partners’ general knowledge. Students must also know its answers.

Evaluation Criteria:Peer Evaluation:

o The quiz must have 12 true-to-life questions with their corresponding answers, which should be based on reality. This will be checked after the lesson, for homework, by the students themselves.

o When students ask and answer the quizzes. If they understand each other’s questions and can answer them, it means that they are accurately enough written for the listener to understand them. In addition, students will take the quizzes home so as to check both content and form.

This a Task-Based Lesson Plan. The aim of the lesson is for students to carry out a task to learn English. Learners doing tasks (i.e. focusing on meanings) will be making free use of whatever English they can recall to express the things that

they really want to say or write in the process of achieving the task. There will be a moment, however, in which students will

focus on language so as to enhance their performance in doing the task.

NB: What is a task? A task is an activity in which the target language is used by the learner for a communicative purpose

(goal) in order to achieve an outcome.

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Methods II – LCB TTCTask-based Lesson Plan.

Process Writing. Third DraftAlejandra de Antoni – 2009

Introducing the Task to the Students:The teacher tells the students that they are going to create a quiz to test their general knowledge. The quiz will be created in pairs and they will use it to test another pair’s general knowledge. It will be real fun because they will be able to show the rest how much they know about the world. It may be a lot of fun as well because, in general, within a classroom students may know different (and sometimes peculiar) facts and it is really interesting to share them.

Pre-Task (Getting Ready):The students answer the Music Quiz on page 20 (New English File Pre-Intermediate, Student’s Book. See Appendix). To do it, they will carry out Exercise 1 (the three parts and in pairs. The teacher monitors them).Once they do the three activities, they check answers with the whole class. The teacher selects four questions and writes them on the board. Two of the questions with auxiliaries (e.g.: questions 1 and 8) and the other two without them (e.g.: 7 and 8). The teacher asks the students to focus on the two sets and to try to explain the difference between them. The teacher guides them asking them to focus on the functions that the wh-words have in each of the sets.

Task Cycle:Students are given the photocopy to carry out the task. They are first asked to complete the questions (in pairs or groups of three). The teacher tells the students that they must know the answers because they will need to be able to decide whether or not the pair they test has passed the quiz or not. There will be dictionaries available and if that is not possible, the students will ask the teacher for help with any vocabulary doubt. Having access to the Internet would be ideal but it is not essential, of course.

Post-task:Students concentrate on form. The teacher tells them that the quizzes are going to be published online (the class blog) for other people to answer them. To get the quizzes ready, the teacher asks the students to exchange quizzes so as to correct and edit any language problems. (This will be done as homework to check both content and form).

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Methods II – LCB TTCTask-based Lesson Plan.

Process Writing. Third DraftAlejandra de Antoni – 2009

APPENDIX:

1. The Task (adapted from Communicative Activity 2-C; New English File Pre-intermediate Teacher’s Book; OXFORD University Press)

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Methods II – LCB TTCTask-based Lesson Plan.

Process Writing. Third DraftAlejandra de Antoni – 2009

2. The Pre-Task (Music Quiz taken from the New English File Pre-Intermediate Student’s Book, page 20; OXFORD University Press)

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Methods II – LCB TTCTask-based Lesson Plan.

Process Writing. Third DraftAlejandra de Antoni – 2009

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