CEP Lesson Plan Unit 4

Teachers: Natalie (Xiaoye Qian) & Anna (Danchen Zhao)

Level: Intermediated 4
Date/Time: Monday, Mar. 30th, 2015 10AM-12PM
Goal: Learn how to give definitions to words and write a letter of application
Objectives (SWBAT): Students Will Be Able To
1. Recognize definitions and examples
2. Use certain phrases to give definitions and examples
3. Distinguish the difference between a letter of inquiry and a letter of application
Theme: Because I told you to!
Extensions: Write a letter of application
Aim/Skill/Microskill
Activity/Procedure/Stage
Interaction
Its warming up! Let get warm up and
Review or Preview (if
answer several quick questions that I
applicable)
have prepared for you.
[Check:]
1. Inflexible
2. Frustrating & frustrated
T-Ss
3. My mom doesnt let me
your
party.
4. A: Did he tell her to come home
early?
B: No, he told him to come home
early.(contrastive stresses
Pronunciation)
Use questions to quiz Ss and check
answers to their homework.
Activity 1:
No man is an island

Transition to #2:

Ss-Ss

Pre-Stage:
English poet John Donne once said,
No man is an island. Thinking of
Ss-Ss
what you have read in the passage, talk
with your partner and discuss your
understanding of this sentence.
Ask Ss to share their thoughts and
show them the whole poem of
Meditation 17.

T-Ss

Time

10min

5min

5min

5min

During-Stage:
Teach Ss the language to give
definition and example:
is
is defined as
is called
Take as an example,
For instance,
That is,

T-Ss

Pair-work
Let Ss use the template T provides to
Ss-Ss
come up with a short definition and an
example of their understanding of No
man is an island.
Post-stage:
Share their definition and comment
together in the class.

5min

8min

T-Ss
Ss-Ss

7min

1min

Ss-Ss

5min

T-Ss

5min

Tangible Outcome & T. feedback/peer

feedback:
Written definition and example of their
understanding of No man is an
isand.
Activity 2:
Reading and Practice

Transition to #3:
Ok, so much for todays
reading practice. Now, lets
talk something about
writing.

Pre-Stage:
Alright, turn to page 28 and we are
going to look at the reading passage
that we have pre-read before. Now, Ill
put you into 4 groups, each group are
going to be in charge of one or two
paragraphs. you three, you three,
Ok, first thing I want each group to
do is to discuss within your group and
give me a brief summary of each
paragraph you are in charge of.
Each group report their summary.
During-Stage:
Very good. Now the next thing you
are going to do, is to use the language
we just learned to come up with a
definition and an example of each

bolded words from the text.

Before you start, let me give you an
example. Take role as an example, see, T-Ss
Im using it, right? Ok, Role is
that
. For instance,
. So here, after
is, we need a ? Yes, we need a
noun here. This is a very important
step of giving a definition. And then,
we are going to describe this noun. You
can find it in each paragraph near this
word. So, in this case, Role is a
behavior that the society expects you to
perform. For instance, people have
different jobs so that the society could
function.

3min

Ok, start working and get your

assigned words done.
Ss-Ss
Post-stage:
Check each word together and improve
them together with the whole class.
T-Ss

8min
7min

Tangible Outcome & T. feedback/peer

feedback:
Written definitions of bolded words.
Activity 3:
How to write an application
letter?

Transition to #4:

Pre-Stage:
Ask students if they have ever
written an application letter or
not. (If some students have, then
ask them to talk about it)
Review the format of a formal
business letter with the whole
class.
During-Stage:
Ask students to do the exercise 3
on textbook P29 (individually)
Talk with the partner about the
answer
Ask students to read a sample job
application letter (individually)
Post-stage:
Talk about what should be
included in the body part of a job

T-Ss

5min

T-Ss

5min

T-Ss

5min

Ss-Ss

3min

Ss

3min

T-Ss

Activity 4:

Transition to #5:

Wrap-up

application letter with the whole

class.
Tangible Outcome & T. feedback/peer
feedback:
Worksheet on textbook page P29
Pre-Stage:
Go over all the business letter
format and the content should be
written in the body part again with
the students.
During-Stage:
Ask students to write their own job
application letter to apply for their
dream job.
Post-stage:
Exchange your application letter
with your partner and do a peerfeedback.
Tangible Outcome & T. feedback/peer
feedback:
The application letter they wrote
during the activity
Lesson Evaluation Procedures:
Collect all the application letters and
give teachers feedback.

Ss-Ss

10min

T-Ss

5min

Ss

10min

Ss-Ss

10min

1min

Materials: Hand-outs for the application letter format; PPT slideshow

Anticipated Problems & Suggested Solutions:
Problem1: Some students will finish writing the application letter earlier than others.
Solution1: Prepare a follow-up reading practice for those who finish early.
Contingency Plans (what you will do if you finish early, etc.):
Real world English.