Lesson Plan Teacher/s: Yutong Chen Level: Advanced 4 Date/Time: Apr 15, 2013

Goal: To improve Students awareness of Humor in literature and Fluency in Writing Objectives: To teach students how to. 1. Read David Sedariss story about speech therapy 2. Free-Writing without stopping 3. Write a Travel Agent brochure Theme: Humor and Laughter Extensions: Free-Writing and Travel agent brochures
Stage/Aim/Skill/Microskill Activity/Procedure Interaction Students read short Humorous Quotes and Explain to the rest of the class where the humor lies SS-SS Time

Warm-up Recognizing Humor from quotes

5mins

Pre: Activity 1 Stages: Pre- Brainstorm humorous stories or quotes that they have heard in their own country or in the US SS-T Each student is supposed to tell at least one humorous story or quote from his/her culture or from the States. After they tell the stories, other students will rank the level of humor of the stories. If there are stories that are not understood, teacher draw students attention to how humor is specific to different cultures. 7mins

During

During: SS-SS 13mins

Read the speech therapy article by 1. Each student gets one part of the article, and David Sedaris by doing the Jigsaw they are supposed to read it and summarize it in their own words. activity 2. Let students line up according to the order of the paragraph development of the article.

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3. Let each student tell the class what his reading paragraph was about.

Vocabulary check by matching the definitions with the words 4. After every student tells the story, the whole class has an idea how the article develops.

Post: Check vocabulary on board (clarify terms, check spelling), doing the matching activity(matching definition with words) Pre: Activity 2 Free-Writing Stages: Pre During: Brainstorming about possible topics 1.Student Choose one of the topics they have ranked in themaking a list activity. Freewrite for 7 minutes on that topic. Make sure they stick to the freewriting guidelines. Students Think about a possible topic about something interesting that you have experienced since they came to the United Sates.

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10mins

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7mins

During Free write about a chosen topic; Exchanging with Peers; Elaborating Free write

2. Exchange freewrites with a partner. Have that partner underline a word, phrase, or idea from your freewrite which is of particular interest to him/her.

SS-T

5mins

Post Whole class rotate free writings and fill in peer critique worksheet

3.Students get back their writings from their peers and free write elaboratively on the underlined phrase.

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7mins

Post: The whole class rotate reading all the free writings, and fill in the worksheet about what they find intereting or confusing. SS-SS 9mins

Activity 3 Writing a Travel agent brochure Stages: Pre Reading existing travel agent brochures

Pre: SS-T Teacher hands out the travel agent brochures and giving them examples how to write a travel advertisements 10mins

During: 1.Students brainstorm about the tourist attractions in their own countries SS-SS 5mins

2. Students write a short article introducing their countries, according to the format of the Students write a short travel agent travel brochures they have read. brochures of their own countries During

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10mins

Post Students role play as the travel agent to promote traveling in their Post: countries Students role play as a travel agent trying to sell their trips, using the brochure they have written. Teachers give linguistic feedback.

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20mins

Pre: Wrap-up Reviewing what has been learned in this class by brainstorming keywords on the board Teacher ask students to come up to the board and write down what they have learned in class, key words are enough During: after that, students are asked to explain the key words that they have written SS-SS SS-T

15mins

Post: teacher give feedback what they have said Materials: In Charge 2 Text book; Humorous Quotes collected from the Internet; Travel agent brochures collected from the travel agent company Sta Travel. Anticipated Problems: During Free-Writing the students might feel inhibited and not be able to write freely due to linguistics incompetence; In the travel agent writing activity, students might not be willing to present their brochure in front of the whole class

Contingency Plans (what you will do if you finish early, etc.): In the first time free writing, they actually could hesitating words like well, kind of, I think when they are stuck for words; If I finish early, I make students rank the desirability of the trips that were promoted by other students, and draw their attention to how writing can be persuasive. Post-Lesson Reflection Authentic materials can really motivate students and be effective in aiming teaching goals.