Lesson Plan

Teacher: Joy Dong

Level: Intermediate Student Age Group: 15+

Theme: Experience (~75 mins)

Goal: talk about experience
Objectives:
Students Will Be Able To
use the structure verb + to talk about experience
Reading Activity/Procedure/Stage Interaction Time

Pre-stage I would like you guys to close your eyes, imagine what you would be
like when you are 70 years. What will you be like? Who will you be T-S 5
with? What will you be doing? S-S mins
70

--Students talk to each other in pairs in Mandarin, then come back to the
class as a whole
During-stage
I. Read an article about an old man talking about his life T-S 10
experience S-S mins

i. Go over the article. You will have 3 minutes to read
3
ii. What do you think about his life? Do you like it? Why or
why not?

II. Read for details
Read again, find answers to these questions

Has he been to lots of countries? What are they?

Has he been married? How many times?

Has he met lots of famous people? Who are they?

Do you think that he has had an interesting life? Why or why
not?

After-stage Language focus
1. Underline the expressions with the word and the verb
before. T-S 10
E.g. S-S mins
--Students underline the expressions, then come back to the class as a
whole
--Teacher write them down on the board
2. Can you find a pattern? Whats the meaning of verb+
We use verb+ to talk about past experience.
Verb +
E.g. I have been to China.
E.g. I volunteered before.
E.g. I was a reporter before.
E.g. Ive met President Obama.
2. Can you share with us some of your interesting experience using
verb +
--Students share their experience, teacher write them down on the board

Listening Activity/Procedure/Stage Interaction Time

Pre-stage Think about a job interview. What do people usually talk about during a
job interview? T-S 5mins

During-stage We know that when we are at job interviews, we will be asked to talk S-S 5mins
about our working experience. Now, lets listen to a conversation
between an interviewer and an interviewee. The engineer will be talking
about his working experience.
S-S 10
mins

Listen to the conversation:
1. Listen for the general ideas.
What do you know about this engineer?
Listen again for details, and answer the questions
1. Read the statements carefully in NO.8 on page 85, predict the
answers
Listen again, and check if your predictions are right
After-stage Listen for expressions.
1. Use the prompts, write the interviewers questions in the correct
forms No.9 page 85 verb+ T-S 5mins
2. Listen again and check
Language focus
1. Read the scripts & listen again (page 172)
2. Underline the answers of the engineer to the interviewers
questions
Speaking Activity/Procedure/Stage Interaction Time

Pre-stage 1. What have you done in your life? Lets share our own experience!
T-S 5mins
2. We have 20 statements here. You are asked to finish the sentence
based on your own experience. Write down 10 true and 10 false
sentences. For example, the first one, if I write
I havent stayed up all night. True or false?

--go over the expressions on the handout, make sure that they
understand the expressions
During-stage Students write down their own statements S-S 5mins
Share with your partner
1. Read your sentences to each other. Your partner must try to
figure out whether each sentence is true or not. S-S 10
mins
2. If your partner guesses correctly, he/she scores one point.
After-stage Language focus
1. Anything you found interesting about your partner? What has
your partner done? T-S 5mins

2. Correct mistakes as a whole