Lesson Plan
Grade level(s) College Freshman
Level: Lower Intermediate
Subject(s): EFL
Student Number: 36 Students
Facilities: Standard Classroom: movable desks, white board, air conditioning, heating
Materials: A4 paper, pencils, domino story handouts, role play cards, audiotape, and tape player white board.
Collaborative learning, empathy, and dialogical Reasoning
Lesson Focus:
This two part lesson utilizes collaborative learning, empathy, and dialogical reasoning. The first part of the lesson uses collaborative methods in an oral fluency and grammatical accuracy activity where students use deductive reasoning to discover the rules associated with past simple construction. The second part of the lesson is an oral fluency exercise which utilizes the past simple tense and apologies to focus on empathy and dialogical reasoning.
Lesson Summary:
In the first part of the lesson, the instructor begins the Monday morning class with a discussion of the weekend's activities using the past simple form. The discussion shifts to drinking and its pros and cons in Korean society. The students perform a collaborative writing activity to brainstorm the pros and cons of alcohol consumption. Afterwards, the students work collaboratively to perform a past simple jigsaw domino story about Peter, a student who behaved badly after drinking too much. The second part of the lesson is a fluency role play that focuses on empathy and dialogical thinking by having the students explore how alcohol abuse effects those around them. Finally, there is a closing discussion about alcohol abuse.
