Lesson Plan (grade 11 – advanced)
Period : 84 Preparation date : 30/01/2008
Unit : 10 Lesson : writing
I. Aims :
- By the end of the lesson, the students know more about different places in the world
- By the end of the lesson, the students are able to write about a certain place.
II. Lexical items :
- raw - thermal.
III. Structures :
- Its main source of electricity comes from traditional thermal power stations , while water power
stations generate 6.3 %
IV- Teaching aids:
- textbook - handouts - Sheets of paper
- chalk and board
V- Techniques :
- writing-based
VI- Procedures :
State/time Teacher’s and students’ activities Blackboard Materials

1. warm-up
(7’)
Games: Noughts and Crosses –
Geography Quiz
- Draw a square of 9 numbered boxes
on the board.
- divide SS into two groups, Noughts
These are the questions:
1. which energy source
(electricity, wood, or coal)
is used by half the world’s
population for cooking and

Places

2. Pre-
writing
(7’) 1. Brainstorming:
- Ask Ss what kind of information they
would like to know about a place in
order to elicit essential features for the
writing.
- note down SS ideas on the board.
2. Fill in a table (task a, p. 146)
- Ask SS to read the paragraph about

features

Small
board,
Texbook Important
information
about a place groups and then check with the whole
class.
The paragraph includes three main
parts:
Activity 2: Gap-filling
- Put SS into pairs, and give each pair
a handout of a gapped description of
the information in table 1
- Tell SS to study the table and
compete the description with suitable
information.
- when they have finished, tell SS to
compare answers in small groups.
- go over the answers with the class.
Activity 3: Making sentences
- ask SS to practice writing each
sentence as guided in the structure
models.