LESSON PLAN 

Learning Stage of Class: Pre-intermediate Age Level of Class: 14-15 Size of Class: 34 Grade: 10th Grade Duration: 80 minutes Grammar Structure: should/ought to Lesson Title: What should I do? Equipment needed: A copy of worksheet for each student(main activity), a problem card for each student (pre-activity), a problem card for each student in a group (group work)

OBJECTIVES/GOALS: 1.  Students will be able to give advice for a problem by using should/ought to structure by the end of the lesson. 2.  By the end of the lesson students will be able to find out solutions for their problems related to their real lives by using speaking skills. 3.  Students will be able to discriminate in which situations they can use should/ought to by the end of the lesson.

WRITING LESSON

Warm up (10 minutes):

·       Having the students give examples of when and who people ask for advice

·       Eliciting from students the types of problems which people face especially ones they may face as students such as having too much homework or not getting enough sleep at night.

·       Writing the problems which are definitely a real life situation on the board to refer to later and adding in any I like to discuss.

·       Turning a problem written on the board into a sentence to make a model dialogue. For example, “headache” becomes “I have a headache.”

·       Showing how to use should/ought to structure to give advice by writing a sentence which is an advice on the board and practicing both the problem sentences and advice sentences as a class.

Pre-activity (10 minutes):

·       Explaining to the students that they will work in pairs, each of them will have problem which is distributed by teacher, they will tell their partner the problem and their partner will give 3 advices by using should/ought to

·       Distributing the problem sheets to the students and making them work in pairs

·       After they finish giving advices, making the volunteers tell the problem and advices

Main activity 1(20 minutes):

·       Distributing to the students the worksheets including three problem e-mails and spaces for advices

·       Making the students read the e-mails on the worksheets and write them a reply for each one with the best advice by using should/ought to

·       After the writing, making the students read the replies loudly for the rest of the class and asking them to choose the best one in case they have a purpose for listening

Main activity 2 (Group work-20 minutes):

·       Dividing the class into groups of five.

·       Giving each group a set of cards and ask them to put the set of cards face down in a pile.

·       Students take it in turns to turn over a card. They explain their problems to the group, and the other students have to give advice. Each student in the group has to give a different advice.

·       The student gives the card to the person who has given the best advice by using should/ought to

·       The student who collects the most cards is the winner.

·       When everyone has finished, students report back to the class on the best or worst piece of advice they received for each situation.

Post activity (20 minutes):

·       Dividing the class into two groups: problem people and advice givers.

·       Asking the problem people to each think up a minor problem they have and are willing to talk about.

·       Getting the students moving round the room. Each problem person pairs off with an advice giver. The problem person explains their problem and the other person gives a piece of advice by using should/ought to

·       Each problem person now moves on to another advice giver. The problem people have to speak to five advice givers.

·       After the activity complete, having a feedback session.

·       Asking some of the problem people to state their problem and reporting to the class on the best and the worst piece of advice they were offered, naming the advice giver, e.g. Buğra told me I should give wake up earlier. İsa suggested I ought to organize my time better.
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