New lesson plan: A Plane Crash

Sura Kucukbey

A Plane Crash - Intermediate level

A Plane Crash
Intermediate level

Description

In this lesson, students will be learning about John Peltz's a real-life experience of a plane crash and, a shipwreck and a shark attack. The lesson will start with a conversation on a poster. Later, Ss will be reading the text about a real-life experience of a plane crash. Then, they will be reading and talking about real-life experiences of a shipwreck and a shark attack through some phrases.

Materials

Course Book, Pearson Cutting Edge Intermediate

Course Book, Pearson Cutting Edge Intermediate

Main Aims

To provide gist reading practice using a text about disasters in the contexts of real-life experience of a plane crash and a shipwreck and a shark attack.

Subsidiary Aims

To provide fluency speaking practice in a conversation in the context of real-life experiences of disasters

Procedure (48-50 minutes)

Warmer/Lead-in (3-4 minutes) • To set lesson context and engage students

Students look at the poster on the course book and talk about other disaster movies based on real events.

Pre-reading (4-5 minutes) • To allow students to get ready before the reading activities.

Students work in pairs about the questions in the exercises 2a. Questions are: 1. What do you think Josh thought about as the plane was going down? 2. What do you think he did when he was safe?

Reading Task (8-8 minutes) • To provide an opportunity to practice target productive skills

Ss will be reading the text about Josh Peltz's real-life experience of a plane crash in the context of "IT REALLY HAPPENED TO ME!". Later, students compare their ideas from exercise 2a in pairs.

Post-Reading (10-10 minutes) • To provide an opportunity for students to practise the text.

Students will put the events in the correct order according to the text in the exercise 3. Later, they will work in pairs and discuss the questions in the exercise 4.

Pre-Reading (10-10 minutes) • To allow students to get ready for the other reading activities.

Students will learn the phrases in the exercise 5a. Phrases can be listed as to bite, the crew of a boat, a rubber dinghy, a flare, to feel numb, to hold on, to let go, a life belt, to paddle, a searchlight, and a surfboard. T should elicit the vocabulary with drawing pictures and asking CCQs. T divides the board into two and writes SW (shipwreck), and SA (shark attack). Teacher wants students to think about the related phrases and put them into the correct places.

Reading (8-8 minutes) • To provide students an opportunity to improve their reading skills

T allows students to study in pairs as A and B. The students in A will read the "Shipwrecked" and the students in B will read " Attacked by a Shark". Later, students take turns to tell their partners about their story.

Language Practice (5-5 minutes) • To provide students with practice of the task language

If there is enough time, students will discuss about the questions in pairs in the exercise 7. 1. What was the worst experience in your opinion? 2. What was the worst part of each experience? 3. Do you know any stories of experiences like this? What happened?