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Example of a Lesson Plan
By: Asmaa Zedan
Title of the Lesson: Break Your Bad Habits
Type: Vocabulary
Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
1. Identify the bad habit of ‘being a shopaholic’ after watching a video
2. Guess different bad habits when watching some pictures
3. Talk about their own bad habits
4. Ask for advice regarding their bad habits
5. Create solutions for overcoming bad habits
Vocabulary: Description of bad habits such as:
- Being a shopaholic
- Nail biting
- Smoking
- Eating unhealthy food
- Postponing duties
- Chatting all day
- Watching TV all day
- Being always late
- Skipping breakfast
- Gossip
Level: Intermediate / upper-intermediate
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Materials: The board – PowerPoint presentation – a video – magnetic pins
Time: 40 minutes
Introduction: 5 minutes
- The teacher asks the students any general question like ‘what did you do
yesterday after school?’
- The teacher shows a video (from a movie titled ‘Confessions of a
Shopaholic’ – the video is available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=ZYYCSEV-i1Y ) – and asks the students to focus on the things the
woman usually does.
- The teacher then asks the students ‘What does the woman usually do?’ and
‘Is this a good or a bad habit?’
Presentation: 8 minutes
- The teacher asks the students ‘Who has the same bad habit just like the
woman in the video (being a shopaholic)?’ and ‘Do you have any other bad
habits?’
- The teacher shows the students a PowerPoint presentation of bad habits by
showing a picture first and asking the students to guess the bad habit
expressed in the picture and then showing the name of that habit. E.g.:
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Watching TV all day Eating unhealthy food
Practice: 9 minutes
- The teacher divides the students into two groups, writes the names of the
groups on the board and uses two magnetic pins to give the students points
on answering questions:
Group 1 Group 2
Magnetic pin
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- The teacher asks each group a question such as ‘who knows someone that
quit a bad habit? And what is it?’
- If the first group (any of its members) answers the question, they get two
points on the board by moving the magnetic pin. If the group does not have
the answer, the question goes to the second group and so on
- The group that gets more points at the end gets a prize, extra marks, etc.
Production: 15 minutes
- The teacher creates a scenario in which the students will work in pairs for;
one will be a radio announcer while the other will be a caller who has a
problem about a bad habit and calls for advice.
- The students are asked to use the expressions for asking for and giving
advice that they remember from the last lesson (some examples will be
elicited from them). They are also asked to write the dialogue that will take
place.
- The class then listens to some examples of the dialogues.
Closure: 3 minutes
- The teacher and the students revise the main points of the lesson very
quickly (e.g. recite the bad habits mentioned)
- The teacher asks the students if they have any questions and asks them for
homework to write one short paragraph about the bad habits of people
around them like family members, friends, etc.
