I used http://www.google.com/ and the search key words are “CALL EFL lesson plan” and I found this CALL lesson plan.
Basic Information of CALL lesson plan:
Title: Country Comparison Lesson Plan
Author: (The author is not listed on the website.)
Link: http://www.ryter.com/call/lesson.html
A Review of the lesson plan:
This lesson plan is designed for California Community College Level 5 (lower intermediate ESL students with varied language backgrounds. The theme of the lesson is “country comparison,” which practice students on the use of comparatives and superlatives of adjectives while eliciting their language output. According to the lesson plan students are required to write sentences with the information they have collected using comparative and superlatives of adjectives. The lesson plan consists of several parts: audience, material, time, introduction, practice, use and URL for students to use in this lesson.
This lesson plan is designed for California Community College Level 5 (lower intermediate ESL students with varied language backgrounds. The theme of the lesson is “country comparison,” which practice students on the use of comparatives and superlatives of adjectives while eliciting their language output. According to the lesson plan students are required to write sentences with the information they have collected using comparative and superlatives of adjectives. The lesson plan consists of several parts: audience, material, time, introduction, practice, use and URL for students to use in this lesson.
Strengths of the activities:
This is a CALL ESL lesson plan with detailed and easy-to-follow description of instruction steps. The objective of the lesson is clearly presented and activities are carefully designed to reach the aims of this lesson. Students are prepared with preliminary language support before they began the activities.
The lesson plan is also user-friendly. As a CALL lesson, students are provided opportunities to use online information from ABC News Country Profiles website. There are also online grammar recourses with information of comparative and superlatives of adjectives. All these links have URLs, and they are put under the daily class website: http://www.ryter.com/call/class.html.
This is a CALL ESL lesson plan with detailed and easy-to-follow description of instruction steps. The objective of the lesson is clearly presented and activities are carefully designed to reach the aims of this lesson. Students are prepared with preliminary language support before they began the activities.
The lesson plan is also user-friendly. As a CALL lesson, students are provided opportunities to use online information from ABC News Country Profiles website. There are also online grammar recourses with information of comparative and superlatives of adjectives. All these links have URLs, and they are put under the daily class website: http://www.ryter.com/call/class.html.
Weakness of the activities:
However, there are also several places that we could improve the lesson plan.
First, there is not a back-up plan for Internet access problems or electricity problems. An important thing for teachers who use computers in teaching to pay attention to is that they should always be prepared for these situations.
Second, more explanations should be included to tell teacher how to organize students work in groups. According to the lesson plan, students are supposed to work in groups of three and they fill in their table and ask their classmates questions to fill their table. But if they all read the website they have the opportunities to read the information of all countries listed on the website, then the activities would work since they don’t have to interact with each other to get the information. Therefore, there should be more explanation on how students should be this activity.
Third, there might be difficulties when students compare certain countries with their own country because there are emotional aspects involved. Therefore, it might be interesting if in the lesson plan students are asked to analyze what they read on the website to see if the information about their countries are correctly presented. If there is any information presented improperly, they could write to the editors of the website to ask the correction of the information.
However, there are also several places that we could improve the lesson plan.
First, there is not a back-up plan for Internet access problems or electricity problems. An important thing for teachers who use computers in teaching to pay attention to is that they should always be prepared for these situations.
Second, more explanations should be included to tell teacher how to organize students work in groups. According to the lesson plan, students are supposed to work in groups of three and they fill in their table and ask their classmates questions to fill their table. But if they all read the website they have the opportunities to read the information of all countries listed on the website, then the activities would work since they don’t have to interact with each other to get the information. Therefore, there should be more explanation on how students should be this activity.
Third, there might be difficulties when students compare certain countries with their own country because there are emotional aspects involved. Therefore, it might be interesting if in the lesson plan students are asked to analyze what they read on the website to see if the information about their countries are correctly presented. If there is any information presented improperly, they could write to the editors of the website to ask the correction of the information.
The way I might use the activities for my students:
I might adapt the lesson plan and design a task for them to do at the end of the lesson. The task asks students to check if there is any incorrect information on the website and then they should write to the website editor about that. Students could be highly motivated to do this kind of tasks.
I might adapt the lesson plan and design a task for them to do at the end of the lesson. The task asks students to check if there is any incorrect information on the website and then they should write to the website editor about that. Students could be highly motivated to do this kind of tasks.
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