Lesson plan

1. Activity 2 Topic: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Level B1
Literary
Goal
Reading a story
Technique Understanding vocabulary
Objective After providing students with a story they would complete information
Segment Time Instructor’s Task
Participants
Learning Tasks
Rationale
Schema
activation
5 min -T will provide the studentswith
keywords.
-T will share the definitionsina
contest
Knight- king- magician-spell.
-Ss will learn
vocabulary
-Ss will give more
examples.
This section will
introduce the
students to the
topic before the
story.
First Task 10 min - T will give a story to the students.
- T will present some of the most
important aspects of the story for
them to think.
-Ss will share in groups their
opinions about the story.
- Students are
going to use the
words to complete
the ideas of the
story.
- Students can also
provide their
insights about the
story.
- This class will
let the students
to express
ideas, be
creative and
activate the use
of vocabulary
studied.
Controlled
written
practice
10 min - T will distribute a handout with
blank spaces to write a missing
word on the blank space following a
sequence.
- Ss will share the
possible answers.
-Ss will compare
the answers as
- This section of
the class will
allow to the
students to

2. - T will check the possible answers
given by the students.
1- _________Arthur’s court.
2- Merlin is a __________________
3- Merlin hatch a cast a
________on anyone.
4- The king live in the __________
well as discuss
them with the rest
of the class
Ss will check
answers with T.
know their
different
opinions and
values,
connected to
the story plot.
Expansion
activity
15 min - T will ask the students to make
pairs, then to identify the
characters of the story.
- And rewrite the whole story on a
paper to be shared with the rest at
the end of the class.
- Ss will form a
circle, they will
give a summary of
the characters.
-Ss will tell the
most relevant
events of the story
This section will
allow the
students to see
the parts of the
reading, check
the sequence of
the events and
the supported
ideas in the
paragraphs.