The document outlines an English lesson plan about the poem "Some Days" by Billy Collins. The plan has three parts: 1) Students watch a video of the poem and discuss their initial impressions. 2) They complete a close reading activity to analyze symbolic words and phrases. 3) They are divided into two groups to discuss quotes related to the poem's themes of superficial people and fate. The overall goal is for students to reflect on societal superficiality and people's lack of control over their fate.

1. Activity 2 Topic: Life / Target Content: A superficial Life
Level B2
Learning
Goal
Making students reflect on society´s fakeness and superficiality, and
people’s fate.
Technique Active reading
Objective
After showing the Ss the video, they will be able to analyze society´s
fakeness and superficiality, and people’s fate.
Values Humility, honesty and acceptance.
Segment Time Instructor’s Task
Participants
Learning
Tasks
Rationale
Schema
activation
5 min - T will show the video of the poem
Some Days to Ss and ask them to
voice their general opinion of the
poem using the following questions as
a guide:
Is it a romantic poem?
How do you feel about the poem?
What is the general idea of the poem?
What is the mood of the poem?
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- Ss will watch
the video and
voice their
general opinion
towards it by
answering the
T’ questions.
- This part of
the class will
allow
students to
have and
express their
general idea
of the video
through
guided
questions.
Reading
Activity
20 min - T will distribute a sheet with the
Poem Some Days to Ss.
- T will ask the Ss to read the poem in
pairs.
-T. will ask Ss to correct the False
information.
- Ss will
complete the
True and False
activity.
-Ss will correct
the false
information.
- This
section of
the class will
enable Ss to
understand
the story in a
better way
by deep
reading for
details.
In-class
speaking
20 min -T will divide the group into two
subgroups.
-T will assign each group a topic
presented in the poem:
-Ss will work
in two groups.
- Ss will be
assigned two
- This
section of
the class will
enable

2. expansion
activity
-T will give each group a set of quotes
related to their topic.
-T will ask the Ss to discuss their
quotes and relate them to the poem.
different topics
from the story:
fate and
superficial
people.
- Ss will be
discuss a set of
quotes related
to their
assigned topics
and relate them
to the poem.
-Ss will present
their ideas to
the other
group.
students to
think more
critically
about two
topics
presented in
the poem
through
some given
quotes.

3. Material
Some Days
Billy Collins – 1941
Some days Iput the people intheir placesatthe table,
bend theirlegs atthe knees,
if they come with that feature,
and fixthem intothe tinywooden chairs.
Allafternoon they faceone another,
the man inthe brown suit,
the woman inthe bluedress,
perfectlymotionless, perfectlybehaved.
But other days, I am the one
who isliftedup by the ribs,
then loweredintothe diningroom of a dollhouse
tosit with the others at the longtable.
Veryfunny,
but how would you likeit
ifyou neverknewfrom one dayto the next

4. if you weregoing tospend it
stridingaround likeavividgod,
your shouldersinthe clouds,
or sittingdown there amidst the wallpaper,
staringstraight ahead with your little plastic face?
Retrieved from: https://poets.org/poem/some-days
Reading Activity: After you read, analyze the bold words and think about what these words and
phrases really mean, what do they symbolize? Complete the table with key words and complete
ideas.
Words and phrases
from the poem
Simbolism

5. In-class speaking expansion activity:
Group 1: Superficial People

7. Group 2: Fate