This 3-lesson plan introduces students to unusual jobs. In lesson 1, students will brainstorm typical jobs and try to guess the functions of unusual jobs assigned by the teacher in small groups. For lesson 2, students will research their assigned unusual job online and complete a questionnaire, survey, and article about an invented unusual job. In lesson 3, students will present their projects and complete a peer review activity evaluating other groups' presentations. The goal is for students to learn new vocabulary about unusual jobs while practicing simple present tenses and conversation skills.

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Informática aplicada a la enseñanza de Inglés – Assignment n° 3
LESSON PLAN
These lessons are aimed to teenagers from 1st year, secondary public school,
more or less 25 students. They will be working on the topic “Unusual jobs”; besides
learning new vocabulary, they will revise simple present and conversation strategies
such as “I agree”, “I think”, etc.
Students will have to surf the internet to find out about the unusual jobs we
present and during the third lesson they are expected to produce and present a
project on a new unusual job made up by them.
Warmer (Lesson 1)
• The teacher asks students what jobs they know and explain what the
job is about. (regular jobs) Teacher uses flashcards to guide the
discussion and suggests ideas such as whether people wear uniforms in
their jobs or not, if they work with a lot of people or by themselves, etc.
• Students are required to get into groups (3/4 students per group). The
teacher presents a poster with different names of unusual jobs, and
assigns one job for each group. Students have to guess what the job
they were given is about and share their ideas with the rest of the class.
While one group presents its job, the other groups are expected to
provide opinions about their classmates guess.
• Round up: Students write down about what a person does in the job
that was assigned to them.
Web (Lesson 2):
Warmer: Students read aloud what they wrote about their assigned job last
class. Groups discuss about other possibilities for odd jobs.
This lesson is going to take place in the computer room. Students sit in the
computers in the same groups that were formed during lesson 1. Students
follow a Web quest.
• Students are required to follow the steps presented in the web quest
(http://www.zunal.com/webquest.php?w=71298) and prepare the
activities by using not only the resources they will find in the internet
but other tools such as word processor or PowerPoint.

2. • They will have to prepare a questionnaire, a survey and an article on an
unusual job invented by them. In this part of the project they are
expected to use (as revision) grammar structures such as present tenses
and questions forms, apart from basic vocabulary related to jobs they
know.
• This may take more than one session, but they can do part of the task at
home as homework and, if any doubt arises, they are allowed to send e-
mails to the teacher in order to solve any problem, before the
presentation of the project.
What next (Lesson 3):
This is the last part of the project
• Students present the work they have done by following the steps in the web
quest: they will act out a short interview, present the results of the survey and
the imaginary odd job, by using either a PowerPoint presentation or the usual
poster and different pictures or flashcards
• This part is presented orally, and they will be evaluated
• After that they are required to hand in the project in written format, either in
paper or electronically, in a CD ROM or any other device
• Round up: peer review – the different groups will write an opinion about the
projects, highlighting the weak points and the strong point of a group they
will be assigned. The opinion has to be handed in.
Links to be used:
• www.unusualwaystomakemoney.com/unusualjobs.html - Last Modified:
October 11, 2010 5:27 pm
• http://www.articlesbase.com/marketing-articles/top-5-unusual-
jobs-910226.html - Last Modified: October 11, 2010 5:33 pm
• http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2484423/Ten-
of-the-most-unusual-jobs.html - Last Modified: October 11, 2010 5:38 pm
• http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/unusualjobs/ - Last Modified: October 11,
2010 5:45 pm
• http://www.myunusual.com/downloads/Unusual_JobsC.html - Last Modified:
October 11, 2010 5:58 pm

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