The document outlines a secondary school lesson plan that focuses on holidays. The 80-minute lesson will teach 25 advanced proficiency level students about holidays through writing, listening, speaking and reading activities. Students will conduct interviews about each other's holiday experiences, complete a semantic map with this information, and write a short story based on the interviews. The goal is for students to practice using the simple past tense while learning about people's vacations and cultivating interpersonal and writing skills.

1. Secondary School Lesson Plan
Date : 22nd September 2010
Time/Duration : 9.00-10.20 am (80 minutes)
Class : 25 / 25
Proficiency level : Advance.
Theme : People
Topic : Holiday.
Language skill focus : writing (80%)
Integrated Skills : Listening, Speaking and reading.
Language focus (Grammar Items): Simple past tense.
Learning outcomes : By the end of the year, students should be able to:
1.0 LANGUAGE FOR INTERPERSONAL USE
1.1 1.1 Make friends and keep friendships by:
d Take part in conversation and discussion
iv. Responding to questions politely by giving the required
information:
2.0 LANGUAGE FOR INFORMATIONAL USE
2.3 presenting information to different audience by :
c. composing, revising and editing drafts, and checking
accuracy of spelling, punctuation, and grammar;
vii. Writing recounts.

2. Learning objectives : By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
1. Interact and participate actively in class. (They must
be able to voice out their opinions about holidays
asked by the teacher in the set induction and pre
stage.).
2. Conduct an interview session about holiday’s
experiences with their partner.
3. Complete the semantic map individually by writing
their friend’s experiences in the worksheet 1.
4. Construct a story based on the information from the
interview individually.
Educational emphasis: a) Thinking skills
- Students are asked to recall their memories.
b) Preparing for real world.
- Students will be able to gain knowledge on people’s vacation.
c) Multiple Intelligence
- Interpersonal – interviewing friend.
-intrapersonal - writing one’s experiences..
Moral values : 1. Students are taught to be independent.
Resource Materials : videos, pictures, worksheet,, manila card .

3. STAGE/ CONTENT/ SKILL TEACHER/PUPIL AVA/
DURATION ACTIVITY RATIONALE
SET- Whole class To evoke and
INDUCTION 1. Teacher displays create students
(5 MINUTES) Questions some pictures on interest in to
1. What can you the whiteboard the lesson.
see from the using the LCD
picture? projector. AVA
2. Teacher then asks Refer to
2. Have you been students questions (Appendix 1)
to these pertaining to the
places?why? pictures shown. ( L. O =1)
Expected answers 3. Students respond to
Question 1 teachers’ questions.
a) Island.
b) A famosa castle.
c) beach
Question 2
a) Yes.(to spend
my holiday)
Vacations.
b) No.
Skills
Speaking,
Vocabulary
- Holiday

4. PRE- Whole class 1. Teacher shows a
READING video to the To activate
(10MINUTES) Questions students prior
1. What can you 2. Students were knowledge
see from the asked to watch the
video? video attentively. To expose the
2. What you 3. After that, teacher students to
normally do asks some people’s
when you are questions to the experiences
having holiday? students pertaining during holiday.
Why? to the topic. AVA
4. Teacher tells the Video.
3. During your students that they Refer to
holiday, what are will be learnt to (Appendix 2)
were the best write a recounts. (L.O =1)
memories you 5. Teacher explains
have ever had? the meaning of
recounts.
Vocabulary.
- Recounts.
Skills
Speaking and Listening.
WHILE- Whole class To seek
READING Task One student’s
(25MINUTES) Individual 1. Teacher asks experiences
students to sit in during holiday.
pairs. AVA
2. Students will be Handouts and
given a topic to worksheet
interview with their Refer to
partner. (Appendix 3 )
Skills 3. Teacher gives the
Writing students a set of
question for the (L.O =2)
students to use for
their interview
Task two
1. Teacher distributes
worksheets to the To persuade
students. Students students to
are asked to answer work together
the questions. and establish
2. Students are asked team work by
to complete the doing group

5. semantic map by work.
referring to their
Skills friends respond Refer to
Writing. from the interview. (Appendix 4)
3. Students also are
Individual. encouraged to write ( L .O= 3)
as many
experiences that
they have got
during holiday.
POST- Whole class 1. Students are asked To make the
READING Skills to write a short lesson more
(20MINUTES) Listening composition based interesting.
Speaking on the information
‘interview’ that they get from
the interview.
Writing. 2. Teacher tells the To encourage
student to use past co- operative
tense in writing the learning
story. among pupils.
To stimulate
pupils’
thinking.
AVA
Set of question
Refer to
(Appendix 5)
(L. O = 4)
CLOSURE Whole class 1. Teacher recaps the
(10MINUTES) Skills lesson.
Speaking
Evaluation :
Follow-up Activity : Students are asked to write about their nes(50 ) that consisted of a
characteristic learnt in the class

6. Appendix 3.
Topic : activity during holiday.
- What activity that you do during your holiday?
- Why did you take part in the activity?
- Describe the activity is?
- Did you enjoy the activity? Yes or no?
- What makes you think the activity is interesting?
Topic : holiday.
- Where did you go during your holiday?
- Why did you choose to go there?
- Describe the place?
- Did you enjoy the holiday?
- Why?
Topic : memories
- What are the best memories you have ever had during your holiday?
- Why it can be considered as your best memories?
- When you have children, Will you tell them?
- Describe the memories?
- Where the memories took place?

7. Appendix 4.
Complete the semantic map .
Holiday.
What do you do? Best memories:
- -
- -
- -
Where did you go? Why ?
-
State the reason: - State the reason:
- - -
Description of place : List at least three places that
you have visited:
-
-
-
-
Did you enjoy your holiday? Why ?
-

8. Appendix 5.
Write a paragraph describing your friend’s experiences during your holiday.