1. Reading Lesson Plan
By
1. Miss Jirapat Chomvilai (Vicky) Student ID:
54010513010
2. Miss Tharinee Japhimai (Irene) Student ID:
54010513046

2. 4th Year English Major Students of Faculty of Education
Mahasarakham University, Thailand
Reading Plan Format
Name: 1. Miss Jirapat Chomvilai (Vicky)
2. Miss Tharinee Japhimai (Irene)
Length of lesson:
 60 minutes
Who are the Students (age, nationality, gender)?

3.  Thai students in high school; ages 16 - 18; mixed gender class
Why are they studying?
 To study for examination and improving students’ reading skill
Where/when are they studying?
 During the regular English language classes in the school.
What is the setting (university, language school, public school, etc.)/time of
day/year/frequency of classes?
 Public school, daily class a few hours in the morning or afternoon
What facilities are available (room, desks, seating, a-v)
 Classroom with individual desks, computer with internet, projector and whiteboard
What is the main skill area(s)?
 Reading, speaking and writing
What is their ACTFL level?
 Intermediate and high
What is the theme?

4.  Caffeine
Materials: (include sources)
 Computer with PowerPoint, projector, white board, charts
 Video
Couchsurfing reading text—Magazine “Reader’s Digest”
Objective(s): By the end of the lesson, Students will be able to…. (SWBAT)
Show understanding about the good or bad side of caffeine after reading the text.
I assume the students already know:
 Basic vocabulary and phrases about caffeine.
I anticipate students will have problems with:
 Misunderstanding from reading the text.
To solve/avoid these problems I plan to:
 Separate the text into short paragraph

5. How will I assess the students?
 Observing while student was reading and collecting the piece of work to evaluate
Time Lesson
Stage*
Procedure/Steps
Describe so that someone
unfamiliar with the lesson
could teach it.
Beliefs underlying your
choices**
Materials
and Aids

6. 10
min.
PRE
1.
motivation
2.
prediction
3. pre-
teach
vocabulary
1. Show a video about
Caffeine.
2. Ask students about the
video:
- What is the video about?
- What drink contain caffeine?
Do you like to drink it?
- Do you think caffeine is good
or bad?
3. Teach the vocabulary by
showing the picture on
PowerPoint and explaining the
meanings.
Nowadays, most students like
to drink coffee that contains
more of caffeine and they
don’t know the effect of it.
Reading this text can help
students realize the effect of it
and know about its
advantages and
disadvantages.
Before starting to teach,
teacher will show the video
about caffeine in order to
attract the students’ attention.
Computer,
projector,
PowerPoint
(Pictures,
Video
and
Vocabulary)

7. They will pay attention and
can predict what they will
learn.
40
min.
DURING
1. Reading
the text
“Caffeine:
Does It
Harm or
1. Divide students into groups
of four.
2. Let students in each group
read the text that teacher sticks
on the board and put it on the
The text teacher use comes
from magazine which is
authentic material. It’s good
to use this type of text for
improving reading skill.
Computer,
projector,
PowerPoint,
board of text,
a piece of

8. Heal?”
2. Using
other skill:
speaking
wall.
3. Each student has 3 minutes
for reading the text. The
students form one group will
read the text on different board.
4. Go back to their groups and
share what each student has
read to their friends.
5. Discuss about the text.
6. Summarize by making a
mind mapping on a piece of
paper about the text that they
have learned.
5. Present their project in front
of class.
Students can use top-down
processing by using
background knowledge they
knew about caffeine and gain
more knowledge about it after
they read the text.
They also can use skimming
technique while they are
reading for getting main idea.
Teacher should give students
more time to share what they
have read from the text.
When student present their
paper

9. project in front of class, they
will practice speaking skill
and the students who are the
audiences will also improve
listening skill.

10. 10
min.
POST
1.
Summarizi
ng and
sharing
opinion
through
“The
Written
Card”
2. Using
other skill:
writing
1. Give a blank card to the
each student for
summarizing what they have
learned from the text and
their opinion about caffeine.
Is Caffeine good or bad?
2. Students write down what
they know more about
caffeine and their opinion
about it.
3. Teacher collects all cards
from the students.
4. Teacher give one student
one written card. (Teacher
Students need to use critical
reading and take time to
summarize for writing what
they have learned from the
text.
Students have more
knowledge about the topic, so
they can think of and consider
it. For this activity, they can
write down for sharing their
opinion.
After finishing writing it, they
Blank cards

11. will not give the student their
own card) Then let each
student read their friends’
cards in front of class loudly.
5. Teacher takes all cards
back for evaluation.
will read their friends’ card, so
they will improve reading and
listening skill through this
activity.
*Pre-During-Post: Presentation, Practice, Use etc.