Lesson Plan: Amusement Parks (Junior Version)

Lesson Level: Junior  Duration: 45 Minutes

Lesson Title: Amusement Parks

Grammar and Vocabulary

Vocabulary for amusement parks and rides.

Lesson Objectives

Students will practice listening for specific information.

Students will practice discussion skills in a design task.

Materials Required

Audio descriptions of four amusement parks.1

Poster of questions 2

Paper (A4) for one sheet per group.

Pens for drawing.

Preparation

Prepare resources.

Procedure

1

Tell class that lesson is about amusement parks/them parks

Elicit or give vocabulary for these words

Amusement Park

Theme Park

Lego

building bricks

ride

Draw pictures of and elicit names of roller-coaster, carousel, helter skelter, haunted house, big wheel (also give names as big dipper, merry-go-round, slide, ghost train and Ferris wheel)

2

Put the questions on the board.

Play the audio.

Check answers with students.

If still some unanswered questions play again, one park at a time and elicit answers.

3

Put students into groups of 4-6.

Add this question.

Your group is going to visit one of these parks.

Talk together and choose which park to visit.

4

Elicit responses.

5.

Write on board.

Your group will make your own theme park.

What is your theme?

What can I do at your park?

What can I buy at your park?

Where is your park (what country/what city)

Why is your park the best.

Draw a picture of your park..

6

Each group describe own park.

Write main points on board.

Notes

1.

Tapescript

Disneyland is the most famous theme park in America.

You can ride on a roller-coaster.

You can visit a haunted house.

You can see Cinderella's castle.

You can meet Mickey Mouse.

Legoland is in Denmark.

Everything there is made from Lego bricks.

They have many models of famous buildings.

There is a model of the Palace Museum.

Ocean Park is in Hong Kong.

You can see many things.

You can ride on a roller coaster.

You can see animals such as Pandas, Whales and Jellyfish.

Restroom Cultural Park is in South Korea.

It is all about toilets and WCs.

There are toilet roller-coasters, toilet rides and a toilet museum.

You can buy toilet gidts.

2. Questions.

Where is Disneyland?

Where is Legoland?

Where is Ocean Park?

Where is restroom park.

Who can you meet at Disneyland?

What can you see at Legoland?

Which three animals can you see at Ocean Park?

What can you buy at Restroom Park?

Lesson Plan: World Records

Lesson Level:       Junior                   Duration:  45

Lesson Title:     World records

Grammar and Vocabulary

 Use of superlative adjectives (biggest, most expensive etc).

Lesson Objectives

 Students will be able to demonstrate use of superlatives by creating sentences related to world records.  

(e.g. The tallest building in the world is…)

Materials Required

World Record Worksheet¹ 

Dialogue worksheet ²

Ball for ball toss activity

Preparation

 Prepare enough copies of the worksheet to give one per student.

Prepare two copies of the dialogue.

Procedure

1 Write lesson title on board - WORLD RECORDS

Write some adjectives on the board - tall, big, friendly, interesting

   Elicit from class the superlative form -tallest, biggest, friendliest, most interesting

    Write the correct forms on the board

 2 Choose a strong student to come and read with you.

Tell the class to make a note of any world record they hear.

Read the dialogue.

Elicit the records mentioned

Longest finger nails

Holding your breath

Fastest eating a pizza

Collecting bottle openers, cook books, train tickets, chocolate bar wrappers

3 Put students into groups.

Give out the worksheet

   Go through the example.

   Monitor and assist groups to create nine new sentences.

   

4 Use ball to select students to give an answer from the worksheet.

   Go through all answers.

   Write the answers on the board.

5. Extension task.

Tell groups they must think of a world record that each member of their group would like to try to break. Give time to groups to consider. Monitor and assist. Elicit feedback.

Notes

1. Worksheet.

The records on this sheet should be checked as still valid and pictures for each record added before printing for the lesson.

1	2	3
Man, Tall (Sultan Kosen)	Man, Short (Chandra Dangi)	Animal, Fast (Cheetah)
<picture>	<picture>	<picture>
4	5	6
Person, Old (Gustav Gernath)	Woman, Fast (Carmelia Jeter)	Car, Expensive (Ferrari 250 GTO)
<picture>	<picture>	<picture>
7	8	9
Bridge, Long (Hong Kong to Macau)	City, Populated (Shanghai)	Country, Small (Vatican City)
<picture>	<picture>	<picture>

Look at the pictures. For each picture make a sentence like this.

The ____________________________ in the world is ____________________________.

Animal, Big (The Blue Whale)

<picture>

1. 

Colin	I've been looking at the Guinness Book of World Records. There are some great facts about sport. I love the sporting records such as the fastest...
Don	Forget the sporting records. I like the funny ones. The records you would never think about.
Colin	What do you mean?
Don	Look at this one. This woman had the longest fingernails. They were 8.65 metres long altogether … that's nearly a metre for each nail.
Colin	That sounds awful. How could she do anything with nails that long?
Don	I don't know, it doesn't say. And here's another. How fast do you think you could eat a twelve inch pizza?
Colin	I don't know, maybe about ten minutes? Maybe a bit faster.
Don	How about forty one seconds? That's the record.
Colin	I don't think I could do that. Are there any easier ones?
Don	Can you hold your breath for a long time?
Colin	About a minute. What's the record?
Don	Twenty two minutes.
Colin	That's pretty unbelievable. I couldn't do anything like that. I need something easier.
Don	You could collect something. There are lots of records about the biggest collections.
Colin	What sort of things do they have records for?
Don	There's a man with more than thirty-three thousand bottle openers. There's a woman with about three thousand cook books. Someone has a hundred and sixty-three thousand train tickets. What would you like to collect?
Colin	Well I eat a lot of chocolate. I could collect the wrappers.
Don	A woman in Italy has 2,048 different wrappers, collected from all around the world.
Colin	Wow. That's a lot but I think if I try I can beat it. I'll start now. Would you like a candy bar? I'll buy two different ones. One for each of us. It can be the start of my collection.
Don	OK, I'll take a Snickers bar.

Lesson Plan: Advertising

Lesson Level:   Junior                     Duration:  45 minutes

Lesson Title:     Advertising

Grammar and Vocabulary

Words from advertising.

Lesson Objectives

Students will be able to locate key information in a (simplified) advert.

Students will be able to talk about and create their own advertising. 

Materials Required

 Worksheet showing a number of greatly simplified adverts (selling things, services, lost and found, businesses and so on.

Set of cards with suggestions for creating an advert.

Ball for ball toss activity.

Preparation

Prepare enough worksheets to give to one to each group of students.

Prepare a card for each group to show what the must write an advert for and an extra one to use as an example.

Procedure

1 Write “Advert” on the board. Elicit the meaning.

2 Put students into groups of four.

Give each group a copy of the worksheet.

3 Give students five minutes to read and find any words they don’t know.

Go through any vocabulary on the board. 

4 Toss ball and ask questions.

e.g. What number should I ring to…  

5. Take one of the prepared cards and copy it to the board. Use the information to create an advert on the board as an example.

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6 Give a card to each group. Groups write their own adverts based on the card and the examples

7  Get several groups to read adverts to the class.

8. Get a student to stand up. Choose an advert. Act out ringing up for the advert. Get students to do the same in pairs.

Notes

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For cards:

Sale: Computer

Sale: Car

Chinese Restaurant

Indian Restaurant

Book shop

Television Shop

Lost Watch

Lost Cat

Found Watch

Found Necklace

Fruit Market

English Language School

Chinese Lessons

Sale: Clock

Sale: Paintings

Sale: Iphone

English Restaurant