Sample Lesson Plan – Secondary Level

(3) Practice
1. Students review vocabulary terms, drawing on prior knowledge.
2. Students complete cloze activity in class.


(4) Evaluation
1. Students turn in cloze activities to the teacher at the end of class. The teacher later marks any incorrect responses and then returns the exercises to the students. The teacher then reviews the completed cloze activities with the entire class so that students can fix any of their errors.


(5) Expansion/ Extension
1. Students work individually or in pairs to create their own weather forecast using the Weather Channel’s Interactive Weather Forecast at www.weatherclassroom.com. Refer to Appendix B on page A-4 of this unit plan to see how this works.
Methods/Approaches/Strategies: CBI; Natural Approach
Other Activities:
Follow-up: Students may incorporate weather pictures/ terminology into their poster projects. Weather related vocabulary will also be revisited during a unit review game at the end of the week.
Assessment: Teacher informally assesses comprehension during the vocabulary review at the beginning of class. She also reviews how many responses each student answered correctly in the cloze activities. In doing so, she notes any trends to identify areas which may need additional review/ explanation in class. This could also be an indication of a flaw in the cloze activity itself (e.g. too advanced for learner level, confusing sentence structure, etc.) which the teacher may need to improve.
Homework Assignments: Students complete final poster project to share in class the following day.
Use of Technology: TV/ VCR, Internet (extension activity), Projector, MS PowerPoint hypermedia presentation, video segment
Materials Used: Handouts with cloze activities, pen/ pencil
Closure: Teacher repeats expectations for final poster project and previews the agenda for the following class (i.e. class game to review unit topics).