Lesson Plan
Lesson: English Length: 20 min. Grade Level: 9th Language Level: B1
Type of Lesson & Topic: Symbolic Words in PoemL Teaching Method(s): Communicative Language Teaching, Task-Based
Language Learning
Class Profile: A class has been learning for 7 years, they already know poetry.
Lesson Aims
Main Aim: The aim is for students to learn that words carry new meanings in their daily lives, so that they learn to analyze the new meanings of words.
Extracurricular Aim: To caterstudents’ cognitive and linguistic perceptions (visual, verbal and auditory intelligence) by creating a connection between images
of everyday objects and some words; also improving speaking and listening skills by giving them opportunity to form their own sentences via speaking
activities and dialogues.
Outcomes for Students: After this lesson, students will realize that poetry and words in everyday life are connected. I hope they remember these things and
continue to read and analyze poetry as much as stories and novels in the future.
Anticipated Problems and Solutions: Since there will be an communicative class, class attendance may be low. To avoid this, some engaging training
mini-games can be suggested from the previous lesson. It can be helpful to remind students that their ideas are valuable.
Personal Aims of the teacher(s): Learning how to manage a gaming event. Actively use the time. To follow the students' interest and to give more space to
interesting activities in the following lessons.
Materials: Teacher's PDF, The Road Not Taken poem, two continents of poems by George Seferis and William Blake, word papers prepared for drawing lots
Lesson Plan
Step-by-Step Procedure Interaction Pattern
What do you do? Write this in normal print. What do the students do? Write this in italics or underline. (Ss-Ss; T-Ss; S-S; C)
Introduction
2 min.
Students are introduced to the activity with which poem they are talking about in the lesson. Students recognize poetry. They
learn about the author.
Warm-Up Activity
2 min.
For the pre-reading activity, several ideas about poetry are shown that upset. Students explain the ideas they agree with and
disagree with.
Main Activity
T i m e
10-12 min.
Students choose a word from a box that they can encounter in everyday life and imagine that they are a poet by using these
words. They think about the theme of a poem and talks to their friends, attaching a meaning to this word. Their friends try to
guess the described symbol word and they does the same. They share a few examples in class.
Close-Up Activity
The teacher gives two poems to the students. They choose one and write a poem with a new theme, based on the original.
2-3 min.
Evaluation
Students take each other's poems and read them.
3 min.