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Lesson Plan

Topics	Touring Disneyland	Target Students	Grade 6-8	Date
				Time	40 minutes
		Instructor	Frances Lin	Place	classroom
Vocabulary	1.      Disneyland (a big amusement park in California, U.S.A.) 2.      restroom/restaurant 3.      straight 4.      left 5.      right
Sentence Structure	1.      Can you tell me the way to...?  2.      Go straight ahead until you see..
Materials	one map for practice and homework, a fill-in the-blanks exercise for homework
Aims	1. To familiarize and fully understand the dialogue and practice talking using the key phrases and sentences in daily life 2. To learn how to answer questions about asking the way. 3. To offer opportunities and an environment in which to exercise speaking, communicating, and expressing themselves on this issue in real life.
Procedures
Warm-up: (approx. 4 minutes ) Invite students to introduce Disneyland. Students who collected information beforehand would give detailed introductions, but others may share their knowledge about what visitors would see in it as well. Stage 1: Presentation (approx. 8 minutes) 1. New vocabulary: except for Disneyland, a teacher should explain restroom, restaurant and the vocabulary of directions. First, briefly introduce their meaning and gives some examples to clarify how to use them. Of course, also talk about the synonyms of the words.    2. Performing: the teacher and a pre-selected student role play and perform a skit about asking directions, being sure to answer using all the sentence patterns and expressions that will be taught. It must contain an appropriate introduction at the beginning and a natural conversation in the middle leading to a logical conclusion, just like a real life dialogue. Stage 2. Exploitation (approx. 18 minutes) 1. New structure: the teacher explains the structures. First, tell their Chinese meaning and then makes the sentences and asks students to give the class their own examples.    2. Reading: students first read the dialogue individually and then practice it by pair-work.    3. Explaining: the teacher explains the dialogue in detail and asks students whether they have problems. He/she paraphrases almost all the sentences, explains them in Chinese and raises questions to the students. After finishing answering students' questions, the teacher asks them to read the dialogue again.    4. Substitution: the teacher provides names of some other places and the directions on how to get there. The students practice the dialogue substituting the new information into the sentence structures, first by themselves and then in pairs. One group is asked to do it in the front of the room. Stage 3. Production (approx. 10 minutes)    1. Designing a role-play: the teacher asks students to design a role-play between two persons with the knowledge learned as much as possible and to perform it as a pair-work.    2. Map play: the teacher hangs a simple map of Disneyland on the blackboard and lets two students ask each other how to get the sites on the map Homework: Filling in the blanks: The teacher passes out a dialogue which includes some blanks and a map. Students need to write down how to get to a few sites and finish the dialogue according to the map.