Lesson Plan for KCCoC
English Corner, or EC, No. 5
Version 0.11

by Charles Jeffrey Danoff
Mr. Danoff's Teaching Laboratory™
60093, Chicagoland, USA
ceo@mr.danoff.org
http://mr.danoff.org

Time 90 min.

Talk about what we will do in class.

Talk about today's class goals.

Review: Begin with greetings from lesson 1¹ then briefly cover informal phone conversations from lesson 4² and quickly discuss interviews from lesson 3³ and fast food menus from lesson 2⁴.

Formal Telephone English

• Watch "Learn English 4-2 : Answering the Phone" YouTube video⁵, stopping frequently and discussing.
• Discuss calling electricity company, which student asked about last week, within context of About.com's Telephone Conversations document⁶ and Englishclub.com's Telephone tips page⁷.

Go over upcoming schedule: Upcoming two weeks are off, next class will be on July 7th.

Extra Time

• Breaking News English Fast Food Article Listen to article from Breaking News⁸ and have student fill in the listening exercise on page 6 of the lesson PDF. Check student work, then discuss.
• Kitty's Studying Article Review Go over Kitty's article again⁹ focusing on the third paragraph, which was confusing last class.

AAR¹⁰

Review what was supposed to happen.

Establish what happened.

Determine what was right or wrong with what happened.

• Right:
• Wrong:

Determine how the task should be done differently the next time.

Notes

1. # KCCoC English Corner Lesson Plan No. 1: http://mr.danoff.org/esl/lp-kccc-1-v0211.html (back to text)
2. # KCCoC English Corner Lesson Plan No. 4: http://mr.danoff.org/esl/kccoc-lp-4.html. You can find the html of the document on pastie http://pastie.org/pastes/2041205/ (back to text)
3. # KCCoC English Corner Lesson Plan No. 3: http://mr.danoff.org/esl/lp-kccc-3-v011.html (back to text)
4. # KCCoC English Corner Lesson Plan No. 2: http://mr.danoff.org/esl/lp-kccc-2-v01.html (back to text)
5. # LearnEnglish 4-2 : Answering the Phone YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sj2Yo0e8PO4 (back to text)
6. # About.com's Telephone Conversations: http://esl.about.com/od/businessspeakingskills/a/Telephone-Conversations.htm (back to text)
7. # Englishclub.com's Telephone tips: http://www.englishclub.com/speaking/telephone_tips.htm (back to text)
8. # Breaking News English: http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/0902/090224-fast_food.html (back to text)
9. # http://mr.danoff.org/kitty-study.html (back to text)
10. # US Army Website: http://www.army.mil/features/FM7/FM 7-0.pdf (p. 98) (back to text)

Changelog

• 0.11 15 & 16 June 2011 | Wrote and published HTML version.
• 0.1 15 June 2011 | First version of lesson plan written on the back of KCCoC lesson plan No. 4.

Acknowledgements I would like to thank Huntington University for their Seven Elements of a Lesson Plan (Hunter) document http://www.huntington.edu/dept_interior.aspx?id=2193 which was the basis for the outline of this plan.

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