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English For All CLASS NAME: Low intermediate

DATE:4/13/17
Teacher(s): Catharine Pei

Lesson Objectives 1. Students will be able to learn about vocabulary thats associated
with sleep and feel comfortable to use them in a sentence
2. Students will be able to interact with each other and discuss their
sleep habits and then discuss it as a whole class.
3. Students will be able to read about different sleep situations from
different people and answer some questions afterwards.
4. Students will be writing about their sleeping habits and share what
they wrote with the class.

Materials Sleep vocabulary learning video:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=OeFTXFhwV7E&list=PL1YgGFXmd9i5cfBPbTHbSclSxfA2-
w_iU&index=2
Find someone who handouts
Sleep quiz handout
Situation worksheets
Video vocabulary worksheet
Writing exercise PPT

Procedures Note: NOTE: the numbered titles are all bold faced. All other bold-faced
words are to be written on the blackboard. Words in quotations are
to be spoken by the teacher. Materials are underlined. Include the
time allotted for each activity.

1. Warming up discussion (Time allotted: 5-10 minutes)


Objective: students will interview each other and warming up to the
vocabularies at a glance.

Hello everyone, nice to see you again. Hope you guys had a really
great time learning with Kacie. Since weve been talking about our
health problems for so long. I have a question about a health problem,
do you guys usually have headaches? What are some things that can
cause you to have a headache?

Transition: Good discussion everyone, well I know I have headaches


usually when Im not sleeping well which speaking of, today we are
going to talk about sleep and learn some new expressions about sleep
and our sleep habits.

2. Learning new vocabulary with Papa (Time allotted: 15-20


minutes).
Objectives: Students will be learning new vocabulary with a video
that demonstrate all the words and phrases.
Pre-video discussion: Do you usually sleep well? How many hours do
you sleep at night? (Write on the board).

While watching the video: Passing out the handouts, students will be
watching a video that demonstrate all the vocabulary and phrases that
they will learn today and fill out the blank on the handouts, since the
video is featured in British accent, there will be pauses in between for
teachers further demonstration in order to help students understand
better.

Phrases and vocabulary


Saying that you are tired:
Exhausted/Knackered (British) = very tired
To crash (out) = fall asleep very fast
Nap = short period of sleep

Dreaming:
Recurring dream = same dream over and over
again
Nightmare
Snore
Sleep talk
Sleep walk
Heavy sleeper
Light sleeper
Insomnia = Cant get to sleep
Wide awake

Waking up:
Alarm goes off = clock makes noise to wake you up
Wake up at the crack of dawn
Overslept = missed the alarm.
Sleep in = sleep more

Post video discussion:


Two types of people
Early bird
Night owl
Ask them to talk about what category do they think they belong?

Transition: Very good job everyone, you guys are really trying hard
on your learning. Hope you all had fun learning with Papa, now
since we spent so much time learning, lets take a break and play a
game together!
3. Stand up if you ever (Time allotted: 10-15 minutes)
Objectives: This is a game that is designed to test on students about
the phrases that they learned from previous activity.

Teacher will giving out requests that contains new phrases.


I.e. Stand up if you ever overslept this week
Stand up if you ever had a nightmare
Stand up if you are an early bird
And the student who ever had the situation will have to stand up.

Transition: Good job everyone, now its time for our biggest activity
out of todays lesson, we are going to do some exercises and finding
out each others sleeping habits.

4. Find someone who activity (Time allotted: 20-25 minutes)


Objective: This activity is designed to check students understanding
of the new words, as well as differentiate between present and past
tenses.
Passing out the find someone who handout. Direct the student to
form questions out of each statement. Give out the first example and
then ask them to work in pairs to fill out the rest.

While they working on the questions, divides the board into four
sections and ask students to come up to the board, write all of their
questions on the board and go over their answers as a whole class.
(Ask them to compare their questions and find out the difference
between two tenses)

Tell students that they will be using this form to interview everyone in
the classroom (instructors can be included), after the interview they
will talk about the results first among their peers, then discuss it as a
whole class.

Transition: Great job on your interviews and discussion, I had fun


finding out some of you guys sleeping habit. Now we are going to do
a reading activity, we will be reading about different situations, and
see how you guys doing with comprehending the new words.

5. Situation define (Time allotted: 15-20 minutes)


Objectives: Students be assessed on their comprehension of the
phrases as well as practicing their reading skills.

Each one of the students will be giving out a worksheet that contains
several situations, each situation describes a phrase that they learned,
and they will have to read the situations first, and trying to match the
correct words or phrases that corresponds with the situation.

Transition: Very nice job on the reading everyone, Im very proud of


you all. You guys have really been improved so much. Now we are
going to practice some writing.

6. Writing exercise (Time allotted: 15-20 minutes).


Objective: Students will be practice their writing skill by writing
about one of the situations that actually happened to them.

Give out an example on the screen about a particular situation (e.g.


nightmare), then ask the students to choose one of the situation and
write three sentence to describe it.

Transition: Nice work on your sentences, they all looks perfect. So


since we still have a couple of minutes left, we are going to do a fun
little quiz to see if you guys knows these facts about other animals.

7. Optional activity: Fun sleeping quiz (Time allotted: 10-15


minutes).
Objectives: This is a little expansion on their knowledge that
associate with the topic that is discussed in class.

Passing out the sleep quiz handout, ask students to work on these
either in groups or by themselves, and discuss it as a whole class.

Closing: Very nice job everyone! You guys all worked really hard
today and Im very proud of you all. Alden will be teaching you on
Tuesday and Ill see you all next week.

Assessment Students will be assessed on their vocabulary by the game


Students will be assessed on their reading comprehension by while
reading through the situations.
Students will be assessed on their writing with the writing exercise.

Anticipated Students might having trouble to understand the video since it is


Problems featured in British accent
Students might have trouble to figure out the correct words that
correspond with the situations.
The activities might be shorter than they suppose to depends on how
many people will actually show up.

Situation Exercise
The following passage each describe a situation that is related to what we learned about sleep
today, read through each one of them and see if you can name the situation that they are
describing.

1. Laura: I had really difficult time to fall asleep last night. I hate bedtimes because
most of the times I would just laying there and staring at the ceiling stay awake until way
past the midnight. And sometimes when situation gets worse, I dont get to sleep at all for
the entire night!! I wasnt doing anything or thinking about anything, I just simply
couldnt fall asleep.
Laura is having____________
a. Insomnia
b. Nightmare
c. Sleep walking
d. Snoring

2. Peter: Isnt sleep a waste of time? I think so. What could we do instead of
sleeping? I know what I could do. I could read more books, watch more movies or even
just hanging out with my friends. Then my brain would filled up with knowledge and my
friends would be happier. I hate feeling tired, but I wish my body and brain just didnt
need to sleep. I just love to stay up late and doing things because it just takes ages for me
to feel tired.
Peter is a(n) ____________
a. Early bird
b. Night owl
c. Nice person
d. Nightmare

3. Alicia: My roommate told me that I kept calling her name and asking her weird
questions last night after I fell asleep. She even told me that I was yelling at her in my
sleep and asking her if she stole my sandwich. But honestly, I dont remember anything
that I said and I dont even remember I said it.
Did Alicia yell at her roommate on purpose?
a. Yes, because she doesnt like her roommate
b. No, she was talking in her sleep
c. Yes, because she was hungry and want a sandwich
d. No, they were playing a game.

4. Paul: I enjoy sleeping. As matter of the fact, once I close my eyes and fall
asleep, nothing around me can wake me up. My roommate is jealous of me over that
because he sleeps really light. He can wake up to any sound around him, even to the
smallest sound -like a pencil dropping on the floor- that can still wake him up. Last night
he told me that he was up all night because of the heavy storm outside. The thunder and
the lightning pretty much woke him up every five minutes. But, I didnt really know there
was a storm during the night because I never woke up to it.
From the passage, you can imply that compared to his roommate, Paul
a. Is a student
b. Had a nightmare about the storm
c. He is a heavy sleeper
d. He is afraid of the storm.

5. Gabe: My wife is complaining about how loud I am when Im sleeping, She


says the sounds I was producing last night kept her up the entire night. She was icing me
out for the past couple of days and now she is asking me to sleep on the couch. I feel
sorry for her but I dont really understand what exactly did I do that is making her so
angry at me
Why does Gabes wife ask him to sleep on the couch ?
a. He was playing loud music until very late
b. He was snoring
c. He cheated on her.
Strange Facts of Sleeping
Select True or False for the following statement. And write down the reason why.

1. Dolphins do not sleep True False

2. Cows sleep and dream standing up True False

3. It is impossible to sleep with your eyes open True False

4. Fish usually close their eyes when they sleep True False
5. Sleep can be divided into different stages True False

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