Lesson Plan 10 Transactional Letters

Lesson Plan
Teacher: Gabriela Muraru

Date: 18th December 2017
School: “Gheorghe Vranceanu “ National College
Class: G-10th (4 hours/week)
Level: Upper-Intermediate
Class size: 30 students
Time of lesson: 50 minutes
Topic: Transactional Letters
Textbook: Upstream-Upper Intermediate-Express Publishing
Approach: Communicative
Lesson aims:
a) Aims for the students:
By the end of the lesson the students will be able to:
-understand what a transactional letter consists of
-identify key words and phrases from a given rubric
-analyse a model of letter of invitation and choose appropriate topic sentences
-use useful language in order to write indirect questions
-work in groups as to produce letters of asking for information
b) Aims for the teacher:
-to preteach what transactional letters are written for
-to activate the students’ interest in the context of the unit by asking questions related to
target reader, style of writing reason for witing a letter of invitation
-to create a friendly atmosphere so that the students might fully understand the new
material
-to present useful language for reason for writing, requesting first piece of information,
and requesting further information
-to check the students’ previous knowledge
-to improve the students’ speaking and writing skills
-to encourage all students to participate to the lesson
Skills: Speaking, Reading, Writing
Methods: Conversation, Dialogue, rewriting exercises
Aids: textbook, projector, laptop, handouts
Learning activity: pair-work, group-work
Previous knowledge: Students have been familiar to the layout of formal letters as they
had already studied the style in informal, semi-formal and formal letters
Anticipated problems:
-Sts might find difficulty in writing the correct order in indirect questions
STAGE/TIME PROCEDURE
Activity 1 (3’) a) Greetings
Warm up b) Introduction of the guests
Aim: To create c) Teacher checks attendance
atmosphere for the new
lesson
Activity 2 (7’) a) Two students present their homework that is solving
Checking homework exercises with state verbs, present simple/continuous,
Aim: Evaluation of how word formation, choose the best answer
students worked at b) Teacher checks and corrects
home
Activity 3 (10’) a) Teacher asks students if they have ever written letters
Introduction of the new b) Students answer and give examples of type of letters:
topic of invitation, of asking/giving information, of
Aim: To make sts talk complaint, of application, of apology, of thanking, of
about letters intention etc.
c) Teacher announces the objectives of the lesson
Activity 4 (10’) a) Teacher announces and writes on the blackboard the
Presentation of the new title of the lesson
lesson b) Teacher presents sts a slide show with information
Aim: to introduce the about transactional letters concerning definition,
new topic layout, introduction, body, conclusion, style
c) Teacher asks sts to read a rubric and identify key
words/phrases and answer questions about who the
target reader is, what style of writing would be
appropriate, what the reason for writing is, what
information should be included in the introduction,
how many body paragraphs they need to write and how
they can end the letter.
d) Sts answer the questions and analyse a model of letter
of invitation and choose appropriate topic sentences
from a list
Activity 5 ( 16’) a) Sts are presented a slide show with useful language to
Feed-back be used in letters of requesting for information.
Aim: to see if the sts Students write down useful language for reason for
understood the use of writing: I am writing to you in connection with…, I am
useful language for writing to ask you if you could inform me about…, I
writing indirect am writing with regard to/ in regard to/ with reference
questions to; requesting first piece of information: the first thing I
would like to know, I wonder if you would mind telling
me first of all…; requesting further information: I
would appreciate it if, it would help if, Could you also
tell me, I would also like to know if, it would assist me
if, I hope you might also let me know about…, etc
b) In groups sts read the two advertisements from ex.2/35
and using the useful language above they rewrite the
notes as indirect questions
c) Sts are divided in five groups, receive handouts with
notes and they have to produce indirect questions using
the appropriate style.
Activity 6 (3’) Sts are asked to write the whole letter of requesting
Homework assignment information from the group they belonged to

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