Lesson Plan Conversation Improvement

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Lesson PlanConversation Improvement

• Jerry
• EFL-537
• Instructor Prof. Lyra Riabov

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• Language Proficiency Level
• Intermediate Level
• After graduated from junior high school
• Class Size ---- 1012
• Age 15

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• Recent Work
• Select some interesting movies
• Previous computer work
• Download screenplay of the movies
• Class needs or goals
• Using English to communicate with foreigners
  freely

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Computer needs

• Software
• Windows System
• DVD Player Software (PowerDVD, WinDVD)
• MS PowerPoint
• Hardware
• DVD Rom
• Headset
• Projector

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Objective

• Increasing Listening Comprehension(Main Goal)
• Increasing Speaking Comprehension(Second Goal)
• Learning Searching on the Internet in English

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Class 1

• Hand Out Screenplay of a movie(Length Totally
  about 20 minutes)
  
• Read the screenplay
• Learn vocabularies
• Watch the movie
• Talk with classmates by using the screenplay
• For Next Class Find some interesting movies and
  screenplays on the Internet http//www.iscriptdb.
  com/cgi-bin/links.cgi?field1

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Class 2

• Review Class 1
• Watch another movie first (Twice, 10 minutes
  each)
  
• Discussing the content(Chinese is acceptable but
  not recommend)
  
• Watch the movie again
• Read the screenplay

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Class 3

• Watch the moves which they choose on their
  computer (10 minutes)
  
• Discussing the movie online by typing
• Switching the movies and watch it again
• Read the movie screenplay
• Homework Watching and discussing the movie at
  home via Internet

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Class 4

• Watch a movie
• Divided into groups and discussing the movie
  (Talking)
  
• Prepare a topic for presentation(Personal
  Experience)
  
• Learning MS PowerPoint

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Class 5

• A small lecture
• Discussing

Class 6
Presentation Discussing
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Potential Problems

• Talking
• Afraid of talking
• Bad grammar rather than writing
• Chinese-English
• Listening
• Pronunciation
• Too fast to listen
• Difficulty in using computer and PowerPoint

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Evaluation of students learning

• Small conversation with each students in the
  beginning of the class
  
• Talking about the movie content the student
  watched