I. Overview of the lesson.
I selected a lesson from my methodology lesson plan. The class appeared in the lesson is planned for reading. The topic of a reading context is an acupuncture treatment. Through this lesson, students will learn new vocabulary related to an acupuncture treatment, one target grammar and the process of an acupuncture treatment. They will go through many kinds of activities that make them use right hemisphere of their brains.
II. Theoretical justification of the activities
In the warm-up, I have the students brainstorm about eastern medicine and Chinese medicine and then, take examples of them and I draw a mind map on the board to visualize the examples. From this, Students do pair-work for sociability and visualizing a mind map stimulates the student to use right side of the brain. In the presentation, first, I get the student to skim the picture came with reading text, and then students describe what the picture looks like, imagining what the reading text will be about and discuss the topic. Through this process, students use artistic sensibility by describing the picture, imaginativity by imagining the topic of the reading text and sociability by discussing with each other. Next, while explaining vocabulary, I use a lot of realia and make the students fill in the chart to help the students understand the meaning better by visualizing. Other than that, when it comes to focus questions about the reading text, I have the students do pair-work and group work to find the answers and to make them use sociability. Besides, for creativity, I ask the students open questions after focus questions.(ex.What makes you answer like that?)
III. Conclusion
When making a lesson plan, it is very important to apply communicative language teaching techniques and to help them utilize their right hemisphere of the brains. I am sure that by end of this lesson, students learn and acquire language through the tactics for having the students concentrate on right functions of the brain.
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