Task-Teach-Task Lesson Plan
Gabriel Peña BSEd-English 3C
Teaching and Assessment of Grammar
Lesson title: Introducing a friend to someone they are not familiar with.
Communicative Goal(s): Introducing someone, maintaining conversation by describing
someone’s friend.
Objective(S): Students will be able to use a variety of communicative strategies in introducing
someone and maintaining conversation by describing someone.
Focal Language Feature(s)
Grammar: Adjectives and Vocabulary: Vocabulary Listening: Listening and watching
Third Person POV Personal development on the to a sample video all about
Pronouns common descriptors to introducing someone and
describe someone. maintaining conversation.
Speaking and Pronunciation: Reading: Writing:
Introducing someone and
maintaining conversation
Others:
Description of Student and Classroom Population:
Grade 10 students
Average attendance: 25-30
Proficiency level: Intermediate
Language Spoken: English, Filipino, Cebuano-Visayan
Copies and materials: Projector, speakers, laptop
Welcome and Introduction (5-10 minutes) Notes:
The class will start with a prayer to be led by one of the Arrange their seats in a circular
students. After, teacher will welcome the students with a form so that the teacher is at the
time greeting and the students will respond to it. Then, let center facilitating all throughout
them take their seats. the session.
Task 1: Introducing your friend to someone. (20 minutes)
Task Instruction: This day, you are going to experience Italicized are possible scripts.
introducing your friend to someone they do not know, but
first, we are going to give the possible lines to be thrown In task clarification, you can
during the introduction of the conversation. How will you choose more than 1 pair of
describe your friend? In groups of 5, you are going to list students to further synthesized the
the possible sentences that you will use in introducing your examples.
friend to someone with the use of descriptive language.
Task Clarification: Example, can I call student A to come
here in front and student B.
Teacher to student A: If I am someone, how will you
introduce your friend to me?
The teacher writes on the board the sentences uttered by
student A.
Teacher: This is an example on how will you introduce
your friend to someone.
Task Completion: During the group discussion, students
list 5 possible sentences for introducing a friend. Handout
is provided for better understanding of the goal and for
further examples.
The instructor takes notes on what every group does, then
correct them if they have some mistakes afterwards. After
everyone is finished, proceed to task debriefing.
Task Debrief: Ask everyone to prepare their written
sentences in order to share it in front of the class by group.
Take note the different errors done during the debriefing
and correct them afterwards.
To further assist learning, the teacher uses a video
presentation of the possible ways to introduce a friend with
the use of various adjectives.
After watching the teacher ask:
1. Give me some example sentences that you heard from
the video?
2. How are the characters in the video facial expressions
portray interest in the communication?
3. Give me examples of adjectives used in the video.
Teacher gives the list of possible sentences for introducing
a friend then …
Today, we are going to tackle about personal pronouns
and adjectives. How did they construct the sentences with
the use of personal pronouns and how are they making
their friends be known by someone using adjectives?
Teach: Small Talk, Adjectives and Third Person POV Personal Pronouns (20 minutes)
Introduction and Connection to Task 1: Most English The red-colored text signifies the
native speakers often introduce their friends to someone antecedent, on the other hand, the
their friend does not know of. One way to maintain blue-colored text signifies the
communication in a not so repetitive way is to use personal pronoun that take the
pronouns. We can’t say, Marie is my friend, Marie is good place of the antecedent in the
in painting, Marie’s hobbies are painting and surfing the proceeding thoughts. The olive
net however we say, Marie is my friend, she is good in green-colored text signifies the
painting and her hobbies are painting and surfing the net. adjectives used in introducing your
One way also of letting your friend be known to someone friend to someone.
is to introduce their characteristics using descriptors such
as adjectives.
Modeling: Instructor ask someone to read the sample in
the given handout a while ago.
Teacher: Notice that the name of the friend does not use
repeatedly in introducing her, instead, she used personal
pronouns to address her friend. The first name mentioned
in the first part of the dialogue is the antecedent which will
be taken place by the pronoun depending on the gender of
the antecedent.
My bestfriend is Mally. She is very kind.
She smiles a lot and when she laughs, she makes me laugh
too. She lives near my house so we often play together at
the weekend.
In introducing someone, you also need to describe, how
are they? who are they? or what does they do? Notice in
the sample handout, descriptors or adjectives are used to
express the traits of the friend being introduced.
My bestfriend is Nattapol. He is short and plump and has
brown eyes.
Guided Practice: Students go back to their groups to
answer the worksheet attached below.
TASK 2: Introduce me! (15-20 minutes)
Task Introduction: In groups of 5, you will be assigned to a certain scenario where introducing
a friend to someone they don’t know is very observable. Then, role play it in front of the class.
Group 1: Birthday Party
Group 2: Beach Outing
Group 3: A newbie in the workplace who happens to be your friend.
Group 4: In a concert
Group 5: In a friend eat-out.
Task Clarification: Do you have further questions before we’ll begin the activity?
Task Completion: They will present their made-scenario after planning. While specific group
performs, other will take down the different introductory sentences they used.
Task Debrief: Go back to your seats and let’s do critiquing. 1 critiques 2, 2 critiques 3, 3
critiques 4, 4 critiques 5, and 5 critiques 1.
Pre-course questionnaire (10 minutes)
I would like to know how are we going to spend our
session for next week, please take a few minutes to answer
the survey. This will be a great help for our discussion for
the following weeks.
Closing/Optional Homework (3 minutes)
If you are the one who is being introduced by someone’s Submit their work two days after
friend, how are you going to respond to her friend in order the instruction is given.
for them to feel welcome? Write a half-page composition
or feedback. Write first a possible scenario then the
dialogue.
Handout from: https://www.english-room.com/introducing-my-friends/
ALL ABOUT ME: MY FRIENDS
Every student should be able to write about
themselves and their immediate environment.
The following stories are real examples written
in English by my students on the topic
of “My Friends”. They then translated them
into Thai. They had to write about 100 words
per topic.
1. I have many friends. My best friend’s name is Malee. She is very kind. When I have too much
homework, she helps me finish my work. She is tall for her age. She is taller than me. She is also
thin. Her eyes are not good so she wears glasses. She smiles a lot and when she laughs she makes
me laugh too. She lives near my house so we often play together at the weekend. Her hobbies
include collecting stamps, swimming, and reading. I like to play badminton with her as I always
win! But, she is better than me at swimming.
2. My best friend is Nattapol. We have known each other since kindergarten. Our parents are
friends, so we often go away together on holiday. He is short and plump and has brown eyes. He
likes reading cartoon books and playing video games. His favorite fruit is mango and his favorite
food is pizza. Last year we went to Bangsaen on holiday. We played in the sea, which was a lot
of fun. Nattapol is very kind to me. On my last birthday, he gave me a remote control car.
3. I have two best friends. They are opposite to each other. John is tall, thin and very diligent at
school. Harry is short, fat and very lazy. John is very quiet in class and is very polite to his
friends and teachers. Harry is talkative and sometimes talks with his friends when the teacher is
teaching. Our teacher thinks he is impolite. If I need to borrow some money I go to John because
he is always generous. Harry is usually stingy.
VIDEO SAMPLE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1QsgxaN7ic
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