Lesson Plan № 10
Date: 25.03.2025
Form: 6B
Topic: Messages
Aims:
- To give students practice in speaking spontaneously and fluently about
digital communication.
- To give students practice in reading both for gist and for detail.
- To enable students to talk about common phrases used in online messaging.
Objectives:
- Students will know how to communicate in oral and written formats using
chatspeak.
- Students will understand the importance of clarity in digital messaging.
- Students will improve their ability to recognize and use common chat
abbreviations and emoticons.
Language Level: A2 / B1
Time: 45 min
Anticipated Problems
and their Solutions:
When writing a chat dialogue, students may struggle with using abbreviations and
emoticons correctly. I will provide a list of common chat abbreviations and their
meanings, along with examples in context.
Materials:
A book «Full Blast 6 for Ukraine» (авт. Мітчелл Г. К., Марілені Малкогіанні),
handouts, projector, notebooks
Stage. Procedure. Interaction Time
Activity. Purpose Teacher’s instructions Mode
of the activity.
Technique.
(прийом)
Introduction T: Hello, my dear ones. Today T→C 5 min
is your last lesson with me, so I
propose that we have fun and
[Link] can tell me
who is not in class today? And
who will remind me what day
it is?
The main body of T: Today we will talk about T→C 5 min
the lesson how we communicate online.
I'm sure most of you like to do
this, don't you?
Pre-reading How many of you send text
messages or chat online?
Lean-in
Today we will talk about how
Activity 1 we communicate using
Purpose: to messages.
introduce the topic When you send a message, do
of the lesson you write full words or do you
Technique: use short form?
Who knows what short forms
Brainstorming
are?
Yes, it's when we don't want to
write the whole word and use
different emoticons, smiles and
abbreviations.
For example:
I’m sure that you know that 😊
☹ or :-) :-(
What does this mean?
Activity 2 T: Now we are going to work
Purpose: to on an activity 2 to learn new S, S, S 5 min
introduce words. You have a list of
words in the box:
vocabulary related Type
to notes and text Chat room
messages Text messages
Technique: Gap- Text
filling Receive
note
Your task is to fill in the
blanks in the sentences using
these words.
For example, look at the first
sentence:
Can you ___ David about
tomorrow’s trip?
Find the correct word from the
box to complete the sentence.
Please read each sentence
carefully and choose the word
that makes sense.
T: Look at Activity 1 on page
Activity 3 84 in your textbook. We see a S↔S 6 min
Purpose: to computer screen. Here we see
introduce a conversation between two
«chatspeak» by friends, K-girl and YoYo.
activating students They are talking on the
background Internet. In pairs, read the
dialog together.
knowledge
Can you understand any part of
Technique: Pair the conversation? What do you
reading think they are talking about?
For example, one girl asks
another if she liked the movie,
and she answers :-(
What does that mean?
S: She didn't like the movie
because there was a sad smile.
T: Read the article «Chatspeak
While reading – A beginner’s guide». Does S, S, S 6 min
Activity 4 the text help you understand
Purpose: to the dialogue above better?
expand on
First, look at the layout and
students’ headline of the text. What do
knowledge of you think this text is about?
«chatspeak» Can anyone tell me what kind
Technique: of text it is based on the title?
Predicting Now let's talk about the title
itself: «A Beginner's Guide».
What do you think it tells us
about the article? Why do you
think the author might have
used the word beginner?
Next, let's focus on what is
called «slang»
Can anyone give us an
example of something we
might see in a chat or text
message?
T: Now we are going to do
next activity. You are given a S, S, S 5 min
Activity 5 set of statements and you need
to decide whether they are true
Purpose: to give or false based on the text in
students practice in
identifying specific ChatSpeak - A Beginner's
information in the Guide.
First, read the text once again.
article
Here is the first statement:
Technique: True ChatSpeak is also called
or False Internet slang or Netspeak.
Is it True or False? How do
you know this from the text?
T: Now you will work in pairs.
Post-reading Your task is to create a short S↔S 8 min
Activity 6 chat dialog using the new
Purpose: to give words you have learned, as
students practice in well as emoticons and short
writing a dialogue forms. Imagine you are
chatting with your friend
in digital context
online.
Technique: Think about what you want to
Dialogue say. If someone asks, how was
the movie? you can answer not
just with words, but also with
an emoticon, for example, 😢 if
the movie was sad, or 🤩 if you
really liked it.
Use slang as in the text, for
example: OMG, it was
awesome!' or Nah, not my
thing.
The End of the Т: Tell me what was the most T→C 5 min
Lesson interesting thing for you today?
What did you enjoy the most
or dislike the most? What
Setting homework
question do you have about
what we’ve learned today?
Giving marks And Happy Holiday.
