Lesson plan
New horizon book 2 page 50.
Description of class: junior high school students, grade 2.
Aims:
1. Teach students listening to the gist of the story.
2. Reading strategy: guess the meaning
3. Vocabulary teaching.
4. Grammar teaching: if clause.
5. Speaking practice

Procedure:
1. Ask students to listen to the CD then tell the class what the story is about, they are free to use either L1 or English.
2. Tell students that pay attention to the main idea of the story, do not concentrate on details. Replay the CD.
3. Divide students into groups. Ask them to discuss in their groups what the main idea of the story is.
4. Ask one representative from each group to report the result of the discussion to the class.
5. Give copies of the text book which do not have vocabulary and grammar explanation points on it to the students. Ask them to read the story in the groups and guess as a group the meaning of the new words.
6. Ask students report to the class as a group the result of their guessing.
7. Teacher listen to the students and give advices try to lead the students to the correct guessing. Encourage students to use English as much as they can, this process involve a lot of negotiation of meanings between students and teacher and also among students themselves.
8. Ask students to look at the dictionary for undecided words meaning.
9. Students reread the story then tell the story in their own words to the class, use L1 or English.
10. Ask students the difficulties of understanding the story, lead to grammar teaching point: if clause.
11. Teacher explain the usages of if clause, ask students reconsider the meaning of the sentences that contain if clauses in the story.
12. Ask students to make sentences using if clause.
13. Teacher read the story again ask students to listen and see if they understand the story.
14. Ask students to follow teacher read the story aloud.
15. Teacher retells the story in English then asks students to practice retelling the story in English among their group members.