UPH Faculty of Nursing

TEACHING PLAN

TEACHER Sandra Sembel and Jill Quinn / DATE Jan 26-30, 2015
COURSE No/TITLE General English (Intermediate) / LESSON NUMBER 4
TOPIC Stress and Health
GOAL 1. Understand and Demonstrate Coherence and Cohesion
2. Comprehend a text about Stress and Health
PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVES
Following this session and with further reading, the student will be able to:
Coherence and Cohesion
  1. Use transition words to link sentences and ideas (Fill in the blanks)
  2. Join sentences using transitional words (cohesive devices)
  3. Rearranging sentences to form a coherent paragraph (Coherence)
  4. Choose the relevant supporting details for a topic sentence to show unity (coherence).
  5. Analyze a paragraph for Coherence and Cohesion
Stress and Health
  1. Ask questions after listening to a presentation on Stress and Health
  2. Answer questions about the reading passage on Stress and Health
  3. Write a paragraph about Stress and Health demonstrating Coherence and Cohesion

LESSON CONTENT& INSTRUCTIONAL PROCEDURES
Timing / Content / Method & AV Aids / Interaction/ Activity
5 / Opening
  • Greetings
  • Opening prayer
/ None
60 / Coherence and Cohesion
  1. Ice Breaking: Intro to Coherence and Cohesion (5’)
  1. Coherence and Cohesion (Brief Explanation) – 15’
  1. Practice 1 (Class Work) – 20
  1. Practice 2: Paragraph Analysis - 20
/ Class Work
Powerpoint 1 + Picture Coherence and Cohesion
Powerpoint 2 Coherence and Cohesion
Power Point 2Practice 1 (Classwork)
Power Point 2for Practice 2
(Group/Pair Work) / (Show a picture, ask students to make sentences, ask them to combine some sentences to one using transitions)
(Brief Explanation)
  1. Filling in the blanks using transitional words (Class Work)
  2. Joining sentences (Class Work)
  1. Identify Rearranging sentences to form a coherent paragraph
  2. Identifying irrelevant sentences in a paragraph

10 / BREAK
20 / Reading Comprehension (Stress and Health) / Ppt 3_Understanding Stress
Textbook (Academic Connections 1, Unit 3, pages 42-43 / Read and answer questions about Stress and Health (20’)
10 / Daily Assignment 4 (Evaluation) / Powerpoint 4 Daily Assignment
(Individual Work) / Show example (model) of a paragraph about Stress and Health
Ask students to write a paragraph about Stress and Health to demonstrate Coherence and Cohesion.
20 / Group Presentation / Student Powerpoint (Group Presentation)
(Presentation Rubric) /
  1. Listening to a Group Presentation (10’
  2. Q&A (5)
  3. Feedback session (5)

10 / Closing
  1. Summary
  2. Closing Prayer
/ Class Discussion / Students answer questions
Prayer
135 / TOTAL TIME
REFERENCES
  1. Cassriel, Betsy and Marit Ter Mate-Martinsen, Academic Connections 1, Unit 3 Stress and Health, pages 37-58
  2. Handout

EVALUATION PROCEDURES:
  1. Practice Exercises: Classwork, Group/Pair Work
  2. Paragraph Writing to demonstrate comprehension, coherence, cohesion

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