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Lesson Plan
Grade: Date: 17/01/2026
Subject: English Language
Lesson Topic: Use a range of vocabulary and sentence structures appropriate to context.
Learning Objective/s:
  • Identify the purpose, audience, and format of a directed‑writing task.
  • Select and apply appropriate vocabulary for formal, informal, descriptive, emotive and technical registers.
  • Construct sentences using simple, compound, complex and compound‑complex structures.
  • Organise ideas coherently and use linking devices to achieve cohesion.
  • Edit a draft against a checklist to ensure accuracy, variety and correct punctuation.
Materials Needed:
  • Projector or interactive whiteboard
  • Sample directed‑writing prompts
  • Vocabulary handout (formal, informal, descriptive, emotive, technical)
  • Sentence‑structure reference sheet
  • Student worksheets with planning grid and checklist
  • Pens and highlighters
 Introduction:
Begin with a quick “What would you write?” hook, showing a brief news article excerpt. Review how purpose, audience and format shape language choices. Explain that today’s success criteria are to use varied vocabulary and at least three different sentence structures correctly.
Lesson Structure:
  1. Do‑now (5'): Students read a short prompt and list purpose, audience, and format.
  2. Mini‑lecture (10'): Teacher models task analysis and introduces vocabulary registers using the handout.
  3. Planning activity (10'): Learners brainstorm ideas and complete a paragraph outline on the worksheet.
  4. Sentence‑structure workshop (10'): Review simple, compound, complex, and compound‑complex sentences; students rewrite sample sentences.
  5. Writing task (15'): Write a 180‑word article on “The Benefits of Volunteering”, aiming for required sentence types and vocabulary.
  6. Peer checklist review (10'): Pairs exchange drafts and use the checklist to give feedback.
  7. Whole‑class feedback & revision (10'): Teacher highlights common errors; students revise their work.
Conclusion:
Recap the key strategies for choosing vocabulary and varying sentence structures. Students complete an exit ticket stating one new word and one new sentence type they will use in future writing. For homework, they rewrite a paragraph from today’s article, incorporating two additional linking expressions and checking punctuation.