This document provides a lesson plan to teach English vocabulary for telephone conversations to a pre-intermediate student. The 45-minute lesson introduces target phrases like "Hello" and "Who's calling please?" through flashcards and audio recordings of phone calls. It anticipates the student may struggle without visual cues, so repetitions at increasing speeds are included. Practice activities like worksheets and a role-play phone call between the teacher and student reinforce the new vocabulary.

1. Preparation
Level Pre-intermediate
Lesson
Length
45 mins
Objective To teach the vocabulary of telephone conversations and get student more
comfortable talking without seeing body/facial expressions.
Target Language  Hello/Good Morning/Afternoon
 I’d like to speak to…
 Who’s calling please?
 Could you hold on?
 Could you repeat that please?
The connection is very bad
 Would you like to leave a message?
 Could you spell that please?
 What is your number?
 It was a pleasure talking to you.
Assumed Knowledge The student knows basic grammar, conjugations and vocabulary. He may be
familiar with some of the phrases above. However, some may be new to him
and some he may know but says it incorrectly.
Anticipated Problems My student is a visual learner, and without the bodily/facial feedback he can
see from someone else, he has a more difficult time understanding English.
Solutions We have to start off speaking very slowly, and then repeat the exercises,
increasing in speed every time until he becomes comfortable and understands
what is happening.
Preparation and Aids Flash cards, audio recordings of telephone conversations
Lesson Plan
Stage Activity Interaction Timing
1 Warm-up: talk about what we did over the weekend T-S
S-T
5 mins
2 Presentation: Go through the flashcards of the phrases (Target
Language) that I have prepared. Explain and translate each one
to the student.
T-S
S-T
10 mins
3 Audio: Listen to one or two of the audio recordings of phone
conversations. First listen to it very slowly, helping the student
with words he cannot understand. Then listen to them again, at
a faster speed, again telling the students the words he cannot
pick out. Finalize it by going over it once more. The student
should understand the majority now.
Audio 20 mins
4 Practice: Written: My student would be given worksheets that
had a one sided dialogue with someone on the telephone. He
would have to appropriately respond to the conversation.
S 5 mins
5 Production: The student and I would then end the lesson with
having a conversation between ourselves as if we were business
people on the phone together.
S-T
T-S
5 mins