Lesson Plan Using Suggestopedia

Joe and the Poor Man
By Chris Speck
Age Group: Young Adults
Level: Beginner/ Elementary
Skill focus: Reading/Sequence
Grammar Focus: Making simple present tense questions
Materials: Copy of the story, classical music, worksheets

Presentation: We will have a preparatory stage in which students are helped to relax and move into a positive frame of mind, with the feeling that the learning is going to be easy and fun.
First Concert - "Active Concert". This involves the active presentation of the material to be learned. The teacher will do a dramatic reading of a piece of text, accompanied by classical music.
Second Concert - "Passive Review". The students are now invited to relax and listen to some Baroque music, with the text being read very quietly in the background. The music is specially selected to bring the students into the optimum mental state for the effortless acquisition of the material.
Practice:
1. The teacher will ask the students some questions in the present tense: Do you smoke?, Do you live in London?, Do you speak English?. The students will answer.
2. The teacher will give out the first worksheet and have the students write as many sentences as they can using the grid.
3. The students will be divided in pairs to read and answer their questions.
4. The students will cut up the story along the lines and mix them up. They will arrange the events in order.
5. The story will be read again and talk about any problems they had with the vocabulary and grammar.