LESSON PLAN N1

Subject: English
Form: VII a B
Date: 02.02.2015
Teacher: Mocanu Alina
Methodist: Arsenii Andriana
Mentor teacher: Coliceva Olga
Topic: Countries and cities
Lesson type: mixed lesson
Time: 45 min

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Specific competences:
Communicative competences: Receiving oral messages (Listening)
Pragmatic competences: producing oral messages (Spoken interraction)
Communicative competences: Receiving written messages (Reading)
Communicative competences: Producing written messages (Writing)
Methodological competences: Identifying similarities and differences by means of comparing things (Comparison Area)
Social/ pluricultural competences: ( Cultural Area)
Sub competences:
S 2.4. Formulate simple questions in everyday life situations appropriately using conversational formulas.
S 1. Identifying some everyday verbal and non-verbal courtesy norms in familiar everyday life situations referred to the students familiar environment.
S 2. Participating in simple oral communication ( with the teacher or collegues) on familiar topics.
S 2.2. Defining the theme of a text on the basis of its title and/ or pictures which go with it.
S 3.3. Deducing the meaning of unfamiliar words from the context.
S 3.1. Selecting from a text the information necessary to solve different tasks.

Operational objects:
1

to express their opinion and their wishes in English language ;

to develope their imagination on making suppositions ;
to know how to pronounce the names of the biggest cities ;
to find interesting curiosities about countries and cities ;
to decode the unknown words.

Knowledge: students will be able to decode the unknown vocabulary by means of the text and pictures;
Skill: students will be able to imagine and make suppositions on different subjects, also they will be able to make differences between sea port cities ;
Attitude: Students will form positive attitudes towards the biggest cities;
Education: Students will learn to appreciate the history of other countries .

Stages of the lesson

(Learning Activities)

Resources

Strategies
(methods,
2

Subcompetences

Time

Notes

techniques, forms
of acti- vities)
I.

Evocation
1 min

1. Organization:
T: The teacher greets the pupils and creates the atmosphere.
Good morning 7th class. How are you? How do you feel today?
P: The pupils greet him back.
Good morning teacher. We are fine. You?
Teaching
2. Warm up and preparation:
T: The teacher proposes a teaching material, a cube material,
on whose faces are few questions, she asks each of
them to choose face and to anwer at the question.

5 min
Conversation
Explination
Brainstorming
Frontal questions
Argumentation

1.
2.
3.
4.

What big countries do you know?

What countries would you like to visit?
Which is your favourite city?
Which cities in England are famous for their
universities?
5. What do you know about Great Britain?
6. What big cities do you know from USA?
P. The students listen the condition of the activity ,
they read the question carefully and orally answered.
- The biggest countries that i know are: Russia,
Canada, China, United States, Australia, India...etc.
- I would like to visit USA, China, Brazil, Mexico...etc.
- My favourite city is New York.
- Oxford and Cambridge are famous for their
3

S 2.4
S 2.

universities in England.
- Great Britain, also known as Britain /br.tn/, is
an island in the North Atlantic off the north-west coast
of continental Europe. It is separated from the continent by
the English Channel.
- The biggest cities that I know from USA are: New
York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Detroit,
Washington, Boston.
T: The teacher anounces the competences and the
subcompetences of the lesson. They are stuck on the
blackboard in the order of their achievement
3. Checking homework
T: Teacher asks students what was their homework.
Now please someone to tell me what was your homework for
today.
P: Students listen to teachers question and answer that their
homework was:
Ex: 1 page 57, fill in the article the where necessary :
a) The Nistru is the longest river in Moldova.
b) Plenty of our students like to travel on their summer
holidays either to the Mediterranean Sea or to the
Carpathians.
c) Constanta is one of the most important seaports on
the coast of the Black Sea.
d) Lots of people in Africa suffer from different
diseases.
e) The Titanic with more than two thousand
passengers on its board was sailing to New York

Textbook,
Copybook

8 min
Brainstorming
Conversation
Explination
Problematization

when it sank in the Atlantic Ocean in 1912.

f) The Orkney Island, the Shetland Island and the
Hebrides belong to Scotland.
g) Great Britain consists of England, Scotland and
Wales.
Writing : Ex: 1 page 57 , Write sentences including the
following groups of words:
a) London is situated on the river Thames.
b) Oxford and Cambridge are small cities, but famous
for their universities.

c) The rivers in Great Britain are not long,

but many of them are deep.
d) Most of the mountains in Scotland are not very
high.
e) The English spend their holidays on the Lake
District.
II.
REALISATION OF MEANING
New Material presentation
a. Pre-Reading
T: The teacher asks students some questions:
- How do you think what means a sea port city?
- What sea port cities do you know?
P: - a port or city accessible to seagoing vessels etc.
- a town or place alongside navigable water with facilities
for the loading and unloading of ships
- New York, Singapore, Los Angeles etc.
The pupils also read and explain the unknown words from
Vocabulary , bringing their Romanian equivalent:
Now lets to read and explain the unknown words from Word
Study and to find their Romanian equivalent:

2 min
Textbook
Conversation
Explication
Frontal
Questioning

S 2.4.
S 2.

Whole class work

Prognosis

5 min
S.3.3

P: Nouns: *equator - ecuator; *rainfall- ploaie

torentiala, precipitatii; *rainforest- paduri tropicale;

*foreigner- strain; *settlement- asezare, stabilire;
*urbanization- urbanizare; *hub- fig, centru; *tradecomert, ocupatie; *tip- capat, extremitate; *gatewayintrare; *network- retea; *status-statut(situatie);
*entertainment- distractie; *location- loc, amplasare,
asezare; *stopover- escala;
Verbs: *to amount-a totaliza; *to inhabit-a locui, a popula;
*to focus-a concentra; *to purchase- a cumpara, a capata;
*to complete- a realiza, *a complete, a sfirsi; *to maintaina mentine, *a sustine, a intretine; *to promote- a promova,
a sustine; *to light up- a lumina.
T: The teacher propose to her students ex: 2 page
58, while looking at the images that are on the
blackboard and to pronounce the words: 1. Singapore
[sp]; 2. Bangkok [ bakk ]; 3. Hong Kong [h
k]; 4.Tokyo [tk]; 5. Ellis [ls]; 6.Manhattan
[manhat()n]; 7. The Netherlands [nlndz];
8. Dutch [dt]; 9. Los Angeles [ls andliz];
10. Spanish [span]
P: The students looked at the board and learn to
pronounce the words.
While Reading

Dictionary

Dictionary work

Textbook

5 min
Images
Textbook

S 3.3
The
Audiolingual
method
Chorus
repetition
Pictures

12 min
Teaching
material
Textbook

Lecture with
discussion
6

S 2.2

T: Let have a look at ex 1 page 59. Your task will be to read and
to translate the text .
P: The students read and translate the text from exercise 1 page
59 .

III.
REFLECTION
B.P.A:
a. Post Reading
T: After the reading of the text, lets see what are the new
things that you have learned from it.
P: Students listen to teachers requirement and complete
the Spidergram:

Loud reading

S 2.
S 3.1.
Textbook
Black board
Chalk
Explaining
technique
Argumentation

Spidergram
completion
Whole class work

The largest and the most

populated sea port city
in the USA

Communicative
Method

Los

New York

Angeles

Sea port cities

Singapore

has a diverse population, 5 mill

people.
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2 min

IV.
EXTENTION
T: Teacher proposes to look at ex. 5 page 60.
P: The students listen the condition of the activity and orally
answered:
New York City is known for its history as a gateway for
immigration to the United States and also for its status as a
financial, cultural, transportation and manufacturing centre.
V.
FEEDBACK
a. Assesment

The teacher refers the pupils to the competences

and subcompetences of the lesson. The pupils decide what
competences have been achieved and what have not, they
make conclusions. The teacher gives marks to pupils.
Homework
The teacher writes the homework on the blackboard:
- to retell the text and to translate on your
copybooks;
- to learn the new words.
The teacher announces the end of the lesson thanks the
pupils for attention and says goodbye. The pupils thank the
teacher for the lesson and leave for the break.

Copybook

Brainwriting

Register,
record-books,
pen

Generalization,
Systematization

Blackboard,
Chalk

S 3.1.

2 min

S 3.1.

3 min