LESSON PLAN

TEACHER: Gavrila Gabriela

SCHOOL: MIHAIL KOGALNICEANU
DATE: 3rd June 2009
CLASS: VII B
LEVEL: 5th year of study
NO. OF STUDENTS: 20
TEXTBOOK: HIGH FLYER- UPPER INTERMEDIATE
LESSON : REVISING INDIRECT SPEECH
STRUCTURES: Indirect Speech
FUNCTIONS: - Talking about different situations
- Expressing reported statements and questions
VOCABULARY: vocabulary related to friendship, holidays
SKILLS: speaking, writing, listening, reading
OBJECTIVES: By the end of the lesson students will be able to:
1. use correctly grammar, spelling and punctuation
2. discriminate between direct and indirect speech
3. understand the action of 10 episodes of the film

Extr@ .

TEACHING AIDS: textbook, flip-chart, DVD, worksheets,

TEACHING TECHNIQUES:

- viewing

dialogue

listening
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exercises

METHODS: communicative approach

TIME: 50
ORGANISATION OF THE CLASS
The teacher greets the pupils and asks them a few ordinary questions. (Who is on duty
today?/ Who is absent today?/ How are you today?/ Whats the weather like today?)
INTERACTION: T-Ss
TIMING: 2
WARM UP
T writes some numbers and names on the flipchart and asks Ss to make up questions
for those numbers and names.
INTERACTION: Whole class
TIMING: 3
HOMEWORK CHECK
(exercise 106/page 72-worksheet)
The teacher asks them about their homework and checks their notebooks. The pupils
read their homework while the other classmates pay attention in order to correct them.
INTERACTION: T-Ss; S-S
TIMING: 2
CHECKING PREVIOUS KNOWLEDGE:
T asks Ss to remember the rules of reported speech and elicits some answers about this.
INTERACTION: T-Ss
TIMING:2

ANNOUNCING OBJECTIVES:
The teacher tells the students they are having a lesson in which they will practice reported
speech.
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INTERACTION: T-Ss
TIMING: 1
ACTIVITY 1: SPEAKING-WRITING
AIM: to practice reported speech
PROCEDURE: For this activity Ss have a worksheet- a brochure about the facilities they
are supposed to find in a hotel . T explains they have to report what the travel agent said
about it.
INTERACTION: T-Ss
TIMING:4
ACTIVITY 2:SPEAKING(acting)- WRITING
AIM: - to encourage conversation (acting)
- to check the comprehension of written messages
PROCEDURES: T explains Ss that 2 of them are going to act a dialogue and then, in
groups, they have to report what one of the characters said writing sentences on sheets
of paper.
Ss listen to the dialogue and then report it working in groups..
INTERACTION: T-Ss
TIMING: 8
ACTIVITY 3:WRITING (ERROR CORRECTION)
AIM : - to check the correct use of indirect speech
PROCEDURES: T asks Ss to look at the worksheet they have on their desks and do the
exercise. They have to correct some sentences
INTERACTION: T-Ss
TIMING:5
ACTIVITY 4 : READING-WRITING
AIMS:

- to check comprehension of the written messages.

PROCEDURES: T tells Ss they are going to read a dialogue about a famous singer- Colin
Boyle. Anna has just met him and she is telling her boyfriend, Ian, about the meeting, and
he wants to know exactly what Colin said to her, and what she said to him. Ss have to
write what Anna and Colin said. Ss are divided in groups.
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INTERACTION: T-Ss ; S-S

TIMING: 5
ACTIVITY 5: VIEWING-SPEAKING
AIMS: - to watch for specific information
- to check the comprehension of different messages
PROCESDURES: T plays some fragment from the film Extr@ and asks Ss to report
what they hear.
INTERACTION: T-Ss, S-S
TIMING: 4
ACTIVITY 6: WRITING
AIMS: - to check the comprehension of direct/indirect speech
PROCEDURES:

asks Ss to read exercise 2 of the worksheet and match the

sentences into direct speech with the right reporting verb. They read the right matching
and then they have to report the sentences.
INTERACTION: T-Ss, S-S
TIMING: 6
HOMEWORK: T explains Ss they have to report the sentences in exercise 1/worksheet
into direct speech.
TIMING: 2
ENDING THE LESSON
PROCEDURE: T congratulates Ss for the interest shown in doing all the activities and
some of them get marks.
INTERACTION: T-Ss
TIMING: 2
FEED-BACK:
PROCEDURE: T assures it at the end of the lesson and makes remarks regarding Ss
activity during the lesson.
INTERACTION: T-Ss
TIMING:2
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