Lesson plan

Teacher: Wagner Sorina-Camelia

School: Andreesti Nr.1
Form: the 8 th (4 th year of study)
Date: December 2012
Timing: 50 minutes
Level: Intermediate
Subject of lesson: Waiting for Christmas
Lesson aims: General
O1: to develop and activate the students in the process of writing;
O2: to develop speaking abilities;
Specific aims:
O3: to acquire new words related to Christmas vocabulary;
O4: to involve the pupils in writing and making up Christmas
cards;
O5: to improve the pupils knowledges with general information
about Christmas and Saint Nicholas.
SKILLS: speaking, writing, reading.
MATERIALS: CD-player, CD, worksheets, copybooks, envelopes,
colouring paper, Christmas pictures and ornaments, scissors, glue,
needle and cotton.
INTERACTION: student-student, student-group, teacher- students.
STRATEGIES- METHODS: brain storming, task-sheets, self
discovery, role reading, conversation, explanation.

CLASS MANAGEMENT: classroom- bright, clean, adapted to each

stage of activity;
Teacher: eye-contact, adequate voice
modulation, friendly attitude, appropriate sequencing of
instructions to students, appro-priate movement and body
language.

Procedure
AIM

ACTIVITY

Warm-up
Informal conversation concerning who is
missing. After that the teacher presents to pupils the subject of the
new lesson Waiting for Christmas.
PRESENTATION:
The teacher introduces the students into the Christmas
atmosphere telling them about this holiday, the meaning and the
celebration of Christmas.
ACTIVITY 1: The teacher writes on the middle of a cardboard the
word
CHRISTMAS and asks the pupils to focus on all the
words
related to this event, which they already knows. Then
they have to
come and write around this main word all the words
which are
Timing:5 min.

connected to Christmas.

ACTIVITY 2: The teacher gives the students some worksheets

containing a few
nouns related to this holiday. The pupils have to use
a specific vo

cabulary to fill in the blanks a conversation. After

that they will
Timing:8 minutes

read and translate the dialogue.

ACTIVITY 3: The students are demanded to brainstorm and make

up some
advi ses that they would give to people at
Christmas time and to
write them down. They work in groups of three or
four and one of
each group will read two or three advises for the
Christmas days.
Timing: 4 minutes

ACTIVITY 4: The teacher involves the students in working up

some Christmas
Cards. They have to imagine that they write some
wishes to their
favourite teacher. They will use colouring
paper,pictures ,ornaTiming: 10 minutes

ments, glue, red ribbons, scissors and cotton.

HOMEWORK: The teacher asks the students to complete a Santa

Claus crosword and worksheets in which they should to fill in the
blanks with specific adjectives.
A SHORT CHRISTMAS PROGRAMME: The teacher tells the story
of the beloved Christmas carol Silent Nightand then she
involves the pu
Timing:15 minutes

pils in singing this carol. The pupils will act some

role-plays in a
short Christmas programme.