VASILE GOLDI NATIONAL COLLEGE, ARAD

TEACHER: PCURAR EMANUELA

LESSON PLAN
Date
Class
Number of Ss

27th January 2016

IX C
28

Level
Time of lesson

Upper intermediate
50 min

Textbook
Unit
Title/Topic of the
lesson
Type of lesson

Going for Gold

5
Things that Matter/
Listening

AIMS:-to predict the answers to a listening comprehension

-to practice listening for specific information

-to look at different forms of the same verb
-to practice the use of time expressions to link ideas in spoken and written English
AIDS/MATERIALS:coursebook, Cd player, notebook, blackboard
STAGES OF THE LESSON
Activity

Ti
mi
ng

Aims

Procedures

Skills

Interactio
n/class
managem
ent
T-Ss

Activity 1
Organizing
the class

3
min

- The teacher greets the students and

checks attendance
- the students greet and prepare for the
lesson

Speaking

Activity 2
Checking
homework
and previous
knowledge

5
min
.

T-Ss
S-S

3
min
.

- The teacher asks Ss about their

homework
- The teacher assesses the homework
- The teacher checks Ss homework or Ss
interevaluate while switching copybooks
and listening to the correct solutions of
homework
- Ss listen, check or interevaluate the
homework of deskmates
-The teacher announces the new lesson,
writes on the blackboard the topic, title,
key structures: unit 5: Things that Matter
- The teacher explains the new focus of

Speaking
Active
listening

Activity 3
Transition to
the new
lesson

-to create a
relaxed /a
proper
atmospher
e for
teaching
the new
lesson
-to check
previous
knowledge
-to give Ss
feedback
on their
knowledge
and
homework
-to create
interest in
the new
lesson

Speaking,
active
listening,
writing

T-Ss

Activity 4

Activity 5

9
min

10
min

- to
familiarize
Ss to the
new lesson

the new lesson

- The teacher elicits from Ss vocabulary
related to the new lesson
- Ss talk to the teacher ,give answers to
question, take down on their copybooks
the notes on the blackboard

-to identify
the people
that are
famous

T asks students about the names of the

famous people and what they are famous
for: Archimedes developed the principle

-to predict
the missing
words

of floating; Marie Curie jointly (with her

husband Pierre) discovered radioactivity
and isolated radium; Isaac Newton
developed the theory of gravity; Leonardo
da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa and
invented various machines.(ex 1a/44)
T checks the answers
T asks Ss to match each picture from ex
1b/44 to one of the people.
A. Leonardo da Vinci (The picture shows
his drawing for a machine similar to the
modern helicopter.)
B. Isaac Newton (He invented the capflap.)
C. Archimedes (He is reputed to have
discovered the principle of flotation in his
bath. Eureka! means I have found it!)
D. Marie Curie (Her discoveries were
made in an old shed behind her house
which she used as a laboratory.)
Ss check their answers by listening an
extract from a radio programme (ex2 /44)
Archimedes, Leonardo da Vinci
and Marie Curie
-Ss read the incomplete sentences below
and predict what the missing words are
(1-3 missing words in each sentence)

1. the world
2. floating
3. the bath
4. technology
5. notebooks
6. draw
7. money
8. helicopters and parachutes

Speaking
Writing

T-Ss
Ss-T

Listening
Listening
Reading
Writing

Groups of
2

9. shed
10. two
11. radiation
Activity 6

Activity 7

FINAL

5
min

-to identify
the nouns,
adjectives
and verbs

10
min

-to identify
the words
from ex 1

5
min

-to practice
the use of
time
expression
s

Homework

Ss check the answers by listening to the

programme from ex 3/44
-Ss try to identify the nouns, adjectives
and the verbs(ex 1/45)

1. science - noun; scientific - adjective;

scientist - noun
2. invent - verb; inventor - noun;
invention - noun
3. design - noun/ verb; designer - noun
4. revolution - noun; revolutionary adjective/ noun; revolutionise - verb
5. art - noun; artist - noun; artistic adjective
6. employ - verb; employer - noun;
employment - noun
7. discover - verb; discovery noun
T checks their answers
-Ss complete the sentences with the words
from ex 1/45
1. discover
2. scientific
3. designer
4. artistic
5. employment
6. revolutionary
7. inventor
8. Discovery
T checks their answers
Ss put the time expressions in the correct
columns
One thing before another: before,
previously, earlier
One thing after another: after, afterwards,
later, following
At the same time: while, when, during, at
this time, as
Connecting times: since, by the time, in
the meantime
Ex 4 / 45 : Answer to the questions

Writing

Groups of
2
T-Ss
Ss-T

ACTIVITY

min
.

assignment

regarding the artists and their inventions.