Lesson plan

Teacher: Maghiar Ioana

School: Liceul Teoretic Aurel Lazar- Oradea
Date: 7th June 2017
Class: 9 th
Level: Upper Intermediate
Unit 8: Land of the Pharaohs
Textbook: Going For Gold-Upper Intermediate, Longman
Type of lesson: Teaching vocabulary
Skills: speaking, writing, reading, listening
Methods: conversation, explanation, dialogue, exercise
Classroom interaction: individual work, pair - work
Teaching aids: blackboard, handouts,textbook
Time: 50 minutes

Lesson aims:
-To develop studentsspeaking skills
-To enrich students vocabulary related to the topic
-To enhance their cultural knowledge about Egypt
-To provide opportunities for collaborative work
-To predict content from headings
-To read for specific information
-To match pictures with suitable headings

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 Main Objectives: By the end of the lesson,students will be able to:
-identify and name several
-talk about

Learning objectives: By the end of the lesson students will be able to:
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Evaluation: - continue - through activities, observation, error correction

- final - through feed-back

AIDS/MATERIALS:
-Blackboard,,handouts,textbook

TEACHING TECHNIQUES:
-Brainstorming,pair-work,converstion,observation,game

Anticipated language problems:

-Some children may have difficulty in solving the task-the teacher offers them linguistic props and assigns students into pairs
-The students do not seem to fully understand the instruction-the teacher checks the understanding of the instructions and where necessary she explains
again or makes a demonstration

Grouping and seating: whole-class teaching;individual;in pairs

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Interactions: Teacher-Students(T-Ss);teacher-pairs(T-P);students-teacher(Ss-T)student-student(S-S)

STAGES OF THE LESSON

Stage of lesson/ Teachers activity Students activity Interacti Didactic Aims

Timing on strategies
Teacher enters the class greets The students greet the teacher and
1.
the students, and then teacher tell the absentees if there are any. A - Speaking -to assure the
Organizing the asks if there are any absentees. student writes the date on the T Ss introductive part
class
Then she asks one of the blackboard and the others open their of the lesson.
students to write the date on the notebooks and write the date. - Questioning
2 min
blackboard.

- to assure the
2.
The teacher begins the lesson T Ss transition
Gain students
by asking the students what between the
attention
place or city they would like to
(Ice breaking visit during their summer Organizational
exercise) holiday.She promotes discussion The students name some places they Ss-T Conversation Moment and the
by asking the children if they
have ever been to Egypt and would like to visit Introduction of
6 min
wheter they would like to. the New Topic
She also asks the children what
they know about Egypt,such as:
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 What language do people
Reflection
speak?
What is their nationality?
What can we visit there?
Brainstorming
Whats the weather like in
Egypt? The students answer teachers
questions

Before reading
The teacher starts the lesson by
3.
asking students to work in pairs T P
Present the topic
and explain the
in order to match some pictures The Students match the pictures - to inform Ss
objectives with their definitions.The with their definitions Communication about the topic
teacher provides the students they are going to
5min with worksheets . The students copy the date and the learn.
The teacher writes the title of lesson title from the blackboard into Ss-Ss
the lesson on the blackboard: their note books.
Land of the Pharaohs and
informs students that,by the end
of the lesson they should be able
to talk about pyramids

Using the new While reading - to enrich the Ss`

After they have discussed the
vocabulary -Ss look on their worksheets and Reading general
words from their worksheets
teacher informs the students that discuss with their pair mate. T Ss knowledge and
they are going to use the new
make an
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 words to complete an article - Speaking interdisciplinary
from their books on pag.74.
connection.
Students should choose the
headings for each part of the
article with a partner. There is
Then one student from each pair
one heading that does not match
10 min any of the paragraphs. They gives some answers . Pair
should try to explain how they
work
chose their answers. For
example, we know that the
answer to paragraph 5 is E, A
common design, because it says
The shape of the pyramids has - Writing - to facilitate the
been imitated around the world.
- Discussion acquisition of the
Shape has a similar meaning to
design, and common relates to new vocabulary.
around the world.
ANSWERS Ex. 5 2A 3G 4B
5E 6D 7C 8F

Post-reading
6 This exercise helps students
practise their scanning skills. In
pairs they find the answers and
note them on a pyramid shape
worksheet.
ANSWERS Ex. 6
2 The sun's rays are what the
sides of pyramids were built to
5min
represent.
3 An old Arab proverb reminds
us how old the pyramids are.
4 2,300,000 is the number of
blocks of limestone the Great
Pyramid is made out of.
5 The passages inside the
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pyramids were sealed to stop Ss complete on the received
robbers.
handouts.
6 Every pyramid had been
robbed by 1000 BC.
7 The shape of modern
skyscrapers often reflects the
shape of the pyramids.

Ex.7 In addition to telling others

in the class whether they have
ever visited any pyramids,
students could tell one another
about the most impressive man-
made structure they have ever
visited (it could be something
very old, or it could be
something quite new), and try to
describe it.

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 Next the teacher concludes that - to consolidate
Grammar if you go to Egypt,you will see T Ss and use the new
interesting places and draw The students copy the subtitle into acquired
students attention on the their notebooks and write down the vocabulary
10min
sentences from the article on teachers explanation.The students Guided
pages 74-75. Then she ask underline the correct article. Discovery
students to remember in which Explanation
situations the indefinite,the
definite and zero article is used. Ss-Ss
The teacher writes the subtitle
on the board which is Articles
then she reminds the students
when they are used. - discussion
After that,she asks students to
work in pairs to solve exercise 1 -to consolidate
page 76 and compair their and use the new
answers. acquired
grammar
structure
. The teacher moves on with
another pair activity.She asks To revise the
Production Again,students work in pairs.The - Writing
10min
them to complete a letter using definite and
a/an ,the or 0 as appropriate.She first pair to finish reads the text - Discussion indefinite articles
gives them a limit time,monitors To focus on the
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 discreetly and provides aloud. correct use of
feedback definite and
FINAL ACTIVITY T Ss
indefinite article
Feedback and
Homework
-Students write the homework in
assignment The teacher announces the
their notebooks and asks for further Ss alone To consolidate
2min homework(exercise 3 pag 76
and use the new
information - listening
Write a short postcard to a acquired
. The studentsalso say Good-bye vocabulary
friend and say:where you
-
to the teacher. - writing
are;what youve done in the last
-communication to increase Ss`
day or two;what the weather is
self-confidence
like.)and gives instructions for and encourage
them in their
its assignment.
study of English.
Ss-T
She appreciates
studentsbehavior during the
class.
The teacher gives students
thanks for their time and
attention and dismisses the
class.