LESSON PLAN

Name: Madalina Lupu

Date: May 21st 2014
Grade: 8th A
No. of hours per week: 2
School: No.5, GALATI
Time: 50 minutes
Textbook: Snapshot- Intermediate
Unit: I don’t believe it!
Structure: Reported speech
Aims: Ss will practise reported statements and questions and will
develop their speaking skills
Objectives: By the end of the lesson Ss will:
 recognize patterns of reported speech
 use correctly the verbs in reported speech
 make the necessary transformations from direct to reported speech
Assumptions:
Ss have already been exposed to English tenses and they will not
encounter many problems when reporting
Anticipated problems:
Some Ss will forget the difference between the word order of direct
questions and reported questions
Aids: Textbook,handouts, notebooks,video tape,etc.
Skills: Speaking
Interaction
Writing
Reading
Types of interaction: Teacher-Whole class
Teacher-Students
Students-Students
Students-Teacher
Class management: Whole class
 Activity 1.
Warmer

Aims: to greet Ss, to make the presence, to appreciate Ss’ work

Timing: 7 minutes
Class management: Individual work
Interaction: Teacher-Whole class
SS-SS
SS-T
Procedure: the student on duty tells the absentees; T writes the
absentees in the register, then she checks homework and Ss correct the
mistakes, if necessary. Then the T divides the class into four groups.

Activity 2.
Lead-in

Aims: to stir Ss’ curiosity, to motivate Ss by involving them into the

presentation of the new topic
Timing: 7 minutes
Class management: Individual work
Interaction: Teacher-Whole class
SS-SS
SS-T
Procedure: The teacher asks a student what time she/he gets up and
then she transforms the sentence into indirect speech, without specifying
exactly what she did.
Example: Q: What time do you get up?

A: I get up at 8 o’clock.
The teacher reports to the students: Your classmate said he got up at 8 o’
clock.

Activity 3.
Presentation

Aims: to raise students’ awareness of the transformations involved in

indirect speech
to develop students’ ability to recognize different tenses
Timing: 10 minutes
Class management: Individual work
Interaction: Teacher-Whole class
SS-SS
SS-T
Procedure: T writes on the blackboard the changes between direct and
reported speech.

Activity 4.
Practice

Aims: to provide Ss’ with a suitable context to understand the new

structure and to practise it.
Timing: 14 minutes
Class management: Group work
Interaction: Teacher-Whole class
SS-SS
SS-T
Procedure: Ss watch a movie segment to assess grammar reported
speech and in groups they have to report some lines .
 Activity 5.
Evaluation

Aims: to use the tenses correctly in indirect speech

Timing: 10 minutes
Class management: Group work

Interaction: Teacher-Whole class

SS-SS
SS-T
Procedure: Ss in groups solve Worksheet no. 1.
Activity 6.
Assigning Homework

Aims: to give Ss further practice on the new structure to make students

use their previous knowledge
Class management: SS-T
Timing: 2 minutes
Interaction: Teacher-Students
Procedure: T gives her Ss some worksheets based on the recently
acquired structure