School: Scoala Gimnaziala Voetin, com Sihlea Date: 18th of April 2018 Grade : 4th Number of students: 17 Topic: The Fairy Garden Textbook : Fairyland 4b Structures: months of the year and ordinals Type of lesson: teaching new vocabulary Aims: a)Specific aims: -by the end of the lesson , students will be able: to talk about months and ordinals: to speak and write various ordinal numbers; to discriminate between cardinal and ordinal numbers. b)Affective aims: to create a warm atmosphere in order to offer the background for smooth, easy conversation between teacher and students; to help students become more confident when speaking English Skills : listening, reading, speaking, writing. Methods: conversation, explanation, dialogue, exercise. Main resources: board, worksheets, notebooks. Classroom interaction: teacher-students, students-students, students-teacher; Evaluation techniques: continuous, the teacher keep record of the student performance during discussion activities and individual activities. Time : 45 minutes Nr. Lesson stage Teacher-Students activities Interaction Timing Materials 1. ACTIVITY 1 I greet the Ss and ask them how are they feeling, checks T-SS 5’ Notebooks Warm-up Ss-T homework and ask Ss to correct their mistakes. 2. ACTIVITY 2 Get the students to think about the topic. Lead in -I’ll ask the Ss to introduce themselves and say their favourite number and day of the week passing a ball T-Ss 5’ Ball from one student to another. Ss-Ss E.G. ”I’m Elena. My favourite day is Sunday and my favourite number is 10.” Ss play the game and throw the ball from one student to another giving the required information. 3. ACTIVITY 3 Pin “The Months of the Year” poster on the board. Ask: Presentation and ”What month is it?”. Then point to the month on the poster practice and answer: ”April”. The pupils repeat after me. Point the next T-Ss Board month and say: “May”. The pupils repeat after me. Repeat the same procedure and present the rest of the months. Say the Ss-T Notebooks. months in order. The pupils repeat after me. 10’ Then write the months on the board Poster
4. ACTIVITY 4 For this activity I’ll ask the following questions:
Introduce ordinal numbers -If Victoria and Victor are in a race and Victor finishes the race after Victoria, in what position does Victor finish the race? T-Ss Board -In what position does Victoria finish the race? 10’ I’ll write on the board thr new title “Ordinal numbers” and ask Ss to do the same in their notebooks. Ss-Ss Notesbooks Next, I’ll write on board the cardinal numbers from 1 to Coloured 10 and explain to the Ss the difference between the chalk Ss-T cardinal and ordinal numbers, write the form for each ordinal number+ the short form. Use coloured chalk to underline the specific ending for ordinal numbers. MATCHING DAYS AND DATES I’ll check that the Ss remember the seven days of the week. Do a ‘TRUE/FALSE’ activity. Point to a calendar square and say “1st April is a Tuesday. Yes or No?”. I’ll encourage the pupils to check on their calendar and call out the correct answer. After I give five or six statements as examples, I can ask for volunteers to take over from me. Alternatively, I can set this up as a pair work activity, asking the pupils to make three statements each. WRITING THE DATE I’ll point to today’s date of the calendar for April and write the date on the board. E.G. “Wednesday ,18TH of April “ 5. ACTIVITY 5 In order to get feedback from Ss about the lesson, Ss T-Ss 10’ worksheet Feedback will be asked to do the worksheet, from Appendix1 6. ACTIVITY 6 I give the students to solve Appendix 2 T-Ss 5’ textbook Homework APPENDIX 1