LESSON PLAN

Teacher’s name: Damian Dana

School: Gymnasium School no. 5 Vaslui
Date: November 27th 2017
Grade: 8th A
Level: Upper Intermediate
Textbook: HighFlyer
Unit: 7
Topic: Don’t judge a book by its cover
Time: 50 min
Type of lesson: Introducing new knowledge lesson
Skills developed: reading, listening, speaking, writing
Methods and approaches: a) main method: communicative approach
b) elements of: Audio-Visual Approach and Audio-Ligual Approach
Techniques: explanation, conversation, observation, identification, description, pair work, brainstorming, guiding questions
Aims:
- Reading a long text
- Reading and translating specific information and writing them
- Inferring situations or participants
- Predicting outcomes
- Debating on different subjects
Objectives:
a) Cognitive: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
 Reading different texts, long or short;
 Presenting orally the main idea of what they have read;
 practice vocabulary related to the topic in sentences of their own;
 infer situations and participants.
b) Affective – Developing students’imagination and autonomy in learning English
Teaching aids: textbook, notebook, whiteboard, coloured markers
CLASSROOM INTERACTIONS: Whole class, Individual work, Pair work.

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 LESSON STAGES
Stages Teacher’s activity Student’s activityInteraction Skills Time Purpose
I.Warm-up 1) Teacher greets students and calles the role 1) SS answer T-SS Speaking 3’ 1) To check presence
2) Activity: What’s your favourite book? Whole
2) SS answer class Speaking 2) To create a relaxed
Lockstep atmosphere
II. Checking 1) T asks the students to read their homework; 1) SS take turns and answer T-SS Speaking 5’ 1) To check correctness of the
homework 2) The teacher corrects the homework and 2) SS listen and correct their T-S Reading homework
gives further explanation where necessary homework S-T Writing 2) To check understanding of
the previous taught
material
III.Feedback T appreciate the progress SS listen T-S Speaking 1’ To let SS know how well they
and T-SS worked
evaluation
IV. 1) T asks guiding questions SS answer T-SS Speaking 27’ To provide the context for
Introducing Review new reading information
new 2) T announces the topic of the lesson and Conversation To activate background
material writes the title on the blackboard Don’t SS write the title in their knowledge
Prereading judge a book by its cover notebooks To activate an appropriate
vocabulary
3) T asks SS to do Ex 1 page 30 SS do the exercise Pairwork Speaking To help SS predict outcomes
Listening
While 1) T asks SS to solve Ex. 2 from page 30 SS do the exercise SS Reading To argument ideas
reading 2) T verify the SS’answers SS answer T-SS Speaking To debate regarding a certain
3) T asks SS to solve Ex. 3 from page 30 SS read loud and do the SS-T Reading point of view
4) T checks the SS’answers exercise T-SS Speaking To develop abilities
Postreading 1) T asks SS Ex. 4 from page 30 SS write on their notebooks Writing To engage students in short
2) T asks SS to take turn and read the sentences SS take turn and answer Lockstep Speaking conversation
Explanation
Feedback The teacher gives feedback on the students’ SS listen Lockstep Listening 2’ To let SS know how well they
activity worked To provide feedback
Homework The teacher assigns the homework and The students take notes Writing 2’ To reinforce knowledge
explains the task Ex. 7 page 32 To provide further practice
worked