LESSON PLAN

Proposed Teachers of English:

Grade: 2th

Number of students: 28

Time: 45 minutes

Classroom Management: STUDENT- CENTRED LEARNING

Strategies: ORAL and WRITTEN COMMUNICATION.

Types of interaction: T  S, S  T

Level: ELEMENTARY

Subject: ENGLISH

Unit of learning: THE SEASONS AND THE WEATHER

Main focus: LANGUAGE FOCUS

Date: April, 2th

Aims:

 to give students practice in speaking and comprehension skills;

 to introduce the new vocabulary: months of the year (January, February, March, April,
May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December).

 to make pupils feel more positive about using English in short conversations;

 to practise the revised vocabulary.

Language functions:

 Introducing the new vocabulary.

 Describing the months of the year.

 Asking / answering questions about the classification of seasons according to the months of
the year.
Assumed Knowledge: Students are familiar with:

 Oral commands like: Please, stand up. Go to the board.

 Verbs: to like, to be, to have, to do.

 Numbers: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.

Anticipated problems: If there are any unknown words or students have difficulties in

understanding, the teacher will clarify them.

Materials: video projector, flashcards, whiteboard, worksheets, notebooks.

LESSON STAGES

ACTIVITY 1: WARM UP

 AIM: to get students ready for the English class by having an informal conversation
(greetings, How are you today?)

 TIMING: 2 minutes

 TYPE OF INTERACTION: T  S, S  T

 PROCEDURE: Ts greet the Ss, Ts introduce themselves. Ts check if a student is absent.

ACTIVITY 2: HOMEWORK CHECK-UP

 AIM: to check if students did the homework and can reproduce the vocabulary taught at the
lesson The seasons and the weather.

 TIMING: 3 minutes

 TYPE OF INTERACTION: T  S, S  T.

 PROCEDURE: Ts ask some Qs like “Have you done your homework?” “Was it difficult?”, “Who
wants to read?” and then Ts name a few pupils to read their homework and ask the others
to check their homework and correct it if necessary. Pupils respond individually. Teachers
involve all SS. Everybody’s HW is checked.
ACTIVITY 3: TRANSITION TO THE NEW LESSON

 AIM: to make the connection between the information that pupils already have and the new
information (seasons and weather vocabulary)

 TIMING: 10 minutes

 TYPE OF INTERACTION: T  S, S T.

 PROCEDURE: Ts write on the whiteboard the months of the year and then the pupils have to
match and put the right pictures on the words. If they need, Ts will help them. After that, Ts
give Ss worksheets and explain them what they have to do. We will correct the worksheets
and if there are any unknown words or students have difficulties in understanding, teachers
will clarify them. (Annexe1)

ACTIVITY 4: PRESENTATION (NEW LESSON PROPER)

 AIM: to introduce and explain the new words of the new vocabulary (the months of the
year).

 TIMING: 17 minutes

 TYPE OF INTERACTION: T  S, S  T, SS.

 PROCEDURE: Teacher announces the new topic: THE MONTHS OF THE YEAR.

 STEP 1: LEAD-IN / ELICITATION

Ts show images of the months of the year. They listen to the words, repeat them and write them in
their notebooks with the Romanian translation. Teacher also writes them on the board.

 STEP 2: EXPLANATION.

Ts mention the twelve months of the year. They write them in their notebooks with the Romanian
translation.
  STEP 3: ACCURATE REPRODUCTION

Ts will introduce to Ss a clip with the months of the year. Ts ask Ss if they have liked the clip and they
will repeat the new vocabulary with the Ts’ help.

STAGE 2: FEEDBACK

 AIMS:

- to consolidate what was learned during the class and to recycle some vocabulary.

-to offer more practice

 TIMING: 5 minutes

 TYPE OF INTERACTION: TT  S, S  T

 PROCEDURE: Ts ask Ss which the twelve months of the year.

ACTIVITY 5: ASSESSMENT

 AIM: to evaluate Ss’ work

 TIMING: 5 minutes

 TYPE OF INTERACTION: T  S, S  T.

 PROCEDURE: Ts make on the whiteboard a chart with the twelve months. Ss write on the
whiteboard the months of each season . (Annexe 2)

ACTIVITY 6: HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT

 AIM: to assign Ss’ HW

 TIMING: 3 minutes

 TYPE OF INTERACTION: T  S

 PROCEDURE: “For the next time you have to do the exercises 1 and 2 from the worksheet
given. (Annexe 3)”. At exercise 1 they have to find the months of the year and write them
 down and for the exercise 2 they have to arrange the letters in the order required for the
correct formulation of the months of the year.

ACTIVITY 7: DISMISS PUPILS. Teacher grades the students. Greetings.

ANNEXE 1
ANNEXE 2