LESSON PLAN

Teacher: Meirosu Madalina

School: Scoala Gimnaziala Rosiori
Grade: 5th
Level: advanced
No of students: 25
Textbook: Right on – Express Publishing, 2017
Unit : Welcome back
Topic: Subject personal pronouns
Time: 50 minutes

Aims (for the teacher):

- to arouse pupils’ interest and curiosity
- to get students involved in the topic
- to give students practice in speaking, reading and writing skills
- to acquire new words.

Objectives:
By the end of the lesson the students will be able to:
1. – to defy and identify pronouns in sentences
2. – to practice personal pronouns
3. – to offer a constructive feed-back
4. – to use subject pronouns to practice saying how different people are feeling or acting

Anticipated problems:
- some Ss won’t be able to replace all the names with the corresponding subject pronouns
- Ss may make mistakes when writing.
Assumptions:
- Ss are expected to know the pronouns.

Skills: writing, reading, speaking

Methods: conversation, writing, exercise
Materials: textbook, worksheets, notebooks, dictionaries, board, flip-chart.

Bibliography:
- Right on – Express Publishing, 2017 Student’s book
- Vizental, Adriana-Metodica Predarii limbii engleze, Polirom, Iasi. 2007;
- Harmer, Jeremy: ‘The Practice of English Language Teaching’, Pearson Longman, Fourth
edition, 2007;
- The Internet.
Activity 1
Aim: to check understanding of previous lesson
Objective: to fulfil the orders
Time: 5 minutes
Context: imperative
Procedure: Teacher gives students some instructions and then they have to give their own examples
in order to show they understood the Imperative.
Class organization: whole class
Resources: oral instructions
Language: Imperative
Anticipated problems: some students may not understand the orders.

Activity 2
Aim: to arouse pupils’ interest and curiosity
Objective: to use subject pronouns to practice saying how different people are feeling or acting
Time: 10 minutes
Context: Describe your class friend survey
Procedure: Students receive the “Describe your class friend survey” worksheet. They have to
complete the worksheet as in the given example. They have to describe their friends using the details
that they find at the bottom of the page and he/she. Students are asked to give examples using the
personal pronouns and the drawings that are on the board ( happy- , sad- , angry- )

Class organization: individual work

Resources: worksheet
Language: he/she/happy/angry/sad
Anticipated problems: some students may not know how to complete the grid

Activity 3
Aim: to get students involved in the topic
Objective: to defy and identify pronouns in sentences
Time: 5 minutes
Context: Subject personal pronoun
Procedure: teacher sticks on the board 6 large cards each with a subject pronoun written on (I, you,
he, she, we, they). Teacher shows the "you" card and point to someone and say "you", again have
everyone follow along. For "he" and "she", point at a girl and boy – check that everyone understands
the difference. For "we", grab a couple of students in a group hug and shout "we" and have everyone
get into groups as they do this. Finally, for "they", point at other students whilst shouting "they" and
get everyone to do the same.
Class organization: whole class
Resources: cards
Language: personal pronouns
Anticipated problems: students may not understand the differences.
Activity 4
Aim: to give students practice in speaking, reading and writing skills
Objective: to practice personal pronouns
Time: 15 minutes
Context: Personal Pronouns
Procedure: Students receive a worksheet and have to solve the exercises. In the first exercise they
have to underline the personal pronouns. In the second exercise they have to rewrite the sentences
replacing the underlined words with the personal pronouns.
Class organization: individual work
Resources: worksheet, dictionaries, notebooks
Language: personal pronouns
Anticipated problems: students may find problems rewriting the sentences.

Activity 5
Aim: to help students improve their English
Objective: to offer a constructive feed-back
Time: 10 minutes
Context: offer the feed-back
Procedure: use the "Who is Happy" song . Get everyone to stand up and follow you doing the
actions and singing (as described below in Gestures for the "Who is Happy?" song). Play the song
through 2 or 3 times.
Class organization: whole class
Resources: song, laptop
Language: song
Anticipated problems: students may find difficult to follow the actions and sing.

Home assignment- 2 minutes

Write sentences using every personal pronoun.
 What stuck with you this lesson?

For feed-back-2 minuts

Students will stick post-its on it to show what they learnt in that lesson.
 WORKSHEET

1. Underline the pronouns in each sentence:

a) She is a good girl.

b) He is a lawer.

c) Can you help me lift this bag?

d) We are going for a picnic.

e) They are coming to us.

f) I am happy today.

g) It is a beautiful day.

2. Rewrite each sentence. Change the underlined words to pronouns:

a) Kavita makes dinner for all.

b) Mary and I are good friends.

c) Sam and John play together all day.

d) The dog likes bones.