LESSON PLAN

TEACHER: Dumitru Raluca

LEVEL OF STUDENTS: Upper -Intermediate
CLASS: a IX a A
UNIT/LESSON- UNIT 1- CHANGING WORLD
TIME: 50 MIN
COURSEBOOK: GOING FOR GOLD
INTERMEDIATE, PEARSON LONGMAN

OBJECTIVES OF THE LESSON:

1. to revise past simple, past continuous and past perfect as used in story telling;
2. to consolidate students’ knowledge of the values of the narrative tenses;
3. to extend students knowledge of question forms in narrative tenses;
4. to hear examples of the target language in context and give practice in listening for specific
information and retelling a story;
5. to practice story telling using the past tenses.

To practice speed reading for general information

To match headings with paragraphs using synonyms and other references devices

MATERIALS:handouts, coursebook, pictures.

ANTICIPATED PROBLEMS:

Ss might be tempted to speak in mother tongue;

Ss might be shy and unwilling to participate actively throughout the lesson.
 Activity 1

The teacher greets the students and tries to create a positive atmosphere.

Teacher writes the title of the lesson on the board and asks the students if they can guess the
topic of the lesson

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1 Encouraging Ss T asks the Ss to read their homework; corrects if S-T 5`

. to develop self- necessary
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k narrative tenses, read the examples out and match T-S 10`
each tense to its value(s). S-T

- to revise past
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continuous and
past perfect as
used in story
 telling; Activity one: Ss are asked to work in pair,
complete part one of the story choosing between
2 the different narrative tenses they are given,
. discuss their answers.
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e consolidate Activity two: Ss are asked to continue the story
a students filling in with a suitable narrative tense.
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question forms in Activity three: Ss are encouraged to use the
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i narrative tenses; prompts to ask and answer questions to describe
n experience.

Activity four: Ss are asked to listen to a story, put

- to hear the pictures in the correct order and retell the story
examples of the in their own words.
target language in
context and give
practice in
listening for
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retelling a story;

- to practise story
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As homework Ss are asked to create an end to the

story from activities one and two, using a range of
narrative tenses. They should write at least eight 5’
more sentences and imagine how:

the two characters were rescued from the sea;

Isabelle felt about Oliver afterwards;

his father reacted when he saw the state of the

car.

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