TEACHER`S NAME: BOLAT ELIF

SCHOOL: SCOALA GIMNAZIALA NR.31, CONSTANTA

DATE: February, 26TH 2014
TIME: 50 MINUTES
NUMBER OF STUDENTS: 20
FORM: VIIITh
LEVEL: upper -intermediate
TEXTBOOK: HIGHFLYER upper-intermediate
UNIT 9: “HOME AND AWAY”
TYPE OF LESSON: introducing knowledge, mixed
SKILLS: writing, speaking, reading

SPECIFIC COMPETENCES
1.2 to take the global meaning of a message uttered at normal speed
1.3 to identify, extract and understand the specific information from a heard message,
on familiar topics
1.4 to associate the heard message with somebody’s own experience
2.2 to offer information about oneself, about activities
3.2 to deduce from the context, the meaning of some words / unknown phrases
3.3 to extract detailed information from a text to fulfill an assignment
4.4 to offer written information about activities, events, experiences

OPERATIONAL OBJECTIVES:
1. to identify countable and uncountable nouns;
2. to read a text;
3. to answer questions related to the text;
4. to use correctly the indefinite article “a/an”, the definite article “the” and zero
article
5. to apply the items learnt into everyday communication

AIDS (MATERIALS): chalk, blackboard, sheets of paper, video projector, course

book
TEACHING TECHNIQUES: conversation, explanation, exercise
INTERACTION: T-Ss, Ss-T, IW, GW, PW
No. Lesson Specific Time Teacher’s activity Students’ activity Interacti Aids Aims
stages Competen on
ces
1. Checking 1’ The teacher greets the students, ”How Students answer, they greet T-Ss -to check
attendance are you today?” and checks the teacher back. The Ss-T attendance
attendance. student on duty
answers :”X is absent”
2. Checking 1 The teacher asks the Ss to read the Some students read the - to check
homework homework and corrects them if homework. The others pay accomplish
necessary attention and correct ment of given
mistakes. instructions
3. Warm-up 1.3 8’ Teacher asks students a few questions Students answer teacher’s - to review Ss’
2.2 about environment and if they have questions. T-Ss knowledge on
ever been to a conservation camp. She environment
asks them to do the quiz from exercise Whole
1 and solve exercise 2. Teacher asks class
students to say if the nouns
“pollution”, “wildlife”, “rain forest”
and “botanist” are countable or
uncountable.
4. Announcing 5’ Teacher tells students they will revise Students listen to the T-Ss -to make Ss
objectives countable and uncountable nouns and teacher. aware of the
they will learn about definite and items they
indefinite articles. will learn
Teacher revises countable and
uncountable nouns by making a
parallel between them.

5. Activity1- 3.2 8’ The teacher asks students to read the Students pay attention to Group
Text reading 3.3 text “You can make the difference the teacher and perform the work Course
between this and …..this” from the task. book
course book (page 39). Each student
will read a paragraph and will Ss-T
translate it. Unknown words will be Students pay attention and
 explained and translated on the write down the unknown
blackboard. words.

6. Activity 2- 15’ Teacher gives students some handouts Students pay attention to
Question 1.2 and asks them to answer questions the teacher and perform the Handouts
answering 3.3 related to the text. Four students go to tasks. Individual
4.4 the blackboard to write the answers. work Notebook
Presentation The teacher underlines the first three
answers and asks students a few
questions related to them: Students answer the
What type of article is “a/the”? questions
What does it express?
What does the definite article “the” (the
International Conservation Scouts) refer
to?
What does the indefinite article “a”
express in the answer “They can go on a
conservation camp”?
The answers of the students reveal the
use of the definite article “the” and the
indefinite articles “a/an”

Teacher explains the use of definite Students pay attention and

article “the”, the indefinite articles write down the Video
“a/an” and the zero article in a Power explanations and the projector
Point presentation. examples given by the
teacher

7. Activity 3 3.3 5’ Teacher asks students to solve Students perform the task Group
exercise 6/page 40. The exercises are then work Course
Production checked with the whole book
class. Ss-T
-exercise
solving T-Ss
8. Feed-back 3.3 5’ Teacher gives out worksheets and asks Students solve the Individual - to check
students to complete the sentences exercises. The exercises are work
comprehension
with the appropriate article. then checked with the
whole class. of items learnt
9 Assessment 1’ Teacher appreciates the students’
work. The students who gave proper
answers, are encouraged.

10 Homework 1’ Teacher assigns homework: students Students say good-bye.

setting must do exercises 7 from page 40
(course book)
Teacher says good-bye.