Lesson plan

Teacher: Mihaela-Adina Grosu

Date: the 15th of November 2013
Grade: 4th
No. of students: 21
School: Secondary School No.1 Hunedoara
Time of lesson: 50 minutes
Textbook: Set Sail, Express Publishing
Title: ‘’An Interesting Job’’

Objectives:
1. To raise Ss’ awareness of the English language;
2. To acquire and use new vocabulary: jobs
3. To make connections between images and words
4. To make the difference between written and spoken English
5. To talk about location,describe jobs and building
6. To identify jobs and building and make sentences of their own
7. To respond appropriately to common questions
8. To encourage children to think of themselves in relation to specific
jobs(Time Machine Activity)
9. To encourage communication skills, using a picture

Materials:
Blackboard, laptop, power point presentations, worksheets, pictures, board

Skills involved: reading, speaking, and writing

Class management: individual work, pair work.

Anticipated problems and possible solutions:

If Ss do not understand the oral commands or the tasks, they will be translated into
Romanian
Difficulty in pronunciation
Activity 1 Warm-up
Interaction Timing
Aim: To create a pleasant atmosphere and to relax the Ss
To get Ss involved in the topic T-Ss
Procedure: 2 min
1. Informal conversation, greetings
2. Check if there are students missing

Activity 2: Homework checking T-Ss

Aim: To see if the Ss solved homework correctly Ss-T 3 min
T checks homework and Ss read it and correct themselves if
they were wrong.

Activity 3: Checking the previous knowledge

Aim: to check previous knowledge T-Ss 7 min

The T presents in front of the classroom a board with pictures.

The Ss are asked to identify the buildings from the pictures.
Then the Ss are asked to come to the board and write the
name of buildings in the bubbles corresponding to each
image.
Activity 2 Lead in

Aim: to introduce the theme of the lesson: Jobs T-Ss 15min

Procedure: Ss-T
The T asks the Ss if they know who works in these buidings
they were talking about and then the T makes the connection
with the new lesson .
The Ss are said to pay attention to a Power Point presentation
because they are going to learn the jobs. The T presents the
jobs orally and then write them on the blackboard .Ss do the
same in their notebooks
After writing the new words T reads them one by one and Ss
are asked to do the same.
After reading, Ss are encouraged to make oral sentences of
their own with the new words. The Ss make sentences and if
they need help, T helps them.

Activity 3 Practice
T-Ss
Aim: Consolidation Ss-Ss 10min
The T divides the Ss into 5 groups of 4 children each. The Ss
are announced that they will have to choose from an envelope
a handout with a given task. Each team asks a leader to extract
a handout and they present it to the team they represent. Each
team receives a different task. They start working together.
They have job riddles, anagrams, Time machine activity (role
play), crosswords and mime. (Appendix 1).
After solving their tasks the Ss are asked to read or to practice
or to mime in front of the classroom their activity from the
handout.

Activity 4 Speaking

Aim: To answer appropriately to common questions T-Ss

Procedure: Ss-T 10 min
T presents in front of the classroom a picture. They can see a
town. They have to answer to the T’s questions about what
they can see in the picture. Assuming the Ss like the picture
very much they answer the questions .They are encouraged to
use the words related to jobs, building and the prepositions of
place, colors . Examples of questions:
What can you see in the picture?
Who is this man?
What’s his/her job?
Where is the teacher?
Where is the police car?
What color is the car?

Activity 5:Homework assignment

Aim: to let Ss know what they have to do

Procedure: T-Ss 3 min
T tells the Ss have to do exercise 7, page 29. Read and circle
the correct word
T praises all students for their participation during the entire
lesson
Appendix 1:

Team A:

Job riddles : What’s my job?

I have students. I wear a white uniform.

I work in a school. I help sick people.

I give homework. I work in a hospital.

Who am I? I am……………. Who Am I? I’m a...........

Team B:

Unjumble the words to find jobs:

TORDOC -
CEETRAH-
AMNCIPOEL-
RWTIEA-
MOTANPS-

Team C

Time machine will send you in the future. You are 30 years old. Describe your job,
where you work and what do you do there.
Try to answer to the following questions:
What are you?
Where do you work?
What do you do?
Team D

Choose a job and mime it in front of the classroom and ask your colleagues:
Who Am I?
What do I do?
Where do I work?

Team E

Find 3 words related to jobs;

A Q W J J B
O O T N N A
C C E E E K
W P A V E E
D O C T O R
R S H R O A
K T E K K K
C M R V B V
W A X X A A
W N Y T R X