LESSON PLAN 5

Date: the 1st of November 2019

Time: 50’
Class: 11th D
Teacher: Ileana- Cornelia Oancea
Textbook: FCE Gold Plus, Longman
Unit: 3. Fact of fiction?
Lesson: “Stories, we like them!”
Lesson type: skills practice
Contents: Writing a story
Competences:
2.1 Elaborarea, oral/ în scris, de descrieri clare și detaliate pe subiecte din domenii de interes personal și/ sau profesional
2.2 Prezentarea orală/ relatarea în scris a unui fapt divers/ film/ întâmplări/ eveniment socio- cultural sau profesional, subliniind elementele
semnificative
2.4 Elaborarea unui text structurat pe subiecte cunoscute, pe baza unei scheme date, cu folosirea unui limbaj adecvat
2.5 Utilizarea unor materiale de referință adecvate pentru a verifica corectitudinea limbii folosite în redactare.
Skills: writing
Lesson aims:
to provide an opportunity to practise giving an opinion and supporting it with arguments
to provide opportunities for writing practice
Lesson objectives:
By the end of the lesson the students will be able to:
write a story using a given plan
express their opinions and support them with arguments
Strategy:
a) Methods and techniques
Explanation, elicitation, dialogue, exercise, inductive teaching, debate.
b) Types of interaction: individual work, pair work, group work
c) Teaching aids/ resources: coursebook, whiteboard, notebooks, video projector, computer
d) Forms of evaluation: students’ answers
Classroom management:
a) Level: upper intermediate
 b) Expectations
I hope that the students will be able to write a story with confidence.
c) Anticipated problems:
Some students may be shy and may not want to join in class discussion
Some students may do the exercises faster than the rest of the class
d) Solutions:
Group or pair work before whole class discussions
Fast finishers can help other students do the exercises
Evaluation: Students’ answers
Bibliography:
Jim Scrivener - “Learning teaching”, Macmillan, 2011
J. Newbrook, J. Wilson, R. Acklam - “FCE Gold Plus”, Longman, 2009

Stage Type of learning activity Type of Materials Timing Evaluation Observations

interaction
Warm up T enters the classroom, greets T-S - 2’ Students’
the students and checks answers
attendance. T tells students to
correct the following sentences:
I had gone to Brazil two years
ago.
I went out of the house when I
heard a noise.
While you had been painting, I
was watching TV.
Checking T asks students to read her their T-S Notebooks 2’ Students’
homework homework.T asks students if S-S answers
they can identify and correct
their classmates’ mistakes. T
corrects the mistakes if no
student can do it.
Lead in T. asks students to tell her about T-S - 3’ Students’
a story they liked and why they answers
enjoyed it. T. tells students they
will write stories for a magazine
and will sell it in order to collect
money for homeless people.

Announcing the T writes the title of the lessons T-S Notebooks 2' -
lesson title and on the board and projects the Whiteboard
objectives lesson objectives. Marker
Video
projector
Computer
Approaching T asks students to read a story T-S Notebooks 10’ Students’
new contents and answer some questions S-S Whiteboard answers
Pre- writing related to the structure and the Marker
content of the story. T. makes a Video
mind map using the students’ projector
answers. T asks students to Computer
complete a story with some time
expressions, then to match the
paragraphs to the corresponding
points in the given plan. T asks
students to read a task and try to
answer some questions related to
it. T. asks students to read the
beginning of a story, identify the
points from the plan which are
present there, discuss how the
story could continue and then
select the best ending, giving
reasons for their choice.
Writing Students work in groups of 4 and Ss- Ss Notebooks 8’ Students’
write a story based on the T-S Coursebook answers
answers to the previous
exercises. Each students writes a
paragraph.

Post- writing T asks students to read the Ss-Ss The stories 2’ Students’
stories and ask their classmates T-S Notebooks answers
some questions. The rest answer
and give reasons for their
answers. T asks students to make
a mind map and write the steps
they need to follow in order to -
write a story.

Follow up T asks students to read their Ss-Ss The stories 3’ Students’

stories and decide which one answers
they would choose for their
student magazine in order to sell
it and donate the money to a
 charity which takes care of
homeless people.

Feed back T asks students if they liked the T-S - 2’ Students’

lesson and asks them to give her answers
suggestions for future lessons.
Assessment T points out the strong points T-S - 2’ -
and the difficulties students have
encountered and gives
suggestion for further practice
where necessary.

Assigning T writes the homework on the T-S Whiteboard 1’ -

homework board and tells students to write Marker
a story for children. Notebooks