LESSON PLAN

SCHOOL: Pstrveni DATE: 02.05.2006 TEACHER of ENGLISH: Pera Elena CLASS: 3rd LEVEL: primary beginners COURSE: Way ahead NUMBER OF SS: 14 TIME OF LESSON: 50 minutes TYPE OF LESSON: teaching- learning UNIT OF LEARNING: Guess where? TOPIC: This is our school FOCUS: integrated skills METHODS: conversation, game, reading approach, explanation MATERIALS: pupils books, CD, cassette recorder, teachers book,
maps, speech bubbles, a box with: pupils pictures, a letter, a bag of sweets, AIMS: - to describe a town/school/class - to read corectly a text after model - to make suggestions (lets) - to recycle vocabulary related to numbers, colours, parts of the body, school objects, animals - to write a letter after the given model - to participate with pleasure at the lesson

LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS:
- describing things - making suggestions - answering questions

ASSUMED KNOWLEDGE:
Ss have already learnt simple grammatical structures (to be, to have, noun, article, prepositions of place, adjective, pronoun) and lexical structures ( school objects, family members, parts of the body, numbers 1-20, toys, rooms and furniture, colours,) Ss are familiar with oral commands, and classroom language

ANTICIPATED PROBLEMS:

If Ss do not understand the oral commands or the tasks, they will be translated into Romanian

STAGES:
ACTIVITY 1: WARM-UP Aims: - to warm Ss up - to recycle vocabulary Timing: 5 min. Interaction: T-Ss, S-T Procedure: T divides the class into two teams and propose them an alphabet game. T say a letter name of the alphabet and write it on the board. Ss have to give words with that letter. Each correct word receives a point. The first team to reach 5 points is the winner. T congratulates the winner team. T asks Ss to sing an alphabet song I have a dog Ss sing the song ACTIVITY 2: LEAD- IN Aims: - to get Ss into the new topic Timing: 5 min. Interaction: T-Ss, S-Ss Procedure: T writes the title of the lesson on the board and Ss write it in their copybooks T shows the class a box , takes items out of the box and names them T asks Ss to look in their books and to listen the tape Ss listen the tape T asks for one or two volunteers to act out the scene again and encourages the children to join with We do! ACTIVITY 3: PRESENTATION OF THE NEW KNOWLEDGE Aims: - to recognise and use new words - to give Ss practice in listening/comprehension - to encourage Ss to read in English Timing: 15 min. Interaction: T-Ss, S-T, S-Ss Procedure: T asks Ss to guess the meaning of some new words showing that things that those words refer to. Ss write the new words in their copy-books T reads the letter to the class Ss listen their teacher and then listen the tape

T gives Ss some worksheets and they have to tick the correct answer T explains to Ss the meaning of Lets = Let us, write it on the board and shows a speech bubble with Lets read Ss read the letter aloud, and then Ss will read by roles; a different child reading each paragraph (almost all the students will read) ACTIVITY 4: FEED- BACK Aims: - to make suggestion - to practice in speaking English - to write a letter Timing: 20 min. Interaction: T- Ss, Ss- T, S-T Procedure:T shows Ss speech bubbles. T invites a child in front of the class to take a bubble and read it to the class Ss do what the bubble says; for example: - Lets count- T shows a map and asks Ss to count the things on the map -Lets sing - T asks Ss to sing You put your left hand in -Lets write- T gives Ss a worksheet and they have to write a simple letter about their school, class and teacher. Ss complete their worksheets -Lets play T divides Ss into two teams, gives them a name (stars and butterflies); Ss have to come to a map and to do what is written there. T encourages all the students and notes a point for each correct answer T congratulates the winner team and gives a certificate to each member and each member of the other team gets a funny bunny. ACTIVITY 5: EVALUATION Aims: - to evaluate Ss work - to assign Ss homework Timing: 5 min. Interaction: T-Ss, Ss- T Procedure: T grades some Ss and accounts for them. Ss are assigned to make a miniproject by sticking small photographs of their school, class and teacher as homework. T shows Ss a map an asks them to choose an adjective on that map which can describe the lesson.

Hello! We are children at Sun Street School of Norton. It is a small town. Our school is small. Our class is small, too: six girls and seven boys. This is a picture of our class. This is our teacher. Her name is Miss Bun. She is nice. Please write a letter!

Paul Rose Nick Billy John Mary Ella Jack Dave Fay

Ann

Jim Jill