LESSON PROJECT

TEACHER: Iulia Radu DATE: February 12th, 2014 SCHOOL: Nr. 2, Movilia CLASS: 4th TYPE OF LESSON: Fixation and of developing skills/ Lesson of reinforcement UNIT/ LESSON: Unit 6/ Zoo food TEXTBOOK: Set Sail, Ed. Express Publishing, 2005 LENGHT: 45 min. AIMS: AIDS: students book; pictures; worksheets; notebook. To use English in various contexts; To predict the content using words, pictures, phrases; To give students practice in using a vocabulary related to zoo animals; To develop listening- speaking skills and reading-writing skills.

STUDENT S INTERACTION: individual work; pair work; group work; lock step.

REFERENCES: Doodley, Jenny; Evans, Virginia- Set Sail, Pupils book, Express Publishing, 2005 Doodley, Jenny; Evans, Virginia- Set Sail, Teachers book, Express Publishing, 2005

THE EVENTS OF THE LESSON 1.WARMING-UP (7-9) Aims: - to draw pupils attention and to introduce the new lesson; - to review the language of Unit 5. Interaction: T-S. Skills: Speaking, reading. Activities: greetings, homework checking, introduction of the next lesson. 1st Activity: Greetings (<1) Procedure- informal conversation. 2nd Activity: Homework checking (<2-3) Interaction: T-S. Skills: reading. Procedure: T asks Ss what their homework was and a S gives the answer. Ss read the homework. T corrects the possible errors helped by the Ss and elicits them on the board.

3rd Activity: Brainstorming (< 4-5) Interaction: lock step Skills: speaking Procedure: The T tells the Ss they are going to play a game and explains the rules: the T approaches a student at the front desk and whispers a food/drink item. She asks him/her to whisper the same word to his/her partner, who whispers it to the next student and so on. Then the last student calls out the food/drink item. Then the T checks if the food/drink item said is the correct one. The procedure is repeated with other words. (mango, salt and pepper, cheese, a carton of milk, lemon juice).

!!! Important: whenever Ss dont understand T questions or vocabulary, these will be translated into Romanian.

2. THE CORE OF THE LESSON (approx. 33) Aims: -to make lesson seem fun and exciting; to involve Ss in individual, pair and group activities; -to revise and reinforce vocabulary regarding animals. Interaction: lock step Skills- speaking, listening, reading, writing, comprehension, communication, matching. Activities: 1st Activity: Zoo animals and their food (<6) Interaction: T-Ss; Ss-T Skills: speakins, writing. Procedure: The T reads the title of the lesson and elicits what the unit is going to be about. Then she shows the Ss some animals from a book. She points to each animal, reads and says the appropriate word. The Ss listen and chorally repeat. Then she points to the animals in random order and invites the pupils to tell her the corresponding words. In the end, she writes them on the blackboard.

2nd Activity: Zoo animals Worksheet (<7) Interaction: T-S, S-Ss Skills: matching Procedure: Ss are asked to match the words with the pictures and to make words used for animals in English (ex 1,2,3). Each Ss answers are checked.

3rd Activity: Searching for the information (<15) Interaction: T-S, S-Ss Skills: searching, matching, speaking, writing. Procedure: Ss are divided into groups and are asked to choose a Searcher, a President and some Advisers. The Searcher will look into the class for images of a chosen animal and with some information written about it. The sentences for each team will be written on specific coloured tickets sticked into the classroom (eg. Team 1 will search only pink tickets). The President will write down the sentences in the correct order and the

Advisers will advice the Searcher on what to pick. In the end, every team will read the description and other teams will have to guess the animal. 4th Activity: Stand up for False and sit down for True (<5) Interaction: T-S, Ss-T Skills: acting, speaking. Procedure: Ss are asked to stand up if the sentence said by the T is false and to sit down if it is correct. If the sentence is false Ss have to correct it.

3.THE EVALUATION AND THE TRANSFER (<3) T congratulates the teams. T gives a ticket for Ss to write their opinion about the lesson (Ticket out the door). T assigns homework to the children (Zoo animals Worksheet: ex. 4; Textbook: ex. 9, page 51).