LESSON PLAN

SCHOOL: Colegiul Tehnic Petru Poni, Iasi

TEACHER: Bacaoanu Simona-Maria
DATE: October, the 8th; CLASS: IX F /Pre-Intermediate
DATE: October, the 9th; CLASS: IX G /Pre-Intermediate
TIMING: 50 min
TEXTBOOK: English, My Love.
Previous work:
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The students are accustomed to varied interaction patterns;

Learner preferences:
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Interaction variety
Share opinions

Lesson type: Vocabulary Practice

Lesson Topic: Unit 1: London Lesson: The Tower of London
Skills: reading, speaking, writing (integrated skills)
Lesson Objectives: by the end of the class students will be able to:
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Describe and make connections between images from the same area
Rearrange paragraphs in order to have a right order of events in a text.
Scan a text for specific information

Didactic strategies:
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methods and procedures: conversation, explanation

teaching aids: textbook, blackboard
organization: class work, pair work, individual work

Assumption: Ss might need more time for some of the activities

Sequence of activities:

1. Pre-reading
Aim:
To see if the Ss can anticipate what the following text would be about

PROCEDURE

I/11 T discusses with the students the

images from the textbook and asks them if
they can say something about them. They
should also say something about the fact
that the images are connected.

II/11 In pairs Ss have to reorder the paragraphs

of the text to have a final connected text.
T gives Ss hints in order to make them
understand better the task: look for clues,
respect the order of the evens, look for

INTERACTION
T-Ss
Ss-T
reading
Individual work

TIMING
20 min

3. Post-reading:
Aim:
To see if the Ss know how to look after specific words.

PROCEDURE
II/11-12 T explains the task and asks Ss to skim
the text already read to find, in chronological
order, year-historical character-event and put
them in a table.
After that the exercise is checked orally in the
class.

TIMING
6 min

2. While-reading: Paragraph ordering

Aim:
To see if the Ss know to order paragraphs in a right order.

PROCEDURE

INTERACTION
T-Ss
Ss-T
conversation

INTERACTION
T-Ss
Ss-T
reading
Individual work

TIMING
10 min

4. Follow-up: Describe a Romanian national monument

Aim:
To see if the Ss know how to change formal sentences into informal ones

PROCEDURE

IV/12. T gives Ss the structure of a presentation:

introduction, body (2 paragraphs supported by
details), and conclusion.
Ss have to think of a national monument or of a
touristic attraction from Romania and write why it
would be worth visiting.
Obs! The presentation will be finished home as

INTERACTIO
N
T-Ss
Ss-T
reading
Individual
work

TIMING
15 min

homework