VASILE GOLDI NATIONAL COLLEGE, ARAD

TEACHER: PCURAR EMANUELA

LESSON PLAN
Date
Class
Number of
Ss

23rd February 2016

9C
28

Level

Intermediate

Time of
lesson

50 min

Textbook
Unit
Title/Topic
of the
lesson
Type of
lesson

Going for Gold

5
Things that Matter/
Favourite Objects
Listening

AIMS: -to match pictures with a series of recorded monologues

-to identify key words heard on the recording
-to practise asking for opinions
AIDS/MATERIALS: recorder, coursebook, handouts, noteboks, blackboard

STAGES OF THE LESSON

Activity
Activity 1
Organizing
the class

Time
2
min

Activity 2
Checking
homework
and
previous
knowledge

3
min.

Aims
-to create a
relaxed /a proper
atmosphere for
teaching the new
lesson
-to check
previous
knowledge
-to give Ss
feedback on their
knowledge and
homework

Procedures
Skills
- The teacher greets the students and Speaking
checks attendance
- the students greet and prepare for
the lesson

Interaction
T-Ss

- The teacher asks Ss about their

homework
- The teacher assesses the
homework
- The teacher checks Ss homework
or Ss interevaluate while switching
copybooks and listening to the
correct solutions of homework
- Ss listen, check or interevaluate the

T-Ss
S-S

Speaking
Active
listening

homework of deskmates
Activity 3
Transition
to the new
lesson

4
min.

-to create interest

in the new lesson
- to familiarize Ss
to the new lesson

-The teacher asks students to work in

pairs and tell each other about their
favourie object. (What is special
about it? Who gave it to them? What
do they do with it?
- Ss then work in pairs to discuss the
things listed from ex 1/50 (a pen, a
ring, a mobile phone, a photograph,a
small rock)
- Ss discuss why each one of the
objects would be a favourite thing for
them.

Speaking
, active
listening,
writing

T-Ss
Groups of
two

Activity 4

10
min

-to match
dialogues or
monologues with
words

T-Ss
Ss-T

Listening
Speaking
Writing

Activity 5

10
min

-to enrich
vocabulary

-T play the recording once and lets

students decide which object is being
described by which speaker.
-T asks the students what key words
and phrases helped them decide on
the answers.
-Ss listen the recording (ex 2/50) and
write the answers.
-T checks their answers
-T explains the meaning of the words
from ex 3/50: a wave, to feel safe,
excited, to text someone, a volcano,
good luck, a diary.
- Ss listen again to the recording and
explain the significance of each word
in the extracts.
-T checks the response

Groups
of two

Listening
Writing

-T asks the Ss if they had any similar

experiences to any of the speakers
-Ss write the answer in their
notebooks
-T chooses two of the students to tell
their answers to their colleagues.
-Ss look at the pictures from ex 1/ 51

T-Ss
Ss-T

Writing
Speaking

T-Ss

Listening

-to personalise
the topic of this
section

Activity 6

10

-to practice

min

Activity 7

10
min

interacting with
other students

which show some everyday things.

Ss-T
-T plays the recording once and ask
Ss to tell which things Sonia and Paul
decide are important and which two
things they do not decide between.
-Ss write the answers
-T checks the answers

-to focus on the

meaning of
interaction

-T plays the recording again and ask

Ss who is the most interactive and
why
-Ss listen the second time and
answer the questions

T-Ss
Ss-T

-to learn new

ways of asking for
someone else`s
opinion

-T asks Ss to complete four ways of

asking for someone else`s opinion
(ex 3/51)
-Ss might be able to think of some
other suitable expressions here (e.g.
Do you agree that...? How do you
feel about...? Isn`t it true that...?)

T-Ss
Ss-T

Writing
Speaking

-to practise
reading for gist

-T give handouts to the Ss

-T tells them that they are going to
read a text about some inventions
that changed our lives.
-Ss have to match the inventions in
column A with the inventions in
column B. (two of the inventions have
two consequences)

T-Ss
Ss-T

Reading
Writing

-Ss read the text and check if their

answers were right.
-Ss choose from the inventions

Speaking

mentioned and match them to the

statements from handouts.
-T checks their answers
FINAL
ACTIVITY

1
min.

Homework
assignment

Ss choose from the pictures given

which are most important to them
and write the reason why it is
important.

individual

Writing