INSPECTORATUL SCOLAR JUDETEAN GALATI

SCOALA GIMNAZIALA NR 1 .Adam,Structura Fundeanu

Teacher: MNZ GINA-MARIANA.

Subject : English
School : Scoala Gimnaziala Nr. 1,Fundeanu, Galati

LESSON PLAN
Date : April 10th , 2016
Form/Level : 3rd form,3th year of study ,pre-elementary
Textbook : WAY AHEAD 1, MacMillan
Estimated Time : 50 minutes
No. of Students : 18 students
Unit/Lesson : 18, Lesson 1: She can sleep
Lesson Topic : mental and physical abilities
Type of lesson : Acquisition of new knowledge
Vocabulary : related to physical characteristics
Grammar : actions that animals and people can perform
Specific Competences:1.1 Identifying the global significance of a clearly articulated oral message in a

familiar context;
:1.3 Understanding age appropriate oral messages;
:2.2 Participating in everyday conversations about familiar topics;
:2.3 Describing people/characters in a simple way;
:3.2 Understanding the global significance of simple texts about familiar topics;
:3.3 Understanding simple familiar messages from friends,peers,teacher
Objectives/Lesson Aims :
A. Cognitive Objectives : at the end of the lesson,the students will be able to :
1.name five actions they can and five actions they cant perform ;
2.name five actions that wild and domestic animals are able to do ;
3.name five actions their deskmate can do using the prompts and the images from the textbook ;
4.find as many differences as they can,comparing themselves with their deskmate;
5.read the dialogues in pairs for specific information;
6.make up sentences of their own using the information in the textbook/on the worksheet.
B. Affective Objectives :
a. to create a warm atmosphere for study;
b. to give students an active role in the process of teaching/learning;
c. to help students enjoy speaking a foreign language ;
d. to make students confident when speaking English
Skills : listening, speaking, reading, writing

Interaction : T-Ss, S-S, Ss-Ss,PW,GW,IW

Teaching Techniques : brainstorming,codebreaker,conversation, dialogue, description, (miming) games,
exercises,Think-Work in pairs Communicate,choral speaking, table drawing, role play
Methods of Teaching : Communicative Approach , Grammar Translation
Teaching Aids : textbook , blackboard, notebooks, flipchart, dictionary, coloured pieces of chalk, posters,
worksheets with different activities,flashcards,CD-player
Assumptions : I assume that students already know the verb CAN and its negative and interrogative forms;they
can already provide short answers to simple familiar questions;they will be eager to draw parallels between what
animals andthey can do and to describewhat they can do,comparing themselves with their deskmate.
Anticipated problems : Taking into consideration that 3-4 students have a poor level of knowledge and
their motivation is rather low , the teacher expects that a part of her young students
might not participate in the teaching/learning process as expected.
Assessment : formative, oral, homework, systematic observation
Bibliography :
- official : The Curriculum for Secondary Education
- methodical : Harmer, Jeremy: The Practice of English Language Teaching, Longman,UK,1991
: Vizental,Adriana :Metodica predarii limbii engleze,Editura Polirom,2008
-textbook : Printha Ellis;Mary Bowen- WAY AHEAD 1, Pupils Book, MacMillan Romania,2005
- different Internet sites

Stages of lesson
activities

Teachers
activity

Students
activity

Inter-

ills
a

ction
1 Organizational
moment : 5 minutes
* Checking
attendance-1 minute

* Homework check-up
- 4 minutes

2 Warmer : 5 minutes

Sk Teaching
Techniques

Aids

Aims

Ass
ess-ment

-T greets class and -The Ss on duty name the T- Ss

checks attendance :
absentees if necessary :
Are there any absents X is absent today.
today?

speaking

conversation

none

To check
attendance and
to make sure
the conditions
are proper to
start the lesson

T
checks
the
homework orally.
T encourages Ss to
make the necessary
corrections by
themselves.If
necessary,T will write
the difficult part of the
exercises on the
BB,discussing it with
the Ss.
T asks a S to come in
front of the class and
asks the Ss how old
they think he/she is
and what he/she can
do at the age of nine.

reading
speaking
writing

conversation

Notebooks

To check
oral
accomplishevaluation
ment of the
taught items
systematic
observation

Ss read their homework

and correct the mistakes if
necessary

Ss- T
T-Ss
Ss-Ss

homework

-Ss name Xs age and they T- Ss

name as many activities X Ss-T
can perform at the age of S-S
nine :
X is nine years old,she/he
can ride a bike, can swim

speaking

conversation
brainstorming

none

To review and
consolidate Ss
knowledge on
the verb can
and on the
action
verbs

T praises
Ss
oral
evaluation

3 Lead-in : 2 minutes
.

4 Presentation :
10 minutes
Elicitation
-4 min.
Miming game-3 min.

Playing a song -3 min.

5 Practice : 10 minutes
. Playing a game-7 min.

How old is X?
What do you think
he/she can do at nine
years old?
Using a codebreaker,
T elicits the name of
the lesson and then
announces
the
objectives
Using the images in
the textbook,T elicits
the new lexis:
sleep,eat,drink,see,
walk. Then,T asks 3Ss
if they can perform the
actions.
Can you drink a cup
of tea?

in a river,can sing a song,

can draw a tree and can run
very fast.

T plays the first

song:What can you
do?
T asks 4 Ss to choose
one poster among the
posters of animals
(frog,fish,
parrot,monkey) and
one classmate to guess
what animal he/she

dialogue

previously
taught

systematic
observation

Ss listen to the T and try to T-Ss

solve the code

Writing
speaking

codeworkbreaker
sheet
conversa
tion

To make Ss systematic
aware of the observaitems they will tion
learn

3 Ss come one by one in T-Ss

front of the class and they S-Ss
mime the actions :
Yes, I can drink a cup of
tea

listening

drilling

To
introduce oral
the
new evaluation
vocabulary in a
funny
interactive way

Ss mime the actions they

hear .

T-Ss

listening

4 Ss come one by one in

front of the class and have
to guess the animal their
classmate is miming :
Can it run ?
Yes, it can.
Can it jump?

T-Ss
S-S

listening

speaking
writing

speaking

notebooks
textrole play book
blackboard

playing
a song
dialogue
conversa
tion
game
ThinkWork in
pairs-

CD
Textbook
Posters

To review and
consolidate Ss
knowledge
To review and
consolidate Ss
knowledge on
the verb can by
means
of
personalization

oral
evaluation
oral
evaluation

has to mime.
Playing a song-3 min.

6 Production : 8 minutes
Playing a game

T plays the second

song:Yes, I cananimal song
T asks 3 Ss to come in
front of the class and
choose an item from
two bowls. One
contains flashcards
with animal pictures,
the other one contains
a verb.

7 Review and follow-up: T asks Ss to do the

7 minutes
exercise
on
the
Worksheet
worksheet and then
read what they can and
cannot do.
8 Ending the lesson:
T sets homework for
. 3 minutes
the next time, gives 34 marks, praises all
the Ss and dismisses
the class

Yes, it can.
Is it a frog?
Yes, it is.
Ss mime the actions they
hear in the song
Each S has to say if the
animal in the picture can or
cant do the action
mentioned on the second
piece of paper and also if
he/she can/cant do it:
It is an elephant.An
elephant can hear music. I
can hear music too.

Commu
nicate
T-Ss

listening

playing
a song

CD

T-S
S-Ss

speaking
writing
listening

conversa Flashtion
cards

3-4 Ss read what they S-Ss

wrote on their worksheet
T-S

writing
speaking

conversa Worktion
sheet

Ss put down in their T-Ss

notebooks the homework T-S
for the next time

speaking
writing
listening

conversa none
tion

To consolidate
the new lexis in
an interactive
way
To review and
consolidate Ss
knowledge on
the verb can by
means
of
personalization,
drawing
a
parallel
between what
animals
and
they can do
To give Ss
further practice
on the contents
taught

Systematic
observation
Oral
evaluation

To motivate Ss

Oral
assessment

Systematic
observation

Oral
evaluation

Codebreaker :

546

317

58669 .

1= A 2= B 3=C 4= H 5= S 6=E 7=N 8=L 9= P

Choose from the following what YOU CAN DO and what YOU CANNOT DO and write sentences about
yourself:
Model:

I can swim
I cannot ride a horse.

run 1 kilometre , speak French , ski , swim , play tennis , play the
piano , cook , ride a horse , ride a bike