LESSON PLAN

Date: ..
Teacher:
Grade: VIII
Level: Intermediate
Textbook: Snapshot Intermediate, Longman
Lesson/Topic: Fancy seeing you again!
Time: 50 minutes
No. of students: 27
Skills: listening, reading, writing
Language focus: Future with will/wont, may /might, going to or present continuous;
Interaction: T > Ss, Ss > T, S > T, T > S.
Lesson aims:

To look for specific information in a text;

To revise and practise future with will/wont, may /might, going to or present continuous;
To encourage free conversation and develop fluency;
To enrich students vocabulary.

Aids/Materials: Textbook, blackboard, chalk, notebook, tape recorder, cassette.

Methods/Techniques: Explanation, conversation, gap filling, role play.
Class organisation: pair work, individual work.
Anticipated problems: Students may not be familiar with some words from the text.

No.

Activities

1.

Administrative
moment

2.

Warm up

Procedures
Teacher greets the pupils and then asks the
students on duty to tell the absentees and
writes them in the catalogue.
Then the teacher checks the homework and
corrects the possible mistakes.
Then the teacher asks the students what are
their plans for the Christmas holiday.(The
purpose of this question/discussion is to use

Interaction

Aids

Timing

T > Ss
Ss > T
S>T

Blackboard
Chalk
Notebook

T > Ss
T>S
S>T

Blackboard
Chalk
Notebook

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

8.

9.

Listening

future forms.)
The T writes on the blackboard some of the
sentences told by the Ss and asks them to
identify the form/word that expresses the
future.
The teacher tells the students the subject and
the aims of the lesson and then writes the
title and the date on the blackboard.
The T plays a cassette containing a dialogue.
The Ss listen the conversation from the tape.

After listening the dialogue from the tape

the T names three Ss to read it by roles.
Reading/
Working in pairs, the Ss have to look for
Checking
specific information in the dialogue in order
comprehension
to answer the questions from ex 2. The
answers are checked together with the T.
Oral practice

Grammar
presentation

Practice

Feedback

Homework

Ss are asked to listen and repeat several

phrases from the dialogue. Ss are asked to
build sentences with these phrases.
The teacher asks the Ss to skim the dialogue
and find future forms. If necessary, the T
helps the Ss to find all the forms.
The teacher explains to the Ss the use of
several forms expressing future and offers
examples.
Ss are asked to solve, individually, ex 5.
They have to write a response to a question
by using the correct form of will,
may/might, going to or the present
continuous and one of the given verbs. Their
answers are checked in the classroom
together with the teacher.
The teacher asks each student to write a
sentence by using a future form. Each
student will read his sentence and the rest of
the class must guess whether the sentence
expresses a plan/arrangement, promise,
decision or prediction (certain/uncertain).
Ss are asked to write five sentences by using
the future forms, either positive or negative,
encountered in the lesson.

Reflections on the lesson (to be filled after the lesson):

1. My feelings, immediately after the lesson, are / were:

Tape
recorder

T > Ss
Role play
S>S
Pairwork
S>T

Textbook
Notebook

12

T > Ss
Ss > T
S>T

Textbook

Blackboard
Chalk
Textbook
Notebook

11

Textbook
Notebook

T > Ss
S>T
S > Ss

Notebook

T > Ss

Blackboard
Chalk
Notebook

T > Ss
S>T

Individual
work
T > Ss
S>T

2. The things I liked about the lesson were:

3. The things I was not happy with were:

4. Make suggestions about how you would change the lesson plan to be used in the future to improve the
lesson: