LESSON PLAN

SCHOOL :Theodor Costescu School, Dr. Tr. Severin

GRADE : the 7th
LESSON : Superstitions 1st conditional
DATE : the 10th of March 2015
TEACHER : Mladin Silvia Monica
OBJECTIVES :
-to talk about superstitions
- to revise and practice the 1st conditional with the help of the context of superstitions
-to promote discussions
-to listen and read a text for specific information
-to answer the questions
-to complete sentences with the missing words

METHODS : -speaking , reading, writing

MATERIALS : - pictures , worksheets

ACTIVITY 1 :
Organising the class : -greeting the class
-introducing myself
-checking the homework
Aim - to promote discussions.
Interaction the whole class
Strategy : discussion
Time : 5 minutes

ACTIVITY 2 :

Teacher writes the title of the lesson on the blackboard Superstitions and explains that they will talk about
those common beliefs, things people are used to believe in without really know why. These are called
superstitions. Teacher shows a picture of a black cat and asks students what belief(s) they know about it. She
will write on the blackboard a sentence containing a superstition using the 1 st conditional, eg. If a black cat
crosses the road in front of you, you will have bad luck. Then she shows a picture of a mirror, a ladder, a
shooting star, a hand, salt or pepper and elicits the sentences from the students.
Teacher writes the rules for the 1st conditional and then gives the students to solve an exercise with 1 st
conditional .
Aims - to revise and practice the 1st conditional with the help of the context of superstitions
- to answer the questions
Interaction individual work
Strategy discussing, answering
Time : 15 minutes

ACTIVITY 3 :

Teacher announces that another kind of activity is going to be performed next and she hands out worksheets
containing some tasks related to the famous poem If by Rudyard Kipling. She tells students that theyll
read the poem first and then will have to solve the tasks one by one. As a pre-reading activity the teacher
offers some short preview on the author and the poem, asking if they have heard about Rudyard Kipling
before and if they know the title of the most famous work of his (the novel The jungle book). The poem
If is full of meanings and sense, the author is talking about keeping the moral values throughout the life,
about principles and virtues. Students will read and translate the poem . 15 minutes

As another text comprehension activity, teacher will hand out other pieces of papers with the whole poem
and with some explanations of words and phrases from the text and she will engage students in discussions
based on the words and the text. She will ask students why is the poem entitled If and together they will
come to the conclusion that the entire poem is a condition, the fathers advice to his son about how to handle
things in life, how to face challenges, overcome obstacles and remain positive, optimistic, virtuous, and when
all these conditions will be fulfilled the person can call himself a real Man. 10 minutes

Aims - to listen to the text for specific information

-to find specific words in the text
- to promote discussions
- to complete sentences with the missing words

Interaction : - individual work, whole class work

Strategy : discussing, skimming, answering
Time : 25 minutes

ACTIVITY 5 :
Home assessment
Project - Students are asked to design a project about superstitions (most or less known).
Teacher praises all the students for their contribution.
Aim - to understand the task
Strategy : explaining
Time : 2 minutes
If
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too:
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream---and not make dreams your master;

If you can think---and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same:.
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build'em up with worn-out tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings

And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings,
And never breathe a word about your loss:
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

Or walk with Kings---nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much:
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And---which is more---you'll be a Man, my son!

Rudyard Kipling
Do you believe in superstitions?

Thousands of people believe in superstitions although a lot off people think of them as nonsense and not
based on reason. Where does the word superstition come from? The word superstition comes from two
Latin words: Super and Stare. Super means above and stare means to stand.

There are two types of superstition. Good luck superstitions and bad luck superstitions.

Some common superstitions around the world:

Good luck superstitions

- If your right hand itches, you will earn money.

- If you find a four-leaf clover, you will have good luck.

- If you see a horseshoe which was lost, you will have good luck.

- If you dream about a white cat, you will have good luck.

- If you see a black cat which walks towards you, it brings you good luck.

- If your right ear itches, someone is speaking well of you.

- If you put a mirror just across the door, you will have good luck.

- If you step on your shadow, it brings you good luck.

- If the first butterfly you see in the year is white, it brings you good luck all year.

Bad luck superstitions

- If you open an umbrella indoors, it brings you bad luck.

- When a cat sneezes three times indoors, it will rain in 24 hours.

- If you dream about a dog, you will have a lot of enemies.

- If you break a mirror, it will bring you seven years of bad luck.

- If you walk under a ladder, you will have bad luck.

- If a dog howls at night, death is near.

- If you see a bird that comes towards you, you will have bad luck.

- If you eat from the pot, it will rain at your wedding ceremony.

- If your left hand itches, you will lose money.

Exercise.

- If you . on a table, you .. bad luck. (sleep / have)

- If you .the sugar into the cup first, before the tea, you good luck. (put / have)

- A nightwalker ..your soul if you with your feet towards the door. (steal / sleep)

- If an owl in your garden, it . you bad luck. (hoot / bring)

- You ..whatever you want if you all the candles on your birthday cake in one blow.
(get/ blow out)

- If you rice on a new bride and groom, they ..many children. (throw / have)

- A girl her future husband in her dream if she .salty water then goes to sleep.(see / drink)

- If you . at night, a nightwalker .. to your home. (whistle / come)

- If you.a falling leaf on the first day of autumn, you..good luck all winter.(catch/have)