Lesson Plan

Date:25.01.2013 Form: IXC,,B Sources: English for life(Pupils Book,8 form)by G. Burdeniuc , E.Onofreiciuc, etc Unit: Time available :45 min() Teacher : Popa Tatiana Topic: Great Explorers Communicative Domain -Communicative competence: Receiving oral messages(1.1.;) Producing oral messages and interaction(2.1.;3.2.;3.3.) Receiving written messages(3.1.;3.2.3.4.;3.5.) Producing written messages and interaction(4.1.) Cultural Domain -Social/multi-cultural competence: Knowledge of customs, traditions, historical and cultural personalities(5.1.) Personal aim: Creating a comfortable atmosphere where pupils are not afraid to speak and enjoy communicating Talking less myself and involve the students more.
Lyceum Gh.Asachi,Chisinau 2013

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Learning and assessment activities

Teachers and Pupils activity

Resources; Methods; Time

Evaluation

I.Motivation
1.1.Oral exposure of personal opinions - developing speaking skills

Evocation stage Organization moment

The teacher greets the pupils, talks with them and gets them ready for the class. Check the pupils previous knowledge.(Ex.1 and 2,p.52)

Greeting

1.Discussion Point
The students discuss the questions about excursions, tours, or cruises(ex.1 ,p.53) 1. Do you think to travel implies having adventures? What is an adventure?
2.What kind of adventures have you or your friends had? 3.Do you like reading adventure books? What is your favorite one? Why? 4.Have you ever gone on any excursions with your schoolmates? Say a few words about it. 5.Which place you have visited made the deepest impression on you? Why?

Asking-answering
Or E-oral expression

2.1.Identifying the overall meaning of a showed message -developing reading skills

2.Reading II.Presentation
Achievement sense stage The students read the text , translate this text (page 53,ex.2)

Discussing the title Predicting

-practice of new vocabulary/developing communicative skills -exercises

3.Speaking
Students must match the words with their meaning and make up situations using them. 1.voyage-a)a long trip made by ship; 2.explore-d)to travel for the purpose of discovery. etc.(ex. 3)

OrE

III.Practice
Reflexion Stage -developing writing skills 3.1.Identifying information/details about some scientific personalities of the English world. 3.2.Selection of distinctive aspects presented in authentic texts.

Scanning information

4.Writing
Put the words in the right order to make sentences which together make a story about the great explorer James Cook. 1)James Cook was a British navigator and one of the worlds greatest explorer. etc.(ex.4) Argumentation

Wr E-written comprehension

5.Listening
Students listen to the text and fill each gap with missing words(discoverer,islands,earth,1493,Asia,a sailor, expeditions etc.)They make a chronological list of Columbuss discoveries.

WrE-written comprehension/ expression

3.3.Identifying information/details from functional texts.

6.Speaking
The students look through the text, and put down dates and proper names and discuss the discovery of the New World without looking into the text. Using information given in Ex.4. The students write new words in workbooks. Voyage-a journey by sea; To discover-to find out; To occur-to happen; Eventually-at last; To set out-to start going; Extremity-edge of sth etc. Speaking
OrE

-new vocabulary

Writting

WrE

3.4. Selection of distinctive information presented in authentic texts.

7.Pair work

Students read the Info Box and in pairs one Multi-choice questions of them chooses the right answer and the other checks the answers.

3.5. Identifying the global sense of a text.

8.Speaking
Students must read the text and single out the proved facts and the hypotheses.

Oral expression.

4.1. Maintaining a conversation on a topic. Writing functional text(a dialogue, a story)

IV. Homework tasks

The teacher give the homework tasks and explain it. -to write exercises 1 and 2 on p.55 .

Oral and writing expression.