Director, professor: Hu Gabriela-Emilia

Chief desk, professor: ru Ana

Lesson plan

School: School I-VIII Olcea, the structure Clacea Class: 5th A Level: beginners Number of learners: 20 Teacher: Andreea-Mariana Lucua Time: 50 Lesson title: The Comparative and the Superlative of short adjectives Type of lesson: grammar lesson& revision lesson;
Lesson (main) aims: - to revise grammar notions, such as the adjective; - to correlate the adjective from English with the adjective from Romanian; - to be able to identify adjectives in Positive, Comparative and Superlative degree; Subsidiary aims: - to practice the work in pairs; - to use ones intuition; Skills: speaking, reading, writing, listening Anticipated language problems: Pupils/students could become a bit noisy when working in pairs/groups; some of them (the dominant ones) may try to answer too often and exclude the others. In some cases, pupils may not understand the task given by the teacher; Possible solutions: the teacher may ask pupils simultaneously to speak; He/She may repeat the task in order to be clear for everybody; Teaching aids: the manual, a handout, pupils notebooks, the blackboard, a tape recorder, a tape; Modes of interaction: teacher-student, student-student, pair-work;

Activity 1 Aim: To familiarize the pupils with the new lesson; Procedure: First of all pupils are doing some pronunciation exercises (1, 2, 3 &4 page 26) in order to make the difference between [e] and []; Interaction: lockstep Teachers role: controller Skills: reading, listening, speaking, writing. Materials: manual, pencils; Class management: whole class activity; Timing: 15 minutes Activity 2 Aim: To remember the adjective and correlate it with the Romanian language; Procedure: The teacher puts down on the blackboard an example containing an adjective, then she asks her pupils to translate that sentence into Romanian and to analyse it; after that, the teacher asks her pupils to give her some examples containing adjectives in English; Interaction: T-Ss, individual work; Teachers role: controller; Skills: speaking, listening, writing, reading; Materials: manual, pencils, notebooks, blackboard; Class management: whole class activity; Timing: 10 minutes Activity 3 Aims: To make the difference between the Positive, the Comparative and the Superlative degree; Procedure: In the following moment the teacher draws a schema on the black board and she explains to her pupils the difference between the Positive, the Comparative and the Superlative degree; Interaction: T-Ss; Teachers role: involver; Skills: writing, speaking, listening, reading; Materials: manual, pencils, notebooks, blackboard; Class management: whole class activity; Timing: 10 minutes

Activity 4 Aim: To be able to practice the newly acquired notions; Procedure: Pupils are invited to work in pairs and to complete exercise 2 page 27; Interaction: pair work; Teachers role: involver; Skills: reading, listening, speaking; Materials: manual, pencils, notebooks, blackboard; Class management: whole class activity; Timing: 7 minutes Activity 5 Aims: To produce new sentences starting from the grammatical notions above mentioned; Procedure: The teacher asks her pupils to complete exercise 3 page 27 in written; Interaction: lockstep Teachers role: involver; Skills: listening, reading, writing, speaking; Materials: manual, pencils, notebooks, blackboard; Class management: whole class activity; Timing: 8 minutes

!!! N.B. The best answers are being noted; As homework, pupils have to learn the newly acquired notions;