LESSON PLAN

SCHOOL: Pstrveni
DATE: 02.05.2006
TEACHER of ENGLISH: Pera Elena
CLASS: 3rd
LEVEL: primary beginners
COURSE: Way ahead
NUMBER OF SS: 14
TIME OF LESSON: 50 minutes
TYPE OF LESSON: teaching- learning
UNIT OF LEARNING: Guess where?
TOPIC: This is our school
FOCUS: integrated skills
METHODS: conversation, game, reading approach, explanation
MATERIALS: pupils books, CD, cassette recorder, teachers book,
maps, speech bubbles, a box with: pupils pictures, a letter, a bag of sweets,
AIMS: - to describe a town/school/class
- to read corectly a text after model
- to make suggestions (lets)
- to recycle vocabulary related to numbers, colours, parts of the
body, school objects, animals
- to write a letter after the given model
- to participate with pleasure at the lesson

LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS:
- describing things
- making suggestions
- answering questions

ASSUMED KNOWLEDGE:
Ss have already learnt simple grammatical structures (to be, to have,
noun, article, prepositions of place, adjective, pronoun) and lexical structures
( school objects, family members, parts of the body, numbers 1-20, toys, rooms
and furniture, colours,)
Ss are familiar with oral commands, and classroom language

ANTICIPATED PROBLEMS:

If Ss do not understand the oral commands or the tasks, they will be

translated into Romanian

STAGES:
ACTIVITY 1: WARM-UP
Aims: - to warm Ss up
- to recycle vocabulary
Timing: 5 min.
Interaction: T-Ss, S-T
Procedure:
T divides the class into two teams and propose them an alphabet game. T say
a letter name of the alphabet and write it on the board.
Ss have to give words with that letter. Each correct word receives a point. The
first team to reach 5 points is the winner.
T congratulates the winner team.
T asks Ss to sing an alphabet song I have a dog
Ss sing the song
ACTIVITY 2: LEAD- IN
Aims: - to get Ss into the new topic
Timing: 5 min.
Interaction: T-Ss, S-Ss
Procedure:
T writes the title of the lesson on the board and Ss write it in their copybooks
T shows the class a box , takes items out of the box and names them
T asks Ss to look in their books and to listen the tape
Ss listen the tape
T asks for one or two volunteers to act out the scene again and encourages
the children to join with We do!
ACTIVITY 3: PRESENTATION OF THE NEW KNOWLEDGE
Aims: - to recognise and use new words
- to give Ss practice in listening/comprehension
- to encourage Ss to read in English
Timing: 15 min.
Interaction: T-Ss, S-T, S-Ss
Procedure:
T asks Ss to guess the meaning of some new words showing that things that
those words refer to.
Ss write the new words in their copy-books
T reads the letter to the class
Ss listen their teacher and then listen the tape

T gives Ss some worksheets and they have to tick the correct answer
T explains to Ss the meaning of Lets = Let us, write it on the board and
shows a speech bubble with Lets read
Ss read the letter aloud, and then Ss will read by roles; a different child
reading each paragraph (almost all the students will read)
ACTIVITY 4: FEED- BACK
Aims: - to make suggestion
- to practice in speaking English
- to write a letter
Timing: 20 min.
Interaction: T- Ss, Ss- T, S-T
Procedure:T shows Ss speech bubbles. T invites a child in front of the class to
take a bubble and read it to the class
Ss do what the bubble says; for example:
- Lets count- T shows a map
and asks Ss to count the things on the map
-Lets sing - T asks Ss to sing
You put your left hand in
-Lets write- T gives Ss a
worksheet and they have to write a simple letter about their school, class and
teacher.
Ss complete their worksheets
-Lets play T divides Ss into
two teams, gives them a name (stars and butterflies);
Ss have to come to a map and to do what is written there.
T encourages all the students and notes a point for each correct answer
T congratulates the winner team and gives a certificate to each member
and each member of the other team gets a funny bunny.
ACTIVITY 5: EVALUATION
Aims: - to evaluate Ss work
- to assign Ss homework
Timing: 5 min.
Interaction: T-Ss, Ss- T
Procedure:
T grades some Ss and accounts for them. Ss are assigned to make a miniproject by sticking small photographs of their school, class and teacher as
homework.
T shows Ss a map an asks them to choose an adjective on that map which
can describe the lesson.

Hello!
We are children at Sun Street School of Norton. It is a small
town.
Our school is small. Our class is small, too: six girls and seven
boys. This is a picture of our class.
This is our teacher.
Her name is Miss Bun. She is nice.
Please write a letter!

Paul

Ann

Rose
Nick

Ella

Billy
John

Fay

Jack
Mary

Dave

Jim
Jill