LESSON PLAN

Name: Radu Anca Madalina

Date: 04.03.2010
Class: XI I
No. of students: 25
School: Costache Negri National College
Time of lesson: 50
Lesson: Changing the identity of a text (Constructing and Deconstructing a Text)
Lesson aims:

1.to develop flexibility when learning and working in teams;

2. to increase students self-confidence and creativity;
3. to create specific competence in transferring the written
message in various communicative situations;
4. to change identities of short texts for a better understanding
of the message;
5. to develop independent and student-centered tasks.
MATERIAL AIDS: Alan Maley, Short and sweet- Short texts and how to use
them,
Penguin Books, 1994, off-the wall display, handouts.
ACTIVITY 1
AIMS: - to stir the ss imagination and curiosity;
- to get ss involved into the topic.
PROCEDURE
INTERACTION
TIMING
FOUND-IN-A-NAME
- Ss are asked to use each letter of their name
to begin a word in an English sentence.
They may use their English names for this
activity. Ss will give one example for each
group.
eg. CHRIS: Chris hurried roaring inside,
stumbling.
TARGET
- Ss are encouraged to make up sentences in
which the first letter of each word
progresses alphabetically.
eg. Anna burns chops daily.

Group work

5
Group work

ACTIVITY 2- Fate has something to say

AIMS: - to initiate each team in getting acquainted to short texts;
- to develop reading skills.
PROCEDURE
INTERACTION
Te teacher asks the ss. to form four groups
and choose one number. Accordingly, each
group will be delivered a text. Each text
will be read aloud.

Group work

TIMING

ACTIVITY 3 The journey starts

AIMS: - to expand texts by adding various parts of speech;
- to develop writing skills.
PROCEDURE
INTERACTION
Expansion: the teacher asks the ss. to expand the
given texts by adding adjectives or short sentences
according to their own feelings towards the main
idea of the text. Each group will enrich the text
with their own feelings and life experience.
a. Add as many adjectives as you can: e.g.
some important guests.
b. Add as many adverbs as you can at
appropriate points in the text: innocently,
solemnly, greedily, carefully, nonchalantly,
obediently.
c. Insert sentences at appropriate points in the
text, which comment or give more
information on what is happening.

Group work

TIMING

ACTIVITY 4- Cut it out!

AIMS: - to reduce the initial texts to its main core;
PROCEDURE
Reduction: the teacher asks the ss. to
shorten the initial texts by cutting out
repetition, without losing its essential
meaning. The students will read the text
aloud.

INTERACTION

TIMING

Group work

ACTIVITY 5 What is hidden in a text?

AIMS: - to match the meaning of the fables with a proverb;
- to match titles with the fables
- to understand the meaning of the fables.
PROCEDURE
INTERACTION
Matching: The teacher gives the ss. a list of
proverbs and asks them to choose the one
that best matches the meaning of the fables.
The teacher gives the ss. some titles and
asks them to choose the best one for the
fables, then put the others in order from
most suitable to least suitable. They may
also find another title if they do not agree
with the given ones.

TIMING

Group work

Team work

ACTIVITY 6 Recreating the wheel

AIMS: - to re-write the texts in the shape of a poem;
- to develop creativity.
PROCEDURE
Creating text: the teacher asks the ss. to
write out the texts as a poem, using only the
most important words of the text to make
the most effect. The teacher gives the ss.
two ideas, reminding them of a haiku and a
tanka. The poems will be given a title
and read aloud.

INTERACTION

TIMING

Group work
10

ACTIVITY 7 Interpreting
AIMS: - to encourage creativity;
- to create an ending for the fables;
- to enrich the text with personal feelings.
PROCEDURE
Interpretation: the teacher asks the students to
think of what might have happened as a
continuation to the stories.

INTERACTION

TIMING

Group work

10

Home assignment: Imagine you are a journalist sent to interview Nasruddin, his
wife or his father and write a newspaper article.

One day Nasruddin was expecting some guests for supper, so he bought some
goats meat for his wife to cook. When the guests have arrived, his wife served lots
of vegetable dishes but no meat she had already eaten it herself.
Wheres the meat inquired Nasruddin.
The cat ate it all three ponds of it, replied his wife.
Nasruddin called for some scales, then weighed the cat. It weighed exactly three
pounds.
There seems to be slight problem, said Nasruddin. If this is the cat, then where
is the meat? And if this is the meat, than what has happened to the cat?

One day Nasruddins father told him, You should always get up very early in the
morning.
Why is that, Father? asked Nasruddin.
Well, for example, once when I went for a walk in the morning I found a bag of
money lying in the road.
But perhaps it was lost the previous night? suggested Nasruddin.
No, no, said father, I did not see it there the night before.
Well in that case getting up early cant be good for everyone, said Nasruddin.
The man who lost the money must have been up even earlier than you were.
A haiku is a Japanese verse-form based on syllables. It usually has three lines of 5,
7 and 5 syllables. The object of a haiku is to capture the special quality of
particular experiences in a very concrete way.
feet in the river,
eating cool plums on the stonesnow the long climb back.
There is another Japanese verse-form, called a tanka. This follows the haiku form
for the first three lines (5-7-5 syllables). It then adds two lines, each of 7 syllables.
feet in the river,
eating cool plums on the stonesnow the long climb back
how far it seems from down here!
did we really come so far?

One day Nasruddin was expecting some guests for supper, so he

bought some goats meat for his wife to cook. When the guests
have arrived, his wife served lots of vegetable dishes but no
meat she had already eaten it herself.
Wheres the meat inquired Nasruddin.
The cat ate it all three ponds of it, replied his wife.
Nasruddin called for some scales, then weighed the cat. It
weighed exactly three pounds.
There seems to be slight problem, said Nasruddin. If this is
the cat, then where
is the meat? And if this is the meat, than what has happened to
the cat?

One day Nasruddins father told him, You should always get
up very early in the morning.
Why is that, Father? asked Nasruddin.
Well, for example, once when I went for a walk in the morning
I found a bag of money lying in the road.
But perhaps it was lost the previous night? suggested
Nasruddin.
No, no, said father, I did not see it there the night before.
Well in that case getting up early cant be good for everyone,
said Nasruddin. The man who lost the money must have been
up even earlier than you were.