Lesson Plan

Teacher: Marin Florina-Elena

School: School Serbanesti
Class: 5th
Date: March 14th 2016
Coursebook: Snapshot Starter by Brian Abbs,
Chris Barker, Ingrid Freebairn
Visual aids: video, blackboard
Types of activities: whole class, group work
Types of interaction: Teacher-Student, StudentStudent
Grammar Topic: Modal verb CAN for
expressing ability
Warm-up activity: Speaking about leisure
activities
Vocabulary in Use: sports, scuba-dive, diving,
tennis, volleyball, rollerblading, skating,
rollerskating, athletics, water-skiing, gymnastics,
baseball
Time: 50 minutes
Skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing
Strategies: exercise, game, conversation
Topic: Can you scuba-dive?

Aim: To learn and recognize various type of

sports
Subsidiary Aims:
copy the teachers notes on the
blackboard
read a text based on the topic
answer some questions based on the
topic
use certain words in sentences
solve different exercises on the topic
Level: beginners
Previous Lesson: Speaking about daily activities
Learning Activities:
answer simple questions based on the
topic
ask questions based on the topic
read a text based on the topic
using the new vocabulary in context
Communicative Functions: speaking about
sports
Evaluation: conversation, exercise
Type of Lesson: vocabulary

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e

Skills

5
min

Speakin
g
Reading

5
min
Speakin
g

15
min
Reading
Writing

Activities
Warm-up
The teacher asks the students if there are any absentees
and notes them. Then, the teacher asks about the
homework and checks it together with the students.
Afterwards, the teacher asks the students about their
leisure activities.
Link between warm-up and presentation
Name of the activity: What do you usually do in your
spare time?
The teacher asks the students about their leisure
activities trying to guide them towards sports. Then, the
students are asked what other sports they know and the
teacher asks the students to mention some of the rules
equipments implied in each activity.
e.g. T: What do you usually do in your spare time?
S: I usually ride a bike/ read a book/ go at a restaurant/
play football etc.
T: You mentioned playing football. Can you tell me the
rules for this sport? How many players are on the pitch?
S: Yes. There are two teams of eleven players. They try
to score as many goals as possible. The team which
scores more goals wins.
T: What other sports do you know?
S: Tennis, volleyball, basketball etc
Presentation
The teacher asks the students to open their books at page
70 and to pay attention while she does the model reading
of the text. Afterwards, the teacher names some students
to read the text. Then, she asks whether there are in the
text unknown words. The words are explained and noted
on the blackboard with their Romanian equivalents.
Practice 1
The teacher checks the understanding of the text solving
exercise 2, page 71.

5
min
Reading
Speakin
g
6
min
Reading
Writing

6
min
Speakin
g

Presentation 2
The teacher asks the students to read the vocabulary
related to sports and activities at page 72. The teacher
writes on the blackboard the sports whose names are
different from Romanian.
Diving, rollerblading, skating, rollerskating, waterskiing, sailing, horse riding, windsurfing, climbing.
Practice 2
Then, she plays them a presentation with images related
to sports. The have to identify the sports and relate them
to what they have read.
e.g. T: What sport/ activity is presented in this picture?
S: Its diving/tennis/volleyball etc.
Evaluation
The teacher draws on the blackboard a table with three

What the student does

Students answer and

correct their homework

Students listen and

answer the questions
using the vocabulary
previously learned

Students listen and then

read the text.
Students take notes.

Students
read
the
questions and answer
them.

Students take notes.

Students answer the

teachers questions.

Students draw the table