LESSON PLAN

Name: Mihaela Iordache

Date: 17th May 2011
School: Scoala cu cls. I-VIII Scundu
Form: 5th form
Level: Elementary
Time: 50
Title of the lesson: It was a warm evening
Textbook: Snapshot, Longman
Types of interaction: teacher student
student student
Materials: textbook, blackboard, worksheets, laptop, CDs and cassette recorder
Teaching techniques: conversation, brainstorming, observation, competition, guessing
Language focus: Weather words
Skills: speaking, reading, writing, listening
Evaluation: oral
Aims: - to practise vocabulary related to the topic
- to practise verbs in the past simple
- to develop reading skills
- to develop listening skills
Class organization: individual work, pair work, group work

TIME
3

STEP
(SKILL)
Speaking

ACTIVITY

TEACHING
AIDS

Procedure: T greets Ss and asks if there

are any absents. Ss on duty answer.
T asks Ss some questions to make them
feel relaxed. (How are you today? )
she organizes the class in two large
groups.

SUBSIDIARY
AIMS
- to create the
proper
atmosphere for
the class

Speaking
Warm-up
Whole
class

Procedure: T asks the Ss to divide

themselves into two groups telling them
that they have to pick a name for each
team and then divides the blackboard
into two columns writing the name of
each team in their column. Then the T
gives the students a worksheet on which
there are some sentences in English that
contain errors. Each team has 3 minutes
to think about the errors and correct
them. The Ss read aloud the correct
sentences and the team which has the
most answers wins. They receive smiling
faces which they can stick on their
clothes.

- worksheets - to capture the

learner's
interest and
attention
- to practice the
past simple of
regular verbs

Homework
check up
Individual
work

- notebooks

- to practise
reading
fluently a text
in English

Lead in
Speaking
Individual
work

- textbook

- to speak
about the
weather

Writing
Group
work

Procedure: Ss read their homework

which consisted in writing a letter to an
English pen friend telling them about
their holiday. They correct the mistakes
if any.
Procedure: T asks the students how the
weather is and how the weather was the
previous day. Ss answer the questions
using the weather words. The T asks the
students to open their books and to look
at the pictures and asks them to say how
the weather is in those cities.
Procedure: T divides the class into three
groups and gives each group a set of
flashcards with weather and next to them
a set of sentences containing weather

- worksheets - to practice
- textbook
speaking and
the meaning of
new words

sentences. The T tells the students that

they have three minutes to match the
sentences with the pictures. After Ss
finish matching the sentences they have
to go and write on the blackboard the
sentences and next to each one a
representative sign.
Speaking
Procedure: T asks the students to look at
Pair work exercise 2 on page 105. The Ss are told
that they have to act in pair the dialogue
about weather. They take turns in asking
about the weather in different cities.
Speaking
Procedure: T asks the Ss to look at
Listening
exercise 3 on page 105 which consists in
Pair work listening and repeating words containing
specific sounds /ei/ and /e/.
Speaking
Procedure: T asks the students to look at
Pair work ex 4 on the same page. The Ss have to
work in pairs in order to build dialogues
to practice weather words using the
information given in the weather
forecast.
Listening
Procedure; T asks the Ss to read the text
Reading
from ex 5 because they are going to
Individual listen to a conversation between Jason
work
and his father and they have to fill in the
missing words. They are going to listen
to the conversation twice. The T checks
the answers of the students.
Follow-up Procedure: T tells the students that they
are going to listen to a song about
weather and that they have to complete
the text with the missing words from the
song. They are going to listen to the song
twice and then to check if they filled in
correctly. The T asks the Ss to sing the
song if they can.
Homework Procedure: The T tells the Ss that their
homework consits in writing a postcard
to a friend in which they have to speak
about their holiday and the weather.

- textbook

- to speak
using specific
structures

- textbook
-CD

- to practise
new sounds

-textbook

-to practice the

new
vocabulary

-textbook
CD

-listening
comprehension
skills
-reading for
specific
information

- worksheet
-CD

- to practise the
new words in a
context

-notebook

- to practise the
new words in a
context

Worksheet 1

Correct the errors from the following sentences:

Did you talked about me?
I were at the disco last night.
She didnt liked Daniel.
Daniel were out with his friends.
I didnt was at the disco.

Worksheet 2-weather sentences

Its cloudy.
Its rainy.
Its snowy.
Its stormy.
Its warm and sunny.
Its wet and windy.
Its foggy.
Its cold.

Worksheet 3- The weather song (no. 62)

Fill in the missing words of the song:
Nice and ______________
Nice and ______________
The weathers nice today.
Look at the __________, look at the sky
The weathers nice today.
______ and sunny
________ and warm
The weathers nice today.
Look at the __________, look at the sky
The weathers nice today.
Thunder! Lightning!
Look at the sky!
The weathers bad today.
Foggy _________, strormy _______cold
The weathers bad today.
Listen to the thunder!
Look at the lightning!
The weathers bad today.
__________ windy, __________, cold
The weathers bad today.