Teacher: Pinti Codruta

Subject: English
School: Liceul Teoretic Ana Ipatescu, Gherla

Lesson Plan
Date: November 17, 2009
Grade/Level: VII D/ Intermediate
Textbook: High Flyer, Longman
Estimated Time: 50 minutes
No. of students: 26
Unit/ Lesson: Personal Universe / Animal helpers
Topic: Passive voice
Type of lesson: Acquiring new knowledge
Objectives/ Lesson Aims:
At the end of the lesson, the students will be able to:
A. Cognitive Objectives:
a) talk about two past events using the passive voice;
b) rewrite sentences from the active voice in the passive voice;
B. Affective Objectives:
a) to create a warm atmosphere in the classroom;
b) to give pupils an active role in the process of teaching/learning;
c) to help pupils enjoy learning English;
Assumptions: I assume pupils will enjoy talking about testing products on animals.
Anticipated problems: Some of the students may encounter vocabulary and
pronunciation problems. Also, the Ss may not remember exactly the ways of using the active
and the passive voice in their mother-tongue.
Procedures: TBL (TASK-BASED LEARNING), conversation, asking to questions
based on a text;
Skills involved: reading, writing, speaking;
Resources: frontal activity, individual work, pair-work;
Teaching materials: textbook, blackboard, dictionary;
Assessment: formative, oral;
 Stages Time Ts and Ss activity Interaction Teaching Skills Teaching
techniques materials
Warm-up 3 T greets the Ss, checks T - Ss Conversation Speaking
min attendance and makes sure the Ss T
conditions are proper for the
lesson to begin.

Introducing 3 Ss are asked if they know what T - Ss Brainstorming Speaking

the new min testing products on animals Ss T
lesson supposes.
T writes the title of the lesson
on the blackboard.

Activity 1 9 Ss are asked to read the text on T - Ss Frontal Reading Textbook

min page 22. Ss T activity Blackboard
T explains them the unknown
vocabulary.
4 Reading
Activity 2 min Ss are asked to solve ex 2 on T - Ss Individual Textbook
page 22. Ss T work
Speaking
Activity 3 6 Ss are asked to solve ex 3 on T-Ss Individual- Reading Textbook
min page 18. Ss-T work

Speaking
Activity 4 8 T explains the Ss the new T - Ss Listening Textbook
min grammatical items: passive Ss T Conversation Blackboard
voice.
Ss write in their notebooks the
explenations.

Activity 5 10 Ss are asked to solve exercise 4 T - Ss Frontal Speaking Blackboard

min on page 23. Ss T activity Textbook
TBL

Feed-back 4 Ss are asked questions about T - Ss Conversation Speaking Textbook

min todays lesson. Ss T Blackboard

Assessment 2 T asseses the Ss activity duaring T - Ss Conversation Speaking

min the lesson. Ss T

Homework 2 Ss receive their homework (ex T - Ss Conversation Speaking Textbook

min 3, 4 pag 19). Ss T
 Blackboard scheme

Animal Helpers
Passive voice

Active Passive
S O S
She watches a movie. The movie is watched.
Present Simple be (Present Simple) + Past Participle

S O S
I washed the car. The car was washed.
Past Simple be (Past Simple) + Past Participle

S O
People are watching hundreds
of movies.
Present Continuous
S Subject Complement
(Complement de agent)
Hundreds of movies are being watched by people.
be (Present Continuous) + Past Participle +by