LESSON PLAN

School:
Teacher:
Grade: 3rd- Starter
Date:
Time: 50 minutes
Number of classes/week: 2
Textbook: Way Ahead
Lesson: I can run
Type of lesson: Combined- Grammar and vocabulary
Objectives: By the end of the lesson students will be able to:
- use the computer in order to play games(click, drag)
- revise domestic and wild animals
- locate objects using the prepositions of place
- mime action words(verbs)
- answer questions using CAN/CAN NOT.
Skills: speaking, listening, writing, reading
Methods: conversation, explanation, exercises, playing games on the computer
Materials: textbook, notebooks, whiteboard, handouts, computer, animal cards

Nb. Lesson Time Teacher’s activity Pupils’ activities Skills Materials Organi- Obs
stage zation
1. Warm-up 2’ Greets the pupils, asks who is Greet the teacher, Speaking T- Ss
absent, has an informal answer who is absent,
conversation, then says the have an informal
prayer. conversation, then say
 the prayer.

2. Homework 2’ Asks if they had any Answer that they had Speaking Notebooks T-Ss
check-up homework. to draw their
Checks their homework. favourite animal.
3. Revision 11’ Asks different pupils what Answer the questions. Listening T- Ss
their favourite animal is. Speaking Class

Introduces Kitty, a toy cat, and Greet Kitty, then Toys

locates Kitty in, on, under a answer using the
hat. Asks questions about prepositions of place.
Kitty’s location. Then asks Play the game.
them to play a game with their
hand and head to revise the
prepositions of place.

Draws 2 trees on the Look at the flipchart, Animal

flipchart(one for domestic answer the questions, cards
animals and one for wild then go and write
animals) then takes out the animals in the animal Flipchart
animal cards and starts asking trees.
questions(What animal is it?/
What colour?/Is it domestic or
wild?) then invites pupils on
turn to the flipchart and place
the animals in the correct tree.

Invites pupils to sing Old Sing Old McDonald

McDonald has a farm. has a farm.

Asks pupils to come to the Come to the

 computer, on turn, and play a computer, on turn,
game(match pictures with and match.
words) Computer
4. Lead-in 5’ Uses the animal cards Listen to the teacher Speaking Animal T- Ss
again(frog, fish) in order to say and answer the Listening cards Class
what each animal can do.(The questions. Writing
frog can hop. Can you hop?)

Announces that action words Listen to the teacher.

and can are the theme of the
lesson.

Asks the number of the lesson, Tell the number of the Flipchart
then writes the title and the lesson and write it in Notebooks
date on the blackboard. the notebooks.
5. Teaching 15’ Starts introducing the action Listen to the teacher. Speaking T- Ss
grammar words(read, write, jump, sing, Listening Toys Class
swim, fly, ride the bike, paint) Writing
a)Presenta-
by miming them or using Reading
tion toys(a toy bike)
Answer the questions
Asks questions about each of using Yes, I can/No, I
them(Can you sing/swim?, etc) can not.
Mime the verbs and
Asks some of them to mime the others guess.
the verbs and the others to
guess.
Write the sentences
Writes on the flipchart and questions in the Flipchart
sentences and one question notebooks then read
with affirmative and negative them.
 short answers using can and Notebooks
the action words.
c)Practice 10’ Invites pupils to the computer, Come to the Speaking Computer Pair/
on turn, to play 2 games from computer, on turn, Writing group
the Way Ahead CD (click and and solve the Reading work
drag, then choose the correct exercises.
short answer). Correct if necessary.
Asks the class to correct if
necessary.
Rewards each correct answer
with a candy.
6. Evaluation 2’ Praises the active pupils, Listen to the teacher. Speaking T- Ss
giving marks and encourages
the others too.
7. Issuing 2’ Write 5 sentences about what Write the homework Speaking Notebooks T- Ss
homework you can or can not do. in the notebooks. Writing

8. Dismissing 1’ Greets the pupils. Greet the teacher. Speaking T- Ss

the class

Bibliography:
-Way Ahead – the textbook
-Planificările calendaristice anuale
-Planificările calendaristice pe unităţi
-Way Ahead-educational software
-Strategies of teaching and testing by Adriana Vizental
-The Internet