LESSON PLAN

TEACHER: Policala Raluca Mihaela

SCHOOL: Secondary School "Andrei Muresanu", Ploiesti.
DATE: 31st October 2017
LEVEL: Elementary
GRADE: 5th
NUMBER OF PUPILS: 14
TEXTBOOK: Compendiu clasa a V-a
THEME/TOPIC: Healthy food
Fruit and vegetables review..

SKILLS: reading, writing, speaking, listening.

MATERIALS: textbook, workbook, board, drawings, handout, smart TV.
TIME: 50 minutes
RECENT WORK: Present Simple practice.

GENERAL OBJECTIVES:
To develop and practice the receptive skills: listening, reading and the
productive skills: speaking and writing.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES:
At the end of the lesson students wil be able:
 To brainstorm types of food and drinks
 To practise and produce vocabulary related to food products
 To watch a video about going shopping at the grocery store and
acknowledge the “junk food” meaning
 To listen to a song to reinforce the new topic
 To play a game in order to express likes and dislikes
 To feed-back on the acquired vocabulary by meansans of a song

THINGS TO BE ANTICIPATED:
Students may have problems with understanding and pronunciation of the
new vocabulary. Teacher provides the necessary explanations.

TEACHING TECHNIQUES:
  Brainstorming on food and drinks.
 The use of pictures to teach and provide the understanding of the
healthy food.
 Watching a video in order to introduce the topic.
 Understanding of the vocabulary in the context.
 Bingo game as feed back.

Activity 1 : Time: 5’
Objective: Brainstorming on food and drinks.
Procedure : Ss are asked to ‘ brainstorm’ as many items of food and
beverages as they can think of, by writing them on the blackboard in a
mind map.
Interaction: lockstep, Ss/Ss.
The activity develops: S/ W skills

ACTIVITY 2 Time: 8’
Objective: To identify and practise the food items the pictures.
Procedure:
 Teacher asks students to work in pairs in order to write sentences
which start with “There is/ there are…” according to the food items
they see in the pictures in exercise 2/page 57. Teacher provides
students an example. Ss are given 5 minutes. Teacher checks the
answers on the board.
 T asks Ss to work individually and make up sentences of their own,
with the items in the pictures using the Present simple and frequency
adverbs, such as: sometimes, usually, etc.
Interaction: Lockstep
The activity develops: R/S/ W skills

ACTIVITY 3 Time: 10’

 Objective: To watch a video about shopping for food in order to find
specific information.

Procedure:
 T asks Students: “ Do you go shopping for food?”; “ Where do you
usually buy food from?”; “ Do you know what is JUNK FOOD?” and
tells them that they will see a video about the Carter family in order
to identify information to solve the task. Students work in pairs and
 are watching the video twice. Teacher reads the task before playing
the video.
Interaction: pair work, lockstep.
The activity develops: R /W/ S skills

ACTIVITY 4: Time: 8’
 Objective: To check understanding about the new vocabulary
Procedure:
 T writes two expressions: Junk Food and Healthy Food and
explains their meaning in L1, if necessary, then Ss work in pairs to
complete the missing letters and label the food products in the
pictures as Healthy or Junk food ( ex. 4/ page 57)
 Ss come to the board and write the words. T checks and corrects
the food types with the whole class after they have written them
all.
Interaction: pair work, Ss/ Ss.
The activity develops: R /W/ S skills.

ACTIVITY 5: Time: 10’

Objective: to express likes or dislikes about food by means of a memory
game
Procedure:
 Teacher announces a game based on memory, in which each student
expresses a food preference related to Junk food or healthy food and
then he has to remember what all his colleagues said before, for
instance: “ I like chips…and Andrei likes…”
Interaction: lockstep, S/s.
The activity develops: L/R/ S/W skills.

ACTIVITY 6: Time: 5’
Objective: To listen to a song to check comprehension
Procedure: In order to check whether Ss have understood the acquired
information about food, the teacher asks Ss to watch and listen to the song
in ex 1/ page 58, while solving the task. Students are given 5 minutes.
Teacher does an oral check.
Interaction: Lockstep, pair work.
Mode: Semi-controlled.
The activity develops: L/W/R skills.
ACTIVITY 7: Time 5’
Objective: Feed-back on the topic by means of a Bingo Game
Procedure: T gives Ss sheets with the Bingo game with types of food and
drinks words, and explains the rules of the game.
Interaction: Lockstep, pair work.
Mode: Semi-controlled.
The activity develops: L/W skills

HOMEWORK: Exercise 5, page 57.