LESSON PLAN

School: Școala Gimnazială” Ştefan Bârsănescu” Iaşi

Date: 10.04.2019
Subject: English
Teacher: Ursu Carmen - Mirela
Grade: 8th B
Class description: 21 students
Level: A2+ / 2 hours per week
Textbook: Enterprise 3, Express Publishing
Unit: Tricky Jobs
Topic: Wishes, regrets
Time allotted: 45 minutes (9.00 – 9.45)
Type of lesson: Introduction of new structure
Approach: Communicative
Content:
Vocabulary school life, education, personal experiences
Structures - Present wishes: wish+ Past tense / wish +were
- Past wishes: wish + Past Perfect
- Conditionals: types II and III
Functions - Talking about personal experiences / Expressing wishes and regrets

Main aim: To express present and past wishes using the appropriate grammatical forms
Subsidiary aim: To practise talking about personal experiences
Affective aim: To encourage students to talk about themselves and their personal experiences
Personal aim: To be more pro-active in discouraging the use of native language during speaking activities
Objectives:

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By the end of the lesson, the students will be able to:
- Talk about their personal challenges regarding school and education
- Describe some photos and the situations illustrated by them
- Match a set of words with their definitions
- Read a set of elliptical sentences and try to deduce their meaning
- Express present and past wishes using the correct grammatical forms
- Collaborate with their desk mates in order to accomplish the given tasks
- *Summarize their life experience in a six-word memoir
Skills: reading, speaking, writing
Previous work: Tricky Jobs/ Conditionals Type II and III
Assumptions:
- The will find it the chosen topic relevant to their current interests
Anticipated problems:
- The students might have the tendency to use the native language during speaking activities
- The students might make mistakes with the verb tenses when taking about wishes
Solutions:
- The teacher will help them if needed with prompts and extra questions
- The teacher will provide sufficient examples of the correct verb forms and will encourage peer correction
Evaluation: classroom activity
Class organisation: open class, pair-work
Resources: laptop, video projector, handouts, six-word memoirs (https://www.sixwordmemoirs.com/teens/)
Audio extract, photos: https://www.cristinacabal.com/?p=7689

PROCEDURE

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 STAGE ACTIVITIES SKILLS INTER- TIME PURPOSE
ACTION
The teacher greets the students and asks them how they feel and why.
Then she asks them how they feel about 8th grade and the challenges
they have to face. Speaking T- Ss 5’ To raise Ss’
Warm up Example: Open interest in the
Q: “Do you like school?” class lesson
th
Q: “How is school in the 8 grade?”
Q: “What is difficult about this year?”
The anticipated answers are:
A: “There is too much pressure.”
A: “The teachers and parents keep telling us about the exam.”
A: “I am tired all the time.”
A: “I am not very happy.”
A: “I have to study a lot.”
A: “I don’t have any / much free time.”

The teacher leads the conversation to the topic of free time. T-Ss To practice type
Lead – in Q: “What would you do if you had more free time?” Speaking Open 3’ II conditional and
A: “I would sleep more.” / “I would go out with my friends.” / “I would class prepare them for
play more computer games.” / “I would watch films / listen to music the new
etc.” structure

T gives Ss the handouts and explains the task: Ss will listen to two
short audio extracts, which include wish + Past Tense, and have to fill

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 in the blanks with the missing words.
A. “How I wish, how I wish you were here..”
Introduction of B. “I wish I could fly…” To introduce the
the new Ss tell the teacher what they heard. T points out the new structure and new content in
structure writes it on the board. Ss take notes. Listening T-Ss 7’ an attractive
Present wish (unreal situation) – Sbj + wish+ Past Tense Speaking manner
I wish you were here.
I wish I could fly.
I wish I had more free time.
I wish I didn’t have so much homework.

T introduces a set of photos, on the video projector, showing people Open To practise the
that have various wishes. She asks Ss to make sentences about them class new structure
Practice of the using the new structure. When flipping each photo, they can see the
new structure correct answer. 10’
T asks Ss to write down three wishes they have, based on the most Speaking
difficult challenges discussed in the introduction of the lesson. Ss work
with their desk mates. Pair work
Q: “If you could change three things about your life right now, what
would they be?”
Open
A: “I wish I were………………………………”
A: “I wish I had…………………………………” class
A: “I wish I could……………………………..”
A: “I wish I didn’t have to …………………………”.
Ss share with the rest of the class their wishes

T indicates and exercise in which Ss have to match 5 words with their

definitions. They will need these words in order to accomplish a more
complex task.

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 1. Envy (n.) - desire to have a quality, possession, or other
desirable thing belonging to someone else T- Ss To pre-teach
2. To quit (vb) – to give up, to abandon doing something
3. To waste (vb) – to use carelessly or to no purpose new vocabulary
4. To find one’s way (fig.) – to find meaning in one’s life / to find
purpose
Introduction of 5. Memoir (n.) – a biography written from personal knowledge
the structure for
T explains what a memoir is. Then she tells Ss about that
expressing past 10’
https://www.sixwordmemoirs.com/, a website on which people create
wishes
6-word posts, summarizing their life experience, current state of mind,
challenges, wishes and regrets, etc.
Reading
Open
For the following exercise, Ss will read a set of 10 six-word memoirs,
class
most of which are elliptical and abstract, decide what they mean and
To practise
match them with the more explicit versions, formulated as past wishes.
reading skills
Example: “Tired all day, awake all night.”
I wish I hadn’t stayed up so late last night.
Group
“Lost until 55, found my way.”
work
I wish I hadn’t wasted my youth.

In groups, Ss analyse the sentences and try to match them correctly.

After that, they check with the rest of the class.

T points out the verb form for expressing past wishes and writes it on
the board.
Past Wishes Sbj + wish + Past Perfect
I wish I hadn’t wasted my youth.
I wish I had gone to bed earlier last night.

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 Ss are asked to make sentences of their own expressing past wishes.
Q: “What do you wish you had done in 5th grade/ when you started 8th
grade / this weekend?” Speaking 7’ Pair
A: “I wish I had studied more.” Writing work
A: “I wish I had paid more attention to classes.”
Free practice A: “I wish I hadn’t worried so much about this year.”
After a few minutes, Ss share their regrets with their classmates. Ss
encourages them to identify the mistakes in their mates’ sentences
and correct if needed.
*** If time allows, T will ask Ss to think of some key words that
describe their current life / situation.
Example: exam, stress, pressure, teachers, study, tired, no free time
Then, they will create a 6-word memoir, using some of the words.
Together they will choose the ones that represents best the situation.
T gives feedback, for the whole class and individually and indicates To give feedback
homework: 2 exercises with the new structures from the textbook. She Speaking T-Ss on the activity
Closure asks Ss which part of the lesson they liked best; Ss share their
opinion.