Ways of Communication- Lesson plan School: coala cu clasele I-VIII Neru Teacher: Buru Florin Grade: 6th Topic:

Ways of Communication Time of Lesson: 50 Textbook: Factfile Skills involved: Reading, Listening, Speaking, Writing Material: worksheets, textbooks, board, coloured chalk, cassette- recorder Teaching Aims: to reveal the ways humans and animals can communicate to guess the meaning of sounds and sign language to express agreement using So/ Neither to extract certain information out of a listened fragment to encourage pupils to communicate in English to better cooperate and communicate in a group Learning Aims: Assumptions: Pupils are familiar to the ways animals and humans can communicate Pupils should know to listen to a conversation for a specific purpose Pupils should be able to speak in English and work in a group Pupils should be familiar to expressing agreement to be able to give examples of ways of communication to know how to express agreement in a conversation to listen to a conversation for a specific purpose to be able to speak in English and work in a group

Anticipated Problems: Some students may have difficulties in understanding the listened conversation Some students may not fully be able to express agreement Some students may not be able to answer the questions related to the listened information Interaction: TPs,PP, PT Class Management: The classroom provides the necessary environment for working in groups There will be textbooks on Pupils desks and a cassette recorder on Ts desk Attending Strategies: Ts role: conductor, standing front centre for presentation or crouching next to a group of Ps during controlled practice

Ts attitude: moves around the class, keeps eye- contact but also encourages Ps to speak T always corrects Ps mistakes

Evaluation: Initial - through warm-up activity Continue- observation, activities, analyses of answers Final- oral, homework STAGES Warm-up Objectives: to check the Ps homework and correct them if necessary Class management: the whole class Timing:7 Procedure: The T greets the Ps, asks for absentees and puts questions related to their homework. The Ps answer the questions and the T corrects them if necessary. Initial Practice Activity One: Pre- Listening Objectives: to express their opinion about the way people can communicate. Class management:Whole-Class Timing: 3 Procedure: Ps have to match the gestures to their meaning and give examples of other ways people can communicate. Activity Two: Listening Objectives: to listen for a specific purpose, to extract information that complete the chart in the textbook. Class management:whole- class Timing: 3 Procedure: Ps listen to a conversation in order to find ways humans and animals communicate and complete the chart. Activity Three: Post- Listening Objectives: to make use of the sign language Class management: Group- work Timing: 10 Procedure: Each group receives a message on a piece of paper and tries to use sign language to make their classmates understand the message. The message is reported to the teacher. Secondary Practice Activity Four: Pre- Listening Objectives: to express their opinion about talking on the phone Class management:Whole - Class Timing: 3 Procedure: Ps look at the picture and answer the questions Do you like talking on the phone? How long do you usually talk on the phone?

Activity Five: Listening Objectives: to listen for a specific purpose Class management: Whole - Class Timing:4 Procedure: Ps have the task of listening to a phone conversation and say if each sentence is true or false. Activity Six: Post- Listening Objectives: to focus on certain parts of the phone conversation Class management: whole class Timing:15 Procedure: Ps listen to a certain part of the conversation, fill in the blanks and notice the way agreement can be expressed, the way So and Neither are used. Homework: Objectives: to express agreement Class management: whole class Timing:5 Procudure: Ps have the task of giving the right answers using So or Neither.