LESSON

PLAN
Vii th grade

LESSON PLAN
Teacher: Popescu Delia-Nicoleta
Date: 10th May 2012
Form: 7th grade
Level: intermediate
Number of students: 20
Textbook: High Flyer-intermediate, Longman
Unit 19: Do the right thing
Topic: Ought to and should have done
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) To express advice using ought to and should have done
b) to develop students reading-comprehension skills
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 a situation which they might face
with in everyday life.
Anticipated problems: -Some of the students may encounter vocabulary and
pronunciation problems;
-timing problems;
Procedures: conversation, dialogue, asking to questions based on a text;
Skills involved: reading, writing, speaking;

Resources: frontal activity, individual work, pair-work;

Teaching materials: textbook, blackboard, dictionary;
Evaluation: - initial: homework check-up
- continue: through activities, error correction
- final: through oral and written feed-back and homework

No.

Stages of the lesson

Time

Interraction

Teacherss activity

Learners
activity

1.

Warm up

T - Ss
Ss T

T greets the Ss,

checks attendance
and makes sure the
conditions are
proper for the lesson
to begin.

Ss greet the T

2.

Checking
homework

T-Ss
Ss-T

T checks homework

Dialogue
Notebooks

2.

Introducing the
new lesson

T - Ss
Ss T

T writes on the
board the phrase :
Please can we have
our ball back? and
asks the Ss to decide
what situation they
think this phrase is
linked with.
T introduces the title
of the new lesson
and writes it on the
blackboard.

Ss read their
homework and
correct the
mistakes( they
had to ex.4/76)
Ss think and
answer

3.

Pre-reading

T - Ss
Ss T
PW

T tells Ss to read the

questions from
ex.1/78 .

Conversation
textbook

4.

While-reading

T - Ss
Ss T
IW

T reads out the

questions from
ex.2/78 in order to
present the task then
tells the Ss to read
the story and find

Ss read the
questions 1-3
silently and
discuss them with
a partner
Ss scan the text
and try to find the
correct answers.

Teaching
techniques/
procedures/
materials
Dialogue

Brainstorming
Blackboard

Scan reading
Textbook

the answers.
After a first reading
T checks the
unknown
vocabulary and
gives Ss handouts
with the translated
words .

13

5.

Post-reading
(introducing the
grammar topic)

15

T - Ss
Ss T

T tells Ss to read the

text again and to retell the story in
terms of Who
did? and What did
he/she do?, the
answer will be
written on the
blackboard in a
scheme. This
exercise will also
provide the answers
for ex.3/78.

Ss will read the

text aloud, with
breaks after
meaningful
paragraphs in
order to complete
the scheme on the
blackboard.

Sentence-level
reading
Textbook
Dictionaries

T asks some more

questions about the
text to lead in the
grammar section
which follows:
What should Mrs
Wilson have done?
What about
Hannah Simms?
Ought she to have
called the police?

Ss should answer
: Mrs Wilson
ought to/should
act her age.
Mrs Wilson
should have
accepted the
official caution.
Mrs Simms
shouldnt have
called the
police.

Conversation
Blackboard
Coloured
chalk

T tells Ss to label
the different parts of
each sentence.
T explains the
difference between
what is advisable/
inadvisable , in the
Present and Past.

6.

Grammar practice

7.

Homework

T - Ss
Ss T

T elicits further
examples of
sentences using the
same patterns.

Eg.Mrs Wilson
Conversation
should have given
the ball back.
Anthony
shouldnt have
kicked the ball
into Mrs Wilsons
garden.

T explains that Ss
will have to do
ex.5/78,
emphasizing the fact
that they will have
to use the correct
form of the verb to
fill in the blanks.

Ss listen .

Dialogue
Textbook

SCHEME ON THE BLACKBOARD

WHILE-READING STAGE
WHO?
ANTHONY
SIMMS,13
CHILD

DOROTHY
WILSON, 60
PENSIONER

HANNAH
SIMMS, 37
ANTHONYS
more
MOTHER

WHAT ?
-kicked his football into the well-kept garden
of.?

-refused to return the ball;

-doesnt think she should have returned the
ball;

-called the police;

-she says-that Anthony should have been
more careful;
-Mrs Wilson should have given the
ball back;
-she thinks she shouldnt have telephoned the
Police;

THE OFFICER

-arrested Mrs Wilson;

-suggested that Mrs Wilson should return the
ball;
-suggested that a woman in her sixties should
act her age;

SCHEME ON THE BLAKBOARD

POST-READING STAGE-INTRODUCING GRAMMAR
OUGHT TO AND SHOULD HAVE DONE

1) Present and future: ought to/should +verb(infinitive)

Mrs Wilson ought to/should act her age.

(it is the right thing to do)

2) Past: ought to/should +have+verb(past participle)

Mrs Wilson should have accepted the official caution. (it was the right thing to do, but she
didnt do it)

Mrs Simms shouldnt have called the police.

HANDOUT 1
UNKNOWN WORDS-UNIT 19

ENGLISH
pensioner
cell
To kick
Well-kept
village
To return
proud
To act her age
To lock up
caution
eventually
To release
bail
To charge
petty
Pick on
theft

ROMANIAN
pensionar
Celula(la inchisoare)
A lovi
Bine-intretinuta
sat
A returna, a inapoia
mandru
A se comporta potrivit varstei ei
A inchide, a incuia
cautiune
In cele din urma
A elibera
Cautiune, garantie
A acuza
marunt
a lua
furt