Lesson Plan

Teacher name: Dinu Andreea -Paula

Level: intermediate

Class: 7 th grade

Lesson
Length:

Lesson
Type:

50 minutes

Skills
covered:READING/Speaking/Writing
Grammar: The Definite Article

Date: the 19th of February Lesson Title: Famous places

2015
Information about the class
There are about 22 young learners in the class. They have two fifty minutes lessons
every week as part of their school curriculum. I have been teaching them for nearly
five months. They use English scrapbook as their English course book.
Main Aim
By the end of the lesson the learners will have practiced the skill of reading for
general understanting/ specific information and using the definite article.
Objectives:
By the end of the lesson the students will be able to:
Develop interest in the topic, practice the skill of reading for general understanding,
develop reading comprehension and raise awareness of text cohesion, develop the
skill of reading for specific information, raise sts awareness of the definite article,
practice in using the definite article, use the informations gained in the lesson-to
make a fact file on Romania.
Personal Aim
Make sure that all the learners are involved in activities and develop interest in the
topic.
Materials (including source)
Course book , blackboard, chalk, notebook,realia.
Methods and strategis: communicative, dialogue, explanation
Assumptions
Anticipated difficulties with tasks

Solutions

Learners may find the topic difficult

I will give them some ideas to guide

through their comprehension, I will
explain some words from the text.

Stage
Warm-up

Stage aim
To focus
attention

the

Procedure
sts Organisational moment;

Interaction
T-S

Time
3 min

S-T
T-S

5 min

S-S

6 min

Ss-Ss

6 min

Ss-Ss

5 min

Ss-Ss

8 min

T-S;S-T
S-S

10 min

to get Ss involved into the topic

Lead in

To raise sts interest in

the topic; to introduce
the format of a country
fac file.

Reading

To practice the skill of

reading for general
understanding

While-reading

To
check
learners
understanding

Reading

To develop the skill of

reading for specific
information

Practice

To give sts more practice

in reading for specific
information.

Grammar-language
To raise sts awareness
target: The Definite of the use of the Definite
Article
article

Learners have to read the text and look at the

map. The teacher will draw their attention to
differences between the way that numerals are
written in Romanian and in English.She go
through answers with the class. (ex1/p44)
Learners are asked to look at the pictures and to
read the text quickly.Then they have to say
Where the text comes from and to justify their
answer.(ex2a)
Learners are asked to read the sentences and
check vocabulary they dont understand. Then
sts read the text silently and find clues to put the
sentances in the right place.(ex2b)
Sts have to read the text again. The teacher will
encourage them to relate the content to what
they have already learned in their geography,
history or other subject classes.(ex2c)
Sts have to copy the heading in their notebooks.
They are asked to reread the text and to write
details under each heading. Sts have to check
answers in pairs.(ex2d)
The teacher will draw learnersattention to the
Language Focus box for cases when the Definite
Article is used.(ex 3a)

Grammar practice
Follow-up/Homework

To give sts controlled

practice in using the
Definite Article
To make a factfile on
Romania

Sts have to work individually or in pairs. The S-S;Ss-SS

teacher will check answers with the class.

5min

The teacher will encourage sts to use the T-S

information they have gained from their
geography lessons and from their general
reading and from the presentation of Australia in
Exercise 1 to make a factfile on Romania -and
to put it in their scrapbook.

2 min