SNAPSHOT elementary class 6, L2, Pre-intermediate

Teacher: Laura Denisa Ion

No. of students: 29

Date: 29th May 2014

Text: The princess and the dragon story, provided by British Council - http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/short-stories/the-princess-andthe-dragon
Type of lesson:

Revision & consolidation

Topic / Theme: travelling / science fiction

Lesson focus: integrated skills: Reading Speaking - Listening - Writing
Main aims: The students will be able to:
Get the general meaning from a spoken & written text
Read correctly, fluently, expressively
Recognize / revise structures: past tense regular and irregular verbs, adjectives, the Comparison of the adjectives
Subsidiary: To provide Ss with enough opportunities to re-discover literature for children and stir their interest in finding out more about the topic,
using the modern means provided by the latest technology
Personal aims: T to act more as a facilitator and a monitor, to reduce echoing, to give clear instructions and have good time management, to open Ss
perspective on a proper use of using media in learning.
Assumptions: Ss are interested in new vocabulary and they like learning being introduced to new lexis in a different, attractive manner. I assume they
will enjoy the topic of the lesson and will manifest interest in literature as an alternative of spending their free time.
Anticipated problems and solutions:
Some Ss might not be familiar with many of the words mentioned in the lesson and might find it difficult to understand their meaning.
Solution: I will use a varied and involving way of presenting vocabulary with the help of photos and dictionary entries.
Many of the Ss might struggle with the pronunciation of certain words mentioned in the lesson: Jules Verne, scientist, leagues.
Solution: I will drill the pronunciation of challenging words and make sure they are used multiple times throughout the lesson.
Materials and sources of materials:
Materials:
Worksheets
Pictures from Google images

Fairy tale - provided by British Council - http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/short-stories/the-princess-and-the-dragon

Video projector, laptop, Internet connection
verbs diskette to check up for irregular verbs

Specific aims:
informative:
formative:

educational:

- new vocabulary acquisition fairy tales

- get confidence in using structures
- integrated skills
- love and interest for reading

Procedure: the students will be able to:

use past simple in a different, integrated context
listen to /read a story and solve given tasks (match, fill in the gaps, answer the questions)
write a short paragraph
read and find required information
deal with predicative and attributive adjectives

Classroom management - 1 - T/S 5 groups of 6

Homework check 5: pg. 79 / Snapshot starter workbook communication using the comparison of the adjectives (worksheets)
7 mini dialogues > 14 students are to role-play those

A1: Warm up: - 2 T/S-S

What do you see in this picture ? (project fairy tales definition)

FAIRY TALE also FAIRY STORY

1.

a children's story in which magical things happen

2.

a story that someone has invented and is difficult to believe

Whats more interesting: a film or a book?

Is it exciting to listen to a story and to read it in the same time ?

A2: Announcing the topic: - 1 - T/S title: The princess and the dragon
http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/short-stories/the-princess-and-the-dragon
A3: Develop the subject: - 15

Worksheet - Talk to your partner and match the pictures with their meaning (part 1-from pdf.2)

Listen (http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/short-stories/the-princess-and-the-dragon) to the story and write down who the main
characters are
o What about the minor characters
o Who was the hero ?
o Who was its opposite ? The negative character ?
Choose A, B, C
Display pdf.1 each team sends to the blackboard a representative to write the missing word (part 2-each team has a sheet on the desk from
pdf.1)

A4: Performance obtaining: - 14

Replay the story and arrange the story into the right order - let each team read (Arrange the story into the right order http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/language-games/order-the-sentences/the-princess-and-the-dragon)
Individually, fill in the gaps to complete the story (part 3-pdf.2, the story)

Part 3
Once upon a time there was a _________________ and a _________________ who lived in a golden _________________ with their beautiful
daughter. One night an ugly _______________ locked the princess in his ____________________ . The king promised to give a bag of
_______________ to the ____________________ that rescued the princess. All the knights in the land rode to the ogres tower. The ogre was so scary
they rode away as fast as they could. The next day a friendly ____________________ saw ____________________ in the tower. The dragon blew the
ogre into the ocean. The dragon put the princess on his back and flew into the sky.
In the end _______________________________________________________________________________________________________

Read the final version

Find in the text 3 regular verbs; read them
Circle in the text the past tense for ride, see, blow, put, fly (each team has to spot a verb and read the sentence while someone else goes to the BB
and writes the 3 forms of it use the diskettes)
On the BB stick the sentences and the students are going to fill in the right verb in the past tense
1. The knights . away when the ogre roared at them.
2. The dragon . the princess in the tower.
3. The dragon . the ogre into the ocean.
4. The dragon .. the princess on his back.
5. The dragon and the princess . Into the sky.

Underline three adjectives in the text read them

On the BB stick the nouns on the right and the adjectives on the left

Choose an adjective to describe the nouns:

HANDSOME
LOUD

INTERESTING
BORING

1. ___________ SKY
4. ___________ CRY
7. ___________ BOOK

Look !

A BLUE SKY

FIERCE

FUNNY

2. _____________ HANDS
5. _____________PRINCE
8. _____________PRINCESS

DIRTY

PRETTY

BLUE

3. _______________ TIGER
6. _______________ CLOWN
9. _______________ FILM

THE SKY IS BLUE.

A5: Feed back: - 10

You get a worksheet where you will see many dragons. Worksheet - spot the dragon read and match the description with the dragon
(http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/practise-your-english/spot-the-dragon)

Which dragons have got wings ?

Whose wings are wider ?
Whose wings are the smallest ?
Which dragon seems the most dangerous of all ?
Which dragon is the most beautiful of all ?
Which dragon is longer: e) or f) ?
Now: Match the dragons to their correct description. team work.

http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/practise-listening/spot-the-dragon

The teacher demonstrates with one dragon, and then each team has to spot a dragon. The winners get a paper clip.

A6: Homework 2 Fairy tale with holes in it !!! - funny

PART 3
Once upon a time there was a _________________ and a _________________ who lived in a
golden _________________ with their beautiful daughter. One night an ugly _______________ locked the princess
in his ____________________ . The king promised to give a bag of _______________ to the
____________________ that rescued the princess. All the knights in the land rode to the ogres tower. The ogre was
so scary they rode away as fast as they could. The next day a friendly ____________________ saw
____________________ in the tower. The dragon blew the ogre into the ocean. The dragon put the princess on his
back and flew into the sky.
In the end ____________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________

PART 3
Once upon a time there was a _________________ and a _________________ who lived in a
golden _________________ with their beautiful daughter. One night an ugly _______________ locked the princess
in his ____________________ . The king promised to give a bag of _______________ to the
____________________ that rescued the princess. All the knights in the land rode to the ogres tower. The ogre was
so scary they rode away as fast as they could. The next day a friendly ____________________ saw
____________________ in the tower. The dragon blew the ogre into the ocean. The dragon put the princess on his
back and flew into the sky.
In the end ____________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________

PART 3
Once upon a time there was a _________________ and a _________________ who lived in a
golden _________________ with their beautiful daughter. One night an ugly _______________ locked the princess
in his ____________________ . The king promised to give a bag of _______________ to the
____________________ that rescued the princess. All the knights in the land rode to the ogres tower. The ogre was
so scary they rode away as fast as they could. The next day a friendly ____________________ saw
____________________ in the tower. The dragon blew the ogre into the ocean. The dragon put the princess on his
back and flew into the sky.
In the end ____________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________

a) FLY
b) SEE
c) RIDE
d) BLOW
e) PUT

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

The knights . away when the ogre roared at them.

The dragon . the princess in the tower.

The dragon . the ogre into the ocean.

The dragon .. the princess on his back.

The dragon and the princess . into the sky.

a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
f)
g)
h)

HANDSOME

INTERESTING

FIERCE

FUNNY

DIRTY

PRETTY

BLUE

LOUD

i)

BORING

1. ___________ SKY
2. ________ HANDS
3. _________ TIGER
4. ___________ CRY
5. ________ PRINCE
6. ________ CLOWN
7. _________ BOOK
8. ______PRINCESS
9. __________ FILM

THE SKY IS BLUE.