Lesson plan

Date: 24th of March 2015

Teacher: Cerna Tabita and Cociuba Alexndra
Grade: 4th grade
School: Secondary School Take Ionescu NO 16 Timisoara
Lesson: The best of Times
Skills: speaking, writing, listening
Objectives: O1-to listen for specific information
O2 to use grammar correctly, namely Past Simple Tense
O3 -to be able to reproduce a song
Grammar: Irregular verbs
Methods: discussion, grammar exercise, writing ex., listening ex.
Classroom management: frontal, pair work, individual work
Materials: handouts, poster

Lesson
stage
Warm-up
and
cheking
homework
Introducing
the new
lesson

Obj.

Activities
-Informal conversation
-The teacher checks the
homework explains
mistakes. The students
correct their homework.

Methods

Means of
instruction

Discussion

Board
Frontal
Notebooks

Board

Frontal

Posters

Individu
al

10

-The teacher revise the

irregular verbs that the Discussion
pupils already know. The
teacher writes on the board
the Infinitive form of the
verbs and the pupils have
to give the Past form of
them: go, ride, see, have,
draw, make, eat, drink,
sing, live, write, buy. Then,
the pupils have to make
sentences with the verb
that teacher chooses: go,
eat, drink, write. The next
activity consists in an
unjumble sentences. They
have to put them in order.
For these sentences the
pupils receive posters.
Exercise
1.I went to the mountains
last summer.
I/mountains/ to the/ last
summer.
2.Sam rode a bike
yesterday.
rode/ a bike/
Sam/yesterday.
3.Jenny ate pudding last
night.
last/ Jenny/ night/ pudding/
ate.
4.I saw a grey flying
elephant last night.
grey/ I/ elephant/ saw/ a/
last night.
5.We sang a Christmas
song last winter.
song/ sang/ We/ a
Christamas/ last winter.
6.My mother bought fruits

Type of
interaction

Ti
me

and vegetables yesterdey.

Yesterday/ bought/ fruits/
my mother/ and vegetables.

New lesson

Giving
homework
Reinforcement

-The teacher writes on the

board some verbs and the
pupils have to read and
match the correct past form
of them: come-came, winwon, meet-met, sleep-slept,
take-took, swim-swam.
-In the next exercise the
pupils have to unjumble
the sentences of the
exercise 9/78.
-In the next exercise the
pupils receive a handout
with a short story where
the pupils have to write the
past form of the
infinitives.
- To have a correct
pronunciation of the
irregular verbs that were
learnt they will listen to a
song and after that they
have to sing it.
- In the last activity the
pupils have to solve the
second exercise from the
handout.

As homework the pupils

have to imagine they had
the greatest holiday of their
life and they have to
describe it ( 5-10 lines).
The teachers will revise the
whole information with the
pupils.

Exercise

Board

Individu
al

Grammar
Exercise

Textbook

Individu
al

Individu
al

Frontal

Reading and
Grammar
Handouts
Execise

Textbook
Listening
exercise

Frontal
1

Frontal
3

Assessment

The teachers praises the

most active students and
encourage the others.

Frontal

I. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct form.

Mr Johnson s day
Sarah is telling you what her dad did yesterday.
My dad got up at half past five.
He .................... (eat) muesli with milk.
Then he got to work by bike.
He......................( meet) mum in the restaurant at 1 oclock.
He had................(eat) a hamburger and she.......................(eat) a salad.
At half past five he...................(go) home again. He....................(take) a taxi because he was
tired.
He .........................(play) a game with me but I.................( win). In the evening watched TV
with Jake, Amy and me.
He....................(go) to bed at eleven oclock.

II. Match the pictures with the suitable sentence.

1

a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
f)

John played tennis all day.

Ben cooked for her mother last evening.
Robbie drew his favourite hero.
Yesterday Dan watched TV instead of doing his homework.
I sang a song with my friend.
Johnny rode a horse at the farm.