LESSON PROJECT

Teacher: Donea Ancuta

Discipline: English Language
Grade: 7th
Unit: Over three hours late
Subject: Nicola's letter
Type of lesson: mixed lesson
Duration: 50 minutes
Textbook: SNAPSHOT PRE-INTERMEDIATE
Skills: Listening, reading, speaking, writing
Objectives: By the end of the lesson the pupils will be able :
- to use English language in an easy conversation
- to read/ to pronounce/ to write properly the new words and useful phrases
- to use the new words into the sentences
- to answer the questions concerning the characters
- to put the sentences into the correct order to summarise the story
- to complete the worksheets
Teaching techniques: Conversation, explanation, pronouncing after a model, exercise, evaluation
Aid materials: Textbook, CD and CD-player, worksheets

The organization of activity: Frontal and individual activity

The lessons
Compe
Activities
Teaching
sequences
-tences
strategy
Warming up
Activity 1:
C1
The teacher enters the classroom and then checks Conversation
the attendance: Have you got any absentees?
The teacher asks the students about the previous
homework which is verified: We talked about summer
jobs. In the new lesson it will be the same idea.
Lead in
C2
Comprehension
C2
C3

Activity 2:
The teacher asks the students to listen to the CD Exercise
and try to guess the meaning of the unknown words.
Activity 3:
The teacher requires the students to read the text Exercise
in the textbook (p.14) and to translate it.
The teacher writes the unknown words on the Explanation
blackboard and asks the students to form sentences
with them:
journey trip
nightmare- bad dream
the bottom bunk the low bed
to climb to go up
to trip to do a wrong step
clumsy awkward

Timing
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5

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failure alarm
delay coming late
C4

Practice
C5

For a better comprehension of the text the Conversation

students are required to answer the questions:
1) What time did the train leave London? (11.30)
2) Why was the other girl in the compartment
unhappy? (Because she didn't have the bottom bunk)
3) How did she annoy Nicola? (She almost stepped
on her face)
4) In what way was Nicola clumsy? (She tripped
over her shoes and wake up the girl)
5) Why did Nicola use the phone on the train? (To
phone her aunt and tell her about the delay)
6) What happened at the bus stop? (She met Jake)
Activity 4:
The teacher asks the students to listen to the CD Conversation
(ex.2/p.13) and then to solve the exercise 3 on page 13 Exercise
which consists in putting the sentences into the correct
order to summarise the story:
1b) Tom starts work at the Cliff Hotel in Newquay.
2c) Nicola leaves London.
3f) Nicola has un unpleasant train journey to
Cornwall.
4d) Nicola meets Jake at the bus stop near the

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station.
5e) Nicola arrives at the hotel and meets her aunt.
6a) Nicola meets Tom and Louise.
C2

Feed-back
C6

Assigns homework

Activity 5:
The students listen to the CD and repeat each Exercise
useful phrase (ex. 4 on page 15) for a better
pronunciation.
Activity 6:
The teacher gives the students worksheets they Exercise
must complete, then he checks orally the crowswords.
Activity 6:
The students have to write the useful phrases in Explanation
their notebooks (ex. 4 on page 15) and form sentences
with in their manner.

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