Lesson Plan

Name : Dumitru Alexandra

School : SAM Baltesti
Class: the 5th
Date: 10.05.2011
Textbook : Snapshot Elementary
Lesson: Dancing Queen
Type of lesson : fixation of knowledge and of developing skills and abilities
Aims:
By the end of the lessons the students will have been able:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

to read the text for general idea;

to listen to a text and search for specific information;
to translate/explain the unknown words from a text;
to use the newly acquired vocabulary in contexts of their own;
to express teir opinion concerning the song

Time: 50 min
Teaching techniques: dialogue, explanation, individual work, pair work, team work, exercise.
Materials : textbook, notebook, worksheets, chalk, Cd-player .
PROCEDURE
Stage

Teachers activity Students activity

Warm-up

The teacher greets class

The teacher asks for absents.
The students greet the teacher back. S
on duty names the absents.
The teacher has to listen to the Ss
homework. T corrects the mistakes(if
necessary).
Ss read their homework and correct the
mistakes (if necessary).
T asks Ss if they heard about a band
named ABBA
Ss ask with Yes or No
T reads to Ss some information about
ABBA, to raise their expectations.

Checking
up
homework.
Lead in
Activity 1

Reasons for
activities
to introduce the
students into the
atmosphere of the
lesson
Check their previous
knowledge

Materials

Timing

Bb
5`
Notebooks
Textbook
5`

To create interest
about the topic
To gather general
information about

Textbook
3
4

Activity 2
Prelistening
activity
Activity 3
Listening
activity
Activity 4
Activity 5

Activity 5

Ss listen carefully
T asks the students to solve in pairs, in
3 minutes exercise 1 page 91. (read the
lyrics and guess which of the words
fits each gap) Ss do the action.

the band
to prepare students
for reading; to raise
their expectations

T plays the song to Ss

Ss listen carefully and correct the
mistakes (if any)

To listen and correct

the exercise

Cd-player ,
textbook

T writes the new words on the board

Ss writes the new words and their
translation in their notebooks
T gives the Ss some handouts.
Ss are asked to solve ex 1, with their
desk-mate while listening the song
again. Ss solve the exercise

To learn new
vocabulary

Bb,
Notebooks

10

To use the new

learned vocabulary
in different contexts

Worksheets

After 3 T corrects the exercise. Ss

correct the mistakes(if any)
Ss are asked to solve the last exercise
(they have to match some sentences
from the song) Ss solve the exercise

textbook
5

To listen for specific

information
Worksheets
5

Feed-back

After 5 T corrects the exercise. Ss

correct the mistakes
T evaluates Ss activity, puts some
marks and asks them to write their
opinion about the song.

Homework

Ex 3 page 91

To express an
opinion concerning
the song
textbook