LESSON PLAN

School:Liceul cu Program Sportiv cu cls I-XII, Clinceni

Teacher: Curculescu Nicoleta
Class: 5th Grade
Number of students:30
Topic: My Friend
Time: 50 minutes
Type of lesson: Vocabulary teaching
Approach: communicative
Skills: Integration of the four skills
Aims: To introduce vocabulary related to friendship through games.

to enrich students vocabulary

to express opinions when talking about friendship
to use new words in a context compound (5 lines)

Objectives: By the end of the lesson, learners will be able to:

a) Use the vocabulary related to describing people in different contexts
b) Describing a friend
c) Be able to build sentences of their own about them- their favorite things to do

Materials: Flashcards, worksheets, power point presentation, computer, overhead projector

Types of interaction: Teacher-whole class, Teacher- Student, Student- Student, Student-Teacher
Class management: whole class, individually, pair, group work

Stage of lesson
I. Warm-up

Teachers activity
1. Teacher greets the students and

Students activity
- SS listen

Interactio
n
- T-SS

Skill
- Listening

Time

Purpose
- to check if all

calls the roll

- SS listen

- SS-SS

- Listening

1 min

- SS listen and correct

their homework

-T-SS

-writing
-speaking

1 min

-SS-SS

-listening

1 min

2. Teacher invites students to open

their textbooks and notebooks

II. Checking
homework (if
any)

III. Introducing
new material

1. Teacher checks homework and

corrects mistakes on the
blackboard they had no written
homework, they had to repeat
several exercises from the textbook
1 Teacher presents a picture of
Adelina and Andrea.
The teacher asks
Who are they?
The answer will be given by the
students.
Are they friends?
Today we will talk about friends
and we will learn to describe them.
The teacher writes on the
blackboard the title of the lesson:
My friend.
The teacher asks:
Who is your friend?
My friend is.
Why do you like your friend?
Because he/she is

- Speaking
Students answer to the
teachers questions

Students identify as

T-SS

students are
present
- to create a
pleasant
atmosphere in the
classroom
- to let students
know how well
they did their
homework
- the provide a
context for the
lesson
- to activate SS
background
knowledge

The teacher asks students to repeat

words from previous lessons
4/page 62, ex 2/page 65 which has
a connection with this lesson
After this activity, teacher will
show a power point presentation
with qualities of a friend
The students are asked to open
their textbooks at page 74 and to
read aloud the qualities.
Students are asked to write them in
their notebooks and with a pencil
to write the translation in
Romanian by themselves.
The teacher corrects the exercise
with the whole class.
IV Controlled
speaking
activity

many words related to

the describing people as
possible.
-students repeat the
pronunciation after the
teacher

SS

3 min
-Writing

T-whole
class

Speaking

-students write the words

in their notebooks
Ex. 1a/page 74
1b/page 74

3min

- Speaking
Teacher shows a PowerPoint
presentation with several faces of
students from the classroom. The
teacher asks the students to try to
describe him/her
The teacher explains the students
how to describe somebody. The
teacher offers a written example.
She chooses an image from the
PowerPoint presentation and says
writing on the blackboard:

3 min

- to make sure all

SS completed the
activity
- to make sure all
SS have given
correct answers;

5 min

T-SS

Students listen to the

teacher and write in their
notebooks

- to make sure SS
understood
correctly the
activity;

- Listening
- Writing
3 min

The students are asked

- Listening

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

This is my friend
She is years old.
She is tall and thin.
She has got brown eyes.
She is funny and generous.

He is a dog?
Or He has got a dog?
She is tall.
She has got tall?

The teacher asks the last student

who comes at the blackboard to
speak about his/her favorite
activities
I like..
The teacher may repeat with
students ex1/page65, ex1b/page 68

SS-SS

5 min
- to let SS know
the difference
between is and
have got

GW

Students write on the

The
teacher
pinpoints
the
blackboard
difference between is and have
got/has got
She is brown- eyed
She has got brown eyes.
Students write sentences
The teacher invites several
on the blackboard
students to come at the blackboard
and by turns describe people.( 3
students)

The last person should describe

himself/herself

- Writing

T-SS

- Listening
-writing
-speaking

10
min
- to consolidate
SS knowledge;

- Listening

3 min
The student describes
himself/herself using the
personal pronoun I

I
Writing
2min

The student speaks about

his favourite activity.

Speaking
4 min

- to make sure SS
understood
correctly the
activity;
- to make sure SS
understood all the
words;
- to consolidate
SS knowledge;

T-SS

IV. Feed-back

V. Homework

1. Teacher offers feedback- a

mini-book of qualities they
consider to belong to a
friend. They must color
only the pages they
consider to be essential at a
friend.
2. On the last page of this
book they have two write 4
sentences to describe their
friend
3. the teacher may explain in
Romanian to make sure the
students understand what to
do
.
1. Teacher asks students to
describe their mother choosing

students color the pages

they like

-T-SS

- coloring

5 min

-to create a relaxed

atmosphere
-to see how many
words they have
learned in this
lesson

- T-SS

- Listening

1 min

- to let students
know what they

-one student comes at the

blackboard and presents
the qualities

- SS listen

her as their best friend because 8th March- Mothers Day is

approaching
Procedure : T asks Ss to note their
homework for the next time
T gives explanations referring to
the composition
SS must use the words learned in
this lesson in their composition.

have to prepare for

the next week.