Lesson Plan

Teacher: Conghilete Marin Florina-Elena

School: Școala Gimnazială ”Virgil Calotescu” Bascov
Class: 4th B
Date: March 21st 2018
Coursebook: Fairyland 4B, by Jenny Dooley, Virginia Evans

Visual aids: video, Whiteboard, IWB

Types of activities: whole class, pair work, individual
Types of interaction: Teacher-Student, Student-Student
Grammar Topic: Past Tense simple of the verb TO BE
Warm-up activity: Watch and name the feeling
Vocabulary in Use: noisy, shy, naughty, win, lose, quiet
Time: 50 minutes
Skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing
Strategies: exercise, game, conversation
Topic: Just the other day

Aim: To talk about emotions and personal qualities

Subsidiary Aims:
 copy the teacher’s notes on the blackboard
 mime and recognize the mimed emotions
 to read short texts
 to develop the students’ listening and writing skills.
Level: beginners
Previous Lesson: Who was it?
Learning Activities:
 answer simple questions based on the topic
 ask questions based on the topic
 read a text based on the topic
 use the new vocabulary in context
Communicative Functions: Speaking emotions and personal qualities
Evaluation: conversation, exercise
Type of Lesson: Consolidation
Time Skills Activities What the student does

Warm-up
5 Speaking The teacher asks the students if there are any absentees
min and notes them. Then, the teacher asks about the Students answer and
Reading homework (exercise 1/ page 23) and checks it together correct their homework
with the students.
The teacher writes on the whiteboard some places in town
(funfair, cinema, restaurant, café, library, station,
museum). She allows the students to read the words then
she asks them to close their eyes. While their eyes are
closed, the teacher erases one or two words. When the
students open their eyes, they have to say the missing
word. The procedure is repeated three times.

Link between warm-up and presentation Students watch the film

4 Speaking Name of the activity: Watch and name the feeling and try to guess the
min The teacher tells the students they are going to watch a feeling.
short video and they have to guess the feelings of the little
girl from the clip. The teacher plays the video and after
each sequence, she pauses the clip and appoints one
student to tell the answer.

Presentation
The teacher tells the children to open their books on page
18. She wants to know if they can name the feelings the Students look at the
children in the picture show. She listens to their answers. pictures and guess the
10- Reading Afterwards, she plays the song and tells the students to feelings.
12 Speaking pay attention in order to check their answers.
min After they check the answers together, the teacher names
children to read the lyrics of the song aloud, replacing the Students listen to the
word BORED with the other adjectives (angry and sad). song.
Then, she informs the students they are going to listen
again and sing, miming the actions from the song (for Students sing the song
bored - stretch and yawn, look bored, clench fists and and mime the feelings
stomp feet for angry and rub eyes, look down for sad)

Practice 1
5 Speaking The teacher reads to the students the task from exercise 2
min Writing on page 18 and explains to them they have to make short Students ask questions
dialogues for the situations given , following the example: and answer them.
A: I feel scared when I see a spider. How about you?
B: I feel scared too.

The teacher names the students and corrects any possible

mistakes.
10 Practice 2
min The teacher asks the students to close their books and she
plays the video from exercise 3. She asks them to pay Students listen and
Listening attention to what the boy says. After the video, she asks answer the teacher’s
Reading the students to name the boy’s favourite food, his questions.
favourite animal and his favourite toy when he was a
baby.
Afterwards, she tells the students to open their books and Students read the text.
read the text. She also writes on the whiteboard the
unknown words, telling them the Romanian equivalents

Practice 3
The teacher informs the students they are going to work in
6 Listening pairs. Each pair receives a worksheet with a grid. In the Students complete the
min Writing grid, the students have to find words related to feelings worksheet.
and emotions. They have to circle the words in the grid
and write them under the appropriate picture. The teacher
monitors their work and helps them, if help is required.

8 Evaluation
min Speaking MIME
The teacher informs the students they are going to play Students pay attention
mime. The students take turns and come in front of the and try to guess.
classroom, draw a note with a feeling/emotion/quality
written on it and, then, he/she has to mime it. The other
students try to guess the word.

Assignment
1 Write about yourself as a baby. Mention your
min favourite food, your favourite toy and your favourite Students note their
animal. Bring pictures if you have got any. homework.