LESSON PLAN

Proposed Teachers of English: SECU IRINA-NICOLETA, ȘERBAN ELENA-ANDREEA

Grade:2th
Number of students: 28
Time: 45 minutes
Classroom Management: STUDENT- CENTREDLEARNING
Strategies: ORAL and WRITTEN COMMUNICATION.
Types of interaction: T  S, S  T
Level: ELEMENTARY
Subject: ENGLISH
Unit of learning: THE SEASONS AND THE WEATHER
Main focus: LANGUAGE FOCUS
Date: March, 26th

Aims:
 to give students practice in speaking and comprehension skills;
 to introduce vocabulary:seasons ( spring, summer, autumn, winter), weather
(sunny, snowy, windy, cloudy, etc);
 to make pupils feel more positive about using English in short conversations;
 to practice the revised vocabulary.

Language functions:
 Introducing the new vocabulary.
 Describing the seasons and the weather.
 Asking / answering questions about the classification of seasons and weather.

Assumed Knowledge: Students are familiar with:

 Oral commands like: Please, stand up. Go to the board.
 Verb: to like, to be
 Numbers: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten

Anticipated problems: If there are any unknown words or students have difficulties in
understanding, the teacher will clarify them.

Materials: video projector, flashcards, whiteboard, worksheets.

LESSON STAGES

ACTIVITY 1: WARM UP
 AIM: to get students ready for the English class by having an informal
conversation (greetings,etc.)
 TIMING: 2 minutes
 TYPE OF INTERACTION: T  S, S  T
 PROCEDURE: Ts greet the Ss,Ts introduce themselves.Ts checks if a student is
absent.

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ACTIVITY 2: HOMEWORK CHECK-UP
 AIM: to check if students did the homework and can reproduce the vocabulary
taught about Food and drink.
 TIMING: 5 minutes
 TYPE OF INTERACTION: T  S, S  T
PROCEDURE:Ts asks some Qs like “Have you done your homework?” “Was it
difficult?”, “Who wants to read?” and then Ts name a few pupils to read their homework
and asks the others to check their homework and correct it if necessary. Pupils respond
individually. Teachers involve all SS. Everybody’s HW is checked.

ACTIVITY 3: TRANSITION TO THE NEW LESSON

 AIM: to make the connection between the **information that pupils already have
and the new information (seasons and weather vocabulary)
 TIMING: 10 minutes
 TYPE OF INTERACTION: T  S, S T
PROCEDURE: Ts write on the whiteboard name of the seasons and the weather. Then Ts
put the pictures of the weather in the right of its name.Ts give Ss worksheets. (Annexe1)

ACTIVITY 4: PRESENTATION (NEW LESSON PROPER)

 AIM: To introduce and explain the new words of the vocabulary (seasons and
types of the weather).
 TIMING: 20 minutes
 TYPE OF INTERACTION: T  S, S  T
PROCEDURE: Teacher announces the new topic: THE SEASONS AND THE
WEATHER.
 STEP 1: LEAD-IN / ELICITATION
Ts show images of seasons and weather. They listen to the words, repeat and
write them in their notebooks with the Romanian translation. Teacher also writes
them on the board.
 STEP 2: EXPLANATION.
Ts mention the four seasons and the types of weather.
 STEP 3: ACCURATE REPRODUCTION
Ts will start a clip with the weather. Ts ask Ss if they were excited about the clip
with the weather and they will repeat the new vocabulary.

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ACTIVITY 5: ASSESSMENT
 AIM:
- to evaluate Ss’ work
 TIMING: 5 minutes
 TYPE OF INTERACTION: T  S
PROCEDURE: Ts make on the whiteboard a chart of the four seasons. Ss write on the
whiteboard the weather of each season .(Annexe 2)

ACTIVITY 6: HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT

 AIM:
- to assign Ss’ HW
- TIMING: 3 minutes
- TYPE OF INTERACTION: T  S
PROCEDURE:“For next time you have to find words from the worksheet.(Annexe 3)”

ACTIVITY 7: DISMISS PUPILS. Teacher grades the students. Greetings.

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 ANNEXE 1

THE SEASONS

Write the missing letters:

1. S _ _ I N G

2. W_ _ _ _ R

3. S _ _ M _ _

4. A _ T _ _ N

ANNEXE 2

IT’S CLOUDY! IT’S HOT!

IT’S RAINING! SPRING SUMMER IT’S SUNNY!

IT’S STORMY! AUTUMN WINTER IT’S

SNOWING!

IT’S WINDY! IT’S COLD!

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ANNEXE 3

1. Look and match the weather with the seasons:

IT’S SNOWY! IT’S SUNNY! IT’S RAINY! IT’S WINDY!

SUMMER SPRING WINTER AUTUMN

2. YES / NO
I like sunny days! ……
I don’t like winter! ……
I like rainy days! ……
I don’t like hot days! ……