Lesson Plan

Name: Sibiceanu Aurelia

Date: 18th May 2015
Textbook: Upstream A1+
Class: 5th A
Lesson: Module 5 (Units 9-10) Adventure / 9d Let me know
Type of lesson: Mixed type (checking previous material - ways of expressing future
actions & introducing new material - writing a friendly e-mail)
Time: 50’
Skills: writing, reading, speaking and listening

Lesson Aims:

1. to talk about future plans using be going to vs will; present continuous for
future action
2. to write a friendly e-mail; making arrangements through e-mails

Didactic strategies:
a) methods and procedures: conversation, dialogue, explanation,
exercise.
b) materials: textbook, DVD, worksheets, video projector, projection
screen, laptop, blackboard, flip-chart.
c) bibliography: textbook Upstream A1+ , Express Publishing -
Authors Virginia Evans and Jenny Dooley, Interactive English
language training course for students and not only, Aramis, Author:
Codruţa Mirela Stanisoara

Organization: class-work, individual-work, pair-work, group-work.

Procedure
Activity 1 Interaction: T-Ss; Ss-TSs ; Ss-Ss Timing:15’

Warm up:

 Hot potato: Ss pass around a plush toy. The S who has the toy has to answer a
question from a list the T has prepared.
Q: Where are you spending this summer holiday?
Q: Are you meeting your friend this weekend?
Q: What do you think you will do on the 1st June?
Q: What are you going to be when you grow up?
Q: What are you going to do this afternoon?
Q: How will life be in the future?
Q: What will people eat in the future?
Q: How will they travel in the future?
Q: Where will they go on holidays?

Homework checking:
Aim: to activate the previous language (be going to vs will; present continuous with
future meaning)

 T checks the homework: ex.1(PW), ex. 2, ex.3(PW), ex. 4 (PW)/130

 T asks Ss some questions related to the use of future simple; be going to and
present continuous with future meaning

Activity 2 Interaction: T-Ss; Ss-T Timing: 3’

Lead in:
 T plays a video material to elicit the lesson topic, to generate students’ interest
and get them thinking about e-mails

Activity 3 Interaction: T-Ss; Ss-T Timing: 5’

Aim: to read for specific information

 T reads the instruction from ex 1/94 and the questions and explains the task.
 T allows Ss some time to read through the e-mail and answer the questions
 T checks Ss’ answers

Activity 4 Interaction: T-Ss; Ss-T Timing: 5’

Aim: to transfer information from one text to another

 T explains the task ex2/94
 Ss read Edward’s diary silently and use the information to complete the e-mail
 T circulates and provides any necessary help
 T checks Ss’ answers
 T gives some tips for writing an informal e-mail
Activity 5 Interaction: T-Ss; Ss-T Timing: 3’

Aim: to read for specific information

 T reads the instruction from ex3a/94 and explains the task
 T allows the Ss some time to read through the e-mail and answers the question
 T circulates and provides any necessary help
 T checks the Ss’ answers

Activity 6 Interaction: T-Ss; Ss-T Timing: 3’

Aim: to generate ideas, completing a diary

 T reads the instruction from ex. 3b/94 and explains the task
 T allows the Ss some time to complete the diary
 T asks individual Ss to report back to the class

Activity 7 Interaction: T-Ss; Ss-T ; Ss-Ss Timing: 12’

Aim: to write an e-mail to a friend

 T asks Ss to refer to the e-mail message from ex 2/94
 T asks Ss to use one of their colleagues’ completed diary entry from the
previous ex. 3b and the e-mail as a model to reply to their friend’s e-mail
 Ss complete the worksheet (GW)
 T displays the e-mail messages and the first group that finishes the task is
rewarded.

Activity 8 Interaction: T-Ss; Ss-T Timing: 4’

Assessment: T appreciates students’ work

Homework: Use the e-mails as models and send each other similar ones in order to
arrange a meeting.
 Lesson Plan

Name: Sibiceanu Aurelia

Date: 18th May 2015
Class: 7th A
Lesson: Festival Season (Film festivals in England)
Type of lesson: Mixed type (activate vocabulary related to films/write an advertisement)
Time: 50’
Skills: writing, reading, speaking and listening

Lesson Aims:

1. to activate knowledge of types of film / generate interest in the topic

2. to develop understanding in details, vocabulary, discussion

Didactic strategies:

a) methods and procedures: conversation, dialogue, explanation,

exercise.
b) materials: CD, film worksheets, video projector, projection screen,
laptop, blackboard, flip-chart.
c) bibliography: Interactive English language training course for
students and not only, Aramis, Author: Codruţa Mirela Stanisoara
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/lesson-plans

Organization: class-work, individual-work, pair-work, group-work.

 Procedure

Activity 1 Interaction: T-Ss; Ss-T Ss-Ss Timing: 8’

Warm-up:
 T uses a trailer to generate interest and get the students thinking about films
and film types. T elicits the principal genres – documentary, fiction, comedy,
drama, romance (GW)
 The group which has the most examples film genres is rewarded.
Homework checking:
 T checks the homework: A film review

Activity 2 Interaction: T-Ss; Ss-T Timing: 3’

Lead in:
 In pairs Ss answer the discussion questions (Worksheet A)
 T announces the topic and the lesson objectives - Film festivals in England

Activity 3 Interaction: T-Ss; Ss-T Timing: 10’

Aim: to read/listen for specific information

 T asks Ss to answer questions 1 and 2 (Worksheet A)
Q1: In which cities are the festivals?
Leeds London Sunderland Sheffield
Q2: What is the main difference between the two festivals?
 T gives out and plays the text

Activity 4 Interaction: T-Ss; Ss-T Timing: 10’

Aim: to understand details

 T gives Ss worksheet B
 Ss read or listen again to answer the questions

Activity 5 Interaction: T-Ss; Ss-T Timing: 5’

Aim: to match meanings to words

 T gives Ss Worksheet C
 Ss use the context of the text to help them
 T asks Ss to match the words to the definitions

Activity 6 Interaction: T-Ss; Ss-T ; Ss-Ss Timing: 10

Aim: to make a poster advertising their favourite films

Contest
  T asks Ss to think about a film and make a poster
 Ss should include information such as:
Say what the film is called
Say what type of film it is
Say where and when it is
Say how much tickets are
Say why they recommend it
 Ss will vote the film they want to see
 The group that has the most votes win the contest

Activity 7 Interaction: T-Ss; Ss-T Timing: 4’

Assessment: T appreciates students’ work

Homework: Write a letter to your pen friend and tell him about your favourite film.
(80-100 words)
 Lesson Plan

Name: Sibiceanu Aurelia

Date: 18th May 2015
Class: 4th A
Lesson: Unit12 Lesson 2: Cavemen and dinosaurs
Type of lesson: Mixed type (checking previous material- past simple of irregular verbs
& introducing new material-talking about past cultures and civilizations)
Time: 50’
Skills: writing, reading, speaking and listening

Lesson Aims:

1. to talk about past cultures and civilizations

2. to reactivate past simple of irregular verbs
3. to write about different types of dinosaurs

Didactic strategies:

a) methods and procedures: conversation, dialogue, explanation,

exercise.
b) materials: CD, DVD, worksheets, video projector, projection screen,
computer, blackboard, flip-chart.
c) bibliography: Interactive English language training course for
students and not only, Aramis, Author: Codruţa Mirela Stanisoara,
textbook Welcome 2, Express Publishing - Authors Virginia Evans
and Jenny Dooley, Workbook Welcome 2 Express Publishing -
Authors Virginia Evans and Jenny Dooley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsTR5bXxkFU

Organization: class-work, individual-work, pair-work, group-work.

 Procedure

Activity 1 Interaction: T-Ss; Ss-T Timing: 6’

Warm-up:
 T tells Ss to choose a strip of paper and make up sentences beginning with
Yesterday I.... (Worksheet1)
 Ss make up sentences using the verb into past simple
Homework checking:
 T checks the homework: WB Ex. 7/51

Activity 2 Interaction: T-Ss; Ss-T Timing: 5’

Aim: to repeat chorally and individually the new vocabulary

 T asks Ss to close their books and plays the DVD
 Ss repeat chorally
 T points to the flashcards no. 13-19 from the flip-chart and Ss repeat chorally
and individually

Activity 3 Interaction: T-Ss; Ss-T; Ss-Ss Timing: 10 ’

Aim: to listen and read in order to find out specific information

 T writes the following sentence on the board:
’Look at its sharp teeth and .......!’
 Ss will have to listen and follow the lines to complete the sentence:
‘Look at its sharp teeth and claws!’
 T asks Ss to close their books and watch the DVD
 Ss read out the dialogue in pairs
 Ss read the sentences from ex. 3/78 and write yes or no.
 T gives them time to go over the dialogue and do the task then checks Ss’
answers

Activity 4 Interaction: T-Ss; Ss-T Timing: 3’

Aim: to practice the new vocabulary

 T asks Ss to close their books and points to flashcards no. 20 on the board.
Then T says and writes ‘Look at its sharp teeth and claws!’
 Ss repeat chorally and individually
 T points to the rest of the flashcards on the board and writes the prompts
below them.
 Individual Ss talk about the pictures
 Ss open their books and do ex. 4/79 orally in class
Activity 5 Interaction: T-Ss; Ss-T Timing: 7’

Aim: to practice past simple of irregular verbs

 T reads the verbs on the scroll one at a time

 Ss repeat chorally and/or individually
 T explains that these verbs also have irregular form in the past simple
 T reads the examples in ex. 5 and explains the task
 Ss look at the pictures and do the exercise first orally then in writing in class

Activity 6 Interaction: T-Ss; Ss-T; Ss-Ss Timing: 6’

Aim: to use the past form of some irregular verbs and complete a description about
different types of dinosaurs
 T asks Ss to read the text and complete it with the past forms of the irregular
verbs.
 Ss work in groups. The first group that finish the task is rewarded (Worksheet
2)

Activity 7 Interaction: T-Ss; Ss-T; Timing: 5’

Aim: to listen and put a tick or a cross

 T asks Ss to look at the pictures and explain that they should tick the things
people didn’t do three hundred years ago.
 T plays the CD twice if necessary
 T checks Ss answers

Extension: T asks Ss to watch the DVD, listen and then answer the questions
 T plays the DVD with pauses for Ss to answer the questions
e.g. Q: ‘When did cavemen live?’
A: ‘They lived in caves.’

Activity 8 Interaction: T-Ss; Ss-T; Ss-Ss Timing: 5’

Aim: to talk about what past cultures and civilizations

 T plays the CD
 Ss listen and follow the lines
 Ss in pairs act out similar dialogues using the prompts in ex. 7 and the
dialogue they listened to as a model

Activity 9 Interaction: T-Ss; Ss-T Timing: 3’

Assessment: T appreciates students’ work

Homework: 1. Copy 2-3 exchanges from ex.2
2. Reading aloud ex. 2
3. Write 1-2 exchanges from ex. 7