LESSON PLAN

Teacher:
Date:
School: 59 ''Dimitrie Sturdza'' School
Grade: the 8th
Number of students: 28
Time: 50 minutes
Lesson title: Unit 8: Cold, lost, hungry and alone

Skills: listening, reading, speaking, writing

Vocabulary: experiences in a foreign country

Aims:
− to give Ss practice in listening, reading, speaking and writing skills
− to reinforce Ss vocabulary and enrich it with new words
− to work individually, in pairs and in groups
− to make Ss communicate with each other
− to make Ss enjoy studying English

Objectives: by the end of the lesson Ss will be able to:

1. to describe customs in their country
2. to describe positive/negative experiences they have had in a foreign country
3. to listen and to read for specific information

TEACHING AIDS: tape, blackboard, coloured chalk, posters, flip chart, handouts

A)BIBLIOGRAPHICAL:

1. Official: The Curriculum for Secondary Education

2. Textbook: Greenall, Simon: ‘Reward Intermediate’, Macmillan, UK, 2004

3. Watcyn-Jones, Peter: Vocabulary games and activities for teachers, 2000

 ACTIVITY AIM PROCEDURE INTERACTION

1. Classroom - to prepare for the lesson - greetings

management - preparing the resources T-Ss
- checking attendance
2. Warm up - to practice speaking skills - T ask students to answer the questions: ‘what T-Ss
- to create a positive atmosphere objects couldn’t you live without?’ then asks Ss Ss-T
‘what activities couldn’t you live without?’
- Ss answer the questions

3. lead in: topic and - to introduce the new topic and the - T confesses she couldn’t live without travelling T-Ss
vocabulary vocabulary and tells of one of her experiences when travelling. Ss-T
presentation - to practice speaking skills - T asks students if they had been in a similar
position and to present their story

4. Guided practice - to enrich Ss’ vocabulary - T draws on the board a smiling face and a sad face T-Ss
and asks Ss to suggest things or situations which Ss-T
make them both happy and sad when travelling
- T asks students to open the book on page 18 and
place the words in eg2 in the chart
- T explains unknown words
- T asks students to listen to the tape and solve eg. 3
and 4

5. Further practice - to create a relaxed atmosphere - Ss do a role play exercises (working in pairs of 2, T-Ss
one of them pretends to be a foreigner and needs Ss-T
directions; the other pretends not to understand him PW
and they both have to use non verbal
communication )
6. Homework - T asks Ss to describe a typically - Ss write down what their homework is. T-Ss
assignment Romanian custom IW