LESSON PLAN

LESSON PLAN

Teachers name: Ctlina School Form: 4th

Date: 21st April 2008

Level: Breakthrough

Type of lesson: teaching-learning

Language focus: present continuous: 1st, 2nd and 3rd person singular, affirmative, interrogative and negative; describing what people are wearing

Aim: to practise talking about present activities (actions taking place at the moment of speaking)

Specific objectives: At the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to:

O1- read correctly, with proper intonation;

O2- form questions using the present continuous tense:

O3- give short answers using the present continuous tense;

O4- describe what they/other people are wearing;

O5- find the right form of the verb;

O6- use the new grammar structure in sentences of their own.

Approach: Communicative

Skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing.

Teaching aids: flashcards, cassette, practice book, worksheet, textbook (Way Ahead 2, Ed. Macmillan)

StageOTimeProcedureInteractionTechnique

1. Warm-up10(T shows flashcards representing different actions and asks questions (What is he/she doing?).

(Game: Mime the actionA student picks up a note with a word written on it (SWIM, PLAY FOOTBALL, READ, SING, RIDE THE BIKE, SLEEP) and tries to mime the action, without saying the word. T asks: What is he/she doing? Ss answer. The game is played by several children.

(Ss read the lesson What is he doing? and answer Ts questions about the characters in the text. T-S

S-S

S-S

T-SClosed-ended questioning

Game (miming)

Sequential reading

Closed-ended questioning

2. PresentationO110(T asks Ss to look in their books (p.82). Look at Meg! Is she writing? Can you see Tom? What is he doing?

(T explains that Meg is writing a letter to her grandma and asks Ss to listen to the tape and follow the letter in their books.

(T explains the new words (to wear, pretty, the expression See you soon and maybe other words pupils do not understand) and writes them on the board. Then she plays the tape again.

(Ss read the letter aloud.T-S

TT

S-SConversation

Listening

Explanation

Chain-reading

3.Oral practice

O2

O3

O410(T helps Ss to form questions about Meg and Tom and to use short answers (Yes, she/he is. No, she/he isnt)- exercise 2/82 in the book. Then she asks children similar questions about other pupils in the classroom. Then she asks direct question; Ss answer using Yes, I am/ No, Im not (Are you wearing earrings? Are you wearing a red blouse? Are you wearing a watch?, etc.)

(Children look at the pictures in the book and read the speech bubbles (ex. 3, p. 82)

(Lets do the same! T asks a pupil to come in front of the classroom, then she says: I am wearing black shoes, you are wearing shoes. Now you!

Another 2 children come in front of the classroom and speak about what they are wearing (2-3 pairs).S-S

T-S

PWClosed-ended questionong

Reading

Dialogue

4. Written productionO4

O6 10Ss work in groups. Each group is given a different picture (a man, a woman, a child). They have to describe the picture (physical description+what they are wearing).GWDescribing a picture

5. EvaluationO5

O610Ss are asked to do ex. 4, p. 35 in their practice book (choose the right form of the verb to be to fill in the answers to the questions.) IWFill-in exercise