NAME: Liliana Gheorghe

SCHOOL : ”Gheorghe Banea” Macin

DATE: 2nd April 2009

CLASS: 8th A

TIMING:50 min

TEXTBOOK: Snapshot Intermediate/They emigrated to the USA- Debate

LESSON AIMS:

to practice the vocabulary related to culture and lifestyle to identify the differences between our civilization and the others one to practice USE TO+ V (short inf.)/BE USED TO /GET USED TO + V+ ing to give their own opinions about emigration

MATERIALS: PPT, cassette, posters

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Abbs, Brian; Chris, Barker; Freebairn, Ingrid; Fran, Linley : Snapshot Intermediate-Teacher’s Book, Longman, 2001

Harmer, Jeremy, The Practice of English Language Teaching, Longman, 2000 Vizental, Adriana : Metodica predarii limbii engleze – Strategies of Teaching and

Testing English as a Foreign Language – Polirom, Iasi, 2007SKILLS COVERED: reading, speaking, listening, writing

METHODS:

conversation observation practice specific vocabulary

ACTIVITY 1 : WARM-UPAIMS:

to get Ss involved into the topic to use properly the vocabulary related to emigration

PROCEDURE INTERACTION TIMINGT asks Ss several questions about weather and their mood. Chatting in English at the beginning of the lesson, T creates an ‘English language’ atmosphere, establishing contact between her and SS, and helps SS to feel relax. Check up : SS read their homework. They had to write a letter from an emigrant’s point of view. (ex. 11/page 86) T asks Ss what do they think that the title means.T draws a spider-web on the BB and students name everything that come to their mind related to emigration. SS then are asked to watch some slides about the emigration. (PPT)

T-SsSs-SsFrontal Speaking ReadingIndividual

15 min

ACTIVITY 2: PRACTICEAIMS: to use properly the vocabulary related to emigration to use the appropriate vocabulary when talking about emigration to express their own opinions to identify the differences between our civilization and the others one to practice USE TO+ V (short inf.)/BE USED TO /GET USED TO + V+ ing

PROCEDURE INTERACTION TIMINGT invites Ss to discuss about this topic starting from their own opinions about emigration.

“What do you think about going away from your ancient home?”

Why do you think people often choose to emigrate?” /“Are they forced to do it?”/

“What anything else can another country offer to us?” “What does actually mean EMIGRATION?”

-T makes appreciations and checks Ss’s pronunciation- T supervises /supplies error correctionT and Ss debate the topic, involving the whole class, somehow.

T-SsSs-SsPair work Frontal

25 min

ACTIVITY 3 :FEED-BACKAIMS

to practice personality and mood adjectives to find the main ideas from the debate to identify the differences between our civilization and the others one to express their opinions

PROCEDURE INTERACTION TIMINGT asks Ss to imagine they would like to leave their country. Why they would do it, and what sort of things can be involved in such a choice.

“Why would you go away?”/”would you like to be an emigrant all your life?” (flash cards with different countries)

“What about the new country?”/ Would you get used to living

T-SsIndividualSpeaking Writing

15 min

as those people do?”(customs, traditions, lifestyle, etc)-T makes appreciations and checks Ss’s pronunciation- T supervises /supplies error correctionT and Ss debate the topic, involving the whole class, somehow.

Ss-Ss

HOMEWOK: Ss are asked to think about the differences between Romania and a country they would like to move and write a short essay. T explains the topic of the homework and gives examples. (5 min)