LESSON PLAN

Name: Olaru Mihaela

School: Liceul Tehnologic Todireni

Form: 4th grade

Date:

Textbook: Firm Steps

Lesson: Places where we live. Around town.

Lesson type: mixed

Aims: to introduce new vocabulary-buildings

to introduce new grammar structures, the preposition of place

to develop students’ reading and speaking skills

Objectives:

By the end of the lesson, the Ss will be able to:

use the new vocabulary in sentences of their own

use correctly the new grammar structure

Skills: reading, speaking, listening, writing work

Classroom interactions: individual work, whole class, pair work.

Teaching aids: textbooks, notebooks, blackboard, worksheets

Stages Activity Time Techniques Interaction Materials AimsWarm-up

Homework check

The teacher greets pupils and they greet back.The T asks for absentees.The teacher checks the homework and offers feed-back on it.The teacher shows the students some pictures with buildings and sticks them on the blackboard. The teacher asks the students what the pictures represent. The teacher tells the students that they will learn about the buildings in a town and their location. The teacher writes the title of the lesson on the blackboard.

7’ Brainstorming Whole class

NotebooksPicturesBlackboard

To see if anybody is absentTo prepare for the new classTo check their previous knowledgeTo introduce them to the new topic

PresentationIntroduction

The teacher asks the students to pick a ticket with the English name

15’ Matching exercise

Whole class

BlackboardNotebooks

To introduce new vocabulary and

of new vocabulary and grammar (the preposition of place)

of a building (which she previously wrote on small pieces of paper) and then write it on the blackboard. The students also write the name in their notebooks. Then the teacher asks the students to try to match the word with the correct picture. The translation of each word is then written on the blackboard.The teacher asks students to look at exercise 1/page 64 and say where the buildings are located. The English words describing their location are written on the blackboard and in the pupils’ notebooks.The new words are pronounced by the teacher and then the students.

Answering questionsSpeakingReading aloud

Individual work

Textbooks grammarTo promote discussionTo develop correct pronunciation

Practice The students practice the new vocabulary.Together with the teacher, the pupils solve exercise 1/page 64 and explain the location of the hedgehog in the image at the top of page 65. They also locate the things in the image from exercise 3/same page.

10’ SpeakingAnswering questionsDescribing pictures

Whole classIndividual work

Textbooks To practice new vocabulary and grammarTo practice speaking

Production The students are given worksheets 10’ Speaking Pair work Worksheets To develop

with exercises containing the problems learnt. In pairs they have to name the buildings in pictures, by asking and answering questions. In another exercise they need to answer where a certain item is located. One student is asked to hide a certain item and the other student to say where it is hidden.

Asking and answering questionsGame play

Individual work

Realia speaking skillsPersonalization and practice

Homework The teacher gives Ss their homework-exercise 2/page64 and explains what they need to do.

3’ Individual work

TextbooksNotebooks

Preparation for homework assignment