Date: June 17th, 2010 Level: 8th grade, Primary School
Skill: • Listening • Speaking • Writing • reading Expected Outcomes: • Recognize questions and answers with “like” • Recognize countable and uncountable nouns with food. • Identify definite and indefinite pronouns • Paraphrase and create a dialogue Resources: • Book • Worksheets • Radio / CD • Whiteboard Time Comments Introduction 15 The teacher greets in English students and asks them the min. same. Pupils pull out their notebooks and books, and then they sit down in their posts. Core of the class Pre-stage: 30 Review previous class. min. Students give the name of all the food that they have learned, then in the whiteboard, the teacher draws a food pyramid and asks students add some food in the pyramid boxes. Students answer with “Yes, I like / No, I don’t like” to the question “Do you like ...?” Students recognize the food that are countable and uncountable. Students work with a worksheet about the review. While-stage: 40 Countable and uncountable nouns: the teacher explains the min. food that we can count and we can not count, giving examples. With this, the teacher explains what cases we use “a, an or nothing” and “some / any”, and indefinite pronouns, such as someone / anyone for people, and something / anything for things. Students work with the book (pages 81-82)
Post-stage: 35 When students have finished the teacher explains briefly
min. on the board the use of –Wh questions. Then students listen a dialogue with a boy and a girl about an invitation. Students have to listen and repeat the dialogue. The teacher inforce the use of present continuous to talk about future arrangements, and they have to find two present continuous sentences about future arrangements in the dialogue. Students have to write a dialogue with their own ideas. The lesson finish with a new listening about an invitation. Homework page 83 Closing 15 In order to strengthen knowledge, the teacher creates a min. feedback about the class. The teacher gives oral questions asking students to raise their hands to respond and picks one by one in order to answer questions such as: o Topic of the class o What they learned o The most difficult topics o The easiest thing o What they liked most