LESSON PLAN

Teacher: Alecsandrescu Monica Ionela School: Scoala Gimnaziala Nr. 2 Boboci, Picior de Munte Date: April 25th, 2013 Class: VIII (Optional) Textbook: Snapshot Elementary Unit 13: Guess who? Lesson: Adjective order; Describing objects and people Type of lesson: Revision lesson Time: 50 minutes Aims: At the end of the lesson the students will be able to: -to use adjectives in the correct order; -to talk about physical appearance, personality and mood; -to describe objects and people; Skills: listening, reading, writing, speaking Methods: conversation, observation, pairwork, groupwork, explanation, repetition, game, learning by doing, brinstorming Aids: flashcards, flipchart, tape, worksheets, blackboard, drawing board, handouts, textbook. Type of interaction: teacher-students, student-teacher, student-student Types of exercises: matching exercise, making sentences, jumbled words exercise, conversation exercise, fill-in exercises. Class organization: lockstep, pairwork, groupwork, whole class

Stages of the lesson

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1.

Lesson stages Organizing the class

Time Teachers activity 2 The teacher greets the students; she asks them questions like: How are you today?, Who is on duty today? etc. The teacher checks if there are any absents and prepares for the lesson. The teacher asks the students What was your homework for today?, Was it difficult?. The teacher names some students to read the homework. She checks it. The teacher asks the students: Have you checked your homework?

Students activity The students greet the teacher. They answer the teachers questions. The student on duty announces the absents (if there are any).

Aims

Methods

Materials

-to create a -conversation -roll proper atmosphere for teaching the new lesson

Class organization -whole class

Interaction Teacher Student, Student Teacher

2.

Homework check-up

3.

Checking previous knowledge

The teacher asks the students some questions related to physical appearance and adjective word order. The teacher gives students some jumbled words (a

The students answer the questions. The students named by the teacher read the homework (11, page 79). They had to complete the sentences using the structure: verbs seem, look, sound+ adjective or like/as if. The students read and go to the blackboard and write the answer. The students answer the questions. They work together to put the words in the right order; then the representative of each group comes in front 3

-to check the mistakes

-conversation -textbook -blackboard

-whole class

Teacher Student, Student Teacher

-to check previous knowledge

-conversation -flashcards -handouts -textbook

-groupwork

Teacher Student, Student Teacher StudentStudent

noun and some adjectives: eg: a table, wooden, old, dining room). They work in groups. Then she tells the students to put them in the right order the object and its description. After they finish, the teacher shows them some pictures and asks them to match their description with the pictures. One member of each group comes in front of the class shows the picture and describes the object. 4. Warm-up 5 The teacher asks some students to choose some classmates and describe them physically. Then she tells them to think about their personality and mood.

of the class.

The students describe their classmates physically and say a few words about their personality. Possible answer: Georgiana is young, shes medium height and slim. She has short black hair and small brown eyes. etc. In pairs, students listen to the song and, they try to fill in with the missing words. Students answer to the questions and write the words on the 4

-to practice vocabulary related to the topic.

-conversation -blackboard -handouts

-whole class -individual work

Teacher Student, Student Teacher

5.

Lead-in

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The teacher gives the students a worksheet and tells them that they will listen to a song. In pairs, they have to fill in the blanks with the missing words.

-to arouse students interest in the topic.

-listening -tape -conversation -blackboard -writing worksheets

-pairwork Teacher Student, Student Teacher StudentStudent

The teacher asks the students: Have you succeeded to fill in all the blanks? Lets check the exercise. Then asks what type of words they are and what they describe.

blackboard. Possible answer: personality and mood adjectives

Activity 1 writing

The teacher asks students to think of other such words and then group all of them in opposites.

The students come to the blackboard and write the words and then group them

-to remember a variety of words related to mood and personality

-conversation -worksheet -writing -blackboard brainstormin g

-individual work

Teacherstudent Studentstudent

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Activity 2: speaking

7.

Activity 3: speaking

Then the teacher tells them to open their books at page 80, and use the Words from the previous activity to solve exercise 13 a) they have to look at the pictures of the four persons and talk about their personalities. They have to work in pairs. The teacher asks the students to try exercise 13 b) they have to talk about the moods of the three persons - are supposed to role-play a similar dialogue. The students are supposed to solve exercise 14. The teacher explains the students what they have to do. She gives an example and writes it on the blackboard. The teacher makes sure that all the students understand the homework.

In pairs, students solve the exercise short dialogues that they role play.

- to be able
to make their own sentences using words related to personality - to practice words related to mood

-writing -reading

-blackboard -textbook

-pairwork -role-play

Teacher Student, StudentStudent

Students role-play similar dialogues.

-speaking

-blackboard -textbook

-role-play -pairwork

Teacher Student, Student Student

8.

Homework

The students write the homework and the examples in the notebooks.

-to practice making description s

-conversation -textbook

-whole class

Teacher students

9.

Dismissing students

Students get grades. Greetings

Greetings