LESSON PLAN

NAME: Fecioru Elena SCHOOL: Piatra Soimului, No.1, Neamt DATE: 19th of May 2011 CLASS: 3rd NO.OF Ss: 21 LEVEL: beginners (1st year of study) TEXTBOOK: Way Ahead, Macmillan UNIT 18: She can run TYPE OF LESSON: revision FUNCTIONS: To express ability To identify and to locate To describe things and places To identify movements

AIMS OF LESSON: by the end of the lesson students will be able: To talk about what animals can/cant do To identify animals To locate animals To describe animals and parts of the body To describe locations and places To identify activities

SKILLS: Integrated skills GRAMMAR: modal verb can personal pronouns have/has

there is there are verbs of movement

VOCABULARY: animals colors parts of the body

OBJECTIVES: A. Cognitive objectives: to check and improve vocabulary; to encourage students to talk freely; to help students talk about abilities; to give students more practice on pronunciation, vocabulary and the structures previously taught. B. Affective objectives: making students confident in their ability to use the language; creating interest in the topic of the lesson; creating a relaxed atmosphere, proper for studying; foster learner independence and cooperative learning; stimulating students imagination and creativity; having fun.

DIDACTIC STRATEGIES: methods and procedures: explanation, dialogues, conversation, independent work, elicitation, game, brainstorming; materials and equipment: pictures, flashcards, worksheets, textbook, workbooks, posters, flipchart, a dice organization: lockstep, individual work, pair work pair work,

LOCATION: the classroom TIMING: 50 min

ASSUMPTIONS: I assume that most of the vocabulary and structures to be revised are already known to my students. ANTICIPATED PROBLEMS: Some students might need further help and extra indications in solving the tasks and they may also need some of these indications to be given in Romanian.

PROCEDURE ACTIVITY 1: WARM-UP AIMS: to focus the Ss attention to get Ss involved into the topic PROCEDURE INTERACTION TIMING ORGANIZATION T-Ss 5 min Ss- T lockstep

- Introductory conversation - Game: Ss throw a dice which has 6 animals drawn on it, they have to name the animal and say what it can do. -Ss write the sentences on the Bb Parrots can fly. Hippos can swim. Monkeys can jump. Rabbits can hop. Lions can run. SKILLS: speaking, writing TEACHING TECHNIQUES: explanation, instructions, game AIDS: pictures, a dice ACTIVITY 2: Game - Guess the animal AIMS: to revise parts of the body to revise animals and colors to use the verbs of movement PROCEDURE - T asks one student to come at her desk and to choose one picture from there. The student describes what she/he sees using colors and parts of the body and what they can/cant do - Ss guess the animals SKILLS: speaking TEACHING TECHNIQUES: conversation, game

INTERACTION TIMING ORGANIZATION T-Ss 5 min Ss-Ss lockstep

AIDS: pictures ACTIVITY 3: Game Animal jigsaws (matching) AIMS: to revise parts of the body to revise animals and colors to use the verbs of movement PROCEDURE INTERACTION TIMING ORGANIZATION T-Ss 10 min Ss-T Whole class

- T gives students sheets of paper and some jigsawed pictures of animals and asks pupils to stick them together on the sheets to discover what animal it is - Ss stick the parts on the sheet of paper and discover the animal then they make statements about it using the model on the previous activity - T asks one of the pupil to write the description of his/her animal on the blackboard SKILLS: listening, speaking TEACHING TECHNIQUES: explanation, conversation, game AIDS: worksheets, pictures ACTIVITY 4: Revising verbs of movement - Riddles AIMS: to express ability, using can/cant to revise personal pronouns PROCEDURE - Teacher sticks three written riddles on the flipchart and asks Ss to read the riddles and to guess the animal - Ss answer and stick on the poster the picture of the guessed animal - T give students a worksheet asking them to answer the questions using the given cues - Ss answer the questions and then read their answers SKILLS: reading, speaking, writing TEACHING TECHNIQUES: explanation, conversation AIDS: pictures, poster, flipchart, worksheets ACTIVITY 5: Production - listening, reading, writing AIMS:

INTERACTION TIMING ORGANIZATION T-S 10 min Ss-Ss IW

to talk about things using the learnt structures to differentiate between persons to make negative statements INTERACTION ORGANIZATION T-S IW Ss-Ss TIMING 10 min

PROCEDURE

- T gives students a worksheet with some pictures and reads them what Andy can see - Ss listen and tick their answers on the worksheet - T asks Ss to say what Andy cannot see - Ss solve the task and writes the sentences on the Bb and ion their worksheets SKIILS: listening, writing TEACHING TECHNIQUES: exercise, conversation, questions and answers AIDS: worksheets ACTIVITY 6: FEED-BACK speaking, writing AIMS: to ask about what their classmates can do to talk about what their classmates can/cannot do PROCEDURE

- T gives the Ss worksheets with Tell me what you can do and explains that they have to ask their deskmate if they can do one or more of the things on the worksheet and write the answer next to the action -When they finish Ss report to the class what they have found SKILLS: writing, speaking TEACHING TECHNIQUES: explanation, conversation, exercise, questions and answers AIDS: worksheets

INTERACTION ORGANIZATION T-S Ss-Ss PW

TIMIN G 10 min

ASSIGNING HOMEWORK: to provide consolidation of language and grammar so far Write 5 things that you can do and 5 things that you cannot do. T. assigns the homework by giving clear instructions. ASSESSMENT: T. praises all the Ss for their participation during the entire lesson. T gives a plus to the most active Ss.