DOAMNA STANCA NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL SATU MARE

CLASS: VI A

TOPIC: The Library a magic place

TEACHER: ANDREICA-OGUTCU LIGIA

DATE: 02.02.2012 SCHOOL: Doamna Stanca National High School LEVEL: Intermediate CLASS: VI A TIME: 50 NUMBER OF SS: 34 TEACHER OF ENGLISH: Andreica-Ogutcu Ligia UNIT OF LEARNING: 5 Books and Libraries TOPIC: The Library a magic place TYPE OF LESSON: Mixed type AIMS: to revise some knowledge related to the word library; to use their English vocabulary to solve the given crossword correctly; to name the type of books looking at their cover and title; to match some types of books to their description (topics); to read the given text correctly; to pick up the right meaning for the unknown words; to match some words to their definitions; to act out some dialogues about some different types of books; to maintain students high interest for the English class; to encourage the less motivated and less able students to take part in the activities. LANGUAGE FOCUS:

 expressing their ideas freely; using their vocabulary properly in order to accomplish the given tasks. ASSUMED KNOWLEDGE: Ss. already dealt with some words from the book area; Ss. have already got accustomed to several books, mainly fairy tales, as they had the task to read a book during their summer holiday and to write down a reading handout about the plot, the characters and a short summary of the story. ANTICIPATED PROBLEMS: My hope is that I will not have any kind of problem with my students. Yet, if Ss. dont understand some oral commands or the tasks, they will be translated into Romanian. SKILLS: Reading; Writing; Speaking. MATERIALS: The English students book; The English notebooks; Flipchart; Pictures representing covers of different types of books; Flash cards; Books of different genres. CLASS MANAGEMENT: Individual Whole class Pair work

TYPES OF INTERACTION: Teacher whole class; Teacher students; Students teacher; Students students. ACTIVITY 1: CHECKING THE PREVIOUS KNOWLEDGE Aims: - to review some words related to library; Timing: 5 Interaction: T-S, S-T Procedure: T. checks the homework; T. asks questions about different meanings of the words related to library. TEACHER Hello, everybody! How are you today? Are you in the good mood to start the English lesson? What was your homework for today? I listen to their homework and correct the possible mistakes. STUDENTS Hello, teacher! Were fine, thank you! Yes, we are. Ss.open their English homework notebooks and read the words they had to put in the gapped text.

ACTIVITY 2: WARMER Aims: - to warm Ss up; - to answer the Ts questions correctly; - to participate intensively to the crossword moment from the lesson. Timing: 10 Interaction: T-S, S-T Procedure: T. reveals a flipchart paper with a crossword puzzle on it; T. explains the task, namely: for each word in the crossword there are some helping sentences (hints), that Ss. must read and think of the word that best fits the squares. In the end, Ss. must read the word they have obtained across the page and that is LIBRARY. TEACHER STUDENTS I reveal a flipchart paper and Ill Ss. listen to me very carefully in order explain the Ss. that their task is to solve to get a better understanding of the the crossword and find out the word given task. across, being helped by some hints. (Annexe 1) I supervise Ss activity and give them In turn, Ss. come in front of the some further tips, if necessary. classroom and write the word on the flipchart paper. In the end Ss. are glad to find out that the word across is LIBRARY. What is a library? Ss. give the definition for library.

ACTIVITY 3: LEAD-IN Aims: - to get Ss into the new topic of the lesson, which is: types of books and other items related to the libraries and books world. Timing: 20 Interaction: T-S, S-T Procedure: T. introduces some new types of books; Ss. match the types of books to their definitions; T. shares the Ss. some papers on which there is a text and some exercises related to it; Ss. read the text (role reading); T. sticks some flash cards of different colours containing some words that T. considers Ss. dont know; Ss. have to come to the Ts desk and match the meaning of the word that is written on the flash card, to the one that has the word on it.

TEACHER STUDENTS Open your books on page 44, please. Ss. open their books and notebooks. Please, open your notebooks and write down the title of our new lesson that is Ss. write the title of the new lesson in related to the word found out on the their notebooks. crossword: The Library a magic place. This English class will deal with the information about books. I stick some pictures illustrating covers Ss. pay attention to the T.s actions.

of some books and ask Ss. to read the word below each of them. The first word is a manual. Your task is to find out in ex. 1b the meaning of this word. Well have the same procedure for all the words that are, in fact, types of books. Ss. read the proper meaning for the indicated word. Ss. will choose the correct definition for each of them.

I share them some sheets of paper on Ss. get their sheets. which they have a text about books and exercises on the text. Ss. have a role-reading, the characters I ask Ss. to read the text once. being: the teller,George and Ben. What is the text about? It is about books, types of books and issues about books.

Have you understood all the words in Not really! the text? I thought so! Thats why Ive selected Ss. listen to T.s explanations, being some new words you havent met in very attentive. our previous lesson about books and libraries. I stick some flash cards of different colours containing the following words: book case, bookworm, thriller, genre, plot, setting, character, paperback. Ss. have the task to come in front and find the meanings of the words that was written on a flash card of the same colour as the word. Ss. stick each flash card below the word.

I read the new words so that the Ss. Ss. repeat the new words. have no problem with the pronunciation.

Please copy the words and their meanings in your notebooks. All these words should be learnt until the next English class which will be tomorrow. ACTIVITY 4: FEED-BACK Aims: - to act out dialogues about the books they have read during the during the summer holiday; Timing: 10 Interaction: T-S, S-T, S-S Procedure: T. gives Ss. roles in order to come in front to act out dialogues; previously, there was set a library corner, where two friends meet and talk about the books they have just borrowed. The Ss. have dialogues on books. Teacher Students I invite two Ss. at the library corner Ss. come in front and act out the and I explain the task to them. dialogues. The purpose of these dialogues is that Ss. remember some expressions on how you ask for an opinion and how you express your opinion.

ACTIVITY 5: EVALUATION AND HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT Aims: - to evaluate Ss work; - to assign Ss homework. Timing: 5 Interaction: T-S, S-T Procedure: T. grades some Ss for their active participation to the English class; Ss. assign their homework TEACHER What was our lesson about today? STUDENTS Our todays lesson was libraries magic places. about

Do you consider the lesson a useful Yes, because weve learnt practical one? Motivate your choice. and useful things that are needed in our school activity and not only. As a written homework youll have Ss. assign their homework. the two exercises on the other part of the sheet of paper I shared to you. Your task is to match some words to their definitions and for the other exercise you have to unjumble the given conversation.

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1. to give something to somebody or to allow somebody to use something temporarily. 2. the name of a book, poem, picture. 3. to take and use for a while something that belongs to somebody else. 4. a person in charge or assisting in a library. 5. books are divided into ..

6. a thing that covers something. 7. From a bookshop you can . books.