Lesson Plan

Lesson: Colours Textbook: English Scrapbook Unit: 4 Grade: 7th A Year of study: 7th Nb. of classes/week: 2 Skills: speaking, writing, reading Objectives: O1 To practice vocabulary related to colours in speaking O2 To practice the English vowels and semivowels in words that denote colours O3 To practice vocabulary related to hair and eye colour O4 To practice adjective word order in writing O5 To practice translating sentences containing the suffix -ish O6 To read for specific information Grammar: The suffix -ish added to adjectives and nouns, adjective word order Vocabulary: vocabulary related colours and flowers Techniques: discussion, vocabulary exercises, reading exercises Classroom management: frontal, individual, pair work Materials: textbook

Lesson stage Warm up and checking homework Introducing the new lesson

Objectives

Activities Informal conversation, the teacher checks the homework and explains the mistakes. The students correct their homework.

Techniques Discussion

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O1

The teacher asks the students to look at the quiz in exercise 1 and try to answer the questions. Eg: A colour associated with our planet - Blue, green

Quiz

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Pair work

O2

The students solve exercise 2a, in which they have to match the given colours to the words in the table, taking into consideration the same vowel found in both words. Eg: Think pink Students look at exercise 1 in their Students Book, in which they have to put the given colours in the correct column, according to whether they refer to hair, eyes or both. Ex.: Blue eyes , Brown eyes, hair

Exercise

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Individual

O3

Exercise

Students book Notebook

Pair work

New lesson

O4

The teacher asks the students to look at Word order exercise 2 in their Students Book, in which exercise they have to put the words in each sentence in the correct order using the given chart. Eg: He has beautiful, blue, Spanish eyes. Jane has long, straight, blonde hair.

Students book Notebook

Individual

The teacher presents the new language focus. The suffix ish is added to: a) An adjective, giving it the meaning of quite but not very (Greenish means quite green but not completely so. Tallish means quite tall, but not very tall.) b) Certain nouns, changing them into adjectives (child - childish, baby - babyish) When we add the suffix ish: 1. The final e is dropped: blue - bluish 2. The final consonant is doubled, if preceded by a short vowel: red - reddish O5 The students are asked to translate into Romanian some sentences that the teacher writes on the whiteboard. Eg: 1. Susan is very childish. 2. Mark seemed sick, his face was greenish. 3. For a young man, he has the most babyish voice I've heard. 4. This juice is rather sweetish. 5. A coldish wind blew unto the plain. 6. John is tallish for his ages. Presentation

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Translation exercise

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Individual

Pre-reading activity: The teacher asks the students about words like range, buffalo, antelope and explains them if the students do not understand them. Reading activity: O6 The students read out loud the text from page 31, Home on the Range. While reading activity: The students solve exercise 5b, where they need to read the text and find the lines which suggest: a) People at home are encouraging (verse 1 + chorus) b) Home is pure and peaceful (verse 2) c) The land of the singers dreams is real (verse 3) Giving homework and assessment The teacher gives exercise 3a and 3b from the Students Book, as well as exercise 6 from the Texbook, as homework. The teacher praises all the students for their active participation. Texbook Exercise notebook Pair work 5 Reading exercise Textbook Individual 5 Discussion Whiteboard Notebook Frontal 4

Discussion

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