LESSON PLAN

School:
Teacher:
Grade: 3rd- Starter
Date:
Time: 50 minutes
Number of classes/week: 2
Textbook: Way Ahead
Lesson: I can run
Type of lesson: Combined- Grammar and vocabulary
Objectives: By the end of the lesson students will be able to:
- use the computer in order to play games(click, drag)
- revise domestic and wild animals
- locate objects using the prepositions of place
- mime action words(verbs)
- answer questions using CAN/CAN NOT.
Skills: speaking, listening, writing, reading
Methods: conversation, explanation, exercises, playing games on the computer
Materials: textbook, notebooks, whiteboard, handouts, computer, animal cards
Nb. Lesson
stage
1.
Warm-up

Time

Teachers activity

Pupils activities

Skills

Greets the pupils, asks who is

absent, has an informal
conversation, then says the
prayer.

Greet the teacher,

Speaking
answer who is absent,
have an informal
conversation, then say

Materials Organization
T- Ss

Obs

the prayer.

2.

Homework
check-up

3.

Revision

11

Asks if they had any

homework.
Checks their homework.
Asks different pupils what
their favourite animal is.

Answer that they had Speaking

to draw their
favourite animal.
Answer the questions. Listening
Speaking

Notebooks

Introduces Kitty, a toy cat, and

locates Kitty in, on, under a
hat. Asks questions about
Kittys location. Then asks
them to play a game with their
hand and head to revise the
prepositions of place.

Greet Kitty, then

answer using the
prepositions of place.
Play the game.

Toys

Draws 2 trees on the

flipchart(one for domestic
animals and one for wild
animals) then takes out the
animal cards and starts asking
questions(What animal is it?/
What colour?/Is it domestic or
wild?) then invites pupils on
turn to the flipchart and place
the animals in the correct tree.

Look at the flipchart,

answer the questions,
then go and write
animals in the animal
trees.

Animal
cards

Invites pupils to sing Old

McDonald has a farm.

Sing Old McDonald

has a farm.

Asks pupils to come to the

Come to the

T-Ss
T- Ss
Class

Flipchart

4.

5.

Lead-in

Teaching
grammar
a)Presentation

15

computer, on turn, and play a

game(match pictures with
words)
Uses the animal cards
again(frog, fish) in order to say
what each animal can do.(The
frog can hop. Can you hop?)

computer, on turn,
and match.

Announces that action words

and can are the theme of the
lesson.

Listen to the teacher.

Asks the number of the lesson,

then writes the title and the
date on the blackboard.
Starts introducing the action
words(read, write, jump, sing,
swim, fly, ride the bike, paint)
by miming them or using
toys(a toy bike)

Tell the number of the

lesson and write it in
the notebooks.
Listen to the teacher. Speaking
Listening
Writing
Reading

Listen to the teacher

and answer the
questions.

Answer the questions

Asks questions about each of
using Yes, I can/No, I
them(Can you sing/swim?, etc) can not.
Mime the verbs and
Asks some of them to mime
the others guess.
the verbs and the others to
guess.
Write the sentences
Writes on the flipchart
and questions in the
sentences and one question
notebooks then read
with affirmative and negative
them.

Speaking
Listening
Writing

Computer
Animal
cards

T- Ss
Class

Flipchart
Notebooks
Toys

Flipchart

T- Ss
Class

c)Practice

10

6.

Evaluation

7.

Issuing
homework

8.

Dismissing
the class

short answers using can and

the action words.
Invites pupils to the computer,
on turn, to play 2 games from
the Way Ahead CD (click and
drag, then choose the correct
short answer).
Asks the class to correct if
necessary.
Rewards each correct answer
with a candy.
Praises the active pupils,
giving marks and encourages
the others too.
Write 5 sentences about what
you can or can not do.

Greets the pupils.

Bibliography:
-Way Ahead the textbook
-Planificrile calendaristice anuale
-Planificrile calendaristice pe uniti
-Way Ahead-educational software
-Strategies of teaching and testing by Adriana Vizental
-The Internet

Notebooks
Come to the
computer, on turn,
and solve the
exercises.
Correct if necessary.

Speaking
Writing
Reading

Listen to the teacher.

Speaking

Write the homework

in the notebooks.

Speaking
Writing

Greet the teacher.

Speaking

Computer

Pair/
group
work

T- Ss
Notebooks

T- Ss

T- Ss