Lesson plan

Subject: English
Teacher: Dinu Andreea Paula
Date:
Class: 5th grade
school: coala Gimnazial ,,Ioan-Moga-Ditesti
Topic: The alphabet
Lesson: Can you spell that, please?
Lesson Type: Acquiring knowledge, vocabulary consolidation, improving
communication and listening skills.
Number of students: 25
Time: 50

Specific competences:
- speaking, listening, reading, writing
Objectives: Students will be able to:
- prounance the letters of the alphabet; spell their names;
-to familiarize with the new topic; to consolidate and improve their vocabulary
-give example of the words that begin with different letters of the alphabet;
-improve their listening/speaking skills;
-ask for and give names and addresses;
-cooperate in a playful way;
Visual aids and materials:
- textbook, computer, handouts, blackboard, chalk, markers, realia.
Teaching Strategies and Techniques:

- dialogue, explanation, discussion, brainstorming, exercise, discovery

techniques, individual work and pair work.
Anticipated problems:
-

Students dont have a solid enough vocabulary in order to express

themselves freely in other language.
- Students may feel a bit awkward about expressing ideas, so the teacher
should raise their interest, keep their attention and encourage them to
speak.

Development of the Lesson:

1 Lead in:
Form of interaction: Student-teacher, student-student
Aim: To create a welcoming atmosphere in the class and to involve the
students into the lesson.
Procedure: Teacher greets the class, asks a few general questions about
the students mood, feelings, expectations from class, asks for the
absentees etc.
- Homework checking- students report about their homework. If
any, the teacher will check and correct the possible mistakes.
Time: 5 minutes

2 Warm up:
Form of interaction: Frontal work, student-teacher
Aim: To introduce the topic of the new lesson and raise their interest.
Procedure: The teacher will write the letters of the alphabet on the board
and elicite the names of the letters from the Sts. Then she will classify the
letters according to the sounds, so Sts can remember them easily. She will
arrange the letters in columns like these:
1. A /ei/: h, j, k
2. B /i:/ : c, d, e, g, p, t, v
3. F /e/: l, m, n, s, x, z
4. I /ai/: y
5. O /au/
6. Q /u:/: u, w
7. R /a:/

After that, she will play the video, pausing after each letter for Sts to
repeat.
Time: 10 minutes

3 Video watching:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH1XVuTawq0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djz82FBYiug
Form of interaction: Student-student, student-teacher
Aim: To familiarize students with the letters of the alphabet and different
words that begin with each letter of the alphabet
Procedure: Teacher plays the video and asks students to watch carefully.
The students will see a song with the letters of the alphabet and a short
conversation between Nelly and her puppet.
After that, they will see another song entitle Jolly song A-Z. The sts have
to pay attention to the words that begin with each letter of the alphabet.
Time: 8 minutes

4. Post watching:
Activity 1.
Form of interaction: Student-teacher
Aim: To familiarize students with new topic
After listening the first song the sts have to sing the Abc song and spell
their names.
After listening the second song the sts will recive handouts with the Abc
flashcards and they have to identify other examples.
Time: 5min

Activity 2.
Form of interaction: student-teacher; student-student
Aim: To consolidate the new topic and improve their vocabulary

Procedure: a) The sts have to write the name of : a football team, a

computer game, a country. The teacher will elicit another example of each.
Sts have to think of one more example individually in each category and to
write them down.
b) Sts have to spell the names for their partner to guess. Partners most not
write the letters down. They score two points if they get the name right first
time, but only one point if they ask you to repeat it.
A: Whats this football team? R-E-A-L M-A-D-R-I-D
B: I know. Its Real Madrid.
A: Ok. Two points. Whats this computer game?
M-O-R-T-A-L K-O-M-B-A-T.
B: Can you spell it again, please?
Time: 7 minutes
Activity 3: Communication
Form of interaction: T-S; Ss-Ss
Aim: to give your name and address
Procedure: The teacher will choose a student to read the exchanges aloud
with.
Whats your surname?
Cresson
Can you spell that, please?
C-R-E- double S-O-N
Whats your address?
Its 55 Church Road, Brighton, Sussex.
Whats your postcode?
BN2 5BL.
After that the teacher will explain about the address and postcode.
Background notes- The teacher will point out that, in British address,
the number is given before the name of the street e.g. 20 Southey Road.
Each small district has its own postcode which is written after the name of
the town or city, e.g. London N15 5LH.

Also, Surname: last name or family name; Postcode: In the USA the
postcode is called the zip code, eg. CA 10053 is a Californian zip code.
Sts copy the day-pass(from earlier in this unit) into their
notebooks.
Sts work in pairs with the conversation and complete a day-pass
for each other.
Time:7 min
Follow-up: Extra-activity: Game-Hangman
Form of interaction: T-Ss;Ss-T
Aim: to cooperate with the class in a playful way
Procedure: The teacher will choose a word but she dont tell the class what
it is. She will draw the following diagram on the boars with as many dashes
as there are letters in the choosen word.

The class has to guess the letters and fill in correct letters. If a student calls
out a letter which occurs twice in the word, the teacher must write down
both letters in the correct spaces. If the class give a wrong letter, the T will
put it on the board, cross it out and add part of a stick figure in her drawing.
The class will win if they complete the word before the T complete the
drawing. If a student guesses the word, he/she draws the next word on the
board.
Time:5min
Wrapping up the Lesson:
Form of interaction: Student-teacher
Aim: To announce assignments, to receive feedback from students

Procedure: Teacher explains the homework and gives handouts with

exercises for students to solve.
Time: 3 minutes