Lesson Plan

School: Berislveti Secondary School

Teacher: Anghelu Melania
Date: May- 20th- 2016
Form: 1st grade
Time: 45 min.
Level of study: beginners
Module: 4
Unit 7
Lesson: My animals
Textbook: Fairyland 1B
Type of lesson: Introducing new material
Teaching methods:
the audio-lingual approach
the audio-visual approach
the communicative approach
the natural approach
Teaching techniques:
conversation
repetition
observation
dialogues, listen-and-do activities
singing and miming
Class organisation: individual/pair/group work;
Materials: textbook, activity book, projector, blackboard, flashcards, CD, handouts.

Anticipated problems: The Ss may not understand some oral commands or tasks; if this happens, they will be translated
into Romanian.
Aims:
the students will be able to recognize the previously taught vocabulary related to food;
the students will be able to use simple grammatical structures to express their likes and dislikes;
the students will be able to produce chunks of language, in contexts which require enjoyable repetition and which
draw them into using English in an natural and spontaneous way;
the students will be able to recognize and learn new vocabulary items related to animals;
the students will be able to memorize the new vocabulary in an enjoyable way, through songs and games.
Objectives:
a) cognitive:
to present and practise names of animals;
to learn to use the new vocabulary items and to understand language structures;
to learn and improve word pronunciation;
to communicate efficiently using their language;
to pronounce correctly
b) affective:
to stimulate students imagination
to make the students confident in the ability to use the language
to use English while playing
to have fun

Stages of the lesson

I.

Warm-up

Teachers activity

Teacher greets the

students and asks for
absentees;
Teacher encourages
the students to greet
her back.
II.
Checking
the Teacher revises the
previous knowledge
vocabulary taught in
unit 6;
Teacher
invites
students to play a
picture card game in
order to revise the
previously
taught
vocabulary.
T.
divides the class into
groups of 4 and
gives to each group a
set of picture cards
illustrating
food.
Then she asks the
students to lay their
set of picture cards
face up on the desk.
T. holds up a puppet
and say, The puppet
says: Show me the
apple, please! T.
revises all the words
in this way.
Teacher also revises
their
ability
to
express likes and
dislikes

Students activity

Interaction

Students answer

lockstep

Students
look T-Ss
through the picture Ss-Ss
cards, and show GW
the correct picture
to their teacher.
Students answer
the questions

Skill

Time

Purpose

speaking

- to prepare the
students for the
lesson

Listening

to
check
students
understanding of
the
previous
lesson and correct
possible mistakes

Speaking

III.
Introducing
new material
a) Pre-teaching

Teacher invites the

students to play the
hungry
crocodile
game in order to
discover the topic of
the lesson.
Before the lesson,
the teacher draws the
picture
of
the
crocodile on the
board.

Students play the T-Ss

game and discover
the topic (My
animals)

Teacher announces
the objectives
Today we are going
to:

learn new
words about
animals
learn a new
song
b) Activity 1
(presentation
practice)

Listening
speaking

- to stimulate
students
imagination
- to create interest
in the topic
- to guess and/or
deduce a known
word from the
spelling

lockstep
listening
speaking

Students look at
the pictures, and
they repeat the
new words after T-Ss
their teacher

Teacher shows the

& students flashcards
with animals (cat,
cow,
hen,
dog,
sheep, horse) one at
a time and presents
them.
Then the teacher Students recognize
points
to
the them and give the
different names of correct answer.
animals in random

Listening
speaking
lockstep

- to reinforce
vocabulary
- to learn and
improve
word
pronunciation

- to practise the
new vocabulary
items

order
and
asks
questions.
The
teacher demonstrates
this herself first:
Whats this? Its a
cat.
c) Activity 2
Practice

Students listen and T-Ss

Teacher invites the guess the word
students to play the
guessing game in
order to practice the
T-Ss
name of animals.
The teacher asks
them to guess the
word that she is
thinking of (the
IW
name of an animal).

listening
speaking

speaking
d) Activity 3
Consolidation

Teacher holds up Students listen and

repeat after her
her book and
points to the
animals shown
in the picture,
one at a time,
asking the
students:
Whats this? and
eliciting: Its a
.
Then point to
T-Ss
the dog and say:
The dog on the

2
listening

to
practise
speaking
to
practice
vocabulary

- to consolidate
the
language
through songs
- to check and
consolidate
pronunciation and
understanding the
meaning of the
words

speaking
- to communicate
efficiently using
their language

e) Activity 4
Consolidation

farm goes woof,

woof, woof all
day! Teacher
uses the same
procedure with
the rest of the
animals.

speaking
Students number
the animals in the Ss-Ss
order they hear
them. Then they
sing along the
song.

f) Activity 5
Consolidation

- to reinforce
vocabulary
- to understand
and
use
the
language
structures

listening

Teacher asks the

students to listen the
song and number the
animals in the order
they hear them.
Then she encourages
them to sing along
the song.
The dog on the
farm
Goes woof, woof,
woof,
Woof, woof, woof,
Woof, woof, woof!
The dog on the
farm
Goes woof, woof,
woof,
Woof, woof, woof
all day!
Cat miaow
Cow moo
Hen cluck
Sheep baa
Horse neigh

PW

T-Ss

T-Ss

Students obey the

commands given
by their teacher
and colour the
animals
Students present
their pictures in
front of the class

Listening
speaking

10

to
revise
previously taught
vocabulary
(colours
and
numbers)
- to consolidate
vocabulary
- to communicate
efficiently using
their language

g) Activity 6

Teacher asks the

students to colour
the animals in the
picture as she tells
them
to
do
(textbook, page 25).
Then she asks them
to count the animals
and present their
picture in front of
the class
Teacher invites the
students to play the
Abracadabra game
in order to finish the
lesson
in
an
enjoyable way.
T. explains that she
is a witch and she is
going to make spells
to
change
the
children
into
different
animals:
Abracadabra! Listen
to me! You are a
cat/horse/dog etc!
One! Two! Three!
T. explains that
students
should
mime the animal she
names. Every time
the spell
works
perfectly, all the
children respond by

4
Students listen and
do the actions
Students mime the
animal
- to end the lesson
in a fun way

doing the mime she

says, the class scores
a point.

IV.

Homework

Teacher
asks
students to learn the
song.
Teacher asks the
students to draw
their
favourite
animal.

V.

Feed-back

Teacher
congratulates the
students and rewards
them.

T-Ss

Students listen

lockstep

listening

- to let students
know how well
they performed