LESSON PLAN

School:
Class: the 5th
Level: beginners
Number of learners: 13
Teacher:
Time: 50’
Lesson title: Who’s the tallest?
The Comparative and the Superlative of short adjectives
Type of lesson: grammar lesson& revision lesson;
Lesson (main) aims: - to revise grammar notions, such as the adjective;
- to correlate the adjective from English with the adjective from Romanian;
- to be able to identify adjectives in Positive, Comparative and Superlative
degree;
Subsidiary aims: - to practice the work in pairs;
- to use one’s intuition;
Skills: speaking, reading, writing, listening
Anticipated language problems: Pupils/students could become a bit noisy when working in
pairs/groups; some of them (the dominant ones) may try to answer too often and exclude the
others. In some cases, pupils may not understand the task given by the teacher;
Possible solutions: the teacher may ask pupils simultaneously to speak; He/She may repeat the
task in order to be clear for everybody;
Teaching aids: the manual, a handout, pupil’s notebooks, the blackboard, a tape recorder, a tape;
Modes of interaction: teacher-student, student-student, pair-work;

Activity 1
Aim: To familiarize the pupils with the new lesson;
Procedure: First of all pupils are doing some pronunciation exercises (1, 2, 3 &4 page 26) in order
to make the difference between [e] and [æ];
Interaction: lockstep
Teacher’s role: controller
Skills: reading, listening, speaking, writing.
Materials: manual, pencils;
Class management: whole class activity;
Timing: 15 minutes

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Activity 2
Aim: To remember the adjective and correlate it with the Romanian language;
Procedure: The teacher puts down on the blackboard an example containing an adjective, then she
asks her pupils to translate that sentence into Romanian and to analyse it; after that, the teacher
asks her pupils to give her some examples containing adjectives in English;
Interaction: T-Ss, individual work;
Teacher’s role: controller;
Skills: speaking, listening, writing, reading;
Materials: manual, pencils, notebooks, blackboard;
Class management: whole class activity;
Timing: 10 minutes
Activity 3
Aims: To make the difference between the Positive, the Comparative and the Superlative degree;
Procedure: In the following moment the teacher draws a schema on the black board and she
explains to her pupils the difference between the Positive, the Comparative and the Superlative
degree;
Interaction: T-Ss;
Teacher’s role: involver;
Skills: writing, speaking, listening, reading;
Materials: manual, pencils, notebooks, blackboard;
Class management: whole class activity;
Timing: 10 minutes

Activity 4
Aim: To be able to practice the newly acquired notions;
Procedure: Pupils are invited to work in pairs and to complete exercise 2 page 27;
Interaction: pair work;
Teacher’s role: involver;
Skills: reading, listening, speaking;
Materials: manual, pencils, notebooks, blackboard;
Class management: whole class activity;
Timing: 7 minutes

Activity 5
Aims: To produce new sentences starting from the grammatical notions above mentioned;
Procedure: The teacher asks her pupils to complete exercise 3 page 27 in written;

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Interaction: lockstep
Teacher’s role: involver;
Skills: listening, reading, writing, speaking;
Materials: manual, pencils, notebooks, blackboard;
Class management: whole class activity;
Timing: 8 minutes

The best answers are being noted;

As homework, pupils have to do exercise 4 b) page 28