Lesson Plan

Teacher:Badea Sorina Ioana

School:Scoala cu clasele I-VIII Razvad
Date:30th March 2012
Grade:8th grade
Level:5th year of study
No.of hours per week:2
No. of students:18
Topic:Sea turtles in danger
Course:Snapshot
Unit:Struggle to survival
Vocabulary:the environment
Type of lesson:teaching/assessing lesson
Type of interaction:individual work/team work
Timing:50 min

Specific skills:
1.1 Understanding the execution of instructions
1.2 Identifying key / essential information in a message delivered in standard, normal speed
3.1 Recognizing logical connections (cause-effect) between sequences of text read
3.4. Deduction based on the context, meaning phrases / unknown words from text
Aims:-to check attendance
-to check homework
-to watch a video and discover the title of the new lesson
-to skim the text and answer the question “What’s the text about?”
-to scan the text looking for the key words
-to read the text
-to look for unknown words in the dictionary
-to match key words with items with similar meanings
-to answer the comprehension questions
-to solve a true/false exercise
-to complete an interevaluation chart
Skills involved:listening,speaking,writing,reading
Methods of teaching:oral and written communicative methods
Materials:blackboard,flipchart,marker,chalk,worksheet,notebooks,dictionary,laptop,
book
Teaching techniques:conversation,exercise,writing,explanation

Development of lesson

Activity 1:Checking attendance

Aims:-to check attendance
Skills:speaking
Type of interaction:T-SS,SS-T
Timing:2 min
Procedure:-T greets SS and checks if all students are presente:”Who is absent today?”
-SS answer

Activity 2:Checking Homework

Aims:-to check homework
Skills:speaking
Timing:2 min
Type of interaction:T-SS,SS-T
Procedure:-T. asks SS if they dad any homework
-T.asks SS if there have been any problems in solving it
-SS read their homework
-T. corrects them if there’s necessary

Activity 3:Warm-up activity

Aims:-to watch a video and discover the title of the new lesson
Skills:speaking,writing,listening
Timing:8 min
Type of interaction:T-SS,SS-T
Individual work
Procedure:-T asks SS to watch a 7 min movie about turtles and answer the
ouestion”What is the title of the new lesson?”
-SS watch the video and answer the question
 - T writes the title and the date on the blackboard(“Sea turtles in danger”)
-SS write the title and the date in their notebooks

Activity 4:
Aims: -to skim the text and answer the question “What’s the text about?”
Skills:speaking,writing,listening,reading
Timing:4 min
Type of interaction:T-SS,SS-T,SS-SS
Team work(4 teams)
Procedure: -T asks the SS to skim the text in teams(the first paragrapf for the first
team,the second paragraph for the second team,the third paragraph for the third team
and the fourth paragraph for the fourth team)
-T asks the SS to read only the subtitles of the paragraph and answer the
question“What’s the text about?”
-T gives them a piece of paper and asks them to write thei answer in one
sentence and then give the paper to her/his team-mate
-SS read the subtitles and the first sentence of each paragraph and give
the paper to their leader to read it
-T corrects them if there’s necessary

Activity 5:
Aims: -to scan the text looking for the key words
Skills:speaking,writing,listening,reading
Timing:4 min
Type of interaction:T-SS,SS-T,SS-SS
Team work(4 teams)
Procedure: -T asks SS to look for the key words of each paragraph in teams,underline
the sentences and then read them
-SS look for the key words underline the sentences and read them
Activity 6:
Aims: -to read the text
-to look for unknown words in the dictionary
Skills:speaking,writing,listening,reading
Timing:10 min
Type of interaction:T-SS,SS-T,SS-SS
Team work(4 teams)/individual work
Procedure:T asks SS to read the text and underline the unknown words
-SS read the text
-T asks them to look for the unknown words in the dictionary and write the
words in their notebooks
- SS translate the unknown words in their notebooks

Activity 7:
Aims: -to match key words with items with similar meanings
Skills:speaking,writing,reading
Timing:4 min
Type of interaction:T-SS,SS-T,SS-SS
Team work(4 teams)
Procedure:-T gives SS worksheet no.1 and asks them to solve the first exercise”
Match key words with items with similar meanings”
-SS solve the firs exercise
-T asks the leaders to come to the blackboard and write the answers
-T corrects them if there’s necessary

Activity 8:
Aims:-to answer the comprehension questions
Skills:speaking,writing,reading
Timing:5 min
Type of interaction:T-SS,SS-T,SS-SS
Team work(4 teams)
Procedure:-T asks SS to solve exercise no.2”Answer the questions” and then come to
the flipchart and write their answers
-SS answer the questions,and write them on the flipchart

Activity 9:Feed-Back
Aims : -to solve a true/false exercise
Skills:writing,reading
Timing:5 min
Type of interaction:T-SS,SS-T
Individual Work
Procedure:-T gives SS worksheet no.2 and asks them to solve the true/false exercise
-SS solve the exercise
-T asks them to read their answers and corrects them if there’s necessary
-SS corrects the answers using a green pen

Activity 10:Interevaluation
Aims:-to complete an interevaluation chart
Skills:speaking,writing,listening
Type of interaction:T-SS,SS-T,SS-SS
Timing:4 min
Procedure:T evaluates SS’work
SS evaluates the lesson by completing a chart
SS evaluates other SS from the team by giving them marks

Activity 11: Homework

Timing:2
Procedure:T rewords the best answer given today
T asks SS to solve exercise 1/page 93