LESSON PLAN

Teacher: Mareş Iulia-Georgiana

Date: 14th of November 2013

Class: 6th grade

Number of students:

Time: 50 minutes

Level: Intermediate

Unit: 4

Lesson: My day- by Cheetah the chimpanzee

Topic: daily routines

Text book: Snapshot

Approach: Communication

Assumed knowledge: Talk about daily routines;

Lesson aims:

- to express daily routines;- to put some paragraphs in order;- to identify the adverbs of frequency;- to create a relaxed atmosphere in the classroom;

Cognitive Objectives:

By the end of the lesson the students will be able to:

- to make up sentences about daily routines;

- to use the correct forms of the Present Simple tense.

Affective Objectives:

-stimulate their imagination;

-become self-confident when speaking a foreign language;

-create a friendly atmosphere in order to offer the background for smooth, easy conversations

between teacher and students.

Teaching techniques: conversation, explanation, exercises, reading comprehension, group work, pair work.

Materials: text book, notebooks, board, laptop, coloured tickets , chart, puzzles, worksheets.

Types of interaction : Teacher – Students (T-Ss)

Student – Students (Ss-Ss)

Students – Teacher (Ss- T)

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Braian Abbs, Ingrid Freebain, Chris Baker, Snaphot clasa a VI-a, Longman, 2001;

Stage of lesson Teacher’s activity

Student’s activity

Interaction Skill Time Purpose

Warm up Teacher greets students;

Teacher asks ss the date and write it on the blackboard.

Teacher starts the lesson with a small talk about which are their daily activities.

Ss answer

Ss answer

Ss answer

T-Ss

Ss-T

Speaking 3

min

To create a pleasant atmosphere in the classroom and to know the students better;

Homework check-up

Teacher asks ss to read the homework.

Teacher and ss check the homework and correct it if necessary

Ss-T

T-Ss

Reading

Speaking

Writing

5 min

To notice how responsible the students are and to correct the eventual mistakes;

Lead in Some students are asked to choose a picture and the others to choose a sentence. One by one, those who have chosen the sentences should read them aloud and the others ss having pictures must sand up when they see they have the corresponding

Ss read the sentences and match them with the right pictures.

Ss–Ss

Ss-T

T-Ss

Listening

Writing

Speaking

5

min

To motivate the students and to provide context for the next activities;

image.

Annex 1

Announcing the lesson topic

Practice:

First activity:

Group Working;

Teacher writes the title of the lesson on the board: Daily routines

Teacher tells the Ss that the lesson aim is to talk about the things that they do in everyday life.

Teacher asks each student to choose a coloured ticket (red, yellow, blue, green or purple); Each ticket corresponds to a certain group.

Each group is given a chart (containing the daily activities that Mary does) and some incomplete sentences. Using the information in the chart, ss should fill in the gaps of the sentence.

Ss write the title in their notebooks.

The students choosing the same colour make up a group and so fulfill a certain task;

Ss read the final form of the sentences.

T-Ss

Ss-Ss

Ss-T

Listening

Speaking

Writing

Speaking

1 m

7 min

To fix the objective of the lesson;

To practice the way in which the students can express daily routines;

(annex 2)

Second activity:

Reading

Comprehension

Teacher asks the students to read the paragraphs on page 30 and asks the children to translate them and to rearrange them in the correct order.

Then the teacher asks the ss to complete the chart from the page 30 (c)

Ss read the text and write the key words in their notebooks.

SS –T

T-Ss

Reading

Writing

13 min

To provide a context for reading;

To check the text comprehension.

Third activity:

Picture story

Ss are given a picture and they should write, in group, a four paragraph composition.

The leader of each group reads their group’s version.

(annex 3)

Ss write the composition and read it aloud.

Ss-Ss

Ss-T

Writing

Speaking

10

min

To practice the writing of stories.

Forth activity:

Free practice-exercises

Teacher gives the students a diagram and they are asked to complete it individually.

(annex 4)

Ss complete the diagram given with personal information about their daily routine.

T-Ss

Ss-T

Writing

5

min

To consolidate the new material that has been taught.

Homework: Teacher announces the homework for the next lesson: the last exercise from the worksheet.

Ss write down in their notebooks what they are supposed to do for next lesson.

T-Ss Listening 1 min

To let the students know what they have to prepare for the new lesson.

Annex 2

Read the schedule about Mary's daily routine.

Complete the following sentences related to the schedule above.

1. On Monday, Mary usually………………….. between 8:30 and 12:30

2. She always ………………………….between 2:00 and 3:00.

3. She normally …………………………..after lunch.

4. She often……………………………… between 5:00 and 6:30.

5. On Tuesday and Wednesday she usually……………………….. between 6:30 and 8:30.

6. She always …………………………at 9:00 o'clock.

Annex 3

Annex 4

Make up sentences in which to reflect the following pictures.

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