LESSON PLAN

Subject: English
Form: VI a C
Date: 04.02.2015
Teacher: Saghin Irina
Methodist: Arsenii Andriana
Mentor teacher: Dermengi Aliona
Topic: Inventions on our life
Lesson type: mixed lesson
Time: 45 min

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Specific competences:
Pragmatic competences: producing oral messages (Spoken interraction)
Communicative competences: Receiving written messages (Reading)
Communicative competences: Producing written messages (Writing)
Sub competences:
S 2.3. Employing everyday conversational formulas and giving relevant details in dialogues to describe modern inventions;
S 3.1. Reading aloud a short fragment of an unknown text.
Grammar: Using Past Perfect Tense.
Operational objects:
Knowledge: students will be able to decode the unknown vocabulary by means of the text and pictures;
Skill: students will be able to modern inventions and their role in everyday life;
Attitude: Students will form positive attitudes towards inventions.

Stages of the lesson

(Learning Activities)
I.

Resources

Strategies(methods, Subcompeten
techniques, forms
ces
of activities)

Time

EVOCATION

1.Organization
The teacher greets the pupils and creates the atmosphere.
Good morning 6th class. How are you? How do you feel
today?
The pupils greet him back.Good morning teacher. We are
fine.
2. Checking homework
Teacher asks students what was their homework:Now
please someone to tell me what was your homework for
today.
Students listen to teachers question and answer that their
homework was:
Ex 4 page 61, choose the correct answer to complete the
sentences:
1. We had a marvellous vacation in the mountain.
2. When you buy a new dress, you should tell the
shop assistant your size.
3. Ancient people honoured their gods and goddesses.
4. A lighthouse is sailors best friend in bad weather,
5. The tourists admired the ancient Greek tomb.
Ex 6 page 61, to correct the 12 mistakes in Lauras essay.
Most Egyptian children went to school when they were
eight. There were sports for boys only, which was not
much fun for girls. Egyptians liked the music and most
children learned to play an instrument. Egyptian houses

Attention
Capturing

Copybook
Textbook

Conversation
Explanation
Frontal questions

1-2min

5 min

Notes

didnt have as many furniture as our houses. The furniture

was usually made of wood but rich people decorated their
furniture with gold and ivory. Egyptians got milk and meat
from goats ant they ate a lot of fish. They sweetened their
food with honey.
3. Preparation
The teacher directs the pupils to ex. 1 page 62. The teacher
asks the pupils: what do you think wonders of the modern
world are and why?
The pupils answer: the wonders of the ancient world are:
the telephone because it can connect people from long
distances; the computer because it allows us to make
different tasks.
REALISATION OF MEANING
New Material presentation
a) Pre-Reading
The teacher directs the pupils to the word bank and tells
them to search the unknown words and write them in their
copy books. After they translated the word the teacher
reads the words and the pupils translate them.

3 min
Textbook

Questioning
Argumentation
Opinion sharing

S 2.3.

Textbook
Dictionaries
Copybooks

Dictionary work

2 min

Images
Blackboard

Whole class-work

4 min

Textbook

Loud reading
Whole class-work

II.

The teacher refers the pupils to exercise 2 page 62. The

pupils read the task and answer the question while looking
at the images that are on the blackboard: It is a phone, it
appeared in 1876; It is a fax machine, it appeared in 1988.
While-Reading
The teacher refers the pupils to the dialogue and names
pupils to read by taking turns and to translate them. The
pupils read the dialogue and translate it.

S 3.1.

7 min

Post-Reading
The teacher directs the pupils to ex 5 page 63 and asks a
pupil to read the task: to find the mistakes in the nineteenth
century picture. The pupils listen the task and answer:
There is a woman who is wearing headsets; I see a man
who has a radio cassette player, the other man is working
on a computer, and the woman next to him is drinking late.
a) Grammar Presentation
The teacher writes a sentence on the blackboard: I ate a big
breakfast before I went to school. The teacher draws a time
line for the sentence:
I ate a big I went to
breakfast. school.

7:30am

Textbook
Picture

Whole class-work
Picture describing
Opinion sharing
Argumentation

Blackboard
Chalk

Induction

Copybooks
Questioning

Questioning
Explanation

3 min

Using past
perfect tense

3 min

Now

8:00am

The pupils write the sentence and the timeline in their

copybooks. The teacher asks: What happened first? What
happened second? The pupils answer: First: I ate
breakfast. Second: I went to school.
The teacher explains that both of these activities happened
in the past. However, one happened before the other.
The teacher gives the definition of Past Perfect: The past
perfect tense is used to describe an action that has been
completed before another past action. It is also used to

5 min

describe an action that happened in the distant past.

The teacher writes on the blackboard:
I
subject +

had
had

eaten
past participle

2 min
Whole-class work
Loud reading

The pupils write the definition in their copybook.

The teacher directs the pupils to the grammar box and tells
them to read it by taking turns. The pupils read the
grammar box.

III.
REFLEXION
b) Grammar Practice
The teacher directs the pupils to exercise 6 page 63. The
pupils read the task. The teacher divides the pupils into
pairs and asks them to discuss the difference in meaning
between the sentences from ex 6. The pupils divide into
pairs and discuss the task given by the teacher: In the first
sentence both of the action take place in the same time: I
arrived and they were eating cookies (so they still had
cookies); In the second sentence the cookies were all eaten
before I arrived at the party (so the past perfect relates two
past activities with each other).
IV.

4 min
Textbook

Discussion
Opinion sharing
Explanation

EXTENSION

c) Grammar production
Blackboard
The teacher begins to tell a story to pupils: When I arrived Chalk
home I realized Id been burgled. I couldnt believe my
eyes. The burglars: had broken down the door

had left my papers and photos all over the floor;

Story telling

5 min

had locked my dog in the cellar;

had taken my TV;
had smashed a window;
had stolen my laptop;
had eaten the cake Id bought for my friends
birthday.
The pupils listen the story. After telling the story the
teacher writes on the blackboard the first sentence: When I
arrived home I saw the burglarsand the pupils have to
say what happened before I arrived home.
V.
FEEDBACK
a) Assessment
The teacher makes conclusions over the lesson. The
teacher gives marks to pupils.
b) Homework
The teacher writes the homework on the blackboard: Ex 4,
7 and to learn the words from the Word Bank. The pupils
write their homework in their record-books.
The teacher announces the end of the lesson thanks the
pupils for attention and says goodbye. The pupils thank the
teacher for the lesson and leave for the break.

Whole class work

Conversation

1 min
1 min

Blackboard
Chalk
Record-books
Pen