LESSON PLAN

Teacher: Zaharia Lavinia Simona

Grade: 8
th
form
School: Middle school Glgu Almaului cls. I-VIII
Date:
Title of the lesson: Puzzling uzzles
Unit: 8
Textbook: !igh-"l#er uer in$ermedia$e
Lesson aims
1. To allow pupils to practice speaking by talking about big invention.
2. To give pupils practice in using the possessives.
Ma$erials% textbook, worksheets.
An$icia$ed ro&lems%
Pupils might find it difficult to use in sentences the past perfect continuous.
Possible solutions to explain very well the uses of past perfect continuous
and then make a lot of exercises.
! Ac$ivi$# '-(arm )u
Aim% to ask pupils if they know what a pu""le means.
Procedure
1. Teacher asks pupils what a pu""le means.
2. Teacher asks if they ever played such a game.
#. Teacher asks pupils if the title of the lesson has anything to do with the
text.
$. Teacher makes with the pupils the trivia %ui".
&nteraction Timing
Teacher Pupils 1' min.
! Ac$ivi$# *-In$roducing $he ne+ voca&ular#
Aim% presentation of vocabulary on early aero plane designers and
pu""les.
Procedure
1. Teacher read the text with the pupils and asks pupils what words they
don(t know.
2. Teacher writes the unknown words at the blackboard and then she
explains them the words.
#. Pupils listen and repeat.
$. Teacher asks %uestions about the text in the lesson.
&nteraction Timing
Teacher Pupils 1' min.
! Ac$ivi$# ,--eading ac$ivi$#
Aim% to find what a topic sentence is.
Procedure
1. Teacher tells pupils what a topic sentence is and where in a paragraph it
usually goes.
2. Then teacher gives the instruction for exercise two.
#. Teacher tries to answer with the pupils at the %uestions from the text.
&nteraction Timing
Teacher Pupils 1' min.
! Ac$ivi$# .-Lis$ening ac$ivi$#
Aim% to listen some people how to solve a pu""le.
Procedure
1. Teacher read the main instruction with the class.
2. Pupils have to listen to the dialogue and check their answers to the
pu""le in )xercise *.
#. Teacher plays the cassette.
$. Then, they check the answers in the class.
&nteraction Timing
Teacher Pupils + min.
! Ac$ivi$# /-Sea0ing rac$ice
Aim% to practice the new vocabulary in a different context.
Procedure
1. Teacher invents a situation and pupils have to deal with it.
2. Teacher asks pupils what they would like to invent so they can become
famous in history.
#. The pupils make pairs.
$. Then, the pairs present in front of the class their invention.
&nteraction Timing
Teacher Pupils + min
Pair work
Ac$ivi$ies 1in s$oc02
Puzzle% &n pairs, students make a crossword pu""le with *,1+ of the words
they have learnt in this unit. They should consult the dictionary to write the
clues. Then, they give it to another pair to solve.
! !ome+or0% e.g. 11from page #*.