LESSON PLAN

Subject: English
Grade/Level: 6th grade elementary
Time: 50 minutes
Unit 9: A World of Wonders
Type of lesson: teaching/learning
Textbook: Enterprise 2 Elementary (Express Publishing)
Aims of lesson:
to help pupils to move from passive learning to active learning
to find better ways of engaging the students in the learning process.
Objectives:
By the end of the lesson the students will be able
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to identify the main ideas of a texts on a certain topic.

to develop their listening skills by practicing skimming listening
to keep a conversation on a familiar topic
to improve their vocabulary and to make detailed descriptions of nature
to support a point of view with relevant arguments while exchanging written messages on topics

Materials: Textbook; worksheets, blackboard, sheets of paper, video projector, pictures, slides, dictionary,
textbook, cards,
Didactic Strategies: Conversation, discussion, brainstorming, group work, speaking, reading, listening,
observation, writing

Skills involved: writing, reading, speaking, listening

Interaction: pair-work, group-work, individual work
PROCEDURE
Stages

Teachers activities

1.Checking
homework

The teacher greets the students.

The teacher checks their homework.

Warming up

The teacher asks the students to think

about two words: WONDER and
BEAUTY and to describe the words
either by using their own words or to
draw some symbols for them.

Students activities

Time

The students greet the 7 min

teacher.
They read the
homework.
They also draw some
symbols for the two
words of they describe
them using their own
words.

Strategies
Speaking,
Reading

Drawing
Speaking

Remarks

2. Presenting
the new
material

The teacher announces the new topic:

The world is a beautiful place to live
At the beginning the teacher divides the
class into 4 groups and gives each group
a card with a motto written on it. The
teacher asks everyone to read the motto.
After reading, she asks them to work in
groups and to comment the mottoes
written on the cards.

The students write

into their notebooks
the topic:

10
min
Speaking

The pupils read the

mottoes:
1-st motto On earth
there is no heaven, but
there are pieces of it
(Reynard)
2-nd. Life is like a
mirror we get the best
results when we smile
at it
3-rd. Beauty is truth,
truth is beauty that is
all we need on earth
and all we need to
know (John Keats).
4-th. Our life is what
our thought make it.
They explain the
mottoes.

Oral
evaluation

3.Completing
the poem

4. Making a
description

They write the title

The teacher asks them to think of the
into their copybooks,
previous activities to complete the poem: and complete the
poem with their
words.
My Beautiful World is
My beautiful World Is>>>>>>>>
kind
My Beautiful World is
sweet
My Beautiful World is
nice
My Beautiful World is
generous
My Beautiful World is
selfless

They read the

The teacher divides the class into 7
description of the
groups and gives each group a photo
pictures.
with one of the 7 wonders of the world.
Each group should describe a picture.
Then the teacher shows the students a
ppt. presentation related to the 7 wonders

8 min

Fill in the
gap

Focus on
students
ability to
write
poems

The
students
10min Description ability to
describe
the pictures

of the world in order to compare and

check whether their descriptions were
relevant.
5. Finding out
in the song
the ideas
about World

The teacher asks the students to listen to

the song We are the world by Michael
Jackson and then to find the gist.

Listening
and
speaking

They write the

answers, and read
them to the whole
class.
10
min

After first listening the teacher asks the

students about the feelings they got after
listening the song.

Writing a
poem

6. Homework
Develop the sentence. We are the
World
5 min
The teacher asks to continue writing five
more lines in order to develop the ideas
commented in the classroom.

Listening
comprehen
sion

to evaluate
students
creativity