Lesson plan

Teacher: Cristiana Grozavescu

Date:
School:"Nicolae Stoica de Hateg"Highschool,Mehadia
Grade:4th,L1
Level:4th year of study
No. of classes/week:2
Textbook:Way Ahead 2,New Edition
Unit/Lesson:Unit 17/We are swimming
Title/Topic of the lesson:Present tense continuous:plural/Grammar focus
Lesson aims:
- to create a warm atmosphere in order to offer the background for smooth, easy conversations
between teacher and pupils
-to make pupils confident in themselves when speaking a foreign language
-to encourage free expression,spontaneity and creativity

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

O1-talk about holidays and describe actions happening at the moment of

speaking
O2-ask and answer questions related to weather conditions

O3-make their own sentences using present tense continuous

O4-read/listen for specific information
O5-recognise present tense continuous in context
O6-talk about different means of transport people use when they are on
holiday

Teaching techniques:

Conversation
Explanation
Exercise
Deduction

Materials/Aids:Blackboard/whiteboard,chalk/marker,textbook,notebooks,Cd-
player,cards,OHP,laptop.
Skills involved:Reading,speaking,listening,writing

Time: 50'

Classroom management:individual work,group work,pair work,whole-class.

Anticipated problems and possible solutions:

If the pupils do not understand some oral commands or tasks,those will be translated into
Romanian.
Some pupils may need more time and practice to overcome grammatical,vocabulary and
pronunciation difficulties.

N LESSON ACTIVITIES INTERAC SKILLS EVALUA

O. STAGES/A TION TION
IMS/
TIMING
TEACHER PUPILS
's activity 'activity
1. WARM-UP Greetings,checking the Teacher- Speaking
2' date,reading the roll,finding pupils
out who the absents
are,raising
pupils'interest;create
expectations
2. HOMEWO The teacher The pupils Teacher- Speaking, Teacher's
RK checks her read their pupil writing explanatio
CHECK
5'
pupils' homework Pupils-T ns
homework. and
correct it if
necessary.
The teacher Pupils listen T-pupils Listening,
asks pupils to to the speaking
3. LEAD- listen carefully Individual Verbal
IN
song,then in
to the song appreciati
pairs they Pw on
O1,4
they are about
to hear and try discuss what
to predict the they have Blackboar
topic of the just heard. d
4' new
lesson.When Individual Listening,
NEW Notebook
the listening
LESSON speaking,writing s
activity is
2'
completed,the
teacher writes
on the
blackboard:"I'
m going to the Pupils open
 seaside/To their
swim in the notebooks
sea",then asks and copy the
them:"What
title.
am I doing at
the
seaside?What
do you usually
do when you
go to the
seaside?Can
anyone say the
sentence in the
present tense
continuous?"S
he elicits "I am
swimming",th
en she wipes
out "I am"and
writes down
"We are".
3. PRESENTA The teacher The pupils Teacher- Speaking
TION tells pupils come to the pupils reading, writing Laptop
they are going front of the OHP
to do a fill- class and Individual Cards
O1,4,5
in,then a type their Listening,writing
7' multiple answers.Eve
choice ry good Whole
exercise using answer gets class Reading,
the a"way to writing, speaking Textbooks
PRACTICE laptop.Afterwa go"card. Teacher-Ps
O1,4,5 rds,the pupils
are asked to Pupils listen Pw
5' watch a video carefully in Notebook
and do another order to Individual s
fill-in exercise complete
using the their task.
PRODUCTI
ON words they
heard in the Pw Textbooks
Two Listening,speakin
O3,4,5 footage/film.
confident Ps-T g,writing
The teacher
asks pupils to pupils read Blackboar
4' open their the dialogue d/
books at page between whiteboar
86 and listen Meg and Gw d
O4,6 to/read Sue,who are
T-Ps
 6' exercise talking OHP
1,writing about a Individual Speaking Laptop
down in their holiday
O2,3,5 notebooks any destination.
sentences in Notebook
5'
the plural form Pw s
of the present Ps-T
tense In
continuous. pairs,pupils
Ex.2/86 ask and
The teacher answer
draws questions
pupils'attentio about the
n to the people in the
example in the pictures.
book,then The most
following the confident
example she pupils come
tells them to to the
solve the blackboard
exercise,that is and write
write short their
dialogues with questions/an
their swers.
deskmate.
Next,pupils The pupils
watch another discuss their
video and get answers in
into groups of groups and
four to put a watch the
dialogue in the video again
right to see how
order,then tick good their
the true memory is.
sentences to
complete a
task. Pupils write
Ex.1/87 down the
The teacher sentences in
reads the 3 their
sentences, notebooks.T
miming the hey also
actions/weathe check the
r conditions. correct
Ex.2/87 pronunciatio
The teacher n.
 asks the pupils In
to look at the pairs,pupils
pictures in look at the
their books,but pictures and
also at the say what the
3sentences in weather is
their like(1-
notebooks. 6),using the
3 sentences
in their
notebooks.

4. EVALUATIO Ex.3/87 Reading,

N AND FEED The teacher In groups of Gw writing, speaking
BACK chooses three three, pupils Blackboar
O1,2,3,6*
confident ask and Pupils- d
pupils and answer teacher
8'
following the questions
example in the until all
book,asks one photos are Individual
of them to identified/ Speaking,writing
think of a covered. OHP
picture and the Some Laptop
other two to examples Cards
asks questions are written
in order to find on the
out which blackboard
picture their so pupils can
colleague has check their
in mind. answers.
Extra-
exercise(voc.)
* Pupils name
The teacher different
asks pupils if means of
they recall the transport
song they they
listened to at remember.
the beginning In turns,they
of the come to the
lesson.Can laptop and
they remember match the
any means of picture with
transport from its
the song?If correspondin
so,can they do g word.
 the next
matching
exercise?
The teacher
praises the
most active
pupils.(cards)
. HOMEWO As homework,pupils are Teacher-
RK asked to do Ex.1/pg.88.They pupils
ASSIGNME
NT
have to read two postcards
2' and decide who is the
question about:Tom or Andy?