LESSON PLAN

Teacher: Alecsandrescu Monica Ionela

School: Scoala Gimnaziala Nr. 2 Boboci, Picior de Munte

Date: April 25th, 2013

Class: VIII (Optional)

Textbook: Snapshot Elementary

Unit 13: Guess who?

Lesson: Adjective order; Describing objects and people

Type of lesson: Revision lesson

Time: 50 minutes

Aims:

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

-to use adjectives in the correct order;

-to talk about physical appearance, personality and mood;

-to describe objects and people;

Skills: listening, reading, writing, speakingMethods: conversation, observation, pairwork, groupwork, explanation, repetition, game, learning by doing, brinstormingAids: flashcards, flipchart, tape, worksheets, blackboard, drawing board, handouts, textbook.

Type of interaction: teacher-students, student-teacher, student-student

Types of exercises: matching exercise, making sentences, jumbled words exercise, conversation exercise, fill-in exercises.

Class organization: lockstep, pairwork, groupwork, whole class

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Stages of the lesson

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Lesson stages

Time Teacher’s activity Student’s activity Aims Methods Materials Class organization

Interaction

1. Organizing the class

2’ The teacher greets the students; she asks them questions like: ‘How are you today?’, ‘Who is on duty today?’ etc. The teacher checks if there are any absents and prepares for the lesson.

The students greet the teacher. They answer the teacher’s questions. The student on duty announces the absents (if there are any).

-to create a proper atmosphere for teaching the new lesson

-conversation -roll -whole class Teacher – Student, Student - Teacher

2. Homework check-up

3’ The teacher asks the students “What was your homework for today?”, “Was it difficult?”. The teacher names some students to read the homework. She checks it. The teacher asks the students: ‘Have you checked your homework?’

The students answer the questions. The students named by the teacher read the homework (11, page 79). They had to complete the sentences using the structure: verbs seem, look, sound+ adjective or like/as if.The students read and go to the blackboard and write the answer.

-to check the mistakes

-conversation -textbook-blackboard

-whole class Teacher – Student, Student - Teacher

3. Checking previous knowledge

9’ The teacher asks the students some questions related to physical appearance and adjective word order. The teacher gives students some jumbled words (a

The students answer the questions. They work together to put the words in the right order; then the representative of each group comes in front

-to check previous knowledge

-conversation -flashcards-handouts-textbook

-groupwork Teacher – Student, Student - TeacherStudent-Student

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noun and some adjectives: eg: a table, wooden, old, dining room). They work in groups. Then she tells the students to put them in the right order – the object and its description.After they finish, the teacher shows them some pictures and asks them to match their description with the pictures. One member of each group comes in front of the class shows the picture and describes the object.

of the class.

4. Warm-up 5’ The teacher asks some students to choose some classmates and describe them physically. Then she tells them to think about their personality and mood.

The students describe their classmates physically and say a few words about their personality. Possible answer: “Georgiana is young, she’s medium height and slim. She has short black hair and small brown eyes.” etc.

-to practice vocabulary related to the topic.

-conversation -blackboard-handouts

-whole class-individual work

Teacher – Student, Student - Teacher

5. Lead-in 10’ The teacher gives the students a worksheet and tells them that they will listen to a song. In pairs, they have to fill in the blanks with the missing words.

In pairs, students listen to the song and, they try to fill in with the missing words.Students answer to the questions and write the words on the

-to arouse student’s interest in the topic.

-listening-conversation-writing

-tape-blackboard-worksheets

-pairworkTeacher – Student, Student - TeacherStudent-Student

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Activity 1writing

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The teacher asks the students: Have you succeeded to fill in all the blanks?’ Let’s check the exercise.’Then asks what type of words they are and what they describe.

The teacher asks students to think of other such words and then group all of them in opposites.

blackboard. Possible answer: “personality and mood adjectives”

The students come to the blackboard and write the words and then group them

-to remember a variety of words related to mood and personality

-conversation-writing-brainstorming

-worksheet-blackboard

-individual work

Teacher-studentStudent-student

6. Activity 2:speaking

8’ Then the teacher tells them to open their books

In pairs, students solve the exercise – short

- to be able to make

-writing-reading

-blackboard-textbook

-pairwork-role-play

Teacher – Student,

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at page 80, and use the Words from the previous activity to solve exercise 13 a) – they have to look at the pictures of the four persons and talk about their personalities. They have to work in pairs.

dialogues that they role play.

their own sentences using words related to personality

Student-Student

7. Activity 3:speaking

5’ The teacher asks the students to try exercise 13 b) – they have to talk about the moods of the three persons - are supposed to role-play a similar dialogue.

Students role-play similar dialogues.

- to practice words related to mood

-speaking -blackboard-textbook

-role-play-pairwork

Teacher – Student, Student - Student

8. Homework 2’ The students are supposed to solve exercise 14. The teacher explains the students what they have to do. She gives an example and writes it on the blackboard. The teacher makes sure that all the students understand the homework.

Students get grades.

The students write the homework and the examples in the notebooks.

-to practice making descriptions

-conversation -textbook -whole class Teacher - students

9. Dismissing students

1’ Greetings Greetings

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