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Profesor: Kiss Kinga

Data: 05.06.2014

LESSON PLAN
Class: XI F
General theme: Domeniul personal
Title of the lesson: - The Pancake Batter Anomaly Big Bang Theory
Type of the lesson: acquiring new vocabulary
Competente specifice: 1.3, 1.4, 3.3, 3.4, 4.2
Objective: -to acquire illness related vocabulary.
-to become more aware of fluency, rhythm and intonation.
Interaction: group work, pair work, frontal work.
Material: handouts, Internet resources, snapshots
Methods: - brainstorming
- predicting
- debate
-role play
WARM UP
Time: 5
Aim: to increase motivation and engage SS. into speaking warm up activities.
Competente specifice: 1.1, 1.4, 2.3.
Method: exchange of opinions.
Material: handout.
Interaction: S-S-S
Description: T. handouts the SS. a quiz with several question related to health and illness issues. As some of
the questions are personal questions, I expect a higher rate of involvement and interest as well as controversial
small discussions about differences in male and female behavior when ill.
Follow-up activity:
SS. must discuss and present their findings. The OCFB (open class feedback) will outline our major topic of the
lesson and also generate an interest towards the forthcoming activities.
Activity 1
Time: 8
Aim: to engage SS. into predicting and speaking activity.
Competente specifica: 1.3, 3.4.
Method: prediction.
Material: Snapshots from the sitcom.
Interaction: groups of 3, frontal work.
Description: SS. walk around the class and based on the snapshots posted all over the class try to predict the
storyline of the episode they are about to watch.
Follow-up activity: From each group of three one leader will present their storyline version and if needed
further exploitation can be done, should this be needed.
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Activity 2
Time: 5
Aim: to become aware of fluency, rhythm and intonation.
Competente specifica: 1.1, 1.2, 1.3.
Method: script reading and character clash.
Material: handout.
Interaction: individual, pair work,groups of three, OCFB.
Description: T. presents SS. the variety of character coupling available in the dialogues and they choose the
character they want to personalise and start reading silently the script and then they need to find a partner whom
to act out the dialogue in their own intimacy.
Follow up activity: SS. are asked to read out 2, 3 lines they believe are either good at or they believe they have
got the right attitude to act it out.
Activity 3:
Time: 20
Aim: to be presented with a model.
Competenta specifica: 1.3, 1.4.
Method: individual work.
Material: the BBT video episode.
Interaction: individual work.
Description: T. shows SS. the BBT episode in order to have a feedback on their predictions as well as on their
manner of interpreting the characters and interpreting the lines/script.
Follow up activity: SS. need to improve their lines and try even harder to act it out as close as possible to the
characters they embody and then there will be a dubbing activity/acting out activity.
Activity 4:
Time: 12
Aim: to practice native like fluency, intonation.
Competenta specifica: 1.3, 1.4.
Method: monologue, dialogue.
Material: handout
Interaction: pair and groups of three.
Description: After having done the dubbing activity and more preparation, SS. are asked to perform in front of
the class and must grade each others performance and finally decide which group has been the best.

Liceul Teoretic Gheorghe Sincai

Profesor: Kiss Kinga
Data: 05.06.2014

Liceul Teoretic Gheorghe Sincai

Profesor: Kiss Kinga
Data: 05.06.2014

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Data: 05.06.2014

QUIZ ON HEALTH AND ILLNESS ISSUES

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Who handles illness better in your family?

How often do you get a cold?
Does it take you long to recover after a flu or illness?
Are you a germaphobe?
What are the tips that you follow in order to get over flu in no time?
Are men or women worse when having contacted flu? Why?
How does a sick man behave?
How does a sick woman face her poor condition?

1. PENNY, SHELDON AND LEONARD

PENNY: Boy, it's good to be back.

LEONARD: How's your family?
PENNY: Oh, it was the worst trip. Everyone got sick over the weekend.
SHELDON: Sick?
LEONARD: Here we go.
SHELDON: What kind of sick?
PENNY: Oh, the flu, I guess.
SHELDON: I don't need you to guess. I need you to know. Now, when did the symptoms first appear?
PENNY: Maybe Friday.
SHELDON: Friday. Was that morning or afternoon?
PENNY: I-I don't...
SHELDON: Think, woman. Who blew their nose and when?
LEONARD: Sheldon, relax. She doesn't have any symptoms. I'm sure she's not contagious.
SHELDON: Oh, please. If influenza was only contagious after symptoms appear, it would have died out
thousands of years ago. Somewhere between tool using and cave painting, homo habilis would have figured out
how to kill the guy with the runny nose.
LEONARD: Penny, you'll have to excuse
Sheldon: He's a bit of a germaphobe.

2. LEONARD AND SHELDON

SHELDON: Oh, dear God. Leonard. Leonard, I'm sick. Leonard. Leonard, I'm sick. Leonard. Leonard. Leonard.
Leonard, my comforter fell down, and my sinuses hurt when I bend over. Leonard? Ow.
LEONARD: Hey.
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SHELDON; Leonard, where are you?

LEONARD: I'm at work.
SHELDON: At 6:30 in the morning?
LEONARD: Yes.
SHELDON: On Sunday?
LEONARD: Yes.
SHELDON: Why?
LEONARD: They asked me to come in.
SHELDON: I didn't hear the phone ring.
LEONARD: They texted me.
SHELDON: Well, as I predicted, I am sick. My fever has been tracking up exponentially since 2 a.m., and I am
producing sputum at an alarming rate.
LEONARD: No kidding?
SHELDON: Nope. Not only that, it has shifted from clear to milky green.
LEONARD: All right, well, get some rest and drink plenty of fluids.
SHELDON: What else would I drink? Gases? Solids? Ionized plasma?
LEONARD: Drink whatever you want.
SHELDON: I want soup.
LEONARD: Then make soup.
SHELDON: We don't have soup.
LEONARD: I'm at work, Sheldon.
SHELDON: Is that a dog?
LEONARD: Yes.
3. MRS. WOLOWITZ, LEONARD AND HOWARD
MRS. WOLOWITZ; Howard, it's the phone.
HOWARD: I know it's the phone, Ma. I hear the phone.
MRS. WOLOWITZ; Well, who's calling at this ungodly hour?
HOWARD: I don't know.
MRS. WOLOWITZ: Well, ask them why they're calling at this ungodly hour.
HOWARD: How can I ask them when I'm talking to you? Hello?
LEONARD: Howard, it's Leonard. Code milky green.
HOWARD: Dear Lord, not milky green.
LEONARD: Affirmative. With fever.
MRS. WOLOWITZ: Who's on the phone?
HOWARD: It's Leonard.
MRS. WOLOWITZ:Why is he calling?
HOWARD: Sheldon's sick.
4. SHELDON AND PENNY
Homeless crazy guy at Table 18.
PENNY: No, just crazy. Sheldon, what are you doing here?
SHELDON: I'm sick. Thank you very much.
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PENNY: How could you've gotten if from me? I'm not sick.
SHELDON: You're a carrier. All these people here are doomed. You're doomed.
PENNY: Shh! Sheldon, what do you want?
SHELDON: I want soup.
PENNY: Why didn't you just...? Why didn't you just have soup at home?
SHELDON: Penny, I have an IQ of 187. Don't you imagine that if there were a way for me to have had soup at
home, I would have thought of it?
PENNY: You can have soup delivered.
SHELDON: I did not think of that. Clearly, febrile delirium is setting in. Please bring me some soup while I
still understand what a spoon is for.
5. PENNY AND SHELDON
PENNY: Okay, nice and cozy. Okay, I'll see you later.
SHELDON: Wait. Will you please rub this on my chest?
PENNY: Oh, Sheldon, can't you do that yourself?
SHELDON: VapoRub makes my hands smell funny.
PENNY: But, Sheldon...
SHELDON: Please, please, please, please, please, please, please.
PENNY: I can't believe I'm doing this.
SHELDON: No, no. Counterclockwise or my chest hair mats.
PENNY: Sorry.
SHELDON: Can you sing Soft Kitty?
PENNY: What?
SHELDON: My Mom used to sing it to me when I was sick.
PENNY: I'm sorry, honey. I don't know it.
SHELDON: I'll teach you. Soft kitty, warm kitty, Little ball of fur. Happy kitty, sleepy kitty, purr, purr, purr.
Now you.
PENNY: Soft kitty, warm kitty...
SHELDON: Little ball of fur. Keep rubbing.
PENNy: Little ball of fur.
6. PENNY AND SHELDON
PENNY: Oh, it's okay. I didn't really need to work today. It's not like I have rent or car payments or anything.
SHELDON: Good, good.
PENNY: Okay, well, you feel better.
SHELDON: Wait. Where are you going?
PENNY: Um, home to write some bad checks.
SHELDON: You're going to leave me?
PENNY: Hey, Sheldon, you are a grown man. Haven't you ever been sick before?
SHELDON: Of course, but not by myself.
PENNy: Really? Never?
SHELDON: Well, once, when I was 15 and spending the summer at the Heidelberg Institute in Germany.
PENNY: Studying abroad?
SHELDON: No, visiting professor. Anyway, the local cuisine was a little more sausage-based than I'm used to,
and the result was an internal Blitzkrieg..
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Profesor: Kiss Kinga
Data: 05.06.2014

1. PENNY, SHELDON AND LEONARD

2. LEONARD AND SHELDON
3. MRS. WOLOWITZ, LEONARD AND HOWARD
4. SHELDON AND PENNY
5. PENNY AND SHELDON
6. PENNY AND SHELDON