LESSON PLAN

Candidate: Adnan Elezovi

Date: 25th May 2015
Time: 10:10 - 10:55
Host school: Prva gimnazija u Zenici
Class: I - 1
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Recent work
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Long term

Short term

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Classroom management
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LESSON PLAN

20 students, 10 girls and 10 boys, age 15

English, the first foreign language
Module 15 - Pictures
Lesson 43: A Street Scene - Grammar focus: Relative clauses
Presentation and practice
Developing speaking, reading and writing skills
Raising interest in learning English by using different activities
Developing sense for a pair and individual work
To spread love for English language
To read an extract from a museum brochure
Repeating relative pronouns
Learning and practising relative clauses
To write definitions using relative clauses
Practicing reading, writing, matching, guessing
Communicative-engage the students, Task-based method
Presentation, practice, production
Individual and pair work
Textbook, workbook, laptop, blackboard, projector and TV
Introduction part, main part and final part

Students' book: New Opportunities: Pre - Intermediate; pg. 122-123

Teacher's book: New Opportunities: Pre - Intermediate; pg. 126-127
Workbook: New Opportunities: Pre - Intermediate; pg. 86 - 87

Stages

Aims and
objectives

Class organization, procedures and activities

Activity 1-Teacher greets the students and introduces

himself. He tells them that he will be their English
teacher for today and that he hopes they will have an
interesting lesson.
To repeat the
lesson
they did on their
previous class. To
introduce the
lesson they will do
today.

Activity 2-Before starting with today's lesson the

teacher asks students to look at some pictures of
paintings. Students should try and guess the name of the
painting and the name of the paintor.
Activity 3- Teacher tells students to look at the painting
on page 122/screen and read through the questions in
Exercise 1. Students try to answer the questions. The
teacher writes down the title on the blackboard.

Teaching aids
Interaction
and materials

None

Laptop
Screen

Student's book
Screen
Blackboard

T-S

T-S
S-T

T-S
S-T

Stages

Aims and
objectives

Class organization, procedures and activities

Teaching aids
Interaction
and materials

Main part

Activity 4 - Teacher tells students to read the extract

from the museum brochure and check their guesses from
Exercise 1. Show the answers on the screen.
Activity 5 - Ask students to look at the list of relative
pronouns in Exercise 3. In pairs students read the text
again and underline the relative pronouns. Teacher goes
around the classroom and check if the students are doing
the assignment correctly. Check the answers by asking
students to read out words immediately before and after
each relative pronoun.
To learn more
Activity 6 - Ask the students to complete the rules with
about art and
the relative pronouns. Check if the rules are correct.
painting.
Write the answers on the blackboard.
To learn about
Activity 7 - Move to Exercise 4. Briefly explain to
relative pronouns students that relative pronouns are used to introduce
and relative
relative clauses and that are used to identify the thing or
clauses. To learn to person we are talking about. Read through the examples
identify relative and point out that pronouns in brackets are omitted in
pronouns and
the text. Ask students to look at the text again and read
clauses. To
out more relative clauses.
understand the Activity 8 - Ask students to look at the examples in
rules and usage of Exercise 4 an ask them to say when the relative
relative clauses. pronouns can be omitted. Refer students to Grammar
Summary 15, page 144 to study at home.

Textbook
Screen

T-S
S-T

Textbook
Blackboard

T-S
S-S
S-T

Textbook
Blackboard

T-S
S-T

Textbook
Screen

T-S
S-T

Textbook
Blackboard

T-S
S-T

Stages

Aims and
objectives

Class organization, procedures and activities

Teaching aids
Interaction
and materials

Activity 9 - Exercise 6. The teacher reads aloud the

instructions. He points out the three steps: first to circle
the relative pronouns, then to underline the relative
pronouns and to put the brackets around relative
Student's book
pronouns that can be omitted. Together with the class to
Screen
the first example. Show the correct answers on the
screen.

Main part

Activity 10 - Before continuing with exercises, teacher

tells students to look at the page 123 in their activity
book. He tells them that exercises 8 and 9 will be for
their homework. He also says that they can practice
relative clauses in their workbooks, page 86 and 87.

To learn more
about art and
painting.
To learn about
relative pronouns Activity 11-Exercise 7. Ask one of the students to read
and relative
out the assignment. The teacher should make it clear
clauses. To learn to
that the relative pronoun that is not a choice. Ask
identify relative
students to do the exercise in pairs, but check the
pronouns and
answers by asking them individuals to read out the
clauses. To
sentences.
understand the
rules and usage of
relative clauses.

Student's book
Workbook

T-S
S-T

T-S

T-S
S-T
Student's book

Stages

Aims and
objectives

Class organization, procedures and activities

Teaching aids
Interaction
and materials

T-S
S-T

Final part

Handouts
Activity 12 - Teacher tells students that he will give
them handouts with a questionnaire. After he gives them
To sum up what we handouts she tells them to look at the questions, think
did on
about them and then to raise their hands when they are
today's lesson . To
ready to answer.
make sure
students
understood all of
Activity 13 - The teacher asks if there are any
the exercises and
questions. If yes he resolves the issue and if no the
their purpose.
teacher tells the class that they did a great job and that
he hopes they will continue working hard.

None

S-T
T-S

Stages
Contingency plan for extra time

Aims and
objectives

To test students
memory
and to make them
think
about activities
they mentioned.

Class organization, procedures and activities

Teaching aids
Interaction
and materials

Activity 14 - Teacher tells students to go back to a

page 122 in their activity books and to do Exercise 11.
Student's book
They have to write sentences about famous people from
our country. After they finish they work in pairs and try to
guess the partner's words.

T-S
S-T
S-S

Contingency plan for lack of time

To skip Exercise 7
from
Activity 16-Teacher skips doing Exercise 7 from the
the student's book
student's book. He wants to make sure students will
because they
have enough time to do other, more significant
already did
exercises.
exercises related to
relative pronouns..

Student's book

T-S

Possible
problems and
solutions

Timing

None

1'

If they cannot
remember,
teacher helps
them by
giving some hints.

None

3'

4'

Possible
problems and
solutions

Timing

If the screen doesn't

work just read out
the answers.

6'

None.

4'
If the students
complete the rules
incorrectly the
teacher should help
them.

3'

None.

5'

None.

3'

Possible
problems and
solutions
If students have
problems with
doing an exercise,
teacher will help
then and they can
do it together.
If students didn't
hear which
exercises are for
their homework
teacher will repeat
and explain briefly
what they have to
do.
If students have
problems with
doing an exercise,
teacher will help
then and they can
do it together.

Timing

5'

1'

4'

Possible
problems and
solutions

If it takes to long
for
students to raise
their hands,
teacher will call
the names.

Timing

4'

2'
None.

Possible
problems and
solutions

If students cannot
guess the person
or the thing their
partner can help
them with more
information.

Timing

3'

None

4'

BLACKBOARD LAYOUT

A Street Scene

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Relative Clauses
-> Relative clauses
<-

to introduce

<-

Relative pronouns ->

people:

WHO/THAT

used to identify the thing or person we are talking about

things:

THAT/WHICH

possession: WHOSE
WHERE
<-

places:

(we can leave out relative pronoun before a noun or a pronoun)

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