Lesson plan

Date: the 30th of April 2015

Teacher: Stepan Cristina
School: Scoala gimnaziala nr. 3 Arpasel
Grade: 8th
Textbook: Snapshot intermediate
Unit: They emigrated to the USA
Lesson title: The Story of The Clearances
Specific objectives: By the end of the lesson students will be able to:
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to engage and activate students in using the English language;

to encourage students to use (monolingual)dictionaries;

-to develop intensive reading skills(reading for gist, reading for detailed comprehension);

to develop communicative and receptive competences;

Teaching materials: pictures, dictionaries, blackboard

Skills: listening; speaking; reading; writing
Classs management: pair work; group work; lock step
Teaching techniques:
Brainstorming;
Elicitation;
Explanation;
Number of students: 10
Anticipated problems: there will be explanation in Romanian ( if needed)

Stages of the new lesson

Activity 1 - WARMER - GOT IT! ( whole class)

Aims: - to warm students up
Procedure: The Ss are put into groups of four or five, all sitting round a table. The teacher gives
each group a collection of 20 words written on individual cards or pieces of paper. (ex. Words
associated with cooking such as: slice, chop, cut, frying pan, saucepan, dish).The students have
to place the cards face up on the table in front of them so that all of them can be seen. The
teacher reads out the words one by one. The task of each group is to try to snatch the card with
the word on it. When they do this (before another member of the group), they have to hold the
card and shout GOT IT! Each student keeps the cards they have managed to snatch, and so at
the end of the game there is a winner in each group-and an overall winner who has collected the
greatest number of cards.
Interaction: Ss-Ss; Ss- T
Timing: 5 minutes
Skills: Listening; speaking

ACTIVITY II REINFORCING AND CHECKING THE PREVIOUS

KNOWLEDGE

Aim: - to practice making polite requests , agreeing or refusing them.

Procedure: T. asks the students to form pairs and think that one of them is a passerby asking
another one different things.(carry this bag, move your bike, turn the music down, etc)
Ex. S1: Excuse me, can you move your bike, please?
S2: Yes, of course.
S2: Sorry, I cant, I am waiting for someone.
Interaction: Ss Ss; Ss - T

Timing: 10 minutes

Activity 3 - PRE-reading ( whole class)

Aims: -to create interest and introduce Ss into the topic
Time: 10 min.
Procedure: The teacher asks the students to look at the picture in the textbook. She asks the
students to look at the picture while she writes on the Bb the following questions:
T: What country is this?
Is this a modern picture?
If not, when do you think this happened?
Who are the people?
Are they rich or poor?
What do you think has happened to them?
Ss discuss Ts questions in groups, then report back to the whole class.
Interaction: Ss Ss, Ss-T

ACTIVITY IV WHILE READING ( Pair work)

Aims: - to practice reading for specific information
Time: 15min.
Procedure: A) T. asks the students to look upon the sentences in exercise 7 and then she asks
them to read the text with their partners and choose the correct answers. T goes through the
answers with the whole class.
Interaction: Ss Ss; Ss - T

ACTIVITY V POST READING ( group work)

Aim: - to use the information acquired in creating sentences of their own;
Time: 15min.
Procedure: T asks the students to scan the text, find 5 new words, look up in the dictionaries,
then write the 5 new words down on a piece of paper and hand them to the other group. The

groups exchange the papers with the new words on them and each group have to make up 5
sentences with the new words, without looking in the dictionary for their meaning.
Simultaneously, the 2 groups write the sentences on the Bb and the group who have managed to
make the most sentences correctly, they win. T checks sentences and corrects them with the
whole class.
Interaction: Ss Ss; Ss - T

ACTIVITY VI EVALUATION AND HOMEWORK

ASSIGNMENT
Aim: - to evaluate the Ss. work
- to assign Ss. their homework
Time: 5 min
Procedure: The teacher grades some Ss. T asks the students to answer the questions at exercise 7
c. in their notebooks. (OR T asks the students to choose a small fragment from the text and
change all the adjectives from negative meaning to positive) in order to change the story into a
happy one)!
Interaction: T Ss