Lesson Plan

Teacher: Mitroi Mariela

Date: 22nd of March 2011
Form: 3rd Grade
Level: Beginners
Lesson: Hippos are big
Text Book: Way Ahead, MacMillan
Time: 50 min.

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

Cognitive:
- talk about animals and express feelings about them;
- classify animals into domestic and wild animals;
- describe animals using the vocabulary taught;
- read correctly the vocabulary taught.

Affective:
- create interest in the topic;
- stimulate their imagination;
- be confident in them when speaking a foreign language.

Approaches: Communicative and Discovery Approach

Techniques: brainstorming, elicitation, oral drill activities, description,
conversation, drawings, anticipation, reproducing sounds
Materials: Textbook, blackboard, hand-outs, movie-clips, flashcards, boards

Stage of lesson

Teachers activity

I. Warm-up

1. Teacher greets the ss and calls

the roll.
2. Teacher starts the lesson with a
small talk and asks ss if they are
ready for the lesson.
3. Teacher asks ss to pay attention
at the next clip and asks them to
indentify the animals in the clip.
(Old McDonald had a farm)
4. Teacher elicits information from
ss by asking them what were the
animals in the clip and asks them
to try to classify them:
Domestic

Students activity
- ss answer

Interactio
n
- T-SS

Skill
- Speaking

- ss answer

- T-SS

- Speaking

- ss watch and write

down the animals;

- SS-SS

- Listening
- Writing

- ss answer
- ss write

- T-SS
- SS-T
- SS-SS

- Speaking
- Writing

Wild Animals

II. Feed-back

1. Teacher offers feedback.

- ss listen

- T-SS

- Listening

III.
Mixed type of
lesson

1. Teacher announces the

objectives of the lesson; then, she
asks students to think of wild
animals and invites them to the
board to write them down.
2. Teacher allots time for students
to finish writing all the animals
from the blackboard.
3. Teacher invites students to
watch another clip with a boy
named Cooper. Cooper is going to
the zoo: A trip to the Zooooo
4. Teacher asks students to pay
attention to all the animals there
and name as many as they can.
5. Teacher shows students
flashcards with the animals from
the clip and offers translation.
6. Teacher allots time to students to
write all the animals down.
7. Teacher invites students to play
a game called Pass the card and
explains the rules.
8. Teacher writes on the
blackboard what students have to
say when passing the card to the

- ss answer

- T-SS

- Speaking

- ss write

- SS-SS

- Writing

- ss listen

-SS-SS

- Listening

- ss write

- T-SS

- Writing

- ss answer and repeat

- T-SS

- Speaking

- ss write

- SS-SS

- Writing

- ss talk

- SS-SS

- Speaking

- ss listen
- ss answer

- T-SS
-SS-SS

-Listening
- Speaking

-Introducing
new material;
- Listening;
- Reading ;
- Watching.

V. Feed-back
VI. Homework

desk mate.
9. Teacher invites students to open
their books at page 71 and
announces what they have to do at
the first exercise.
10. Teacher invites students to
solve the second exercise, page 71.
11. Teacher elicits students
information about the previous
taught material: parts of the human
body and asks students to identify
parts of the animal body: exercise
1, page 72
12. Teacher invites students to
begin a new game: Say what you
draw.
1. Teacher offers feedback.
1. Teacher announces the
homework for the next lesson:
exercise 2, page 73 and explains
what students have to do.

- ss listen
- ss read

-T-SS

-Listening
- Reading

- ss listen and point

-T-SS
-SS-T
- T-SS

- Listening
- Reading
- Speaking

- T-SS
- SS-SS
- SS-T
- T-SS

- Speaking
- Writing

- T-SS

-Listening
- Writing

- ss answer

- ss answer and write

- ss listen
- ss are attentive and
write down in their
notebook what they have
to prepare for the next
lesson

- Listening