Lesson Plan

School: Berislveti Secondary School

Teacher: Melania Anghelu
Date: 7th March 2016
Form: 2nd grade
Time: 50 min
Level of study: Beginners
Module: 3
Unit: 5
Lesson: A butterfly!
Textbook: Fairyland 2B
Type of lesson: Introducing new material
Teaching methods:
the audio-lingual approach
the audio-visual approach
the communicative approach
the natural approach
Teaching techniques:
conversation
repetition
explanation
exercise
singing and miming
dialogues, listen and do activities

Class organisation: (individual/pair/group work)

Materials: blackboard, pictures, posters, worksheets, textbook, projector, CD
Anticipated problems: The Ss may not understand some oral commands or tasks; if this happens, they will be translated into
Romanian.
Aims:
to revise and consolidate the main words and structures learnt so far;
to listen, repeat and learn the correct pronunciation of the new words referring the animals;
to encourage students to learn the English language through dialogues, games, conversation;
to develop reading, speaking, writing, listening skills;
to stimulate students imagination.
Objectives:
a) cognitive:
to reinforce vocabulary
to learn and improve word pronunciation
to communicate efficiently using their language
to pronounce correctly
b) affective:
to stimulate students imagination
to make the students confident in the ability to use the language
to use English while playing
to have fun
Stages of the lesson
I.

Warm-up

Teachers activity

Students activity

Teacher
greets
the Students answer
students and asks for

Interaction
lockstep

Skill
speaking

Time
2

Purpose
- to prepare
students
for

the
the

absentees;
Teacher encourages the
students to greet her
back.
II.
Checking
Teacher revises
Students
T-Ss
the previous knowledge vocabulary from
mime the action
Fairyland 2A Unit 4.
Teacher shows the
students pictures and
says: Look! I can play
the piano.
Teacher keeps changing
the actions to make the
activity fun for the
students
III.
Introducing
new material
Teacher
asks
the
a) Pre-teaching
students to find out the Students listen
T-Ss
topic of the lesson.
She invites them to play Students decode the
the Secret code game in topic of the lesson
order to discover the (Animals)
title (Annex 1)
Teacher announces the
objectives
Today we are going to:
Students listen
learn new words
about
the
animals
learn
to
recognize
and
pronounce them

lesson

listening

- to check students
understanding of the
previous lesson and
correct
possible
mistakes

listening

to
stimulate
students imagination
- to create interest in
the topic of the
animals

speaking
writing

b) Activity 1
Presentation

correctly.
lockstep
learn about: what
can the animals
do?
Teacher writes on the
blackboard the title of Students write the
the lesson and asks the title of the lesson on
students to do the same their notebooks
in their notebooks.
T-Ss
Students look at the
Teacher points to the
pictures, the spelling
animals, one at a time,
of the words and they
presents them and
repeat the new words
pronounces the new
after their teacher
vocabulary loud and
clear asking the students
lockstep
to repeat after her.
The students repeat
Then she points to the
animals in random order after her.
and name them.
Teacher
asks
the
students to write the
new words in their
notebooks.
Teacher invites the
students to play the
guessing game. The
teacher thinks of an
animal and says, e.g. Its
blue. It can fly.

writing

listening
speaking

- to match the picture

with the new taught
words

10
writing
- to exercise writing

Students
recognize
them and write the
correct words in their
notebooks
T-Ss

c) Activity 2
Practice

Students look at the

picture and guess the
animal

to
reinforce
vocabulary
- to learn and
improve
word
pronunciation

Listening
speaking

- to check and
consolidate
pronunciation
and
understanding
the
meaning of the words
2

T-Ss
- to communicate
efficiently using their

the animal, e.g. bird.

Suggested cues: Its
blue. It can fly./Its blue.
It can swim./Its red. It
can climb./Its red. It
can run./Its green. It
can jump.
d) Activity 3
Practice

e) Activity 4
(consolidation)

Teacher
asks
the
students to match the
words to the animals in
their notebook.
Teacher asks the
students to look at the
picture (page 6 in the
textbook), and then she
explains the activity.
Teacher checks the
students answers.
Teacher prepares the
students to listen and
learn the song. She says
the lines and invites the
students to repeat after
her.
The little green frog
goes (all clap) la di da
di da
(all clap) la di da di da
(all clap) la di da
di da
The little green frog

language
speaking
T-Ss

reading
to
reinforce
vocabulary
speaking

Students look and

match the words to
the animals in their
notebook.
The students point to
and name the animals

speaking
T-Ss

The students listen,

repeat after their
teacher and then sing
the song and mime
the actions

T-Ss

- to recognize the
missing letters and to
find the new taught
words

listening
speaking
writing

goes (all clap) la di da

di da
And it can jump and
swim!
The little blue bird goes
(all clap) la di da
di da
(all clap) la di da di da
(all clap) la di da
di da
The little blue bird goes
(all clap) la di da
di da
la di da di da la di da
di da
And it can fly and sing!
Then she plays the
recording (the song from
the digital book)

listening
speaking

Teacher
gives
the Students find the
f) Activity 5
students worksheets and stickers and put them
(optional, if there is asks them to read the in the correct order
time)
names of the animals
and find the stickers.
(Annex 2)

Activity 6
Consolidation

Teacher
asks
the
students to look at the
picture
from
their
worksheet and put a tick
or a cross near each of

Students look at the

picture and identify
the actions. Then they
point and say: An
elephant can, but it

the animals. (Annex 3)

cant

IV.

Feed-back

Teacher invites the Students

students to play a game. game
She divides the class
into four groups and
gives a picture of an
animal to each group.
She explains that they
have to keep their
pictures secret, and one
of the students has to
mime the animal and the
others have to guess it.

V.

Homework

Teacher asks students to T-Ss

learn
the
new
vocabulary and the song

play

the T-Ss
Ss-Ss

listening
speaking

- to end the lesson in

a fun way;
- to let students know
how
well
they
performed

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