Lesson Plan

Subject: English
Form: III rd
Date: 20.01.2014
Teacher: Vicu Olesea
School: Lyceum ,,M.Eminescu
Topic: We Wish You A Merry Christmas!
Type of lesson: teaching- learning
Specific Competences & Sub-Competences:
2.5. Producing simple isolated sentences to briefly describe Chrismas celebrations, using simple words and
expressions, syntactic structures and grammar forms that have been practiced.
2.6. Reproducing simple poems and songs.
1.6. Learning poems and songs for children which belong to the culture of the English-Speaking world
Operational Objectives :
to say what people do for Christmas;
to learn new vocabulary on the topic Christmas;
to name Christmas symbols;
to stimulate students imagination and creativity;
to answer the questions;
to sing a Christmas carol.
Resources (materials used):
Textbooks, copybooks, posters, worksheets with different activities, photos, PPT presentation, Christmas tree.
Strategies:
1. Methods:
Communicative, Competency-based.
2. Techniques:
Spider gram, crossword, games, exercises, conversation.
3. Forms of activities:
Group work, individual work, whole class work
Time of lesson: 45 minutes

STAGES

TEACHERS
ACTIVITY

STUDENTS
ACTIVITY

SKILLS

EVOCATION

T enters the
classroom, greets
the Ss, and asks
them how they are,
if there are any Ss
missing.
The teacher asks
the pupils to solve a
crossword.

Ps greet the T
with a short
poem &
answer the Ts
questions.
Pupils solve
the crossword

speakin
g
listenin
g

Warm up

Checking
the
Homework

T remembers the
homework: Ex 4
p.48 asks Ps to
review it quickly to
make sure there
were no problems
with solving it at
home.

Some Ss read
their
homework.

RESOURC
E
Materials

PURPOSE

-to create a
relaxed
atmosphere
for the
lesson
Crossword

STRATEGIE
S
Methods,
techniques,
forms of
activities
Whole class
work

Workbooks

2
min

Group work
-to capture
pupils
attention

speakin
g
speakin
g
reading

TIM
E

-to check
the
homework

3min

Whole class
work

5
min

Motivation
for the new
lesson

REALIZATIO
N OF
MEANING

Vocabulary
work

Linking the old

lesson with the new
one:
Which are winters
months?
What do we
celebrate in
December?
When do we
decorate the
Christmas tree?
T announces the
topic of the lesson
(written on the
blackboard) & its
objectives.

Ss give
answers to
the teacher`s
questions.

speakin
g

Vocabulari
es

-to answer
questions,
-to review
the studied
vocabulary.

Communicati
ve Method
Whole class
work

4
min

Ss open their
notebooks
and write
down the title
of the lesson.

speakin
g
-writing

Copybooks

Whole class
work

3
min

T introduces the
new vocabulary
using flash cards &
toys.
T asks Ss to form
sentences using the
new words.

Ss listen,
repeat, read &
write the
words in their
vocabularies.
Ss make up
sentences.

listenin
g
reading
-writing

Vocabulari
es
Flash
cards

-to present
the new
topic;
-to find out
more
information
on the
topic.
-to learn the
new
vocabu-lary
of the
lesson;

Whole class
work

5
min

speakin
g

Individual
work

Presentatio
n of the new
knowledge
Reading
activity

Postreading
activities

The teacher asks

the pupils what
poems related to
winter they know.
Afterwards she asks
them to listen to a
English poem: ,,The
snowman.
The teacher asks
the pupils say what
do they do for
Christmas.

Pupils name
some poems
and listen to
the poem
:,,The
snowman.
-Mothers bake
cookies.
-We make
decorations.
-father
decorates the
Christmas
tree.

speakin
g

T asks questions
and asks the pupils
to name what are
the symbols of
Christmas.
The teacher asks
the pupils to be
very attentive
because they are
going to answer the
question which are
on the Christmas
tree.

-bells;
candles;
wreaths;
reindeers;
Father
Christmas.
Pupils answer
the questions.

speakin
g

Picture

Textbooks

-to learn
poems
which
belongs to
the Englishspeaking
world

Whole class
work

-answering
questions

Whole class
work

7min

Conversation

5
min

REFLECTION
Feed-back

T proposes pupils to
do a quiz.
-who is riding on a
sledge?
-who is singing
Christmas carols?
-Who is decorating
the Christmas tree?
-who is making
Christmas cards?

Pupils enjoy
doing the
quiz.
-father
Christmas
-children
mothers/fathe
rs
-children

-writing
reading

Singing a
carol

T together with the

Ss watch the PPT
presentation & sing
together We Wish
You A Merry
Christmas
The teacher asks
the pupils to make a
Christmas card& to
colour some
Christmas pictures.

Sing a song in
English.

-singing Typescript
s of the
carol

-singing a
carol

Whole class
work

5
min

Ss write down
their
homework.

-writing

Record
books

-to write
down the
homework

Whole class
work

1min

T evaluates the Ss,

gives marks &
comments them.

Ss listen to
the teacher

Register,
Record
books

-to evaluate
the
students

EXTENSION
Assigning
Homework
Evaluation

Worksheet
s
Crossword

-answering
the
questions

Group work

5
min

1
min