Lesson Plan

Teacher’s name: Doroftei Andreea- Dumitrița

School: Școala Gimnazială “Doctor Partenie Ciopron” Păltiniș

Level: Beginners

Time: 50 minutes

Textbook: Fairyland 4B, Pupil’s Book

Date: The 20th of March 2017

Type of lesson: communication of new knowledge

Topic: Animal elections

Vocabulary: related to wild animals and comparative forms;

Skills: Speaking, Listening and Reading

Techniques: conversation, dialogues, explanation, exercise, games.

Resources: books, handouts, blackboard, audio-visual materials, pictures.

Interaction: T-S, S-S, pair work, group work,

Anticipated problems: The Ss may not understand some oral commands or tasks; if this happens, they
will be translated into Romanian

Objectives: By the end of the lesson pupils will be able:

- To identify wild animals;

- To compare animals and people;
- To sing the song ”Walking in the jungle”
 Stages of the lesson

Stage The teacher’s The students’ Interaction Skills Objectives

Timing
of lesson activity activity
Activity 1 The teacher greets the ~To prepare the
pupils: The pupils answer: S-S children for the new
Warm-up
-Good morning children! -Good morning teacher! Speaking lesson, to remember 3 min.
Checking the -I’m fine, thank you!
- How are you? T-S the greetings.
previous
The students sing along.
knowledge The teacher plays the food ~To check the
song ”Do you like broccoli previous knowledge.
ice-cream?” in order to
review the language from
Unit 6.
Activity 2 The teacher asks the The pupils answer the ~To practice the new
7 min.
students what wild animals teacher’s question. T-S Speaking vocabulary.
Lead in
they know.
 The teacher asks the pupils The pupils open their books
to open their books on page on page 8 and repeat the title Listening ~To practice the new
Activity 3 3 min.
8. The teacher reads the title after the teacher. T-S Speaking vocabulary;
Listening 1
of the unit. The pupils listen and repeat
Teacher plays the recording. the new words and translate
them.
The teacher elicits the
meaning of the phrase The students answer the ~ To practice
Animal elections. Uses L 1 teacher’s questions. pronunciation;
if necessary. Goes through
T-S
the pictures of the dialogue
Activity 4 and set the scene by asking
7 min.
Speaking 1 questions. E.g. Teacher: Listening ~To develop speaking
and listening skills;
How many animals can you
Speaking
see in the first picture? The pupils that they will listen S-S
Pupils: Ten. to the dialogue and find the
Teacher: What's this? answer.
(pointing to picture 7)
Pupils: A giraffe. etc
Write on the board: And I
live ______ than you!
Answer: longer
 The teacher plays the ~ To practice
recording again for the The students take roles and T-S pronunciation;
Activity 5 pupils to listen and repeat read out the dialogue. Listening ~To develop reading 5 min.
Listening 2 chorally. Checks the pupils' S-S Reading skills;
pronunciation and
intonation.
The teacher writes:
Cheetahs are faster than
tigers. The T explain to the The pupils listen and repeat
S-S
pupils that when we chorally and individually.
Writing
~ To practice the
compare two animals,
comparative form; 10 min.
people or things, we add -er
to the adjective. The T
Activity 6
Writing 2 writes the following
adjectives on the board and
elicits the spelling rules: tall
- taller, weak - weaker, big - The pupils take notes.
bigger, happy - happier.
Then, she says and writes:
Julie is good at Maths, but
Daniel is better than her.
 The T explains that the
comparative form of good is
better and the comparative
form of bad is worse.
Activity 8 The teacher brainstorms
Feed-back
names of animals and writes sentence about any animal
them on the board. Divides
the class into two teams, A
and B.
The teams take turns saying a ~ To consolidate
pupils’ language of the
lesson. 15 min
they like. The other team has
to find another animal that can
be compared to the animal
chosen by the previous team.
Each correct comparison wins
one point. The team with the
most points wins.
E.g. Team A Pupil 7: Hippos
are fat!
Team B Pupil 7: Elephants are
fatter than hippos!
Teacher: One point for Team
B. etc