LESSON PLAN

Teacher: RADU ALEXANDRU Level: pre-intermediate

Form: 8th grade Textbook: Reward Intermediate(Student’s
Lesson: ‘Just what we’re looking for!’ Book),p. 68-69
Subject: causative construction Lesson type: mixed lesson
Timing: 50 minutes Skills: reading, speaking, listening, writing

Communicative aims: the students will use Objectives: students will practice their
the English language to talk about things that vocabulary and grammar skills
need to be repaired in a house

Language focus: ‘What do you think is
necessary to be done? Who will do it?’
Communication: talking about house
features
Reading: read the words in the vocabulary
boxes, associate nouns and adjectives and
guess their meanings in context
Vocabulary: adjectives and nouns used to
describe features of a house
Grammar: verb patterns need+-ing and
passive infinitive; causative construction
with have and get, reflexive pronouns
Project: write a list of things that need to be
mended in your own house

Evaluation: O = objective; S = subjective; C Classroom interactions: CL= (whole) class;

= communicative GW = group work; PW = pair work; IW=
Audio-visuals: blackboard, flip-chart,laptop, individual work
textbooks, students’ notebooks

Bibliography:

GREENALL, B. (1998) Reward Intermediate – Student’s Book, London: Macmillan Publishers

Limited.

HARMER, J. (2015) The Practice of English Language Teaching (5th ed.), Harlow: Pearson
Education Limited.

VIZENTAL, A. (2014) Metodica predării limbii engleze – Strategies of Teaching and Testing
English as a Foreign Language, Iaşi: Polirom.
 TEACHING/LEARNING SEQUENCE

Techniques

Interaction

Evaluation
Resources
Timing
Stages

Aims Contents

7’ - introduction Checks the homework

and homework -asks the pupils to switch homework question- PW O
checking in pairs and check it  answer
- three pupils take turns to read part of IW

Notebooks & Tools

Homework check

their homework, while other three

write sentences at the blackboard
Activity 1:Warm up
Pre-vocabulary
- asks the students: What are these? CL S
presents a pair of gloves, a key and a
screwdriver
- asks the pupils: ‘Do you repair
things? Why? / Why not?’
- elicits ideas from the whole class
10’ - developing Activity 2: Reading silent CL O
reading skills Model & global silent reading reading

Textbook & Worksheets

- reads aloud the text ‘Just what we’re
Reading Practice

looking for’ then asks the students to skimming

skim the text and guess the meaning of
words
- gives the students a matching sentence IW
exercise to help them with some of the completion
vocabulary (Annexe 1 – Reward
Practice Book Intermediate, 1 / 58)

10’ Activity 3: Vocabulary

Vocabulary introduction
- asks the students to write down the reading CL O
vocabulary entries which are new to &writing
Vocabulary Presentation

Textbooks & Notebooks

them (Reward Student’s Book, 1/69)

- translates with the students the new
vocabulary
- has the students group  the new IW
vocabulary on two columns: problems /
solutions
e.g. blocked tap / plumber
not working wiring / electrician
overgrown garden / gardener
stained wall / decorator
worn carpet / replace

2
 10’ - developing Activity 4: Grammar Introduction

Textbooks & Notebooks

Grammar Presentation
grammar ‘Need + -ing’ and passive infinitive CL
skills ‘Causative constructions’ with have reading O
and get &writing
- writes on the blackboard and asks IW
the students to write down in their
notebooks the new grammar structure
(Reward Intermediate Student’s Book,
p. 69)

10’ - developing Activity 4: Vocabulary and

grammar Grammar Practice CL
Vocabulary & Grammar Practice

skills ‘Fixing a car’ reading O

- asks students how good they are at &writing
fixing cars (3/58 Reward Intermediate IW
Practice Book)

Worksheets
‘Causative constructions’ with have
and get
- ‘things I don’t do’ (1/59 Reward
Intermediate Practice Book)
- ‘who does it?’ (2/59 Reward
Intermediate Practice Book)
‘Need + -ing’ and passive infinitive
- ‘what needs to be done?’ (3-4/59
Reward Intermediate Practice Book)

3’ - preparation for Suggested Homework S

homework - asks the class to write a list of things writing CL
assignment that need to be mended in their own
house – or to invent one!
Homework

- elicits ideas from the whole class.

Notebook
- students discuss their day in pairs and
plan what they will write. IW
- students write their homework. Next
lesson they read their lists to each other
in small groups or pass them round to
read.