Lesson plan

School: ”Dimitrie Sturdza” Secondary School, Tecuci

Teacher: Ionela Mirela Chirvăsuță

Date: 28th of November, 2019

Class: VIII C

Level of students: A2

Number of students: 24

Time: 50’

Coursebook: Highflyer- UpperIntermediate Student’s Book, autori: Ana Acevedo, Marisol

Gower, editura Longman, București, 1999

Topic of the lesson: Expressing preferences and recommendations

Grammar focus: reportes speech

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

- express preferences using would rather;

-express recommendations using it’s time and had better.

Aims:

-to relate to students’ life;

Aids: workbook
No. Stage activities Time Teacher’s activity
1. Personalisation 7’ The teacher greets the
students and tries to create
a motivational atmosphere
through conversation in
order to create a proper
mood. The teacher checks
the students’s homework.
2. Guide to meaning 15’ The teacher checks the
students’ knowledge on
reported speech. The teacher
asks the students solve the
following exercise: Turn the
following senteces into
reported speech.
3. Highlight the meaning 10’ The teacher asks the
students to solve exercise 8,
page 24: Read the
comments made by the
parent and teenagers on the
cassette. Fill in the blanks,
using the words in the
boxes.
4. Initial Practice 7’ The teacher explains the
students how they can
express preferences and
recommendations and gives
multiple examples.
5. Secondary Practice 10’ The teacher asks the
students to solve exercise 9,
Student’s activity Interaction Skills
The students bring their own T-Ss
contribution to the teacher’s Ss-T
initiative. The students check
if they have done their
homework correctly.
The students answer to the T-Ss Speaking
teacher’s questins about Ss-T Writing
reported speech. Then, they
write the sentences in their
notebooks and turn them into
reported speech. Then, they
check their answers with
their classmates.
The students copy the T-Ss Writing
comments in their notebooks Ss-T
and fill the blanks with the
given words.
The students pay attention to T-Ss Writing
the teacher’s explanations Ss-T
and write them in their
notebooks.
The students complete the T-Ss Writing
sentences using the phrases Ss-T
 page 24: Use the phrases in in the box and had better.
the box to recommend
courses of action.
6. Assignment 1’ The teacher asks the The students pay attention to T-Ss
students to solve exercise the teacher’s instructions. Ss-T
10, page 25: Answer these
questions about yourself.
Use would rather in your
answers. Give a reason for
your preference in each
case.