LESSON PLAN

TEACHER: Roxana – Elena Boca

SCHOOL: „Petru Rareș”, Hârlău
DATE: The 30th of March
GRADE: 4th A
NUMBER OF STUDENTS:26
TIME: 50 min
TEXTBOOK: Limba modernă engleză – Uniscan Grup Educațional
UNIT/ TOPIC: Unit 9b: It kicked me!
TYPE OF LESSON: Vocabulary and Grammar focus/Teaching learning
LESSON AIMS:
 Presenting the vocabulary of the lesson;
 Reading for specific information;
 Practising new vocabulary;
 to enable Ss to practise past simple;
 act out a dialogue;
 to develop their speaking/reading/ writing skills.
LESSON OBJECTIVES: By the end of the lesson, the students will be able to:
 read for specific information,
 to talk about a past event,
 recognize the interrogative and negative structure of past simple.
DIDACTIC STRATEGIES:
methods, interaction and skills: conversation, communication, guided discovery, reading aloud, role play, working with the text
book.
materials and aids
 Ss’ notebooks, computer, activity book.
ASSUMPTIONS: while working in groups, students can be noisy.
ANTICIPATED PROBLEMS: Ss may encounter difficulties in grasping the full meaning of some new phrases and/or some
grammar issues.
4A is a class that works a lot for their English lessons. We had great results in all the activities we worked on from Twinkle Star and
Cangurul, as they say.
 Because we intend attend their latest competition, English Way, I decided to teach past simple to this class. There are also Ss who
refuse to participate in the lesson and they don’t do their homework, or they don’t bring their books and notebooks.
SOLUTIONS: Provide explanations, simplify the language for those who need and bring handouts to those who work harder.
Warm-up
Aims:
 to create a pleasant atmosphere;
 to get the students involved.
PROCEDURE INTERAC- TIMING GROUPING SKILL OBS.
TION FOCUS
 T greets and marks the absent Ss, if any. We met again
 T asks Ss: “How are you today?”/ “Who’s absent today?” on Monday
T – Ss 3 min Whole class Speaking when I gave
Game time Ss - T them a
The teacher has a puzzle for the students where they have to handout, but
decipher a secret word: Castle they missed
English so
much, that
they finished
everything in
class. Due to
this pleasant
surprise, they
had no
homework.
Lead - in
Aim:
 to raise Ss’ interest in the topic
PROCEDURE INTERAC- TIMING GROUPING SKILL OBS.
TION FOCUS
 The teacher asks the students:
“Do you like stories?”
“Do you remember the story from last time?” T – Ss 3 min Whole class Speaking
Ss – T
 Pre-listening/watching
Aim: to prepare the students for the listening activity and to introduce the title of the lesson
PROCEDURE INTERAC- TIMING GROUPING SKILL OBS.
TION FOCUS
The teacher invites the Ss to open their books, page 80 and look
through the pictures. The teacher asks them some questions: ´
Where are the children?´, `What happens in the first picture?’ to T – Ss 3 min Whole class Writing
elicit´ the knight kicked Harry´. Ss – T
The teacher tells the Students that ´It kicked me´ is the title of the
new lesson and writes it on the board.
The teacher presents the new words from the lesson: kick, pick
up, sail

While - listening
Aims:
 To allow students hear an account about a past event.
PROCEDURE INTERAC- TIMING GROUPING SKILL OBS.
TION FOCUS

 The teacher asks the students to watch the video in order to complete
the sentence: T – Ss 2 min Individual Listening
“That knight _______________ and ____________ .” work
Speaking

Post – listening
Aims:
 to get the Ss involved in acting out the dialogues.
PROCEDURE INTERAC- TIMING GROUPING SKILL OBS.
TION FOCUS

 T. nominates six Ss to read the text, using the role-play

technique. The Ss take roles (Harry, Alvin, Mona, Lee, Emma) T – Ss 5 min Group work Reading
and act out the dialogues.
Ss - Ss
The Ss also have to work ex:2/80.

Presentation
Aims:
 To introduce the new vocabulary;
 To present the targeted structures.
PROCEDURE INTERAC- TIMING GROUPING SKILL OBS.
TION FOCUS

The teacher asks the pupils to take out from the text all the verbs in the
past tense simple.
T – Ss Speaking
The teacher asks Ss if there is a question in the text or a negative answer.
The teacher writes on the blackboard: Did you play chess last night? The Ss - T 7 min T – Ss Writing
teacher explains the formation of questions in the past simple.
I didn’t play chess last night. Ss - T
The teacher presents the short answers: Yes, I did/ No, I didn’t.
The teacher asks Ss: Did you play football yesterday?/Did you study
yesterday?
 Controlled practice
Aim:
 To practise asking and answering questions in the past simple
PROCEDURE INTERAC TIMING GROUPING SKILL OBS.
-TION FOCUS
 The Teacher plays the tape for ex: 3/81 and gives the Ss a handout T-Ss 5 min Whole class Listening
where they have to complete the missing structures. Ss - T Speaking

Semi - controlled practice

Aims:
 to practise previously introduced structures
PROCEDURE INTERAC TIMING GROUPING SKILL OBS.
-TION FOCUS
The teacher asks Ss to open their activity book, unit 9b, page 66. T-Ss 10 min Whole class Writing There are Ss
The teacher gives instructions for each exercise. Ss - T Speaking who work in
their activity
book at home in
order to get a
handout from
the teacher. As I
mentioned in
the anticipated
problems
section, they are
really interested
in learning
English and
their feedback is
positive, thus I
 bring them
supplementary
work.

Free practice
Aims:
 to get Ss involved and practise the new structures

PROCEDURE INTERAC TIMING GROUPING SKILL OBS.

-TION FOCUS

The teacher asks the pupils to work in groups to write a story: T-Ss 10 min Whole class Writing Some of th
The Ss have to make their own knight. The Teacher asks the Ss to write a may finish
short profile of the knight: Ss – Ss Speaking earlier the
Ss – T and they a
His name/ what he does/ where he guards/ what does he do at the castle. allowed to
create thei
knight (co
it).

Evaluation
Aims: to appreciate their work.
PROCEDURE INTERAC TIMING GROUPING SKILL OBS.
-TION FOCUS
 Teacher sums up the lesson and evaluates students’ work by giving T - Ss 1 min Whole class Speaking
 grades to those that were really active and pluses to those that were
less active.

Assigning homework
Aims: to ensure transfer and consolidation.

PROCEDURE INTERAC TIMING GROUPING SKILL OBS.

-TION FOCUS
 Ex:4/67 from their activity book. T - Ss 1 min Whole class Speaking
 Finish their project at home.