Lesson plan
Time:                45-minutes           Subject:           English language
Class:               1st                  Theme:             I like apples.
Language focus:      Speaking, reading, writing, listening
Aims:                Educational: to learn how to say fruits and their colours; to
                     learn how to say the plurals
                     Developing: to enable pupils to speak about fruits and their
                     colours; to enable pupils to say the
                     Socio-Cultural: to raise awareness of vegetables and their
                     colours; to raise awareness of the pronunciation of the sounds
Objective:           By the end of the lesson, talk about fruits and their colours; say
                     the plurals of the fruits
Materials:           Textbook; the DVD of the book; flashcards: apple, banana,
                     plum, apricot, strawberry, watermelon, peach, computer
Step    Time     Tasks(Teacher)         Tasks(Pupils)        Interaction   Purpose
    1   5 min    Homework               Ps responds and      T      Ps     To check home
                 checking: T asks       answer the                         tasks
                 HW from pupils,        questions
                 gives questions.
    2   5 min    Activity 1 Look,       Ps listen and sing   T      Ps     To warm up; to
                 listen and say. T                                         introduce a song
                 asks the pupils to                                        about apples
                 listen to a song
                 about apples
    3
        10 min   Activity 2 Look,       Ps listen to         T      Ps     To consolidate the
                 listen and repeat. T   teacher and                        new vocabulary
                 introduces the         answer
                 words described on
                 the flashcards
4
        10 min   Activity 3 Play        Ps play the game     T      Ps     To consolidate the
                 “Miming”. T                                               vocabulary for
                 explains rules of                                         fruits
                 game
    5   10 min   Activity 4 Play        Ps answer            T      Ps     To consolidate the
                 “Ask and answer”.                                         new vocabulary
                 T asks questions                                          and plurals
   6    5 min     T gives home task.
                  T explains to the
                  pupils that at home
                  they should finish
                  colouring the
                  pictures on the right
                  hand page. Ask
                  them to remember
                  and say the fruits as
                  they did in class.
Activities.
Activity 1 Look, listen and say.
Objectives: to warm up; to introduce a song about apples
Ask the pupils to listen to a song about apples. Translate “yummy” (mazali/вкусный) and
“tummy” (qorincha/животик).
Tapescript:
It’s a yummy, yummy, yummy
To my tummy, tummy, tummy.
Yummy, yummy, yummy
To my tummy, tummy, tummy. Alright
Apples, apples, Apples, apples,
I like apples Apples, apples,
‘Cause they’re yummy, yummy, yummy
To my tummy, tummy, tummy.
Yummy, yummy, yummy
To my tummy, tummy, tummy. Alright
Activity 2 Look, listen and repeat.
Objectives: to introduce and consolidate the new vocabulary;
Further, say that we love not only apples but the other fruits as well, and introduce the words
described on the flashcards: apple, banana, plum, apricot, strawberry, watermelon, peach.
                                       What’s this?
                                      Is it a banana?
                                        Is it brown?
                                  What colour is peach?
                                  Is a plum yellow? etc.
Activity 3 Play “Miming”.
Objective: to consolidate the new vocabulary
Invite a leader to come to the blackboard. Explain that s/he must show by miming how
s/he eats a kind of fruit. The rest of the class guess the fruit asking the questions as
follows. Then the leader changes.
The class: Is it a watermelon?
The leader: Yes. / No..
Activity 4 Play “Ask and answer”.
Objective: to consolidate the new vocabulary and plurals
Then work on the plural of all the fruits. After that you can have the pupils play chain
drill with the plural of all the fruits.
Pupil 1: I like apples. And you?
Pupil 2: I like strawberries. And you? etc.
Homework: explain to the pupils that at home they should finish colouring the pictures
on the right hand page. Ask them to remember and say the fruits as they did in class.
For example: I’ve got plums. I like plums, etc.