LESSON PLAN
Name: Oprea Maria
School: Liceul cu Program Sportiv “Szasz Adalbert” Tg.-Mureş
Date: 3rd April 2015
Class: IVth A
No. of Students: 13
Time of lesson: 50 minutes
Textbook: Set-Sail 4
Unit: Zoo Food
Lesson/Topic: Now I can …
Language skills: speaking and writing
Aims (teacher’s)
1. To reinforce the use of must, mustn’t
2. To reinforce the use of comparative of adverbs
3. To provide extra-practice in reading for specific information
Objectives: (students’)
At the end of the class the students should be able to:
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Talk about rules;
Compare animals, objects;
Use the ordinal numbers correctly
Know the plural forms of the given words.
Teaching techniques: games (Change places if you …), conversation
Organization: T-Ss, Ss-T, group-work, individual work
Anticipatory problems: some students might have problems when it comes to write sentences,
changing places might be a little chaotic;
Teaching aids: Teaching aids: SB, CB, BB, HANDOUTS, FLASHCARDS, COLOURED
PAPER
Legend: T=teacher, Ss=students, BB=blackboard, SB=students’ book, CB=copybook, Fc=flashcards,
Ws=worksheets, Pw=pair work, Gw=group work, Iw=individual work, Wc=whole class, Qs=questions, A=answer
ACTIVITY 1: Warmer
Aim: to assure Ss accommodation to the English class
Procedure:
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Greet the children; ask how they are, etc.
Check the presence.
Ask them to guess what the teacher whispers. (Let’s go to the market)
Sing the song
Interaction: T-Ss, Ss-T (whole class)
Timing: 5 min
ACTIVITY 2: Consolidating previous knowledge
Aim: to check homework – the ability of correctly using the ordinal numbers, days of the week,
months of the year
Procedure:
1. Students read the sentences they’ve made and correct their mistakes
Interaction: T-Ss, Ss-T (whole class)
Timing:3 min
ACTIVITY 3: Change places if you ...
Aim: consolidate student’s usage of must and mustn’t
Procedure:
1. T writes the title of the new lesson on the blackboard and the Ss write it in their
notebooks
2. T shows the students’ a set of card with classroom rules and they say what those rules
are;
3. T asks students to change their places if the sentence said by the teacher is true (eg. We
mustn’t chew gum in class)
4. Ss are divided into groups: an orange group, a yellow group and a green group.
5. First round of the contest:
 Write funny five funny rules for school;
Legend: T=teacher, Ss=students, BB=blackboard, SB=students’ book, CB=copybook, Fc=flashcards,
Ws=worksheets, Pw=pair work, Gw=group work, Iw=individual work, Wc=whole class, Qs=questions, A=answer
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Each correct (90% correct) sentence is worth one point for the group, each wrong
sentence end up in the bin.
Interaction: T-Ss, Ss-T, Ss-Ss (whole class)
Timing:15 min
ACTIVITY 4: Which one is cleverer …
Aim: to consolidate the usage of comparative forms
Procedure:
1. Ss are divided into groups: an orange group, a yellow group and a green group.
2. Second round of the contest:
 They are given handouts with names of animals and they have to build correct
sentences about them (eg. Elephants/monkeys/ big – Elephants are bigger than
monkeys)
 Each correct (90% correct) sentence is worth one point for the group, each wrong
sentence end up in the bin.
3. Third round of the contest:
 Each group will be given slips of paper with singular nouns and they have to write
their plural forms.
 Each correct form will be rewarded with 1 point for the team.
Interaction: T-Ss, Ss-T, Ss-Ss (Team work, Group work)
Timing:15 min
ACTIVITY 5: I can fill in
Aim: to provide extra practice in
Procedure:
1. Ss open their books and do exercise 9 on page 56
2. T explains the task – time limit 7 min
3. Everybody takes a red pen and checks to see if they did the exercise correctly
Interaction: T-Ss, Iw, Ss-Ss (whole class)
Timing: 10 min
Legend: T=teacher, Ss=students, BB=blackboard, SB=students’ book, CB=copybook, Fc=flashcards,
Ws=worksheets, Pw=pair work, Gw=group work, Iw=individual work, Wc=whole class, Qs=questions, A=answer
ACTIVITY 6: Homework
Aim: to further consolidate the ability to write
Procedure:
1. The task: Write about an animal – use exercise 9 as a model – write about where they
live, what they eat, how much they live.
2. Children receive candies
Interaction: T-Ss, (Individual work)
Timing: 2 min
Legend: T=teacher, Ss=students, BB=blackboard, SB=students’ book, CB=copybook, Fc=flashcards,
Ws=worksheets, Pw=pair work, Gw=group work, Iw=individual work, Wc=whole class, Qs=questions, A=answer
Contest – 2nd round
Dolphins / cats / big.
Pencil case / schoolbag / small.
Tom / Mary / tall.
Hippos / monkeys / fat.
Clown / rabbit / funny
Ice cream / sandwich / good.
Contest – 3rd round
Wolf
Child
Potato
Cherry
Leaf
Woman
Knife
Legend: T=teacher, Ss=students, BB=blackboard, SB=students’ book, CB=copybook, Fc=flashcards,
Ws=worksheets, Pw=pair work, Gw=group work, Iw=individual work, Wc=whole class, Qs=questions, A=answer