LESSON PLAN
NAME: Ioaniţoiu Carmen Dana
DATE: 25th January 2012
SCHOOL: Scoala cu clasele I-VIII, Predeşti
FORM: 7th
LEVEL: pre-intermediate
TEXTBOOK: Shine 2, Macmillan
TITLE OF THE LESSON: If you walk under a ladder…
TIME: 50 minutes
MAIN TOPIC: Mysteries and superstitions - First conditional
TYPE OF LESSON: Developing Reading Skill/ Acquisition of structures
VOCABULARY: superstitions, verbs for actions, monsters
GRAMMAR: If Clause + will/won’t + verb
METHODS: Communicative approach
Aims:
 requires students to demonstrate their level of reading comprehension by
completing some task
 requires correlation of reading purposes with communicative competence: a
student's reading level is the level at which that student is able to use reading to
accomplish communication goals.
FUNCTIONS:
- to describe according to the information in the text/picture;
- to initiate discussion and short conversations;
- to make guesses;
- to talk about future possible and probable events and actions.
Skills covered: speaking, listening, reading and writing as integrated skills.
Aids: blackboard;
 textbook by Liz and John Soars;
 PowerPoint presentation about superstitions;
 photocopied worksheets from New Headway by John and Liz Soars, OUP, 2003;
 handouts
 dictionaries;
 over-head projector.
COMMUNICATION:
- making predictions about real situations
- expressing possible future plans and activities
SKILLS: writing, reading, speaking
AIMS OF LESSON: by the end of the lesson students will be able to:
- use If clause in order to express conditioning of a future event;
- develop and practice their productive skills and receptive skills (writing, speaking, listening);
- reinforce vocabulary in order to promote discussion and to practice language in a particular
context;
- ask and answer about future predictions.
TEACHING TECHNIQUES: conversation, dialogue, exorcise, games, explanation,
brainstorming, observation, role play.
RESOURCES: textbook and cassettes–Shine 2, Activity book Round up 4,
STAGE OF
THE TEACHER’S
THE STUDENT’S
INTE
LESSON
ACTIVITY
ACTIVITY
RACT
SKILLS
TEACHING
AIDS
TECHNIQUES
PURPOSE
AIM
ION
- T greets class and
- Ss greet the T
T-S
checks attendance
- the S on duty answers
S-T
WARM UP
- T proposes the Ss to
- S comes and mime the
T-S
5’
play a mime game and
activities
to guess /predict what
- the other Ss try and make
activity is going to
guesses and predict the
atmosphere
happen
activity
- to stir Ss
- T asks a S to come in
Ex. I think she/he will ….
interest in the
front of the class and to
Play football
topic of the
mime some activities
Travel by plane
lesson
from the cards on T’s
Learn/write on the blackboard
desk
Act in a play
(T spreads some cards
Sing
on the T’s desk)
Run
CHECKING
Speaking
Conversation
None
- to prepare the
Ss for the lesson
ATTENDANC
E
1’
Speaking
Dialogue
Verb
- to make up a
S-Ss
Game
cards
pleasant and
Ss-T
Conversation
warm
Drive a car
Paint/Draw something
Read a book
CHECKING
- the T asks Ss to act out
- two of the Ss act out the task
T-S
Speaking
HOMEWORK
the task they had to
given as homework
Ss-Ss
Reading
5’
prepare
Dialogue
Notebook
- check the
s
understanding
Workshee
of the items
ts
already taught
STAGE 1
- T asks Ss to look the
- Ss look at the poster and
T-S
PRE-
posters sticked on the
answer T’s question
Ss-T
COMMUNICA
wall/flipchart
Posters
introduction of
TION
- looking at the posters
Notebook
the theme of the
ACTIVITY
and the words, the
s
lesson
7’
teacher elicits the target
- to encourage
language by asking Ss
Ss to speak
what their job will be
fluently about
and where they will live
- Ss write in their notebooks
in future
and look the map-mind T pins
- T writes the title on
on the flipchart
Speaking
Conversation
- to have a
Oral exposition
more relaxed
Writing
the topic
Blackboar
the blackboard and the
d
model sentence to
Notebook
present the grammar
s
structure used to talk
about predictions for
future
STAGE 2
- T asks Ss to write their
- Ss write their predictions
T-Ss
Writing
Oral exposition
Notebook
- to check the
CONTROLLE
choices for future in
and then compare them with
Speaking
Dialogue
s
Ss’ ability to
D PRACTICE
their notebook and gives
the ones on the cards received
7’
all them some mystical
- Ss make comparisons and
Cards
using given tips
cards in which their
present the results
Prompts
- to check the
future is predicted
- some of the students is
-T asks Ss to make
possible to receive an empty
comparisons and say
mystical card, they will ask
what’s different and
the others to make predictions
Writing,
what’s the same
for them
Speaking
Ss-Ss
Conversation
form sentences
S’s ability to f
Handouts
Guided questions
and dialogue
answer
questions.
STAGE 3
- T asks Ss to look the
- Ss look at the poster (a
T-S
Speaking
Questions and
Poster
- to check Ss’
SEMI-
posters sticked on the
zodiac sign indicator) and
Ss-T
Writing
answers
Cards
ability to
CONTROLLE
wall/flipchart
answer T’s question
Conversation
Handouts
understand oral
D PRACTICE
- looking at the posters
Exercise
information
7’
and the words, the
Role-play
- to check
teacher elicits the target
comprehension
language by asking Ss
of the item
what will happen next
taught
- T gives Ss a handout
-Ss write their predictions and
(worksheets) and asks
then answer their classmates
T-Ss
them to write down
questions about what is
Ss-Ss
their predictions for
possible to happen in their
IW
each day of the next
future
week
-T asks Ss to ask each
other about predictions
for his/her weekend
plans
STAGE 4
- T asks Ss to imagine
- Ss solve the exercise
T-S
Speaking
Exercise
Handouts
- to check
PRODUCTION
they are an astrologer
individually and then check
Ss-T
Guided questions
comprehension
AND
and they are to make
with the whole class
IW
Conversation
of the item
COMMUNICA
some predictions for the
taught
TION
next year (“Predictions”
- to check Ss’
7’
worksheet)
ability to
-T asks Ss to make
understand
predictions on the
written
handouts they received
information
- T asks Ss to look on
- the Ss work in pairs and
T-Ss
the handouts they’ve
solve the task
PRODUCTION
received, working in
- some pairs of Ss act out the
AND
pairs, to make
interview
COMMUNICA
predictions about
TION
their deskmate’s future
Speaking
Exercise
Handouts
- to encourage
Ss-Ss
Guided questions
Prompts
Ss to have small
PW
Conversation
conversations
Role-play
7’
ASSIGNING
- T assigns homework
-Ss listen and write down
TT
HOMEWORK
(ex.7 on page 19)
indications
IW
2’
- T praise the Ss and
FEED BACK
asks them if they
2’
enjoyed the lesson or if
they have questions
about the item taught
Listening
None