LESSON PLAN
Teacher: Moise Cristiana
School: Regina Maria, Sibiu
Date: 09.12.2009
Class: V B
Textbook: Pathway to English
Unit: Weather
Lesson: The four seasons
Functions:
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Students will assimilate the terms refering to the four seasons of the
year;
Students will consolidate their knowledge regarding the months of the year
and the activities performed during each season.
Vocabulary: spring, summer, autumn, winter, sunny, cloudy, foggy, chilly, windy,
rainy, snowy, to ski, to skate, to make a snowman, to sledge.
Skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing.
Objectives: By the end of the lesson pupils will be able to:
 to read properly the words naming seasons;
 to link descriptive flashcards with seasons;
 to link pictures with weather descriptions;
 to use correctly present tense simple and present tense continuous in
some sentences.
Assumptions:
 Pupils may already know the seasons.
Teaching aids: blackboard, laptop, descriptive flashcards, pictures, textbook,
worksheets.
Teaching techniques:
- conversation
- dialog
- exercise
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games
reading
Methods : conversation, observation, demonstration, explanation.
Time: 50’
1. Warming- up:
Aim: to prepare the students for the lesson
Procedure: T greets the pupils and suggests a little game based on a
tong twister. Pupils try to read the tong twister and to translate it. Say it three
times:
Santa's sleigh slides on slick snow.
Check homework.
Interaction: T- Ss
Timing: 3’
2. Lead-in:
Aim: to introduce the topic/to set the context
Procedure: T says a joke: “ What do you have in December that
you don’t have in any other month? The letter D”. T continues: Today we’ll
learn which are the four seasons of the year and how to express weather.
Later we’ll find out some activities we can do during winter season.
Interaction: T- Ss
Timing: 2’
3. Presentation:
Activity 1: Listening- Reading
Aim: to revise the terms refering to the four seasons and their
meaning.
Procedure: Ss watch a short clip that describes the four seasons in
turn. After each slide they will be asked to read the descriptions and to
translate them.
Interaction: T- Ss
Timing: 10’
Activity 2: A short game
Aim: to consolidate the terms and the descriptions of the four
seasons.
Procedure: Ss are divided in groups. Each group receives a
picture illustrating a season and a set of season descriptive flashcards. Each
group must find three descriptive flashcards that correspond to the picture
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they had been given. The winner is the team who finishes the task quicker
and correctly. Then they read the sentences.
Interaction: Ss-Ss, T- Ss
Timing : 10’
4. Practice:
Activity 3 : Speaking and writing
Aim: to consolidate the terms refering to the weather specific to
each season.
Procedure: T asks students to watch the pictures in the textbook
(ex 4 page 46), and to describe them in the structure: It’s foggy. Then they are
asked to name the season associated to each picture. They write the sentences
on the blackboard and in their notebooks. They are asked to build up other
sentences regarding the weather specific to the seasons. The teacher asks
“What is the weather like in spring?’ Pupils answer. Then pupils ask their
colleagues the same question. T also asks “What clothes do we wear in winter?”,
“What about summer?”
Interaction: T- Ss
Timing: 10’
Activity 4: Speaking and writing
Aim: to revise present simple and present continuous
Procedure: Students are asked to watch the pictures on page 47
and to solve orally the exercise( ex 5 page 47). Some pupils may be asked to
write the sentences on the blackboard. While solving the exercises they are
asked to utter some question like: “What is she doing now?, What does she
usually do in winter?” T brings other three pictures and students must formulate
some sentences using present simple and present continuous.( if there is enough
time).
Interaction: T- Ss, Ss- Ss
Timing : 10’
5. Production:
Activity 5: Writing
Aim: to consolidate the terms naming the seasons, the activities
performed during winter, the weather specific to each season.
Procedure: Pupils receive some worksheets, wordsearch type.
They solve it, then the teacher check their work.
Interaction: Ss-Ss
Timing: 5’
6. Homework: ex 6 page 47.
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hat
scarf
gloves
boots
mittens
coat
sweater
BOOTS
DRESS
GLOVES
HAT
OVERALLS
PANTS
SANDALS
SCARF
SHIRT
SHOES
SHORTS
SKIRT
SOCKS
SUIT
SWEATER
TIE
UNDERWEAR
VEST
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