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Lesson Plan
Level: Beginners
Topic: sing a song, “The Lion Sleeps Tonight”

Objectives
At the end of the class the students will be able to:
Analyse the message of a song
Distinguish the meaning of a listened text
Understand the lyrics of a song and make up sentences by using words
Materials:
Record of the song
Record of the video
Lyrics of the song written on the board
Copies of the lyrics – to be given to the students
Pictures

Stages Time T’s and Ss’ activity Inter Teaching

aids
action Focus
Warm-up 2’ As they enter the class, the students are able to listen T-Ss Listening Music
to music (the teacher welcomes them with music, a player
different song from the one they are going to learn
about ) (computer)

T invites Ss to take their usual seats and stops the

music
Lead-in 2’ T-Ss
Presentation 5’
T lets the Ss know that they are going to learn a new
song T-Ss Speaking
Electronic
T shows on the electronic board several pictures with
board
lions sleeping, a village and with the jungle. Ss are
Before 3’ asked to guess what the connection between these T-Ss
listening might be. Ss answer.
Blackboard
Before listening to the song, T writes on the blackboard
7’ words that might be unfamiliar to Ss (mighty, quiet or Reading
peaceful village, hush)
Electronic
Ss are given task sheets with the lyrics of the song but Ss-T board&
without any spaces between the words. Ss will have to
 make the necessary divisions between the words. The Computer
text with words without spaces between them will also
While 5’ appear on the electronic board. Ss listen to the song Ss-T Listening
listening and check their answers.
Computer
As they listen to the song, the Ss are asked to underline
in their notebooks words that they understand. In this
5’ way, T finds out if there are other words that they didn’t Ss-T Reading
Practice understand.(T checks the words underlined by the Ss)
The Ss are given new task sheets, this time with
gapped filled lyrics (the gaps are adjectives or verbs)
4-5’ After they finished and the T listens to their version, the Electronic
Practice correct words will appear on the electronic board and board
Ss will detect the possible mistakes.
In order to check Ss’ understanding of the song, they Ss-T Writing
5’ are presented (on the board) a set of sentences which
Practice are left unfinished. Ss are given the number of words
they have to add:
The lion sleeps in the jungle.
The jungle is mighty and quiet.
The baby doesn’t fear because the lion sleeps tonight. Ss Listening
The Ss listen to the song again and this time they are
encouraged to try to sing together. Computer
5’
Listening At the end of the class, T has a surprise for the Ss: they
2’ will watch the video of the song (funny hippo and dog
Enjoying dancing).