School: Date: 17. 06. 2014 Title of the lesson: Someone had dropped it (The Past Perfect Tense) Textbook: Snapshot Starter Grade: 5 th
AIM(S) of LESSON The main aim(s) of this lesson will be: - To be able to speak about the weather; - To use words related to weather; - To recognize and explain the differences between the seasons; - To memorize new words related to weather; - To be able to use the new words in sentences.
AIDS/ MATERIALS: students books, workbook, laptop, video projector, internet, handouts.
STUDENTS' PROBLEMS I anticipate that the following may cause problems: comprehension of the tense formation. This problem will be solved by giving as many examples as needed for the students to comprehend which thing is what.
ACTIVITY DESIGN: 5 stages design => 5 activities.
Lesson stages Activities - students and teacher Reasons for activities Materials Timing 1. THE WARM-UP
Teacher (T) greets the Students (Ss) and asks them how they are, then T checks homework -to warm students up and establish a good work environment
5 min. 2. LEAD-IN
T asks the Ss to look to the window and to state how is the weather outside that day, asks the date, and the season in which theyre in. Ss answer question. T asks them if they can guess the topic of the day. Ss prediction: the weather.
-to get the Ss into the new topic
5 min. 3. PRESENTATIO N OF THE NEW TOPIC
T announces the title of the lesson: It was a warm evening, and the purpose: learn how to describe the weather. T writes the title on the blackboard and Ss copy it in their notebooks. T plays a video about weather vocabulary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpBua
-to recognise the new tense -to start using the new tense
Blackboard Notebooks Laptop Video Projector 10 min. 4. PRACTICE AND PRODUCTION
The T asks the Ss to open their books at page 104 and look at the pictures. T explains the phrases by looking at the pictures. Then, she asks the Ss to work in pairs and do exercise 1 (match the phrases with the pictures). T asks the question: Whats the weather like in Rome? She gets the answer Its warm and sunny. She writes it on the blackboard, underlines the new words and translates them and the whole sentence into Romanian. She asks the Ss to repeat the words aloud. Then, she will asks the Ss to write in their workbooks and also at the blackboard the exercises 1 and 2 from page 73. The Ss solve the exercises. She gives a final clarification concerning the temperature, the C and F forms. Finally, the T asks them to exercise in pairs about Hows the weather today.
Blackboard Notebooks Workbooks 25 min. 5. EVALUATION T gives feedback to the students by naming the ones who contributed to the class, and by giving some grades to the ones who had also answered at the previous classes T asks for feedback about the lesson T explains the tasks the Ss will have to do at home (exercise 3, page 73) -to evaluate Ss work -to assign Ss homework 5 min.
SELF - EVALUATION
Reflection represents an important stage in a teachers professional development. It provides meaningful feedback that in its turn contributes to the delivery of a more successful lesson. Reflection should be a central point in all teaching and learning activities both for the teachers and for the students. Complete the following blanks as soon as you can after you have finished teaching the lesson. Be as open, honest and constructive as you can.
My feelings immediately after the lesson are / were: ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ______ Write down any evidence that your activity was successful: ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ _________ The things I was not happy with were: ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ _________ Make suggestions about how you would change the lesson plan to be used in the future to improve the lesson. Note down some particular areas in the lesson you need to pay more attention at in the future: ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ _________