Lesson Plan

Date: The 25th of March 2009 Grade: 3rd year of study Form: 7th Level: Pre-Intermediate No. of Ss.: 20 Teacher: Claudia Nastasescu School: Slobozia-Moara Textbook: Snapshot Pre-Intermediate Unit: If I had the money, Lesson: 2nd Conditional Type of lesson: Combined lesson (acquisition and fixation are mixed) Aims of the lesson: o To stimulate and encourage Ss imagination; o To develop skills; Cognitive objectives: o To imagine different activities and to express them using would (wouldnt)+short infinitive; o To identify verb tenses; o To understand 2nd conditional clause; o To practice 2nd conditional; o To complete the worksheets and do group work; o To express opinion/choices; o Affective objectives: o To join the lesson with pleasure and interest; o To have a warm relation between the teacher and the students; Skills: o Reading; o Writing; o Speaking; Assumed knowledge: Ss already know what conditional phrase mean Anticipated problems: If Ss dont understand the oral commands or the tasks , they will be translated into Romanian

Resources and materials: blackboard, handouts, tasksheets, coloured chalk, Methods: conversation, explanation, exercise solving, group work, individual work

 Interaction: T-Ss, Ss-Ss, Ss-T, GW, IW Estimated time: 50

Stages of the lesson

1. Warm-up
o T greets Ss and asks for the absentees; o Then s/he tells them to play an interesting game. S/he writes a word on the board and Ss must think of another starting with the last letter and so on;

2.Checking the homework

o T checks the homework and asks Ss to correct their mistakes, if necessary;

3. Lead-in
o T tells the Ss to imagine a situation like : winning the lottery, being a king/queen, living on a island; o T tells them to say what they would do if they were in the situation they imagine; o Ss will give various answers; o If they dont say it correctly, T will help them.

4.Presenting the new knowledge

o T asks Ss to write some of the examples on the board; o They have to write them after one of the sentences written by T; o All Ss write the examples in their notebooks; If I were a king/queen, I would .. If I won the lottery, I would ... If I lived on an island, I would . If I had a younger sister, I would ... If I had the time, I would o T writes the date and the title of the lesson on the board; o Ss write the examples in their notebooks; o T asks Ss a few questions about their examples: How many verbs are there in the first example? Please, underline them! What about the second, the third and so on? So thats a phrase of two sentences? Where have we met a phrase of two sentences before? What tenses did the verbs have in 1st conditional phrase? What tenses can you identify in these phrases? What kind of situation do we have? Is it a possible or unlikely to happen one?

o After understanding the structure and the meaning of the conditional phrase , Ss make notes in their notebooks;

Secondary clause IF + PAST SIMPLE INFINITIVE

Main clause WOULD(wouldnt) + SHORT

Conditional Clause Type 2 for unreal situations in the present; The condition cant be fulfilled; Were is used instead of was. 5.Practice Activity 1
o o o o Ss get individual worksheets; They have to write the verbs in the correct tense; T explains the task, if necessary; After solving, the T and Ss check the answers and write the correct ones on the board;

Activity 2
o Ss are divided into groups of two and have to do group work in order to solve a second exercise; o T hands them the worksheets and explains the task; o When Ss finish working, T names different Ss to write the correct answers on the board and asks all the Ss to write them down in their notebooks; o T may ask several questions about the new structure while checking;

Activity 3
o On the back of the first worksheet Ss have a quiz and they must read the questions and choose an answer they find most appropriate; o When theyve finished, T asks different Ss to read the questions and to motivate their answers.

Activity 4
o The last activity is about writing a suitable sentence to complete the conditional phrases given by the T; o T helps the Ss if necessary; o The unfinished activity is assigned as homework.

6. Homework assignment

o If Ss finish the last activity on time, T has a backup activity for homework: a gap filling on the lyrics from If I had a million dollars and Ss , also, have to write their opinion about the song.

7. Evaluation
o T gives marks and then says Goodbye! o Ss say Goodbye!, too.