Lesson Plan

Name: Katler Andreea, Sabadis Denisa

School: Scoala gimnaziala Nicolae Iorga
Date: 3.11.2015
Grade: 5th
Lesson: Bowerbirds, Unit 5
Textbook: WORLD CLASS, LONGMAN
Lesson Objectives:
1.to give practice to listening for specific information;
2.to give practice to new vocabulary;
3.to give practice in recognizing the bird species.
Teaching materials: books, notebooks, board, CD player, worksheets,
pictures.
Stages of the lesson

Teachers and Ss activity

Timing

Greeting

T.Ss greet the Ss and introduce

themselves.T.Ss ask the Ss to write their
names on a paper.
Good morning children!
How are you today?
My name is Andreea and my colleague is
Denisa.

We are going to spend almost an hour

together and we hope youll enjoy it.

Warm-up activity

T.Ss stick several pictures with birds on the 5

board and give the Ss some worksheets.
The Ss have to write the name of each bird
correctly because they are in a wrong
order.
The birds will be: stork, eagle, seagull,
swallow, blackbird, owl, bowerbird,
sparrow, flamingo and ostrich.
Example: wol
owl
The unkown words will be written on the
blackboard and explained if its necessary.

Introducing the topic

T.Ss introduce the topic by asking the Ss if

they know something about bowerbirds.
The Ss will open the books and read the
text in order to find out more information
about this unusual bird. T.Ss will introduce
the new vocabulary: shells, bark, bottle
tops, feathers. T.Ss will write on the board
the unkown words and explain them.

Activity 1

Presentation
and
Reading

10

T.Ss will stick on the board a picture with a 10

bowerbird in order to write the main
characteristics of bowerbirds. The Ss will
be given the same picture to stick it in their
notebooks and they will write the
characteristics of bowerbirds around the
picture.
The T.Ss will ask some questions related to
the text and Ss will answer them.
Where does the bowerbirds live?
Who bilds the bower?

What objects does the bird use to

decorate its bower?

Activity 2
Reading
Comprehension

Activity 3
Post-reading

Feed-back

T.Ss ask the Ss to look at exercise A and

answer the following questions:
1.Where do bowerbirds live?
2.Does the male build the nest?
The Ss will work in pairs, one student will
read the question and another will answer
it.
The Ss will do exercise B where they have
to state if the sentences are True ot False.
1. The bower is high up.F
2. The males decorate the bower.T
3. The females find bright colours
attractive.T
4. Male bowerbirds build the nest.F
5. The males can paint with a
painbrush.T
T.Ss ask the Ss to look at exercise C at
page 16 and read the dialogue. They will
listen to a tape and they have to correct the
words in italics.
The Ss will read in pairs the dialogue with
the correct answers.

10

The Ss will be given some worksheets with 3

birds and they have to draw a line from

each bird to the matching word.

Homework

The Ss will be given some worksheets as

homework.