Lesson Plan

School: Berislveti Secondary School

Teacher: Melania Anghelu
Date: 20th of May 2016
Form: 2nd grade
Time: 50 min
Level of study: Beginners
Module: 4
Unit: 7
Lesson: The weather
Textbook: Fairyland 2B
Type of lesson: Introducing new material
Teaching methods:
the audio-lingual approach
the audio-visual approach
the communicative approach
the natural approach
Teaching techniques:
conversation
repetition
explanation
exercise
singing and miming
dialogues, listen and do activities

Class organisation: (individual/pair/group work)

Materials: blackboard, pictures, posters, worksheets, textbook, projector, CD
Anticipated problems: The Ss may not understand some oral commands or tasks; if this happens, they will be translated into
Romanian.
Aims:
the students will be able to revise and consolidate the main words and structures learnt so far;
the students will be able to repeat and learn the correct pronounciation of the new words referring the weather;
the students will be able to use the English language confidently in dialogues, games, conversation;
the students will be able to develop reading, speaking, writing, listening skills;
the students will be able to produce chunks of language, in contexts which require enjoyable repetition and which draw
them into using English in an natural and spontaneous way;
Objectives:
a) cognitive:
to reinforce vocabulary
to learn and improve word pronunciation
to communicate efficiently using their language
to pronounce correctly
b) affective:
to stimulate students imagination
to make the students confident in the ability to use the language
to use English while playing
to have fun

Stages of the lesson

I.

Warm-up

Teachers activity

Teacher
greets
the
students and asks for
absentees;
Teacher encourages the
students to greet her
back.
II.
Checking
Teacher revises
the previous knowledge vocabulary from Unit 6.
Teacher gives each
student a half of a
picture card of fruit or
vegetable and she
explains them that they
have to move around in
order to find the pair.
Then, teacher asks them
to place the pictures in
the correct category
(Fruit or Vegetable)
Teacher also revises
their ability to talk about
likes and dislikes
III.
Introducing
new material
Teacher
asks
the
a) Pre-teaching
students to find out the
topic of the lesson.
She invites them to
complete the crossword
in order to discover the
title of the lesson

Students activity

Interaction

Skill

Time

Purpose

Students answer

lockstep

speaking

- to prepare
students
for
lesson

Students move
around the class, find
the pair and join the
fruit and vegetables
Students choose
correctly the category
and they stick the
pictures
Students answer the
questions

T-Ss

listening

- to check students
understanding of the
previous lesson and
correct
possible
mistakes

Students listen

T-Ss

listening

to
stimulate
students imagination
- to create interest in
the topic of the
weather
to
reinforce

Students decode the

topic of the lesson
(The weather)
speaking

the
the

(Annex 1)

b) Activity 1
Presentation

Teacher announces the

objectives
Today we are going to:
learn new words
about
the
weather
learn
to
recognize
and
pronounce them
correctly.
learn to tell
whats
the
weather like
Teacher writes on the
blackboard the title of
the lesson and asks the
students to do the same
in their notebooks.

writing

vocabulary
- to learn and
improve
word
pronunciation

Students listen

lockstep
1
Students write the
title of the lesson on
their notebooks

writing

T-Ss
Students look at the
pictures, the spelling
of the words and they
repeat the new words
after their teacher
lockstep

Teacher
shows
the
students a poster and
points to the weather
conditions, one at a
time, presenting them
and pronouncing the
new vocabulary loud
and clear asking the The students repeat
students to repeat after after her.
her.
Then she points them in

listening
speaking
- to recognize and
learn new chunks of
language
3
writing

random
order
and
pronounce the chunks of
language encouraging
the students to do the
same.
Teacher
asks
the
students to write the
new words in their
notebooks.

c) Activity 2
Practice

d) Activity 3
Practice

Teacher invites the

students to play the
guessing game. The
teacher mimes
the weather conditions,
(e.g. It is raining.) and
asks the students to
guess the right sentence.
The students score a
point if they will choose
the correct answer.

T-Ss
Students
recognize
them and write the
correct words in their
notebooks
T-Ss

Students look at their

teacher and guess the
weather conditions

Teacher
asks
the
students to open their
books at page twentysix. T. writes the number Students look
26 on the board and repeat after her
holds up her book.
Teacher asks Whats the
weather like today? Can
you say? The students

Listening
speaking

- to check and
consolidate
pronunciation
and
understanding
the
meaning of the words

speaking
T-Ss

- to practise writing

reading
5
speaking

speaking
and
T-Ss

- to communicate
efficiently using their
language
- to check and
consolidate
pronunciation
and

e) Activity 4
(consolidation)

repeat after her. Then

she points to the first
picture and says: Its
snowing today! The
students repeat after her.
T. repeats with the rest
of the pictures. T.
explains the activity. She
plays the recording.
T. plays the recording
again. The pupils listen
and sing along, joining
in with the actions
Whats the weather
like today?
Can you say? Can
you say?
Whats the weather
like today?
Its sunny! Its
sunny today!
Whats the weather
like today?
Can you say? Can
you say?
Whats the weather
like today?
Its hot! Its hot
today!
Whats the weather
like today?
Can you say? Can
you say?
Whats the weather
like today?
Its raining! Its

understanding
the
meaning of the words
T-Ss
The students listen,
repeat after their
teacher and then sing
the song and point to
the weather
conditions mentioned

listening
speaking
writing

to
reinforce
vocabulary

listening
speaking

- to consolidate the
new
language
through songs

f) Activity 5

raining today!
Whats the weather
like today?
Can you say? Can
you say?
Whats the weather
like today?
Its snowing! Its
snowing today!

Teacher invites students

to practice asking and
answering
questions
about
weather
conditions. She writes
on the board the
question they need to
ask and also the answer
they need to give as a
model. Then she puts
the students in a circle
and she explains them
the rules. The fourth
student has to nominate
a classmate and he has
g) Activity 6
(optional, if there is to ask him the question
written on the board.
time)

Activity 7

Teacher
gives
the
students worksheets and
asks them to look at the
pictures, choose the
correct word and trace
the dots (Annex 2)

T-Ss
Ss-Ss
PW

Students choose the

correct word, trace
the dots and then they
read aloud the
sentences.

Speaking

Listening
Speaking
Writing

- to recognize the
correct spelling of the
senteces
- to practise reading
5

Listening
Speaking

- to use the language

in an enjoyable way,
while playing

(optional, if there is
time)
Students look at the
pictures and identify
Teacher
asks
the correctly the weather
students to read the conditions
sentences and circle the
correct picture
IV.

Feed-back

Teacher invites the Students

students to play a game. game.
She says a weather
condition
and
the
students have to mime it

V.

Homework

Teacher asks students to T-Ss

learn
the
new
vocabulary and the song

play

the T-Ss
Ss-Ss
GW

listening
speaking

- to end the lesson in

a fun way;
- to let students know
how
well
they
performed