Lesson Plan

School: Liceul cu Program Sportiv Iolanda Balas Soter,Buzau

Teacher: Catalina Vrinceanu
Grade: 7th
Number of students:22
Subject: English language
Theme: First Conditional
Function: Giving warnings
Level: elementary
Date:
Time:50 minutes
Competency: students are able to communicate in English for elementary level
Language skills: speaking, reading, writing
Materials: textbook, worksheets
Teaching methodology: lecture, answer and question,observation
Language aims: students will know how to give a spoken and written warning;
Students will know how to certain words to that are used for
warnings
Objective: students will be able to give warnings
Target language: giving warnings
Warm-up
Teacher asks students how they give written and spoken warnings in their
language(L1) and what particular words, phrases or grammatical constructions are
used.Then she asks them to suggest/give typical ways of giving warnings in English.
Aim: to attract students attention on the lesson
Technique: speaking
Interaction: T-Ss

Time: 3 minutes
Students activity: they answer the questions
Presentation of the new language
Teacher presents the Grammar Box from the textbook and explains the students
the grammar constructions.
Aim: to focus students attention on the new grammar constructions
Technique:speaking
Interaction: T-Ss
Time: 5 minutes
Students activity: they listen to teachers explinations
Practice
Activity 1
Teacher asks students to rewrite some sentences using conditionals to give
warnings in three ways.
Aim: to practice conditionals for giving warnings
Technique: speaking
Interaction: T-Ss
Time: 5 minutes
Studentsactivity: they rephrase the sentences orally
Activity 2
Teacher gives one student a warning about an insignificant action(e.g. If you miss
the bus, you will be late). The student should continue by taking the second half of
teachers warning and create a new warning. The teacher elicits the next warning
and so on.At the end the teacher checks if the students can recall the whole chain
of warnings-starting from that one small initial action.
Aim: to encourage students to give spoken warnings
Technique: speaking
Interaction: T-Ss; Ss-Ss
Time: 10 minutes

Students activity:they give spoken warnings

Activity 3
Teacher splits the students into two groups assigning each student the number 1 or
2. Students designed as ones are given short fragments from the Red Riding
Hood story.Teacher gives the twos short fragments from Star Wars story. The
teacher asks each group to read the fragments and imagine what warnings they
could give the characters(e.g. If you see a wolf, youll run.) When they are ready
the leader of each group will say only their warnings. The other group must guess
what the original story was.
Aim: to encourage students to give their own warnings
Technique: reading, writing, speaking
Interaction:T-Ss,Ss-Ss
Time: 15 minutes
Students activity: they listen to teachers explications, read the text, write the
warnings, say their warnings
Activity 4
Teacher asks students to write 5 warnings for their favourite characters as
homework.
Aim: to encourage giving written warnings
Techique:speaking
Interaction:T-Ss
Time: 2 minutes
Students activity: they listen to teachers explications
Assessment
Teacher assesses students participation in class discussions and understanding of
audience.
Aim: to reward students for their activity
Technique: speaking
Interaction:T-Ss
Students activity: they listen to teachers observations

Time:2 minutes
GRAMMAR BOX
First Contitional: if/ unless clause+ll(will)/ wont
If you stand over there, Ill get the Forth Bridge in as well.
I wont get a good shot unless you keep still.
First Conditional: imperative clause+ conjunction or
Stop fooling around or I wont get a good shot!

EXERCISE ACTIVITY 1
Use conditionals to give warnings in three ways.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

If
If
If
If
If

you(not/be) careful with that knife, you (cut) yourself.

you (not/ lock) your car, someone (steal) your radio.
you (not/ write) down the number, you (not/remember) it.
you (not/go away), I (call) the police.
you (not/be) early, you (not/get) good seats near the front.