LESSON PLAN

PEOPLE AND PLACES

A. Description
Level : Elementary
There are 25 students in the class. The classes take place on Tuesday at 5 o’clock and on
Friday at 5 o’clock. They are a little noisy and talkative in mother tongue. Some Ss lack basic
knowledge in English so they keep interrupting the T as they need additional explanations in
mother tongue.
The Ss are cooperative and competitive.

B. Recent work

1. Reading activities from “Charlie and the Chocolate factory”

2. Meaning guessing
3. Controlled practice with the new vocabulary
4. Group work on inventions

C. Objectives
1. to match countries with capital cities
2. to discover the way the nationality adjectives are formed
3. to identify the characteristics of some nations
4. to identify international stereotypes

D. Contents

Objective 1 : (estimated time : 10 minutes )

(a) Context: match the names of the capital cities with the names of the countries. Then
Ss find the capital cities on the map.
(b) Activity /class organization : pair work
(c) Aids : worksheet with map of the world
(d) Language : none
(e) Possible problems : Ss might find it difficult to remember topics from geography

Objective 2 : (estimated time : 10 minutes )

(a) Context: the Ss look at the map of the world and discover where those people come
from. Then the Ss group the adjectives written below the people according to the color
of the people’s clothes.
(b) Activity /class organization : pair work
(c) Aids : worksheet with map of the world
(d) Language : adjectives related to nationalities
(e) Possible problems: Ss might find it difficult to discover the common element for each
column of adjectives.
Objective 3: (estimated time : 5 minutes )
(a) Context: matching exercise. The Ss get a worksheet in which they have to match the
nationalities to the representative pictures of the people (Australian, Scottish,
Japanese, Canadian, French, German, British, Italian, Mexican, Irish, Russian,
Korean, American, Spanish, and Chinese).
(b) Activity /class organization : pair work
(c) Aids : pictures with nationalities
(d) Language : adjectives related to nationalities
(e) Possible problems: They might have problems with guessing the Irish and the Korean.

Objective 3 : (estimated time : 10 minutes )

(a) Context: Fill –in exercise. Ss get a worksheet with a fill-exercise. They have to
complete the sentence with the correct nationality according to the international
stereotype.
(b) Activity /class organization : pair work
(c) Aids : worksheet
(d) Language : adjectives related to nationalities
(e) Possible problems: They might have problems with guessing the most representative
characteristics of the nationalities in question.

Objective 4 : (estimated time : 15 minutes )

(a) Context: free practice with nationality adjectives. Ss have to write short descriptions
of different nationalities ( English, Romanians, Italians, French)
(b) Activity /class organization : group work
(c) Aids : none
(d) Language : adjectives related to nationalities
(e) Possible problems: They might have problems with guessing the most representative
characteristics of the nationalities in question.
1. Complete the following sentences with the right nationality

They love TV soap operas and football.
Their country has a very large forest and
a very long river. It has a big city with a
famous beach and a big carnival once a
year. These people love music and
dancing and they have parties every
weekend. They drink coffee four or five
times a day!
Who are they? The …………………………..
They live in a small country with a lot of
mountains. They work a lot but they
also love sports. They live doing sports
in the winter. These people usually
speak two or three languages. They are
famous for their banks, their clocks and
their watches. Their national dish is
cheese fondue.
Who are they? The……………………………….

They work a lot and they hardly ever

have holidays. They usually go to work
early and get home very late. They’ve
got a royal family. They’re very polite
and they like making things. They eat
fish for or five times a week and their
national dish is sushi.

Who are they? The………………………………