Lesson Plan

Teacher : Aneta Pop

School : “Vasile Scurtu” Secondary School - PARVA
Topic: The British and their sports
Form : 5 th
Type of lesson: consolidation and acquiring new information (about sports)

Skills : reading, speaking, writing, listening

Purpose: The purpose of this lesson is to review the language taught previously and to introduce
and practice new vocabulary related to sports.

Aims :
 to recycle the language taught previously
 to practice vocabulary related to the topic
 to enable the students to use expressions such as I like / I can…

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  to practice their speaking/ writing/reading and listening
skills
 to consolidate the target language making up a poster,
working in groups, singing English songs
 to stimulate Sts ‘ imagination and creativity
 to give Sts confidence in their ability to use the English
language
 to end the lesson in a fun atmosphere
Time: 50 min.
Didactic strategies:
 methods and procedures: ice-breaking, conversation,
brainstorming, explanation, dialogues, listen-and-do
activities, role-play, singing and miming, making up a poster
 materials and equipment: handouts, flashcards, worksheets,
markers, scissors, glue, 4 large drawing boards , P.C. , video
projector, audio cassettes, CD player
organization: class work, pair work, individual work, group work

Anticipated problems :
If Sts do not understand the oral commands or the task, they will be translated into
Romanian. But, the mother tongue can only be spoken if a St has a question to ask the teacher that
he/she cannot explain in English.

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 Classroom procedure
ACTIVITY 1 : WARM-UP
AIMS :

to get things started, wake up tired Sts and prepare brains, mouths, ears and eyes for English
to recycle the language taught previously
to generate interest, to make pupils relax

PROCEDURE INTERACTION TIMING

- Sts are asked and ask each other different questions 7 min
about themselves (name, age, state of health, favourite
toy, pets..)

-Sts sing a song to establish a relaxed, anxiety-free

atmosphere in the classroom. T-S

-T asks Sts about the way they spend their spare time. Frontal

Are you doing sports? Speaking

Let’s move to the music! (ACTIVITY RAP): Listening

“Hello, again – and it’s time to listen and move to the

music. Are you ready?Okay, let’s go!

Stand up, please. Yes, please stand up.

And sit down, all sit down.

And stand up, stand up.

And sit down, all sit down.

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And stand up, please.

Good. Thank you.

Now raise your arms – and up and down. (4X)

Go on, don’t stop – and up and down and up and down.

Thank you.

Don’t sit down now. Let’s go on.

Now snap your fingers. First your right fingers, then your
left. Listen. (snapping fingers)

It’s easy.
dancing
Now it’s your turn – right, left (6X)
singing
Thank you. You’re doing fine!

Now clap your hands. Here we go – one, two. (5X)

Now clap your hands again and count to ten.

Count to ten in English.

Ready, steady, go: one, two……….ten. Thank you and

back from ten to one. Ten, nine………..one. GOOD.

Now sit down, please. Sit back and close your eyes. Okay.
Please, close your eyes. Yes, close your eyes and listen to
the music. Relax. Now don’t open your eyes. Okay.

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Now draw with your finger – with your finger on the desk.
Please draw a little boy or draw a little girl with your
finger on the desk. Yes, draw, please. Don’t open your
eyes. Don’t look at your neighbor.

(music only)

Can you see the boy or the girl? Yes, very good. And be
quiet. Very quiet. Very, very quiet.Pssst!”

ACTIVITY 2: CHECKING AND PRACTICE THE PREVIOUS KNOWLEDGE

AIM:

to revise and practice vocabulary related to sports

PROCEDURE INTERACTION TIMING

-T shows Sts a PPT about sports. Sts watch and repeat. T-Ss 10 min

They also receive some handouts and flashcards with new listening
words. They point and repeat after T:
speaking
bowling, jogging, ice skating , surfing, skateboarding, horseback riding,
reading
cycling, snowboarding, skiing…

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ACTIVITY 3: LEAD IN
AIMS:

to get Sts into the new topic

to practice their speaking / listening skills
to give Sts confidence in their ability to use the English language

PROCEDURE INTERACTION TIMING

- T and Sts watch a short funny video about what can 5 min
pumpkins do. (Can & Can't with Action Verbs 6: "WHAT CAN YOU DO?"
Fun English Cartoon by Pumkin.com.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a91oTyA0Oq8

Finally they talk about what sports they can do. Ss-Ss
T asks Sts to work in pairs: Pair work
Do you like sports? Writing
Yes, I do. T-Ss
Can you play basketball? Reading

No, I can’t. Listening

Do you like swimming?

Yes, I do.

Can you swim?

Yes, I can…

T guides the students to use correctly the language in use.

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ACTIVITY 4: PRACTICE and REINFORCEMENT
AIMS:

to practice their speaking and writing skills

to build confidence
to practice and consolidate the target language by making up a poster
to stimulate Sts’ imagination and creativity
to enable the Sts to use expressions such as “I like…/ I can..”

PROCEDURE INTERACTION TIMING

APPLICATION 1. INDIVIDUAL – WORK 15 min

“What sports equipment do we need?”

Sts receive a worksheet. They have to match the sports

equipment on the right to kind of sports on the left.

2- tennis

4- baseball

3- golf

1- archery
6- badminton

5- football

APPLICATION 2. PAIR-WORK Ss-Ss

Sts open their books at page 98, ex 2. d). In pairs, they PW

have to tick a), b) or c) to show the correct meaning. Speaking

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 1- a) pitch Reading
2- c) stick
3- b) goal Witing
4- b) gloves
Listening
5- c) boat
6- a) team T-Ss

APPLICATION 3. GROUP WORK

-T devides the class into groups of 4.

-Each group will receive a large white sheet of paper (A5),

a sheet of sports symbols / images and an envelope with
happy / sad faces made by paper.

-T explains the task. Sts have to write down their names

and to cut out the symbols/ images. After that they stick
them on the large sheet.

-T models the task providing a visual aids. As they work in

groups they listen to “It’s a beautiful life” (Ace of Base)

-When the Sts have finished writing their names and

sticking all the symbols, they come in front of the
classroom and talk about sports they like / don’t like, or
can/ can’t do.

ACTIVITY 5 : FEED-BACK “What, what, what can you do?”

AIMS:

to consolidate vocabulary related to sports

to have fun while studying English language , singing and role-playing

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 to end the lesson in a fun atmosphere

PROCEDURE INTERACTION TIMING

10 min

Sts sing and mime like this:

(the tape is playing, too)

What, what, what can you do?

What, what, what can you do?

What, what, what can you do?

What, what can you do?

T-Sts
Ana, what can you do?
Speaking
I can play football!
singing
Show us.
miming
(Ana mimes playing football.)
Sts-Sts

What, what, what can you do?

What, what, what can you do?

What, what, what can you do?

What, what can you do?

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Ionuţ, what can you do?

I can play basketball!

Show us!

(He mimes playing basketball.)

What, what, what can you do?

What, what, what can you do?

What, what, what can you do?

What, what can you do?

Maria , what can you do?

I can ski!

Show us!

(She mimes skiing.)

… and so on

ACTIVITY 6 : ENDING THE LESSON

Aims:

to assign Sts’ homework

to evaluate Sts’ work

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 PROCEDURE INTERACTION TIMING

3 min

HOMEWORK:

T. assigns the homework by giving clear instructions:

On a white sheet of paper write a short paragraph about

a sport you know well. Do not name the sport. On the
other side of the paper, draw this sport.

Next English lesson, read your paragraph to the pupils.

Can they guess the sports you are talking about? If not, T-Sts
show them your draw.
Speaking
ASSESSMENT:
Listening
T. appreciates the Sts that were active during the entire
lesson and give advices to the less active ones.

All Sts will get a GREAT WORK diploma.

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