LESSON PLAN

NAME of TEACHER: Florean Nicoleta – Valentina

NAME of SCHOOL: PEDAGOGICAL HIGH- SCHOOL ”Ștefan cel Mare”, BACĂU
DATE: DECEMBER 2019
GRADE: 2th
LEVEL: beginners (1hour/week)
CLASS SIZE: 29
TIME ALLOWED: 50 minutes
TEXTBOOK: Fairyland 2B- Pupil’s Book, authors: Jenny Dooley, Virginia Evans, Express Publishing House, 2014
UNIT: 8
TOPIC: Happy New Year!( New Year traditions)
TYPE OF LESSON: teaching new vocabulary
INPUT: vocabulary related to New Year’ s Celebration
SKILLS: listening, speaking, reading and writing
AIMS:
1. To take my students on a worldwide tour of traditional New Year’s customs and beliefs.
2. To offer learners a reason to speak and to listen in English in a correct way
3. To determine students to listen and to sing the song
4. To help learners use English appropriatelly in a context
5. To get students make an invitation to New Year’s Eve Party.
6. To determine learners to participate at all the activities
7. To get my learners to be confident in their ability to use English

OBJECTIVES:
a. Cognitive: At the end of the lesson, my students will be (better) able:
To hear and pronounce in a correct way the new words, isolated or in context
 To match image with word/ structure
To understand and to specify the gist and the specific information of the text
To know traditional customs and beliefs of few countries.
To use new vocabulary in a correct way in their own products (an invitation).

b. Affective

 The students will have fun

 The students will participate at all the activities
 The student’s imagination will be stimulated

METHODS AND APPROACHES:

1. MAIN METHOD: The Communicative Approach
2. ELEMENTS OF: audio – visual Approach, audio – lingual Approach and oral Approach
TECHNIQUES: team -work, pair -work, lock- step, presentation, practice, production, role – play, chain-reading.
TEACHING AIDS: textbook, notebooks, dictionary, coloured pieces of chalk, worksheets with different activities, laptop and video-projector
class CD

BIBLIOGRAPHY:
 Jenny Dooley, Virginia Evans, Fairyland 2B- Pupil’s Book, Express Publishing House, 2014
 Maidment, Stella , Roberts, Lorena, Happy House, New Edition, Class Book 2, Oxford University Press, 2013
 Scrivener, James, Learning teaching, Second Eition, Macmillan Books for Teachers, 2009

Nr Stage Teacher’s activity Student’s activity Interractio Skills Tim Purpose

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1 Warm - up Teacher greats the Students answer Teacher- Speaking To create a
students and invites students and pleasant
them to sing ”We listening atmosphere
wish you a Merry
Chrismas and a
Happy New Year!”
2 Checking Teacher asks Students present Teacher - Speaking To check
homework students to present students and understanding
their worksheets listening of the
with Christmas Tree previously
that they had thought material
”decorated” at
home.
3 Feed-back and Teacher offers Students listen Teacher – Listening To let students
evaluation feedback and invite and answer students and know how well
students to decide and speaking they performed
whose Chrismas students
tree is more -students
beautiful.
Then, teacher gives
marks.
4 Checking if Teacher lets Students listen Teacher Listening To check
previous lesson students answer a and answer -students and previouse
is missing for few questions like: speaking knowledge
the new What are we
knowledge celebrating on 25th
December?
What do we put on
the Christmas tree?
 What is the
atmosphere these
days?
Who comes to town
on Christmas
Night?
How do you feel
when Santa comes?
5 Introducing Teacher asks her Students listen Teacher Listening
new material students what it is and answer -students
A. Prelistening celebrated after
stage Christmas.
Then , teacher
proposes a
worldwide tour of
traditional New
Year’s customs to
her students.
6 B. While Teacher gives each Students listen Teacher Listening
listening pair of students a and answer the -students
stage few sheets of blank teacher’s task . To check
paper that they can To make a flap In pairs understanding
make into a flap book, all that the (student – the gist and the
book. students have to student) specific
Then she uses do is to fold their information
appendix 1. papers in half, Listening
Teacher uses then make two Speaking To make sure
guiding questions : equally spaced and that each student
Which countries cuts through the working understood the
have been top layer. On the in pairs requirement and
mentioned in the first two flaps, provides
audio material? the two students additional
 What traditions is it will write the information
talking about? name of a
Which country are country, and on To guide
you choosing? the inner flap students to make
The teacher re-play they will their products
the material 3 -4 illustrate what
times that country’s
New Year’s
traditions are. To
get the
information for
these worldwide
flap books, use
the facts that
they are listening
while they are
making their
task.. They also
use coloured
pencils, coloured
paper, lipstick
which they
brought from
home.
7 C. Post Teacher asks Students work In pairs Listening To guide
-listening students to open the after the model. (student – Speaking students to make
stage textbook at page 65 They make the student) and their products,
and, after the invitation in working speaking in
model, to transform pairs. in pairs English
the flap book into (exercise 5 page
an invitation for the 65)
New Year’s Eve
 party in the country Students present
they have chosen. their products.
Teacher asks
students to present
their products.

8 Feed -back and Teacher makes an Students choose Teacher Listening to make sure
evaluation exhibition with the most students and that students
student’s products. beautiful speaking speak English
invitation and the correctly
Teacher gives to most correct Students -
each child a bag at product. Each students to make sure
confetti and uses child receives a that students
guiding questions: mark for his speak English
What is done ad activity and Role-play correctly
midnight of New product. Teacher-
Year’s Eve? students
Teacher invites
students to imagine
that it is the Student answer
midnight of New and play the role.
Year’s Eve. Then,
she invites them to
count down, break
the bugs of confetti,
throw them up, say
“Happy New
Year”! and hug
each other.
9 Homework Make a flap book to Students write Teacher - Listening The teacher
show what the down the students and ensures that
tradition your homework. writing each student
 family has on the understood the
New Year’s Eve. requirement and
provides
additional
information

Appendix 1

Listen to the material and make , in pair, a flap book. First, fold your papers in half, then make two equally spaced cuts through the top layer. On
the first two flaps, you will write the name of a country, and on the inner flap you will illustrate what that country’s New Year’s traditions are. To
get the information for these worldwide flap books, use the facts that you are listening.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=vEJEBtl7C1E&feature=emb_logo

2. teacher read:

 Bahamas – On Dec. 26 and Dec. 31, people from the Bahamas would dress up in colorful costumes and march in parade called the
“Junkanoo.”
 Greece – On New Year’s Eve, people eat a cake that has a coin baked into it. This cake, called the “Saint Basil,” is popular, and the
person who gets the coin, is said to have good luck.
 Israel – People blow a special horn called the “Shofar” during a religious service called Rosh Hashanah. This is celebrated in the summer
or the fall time.
 Japan – Japanese people ring a bell 108 times on New Year’s Eve because they believe people have 108 problems.
 Portugal and Spain – People from this country eat grapes every time the bell rings at midnight on New Year’s Eve because they believe
for each grape they eat, they will have a month of good luck.
 Scotland – the Scottish eat special food: cheese, bread and shortbread.