LESSON PLAN

Teacher: Panuta Romelia

School: LiceulTeoretic “George Valsan” Faurei
Grade: 5th
No of students:21
Textbook: High Flyer Upper-intermediate
Lesson: Future continuous
Time: 50 min.

Aims (for the teacher):

- to engage and motivate students in the activities
- to develop listening skills
- to develop reading skills
- to introduce future continuous tense to express ongoing actions in the future
- to encourage students to express freely and spontaneously on the topic
- to provide further practice for the use of verb can in real life situations

Objectives (for students)By the end of the lesson the students will be able to:
- to describe some pictures and predict the topic of the lesson
- to listen for gist
- to read a text for specific information
- to elicit the form and meaning of the new grammatical structures from examples
- to use correctly the verb can in sentences
- to use the verb can in real life situations

Anticipated problems:
- They may not understand the meaning of some words
- Ss may make mistakes when talking or writing

Assumptions:
- Ss are familiar with different types of exercises and interaction when practising
language

Skills: listening, reading, writing, speaking

Materials: textbook, notebooks, worksheets, overhead projector flipchart paper

Bibliography:
Abbs, Brian, Freebairn, Ingrid: Snapshot Intermediate-Student’s Book, Longman 2008
Harmer, Jeremy: ‘The Practice of English Language Teaching’, Longman, UK, 1999
Scrivener, Jeremy: ‘Learning teaching’, Macmillan, New Edition
Vizental Adriana-MetodicaPredariilimbiiengleze, Polirom, Iasi. 2007
The Internet
Activity 1
Aim: to check the understanding of the previous lesson
Objective : to use correctly the possessive(’s/s’-of the)
Procedure: T checks students’ homework.
Teacher indicates where the error is, but lets the students correct themselves.
Teacher expresses her opinions about the way SS accomplished the given task.
Class organization: T-Ss, frontal
Time: 5 min

Activity 2
Aims: to engage and motivate students in the activities
Objective: to describe some pictures and predict the topic of the lesson
Procedure:T asks students to look in their texbooks on page 44 and guess what the lesson is
about considering the title and the pictures. Teacher writes the title of the new lesson on the
blackboard and announces the objectives.

Class organization: T-Ss, frontal

Time: 3 min

Activity 3
Aims: to develop listening skills
Objective: to listen for gist
Procedure: Teacher tells students they will listen about superheroes. Then they solve ex 1
in their notebooks. They are asked to match the sentences to the characters who appear in the
text. In pairs, students answer the questions. Teacher checks the answers with the whole
class.
Class organization: T-Ss; frontal pair work
Time: 10 min

Activity 4:
Aim:to develop reading skills
Objective: to read for specific information
Procedure: Teacher asks students to read the text. The new words are discussed and written
down. Students are asked to mark the statements in ex 2 according to what they read. In pairs,
students solve the task. T checks the answers with the whole class.
Class organization:T-Ss; frontal;pair work
Time: 10 min
 Activity 5:
Aim :to introduce inductively the form and use of verb can
Objective: to elicit the forms and the meaning of the new structure from examples
Procedure:T asks students some questions related to the text they have just read. Teacher
writes on the board a sentence from the text. Then students are given some sentences with the
words in the wrong order and they have to unscramble them in order to infer the three forms
of the verb can.(affirmative, negative, interrogative, short answers-worksheet-ex. 1). The
sentences are written on the blackboard in the right order and teacher explains each form.
Teacher helps Ss with questions to understand the meaning of the structure used. Ss are
asked to solve exercise 2 on their worksheets. They have to choose the correct alternative
related to the use.
Class organization: T-Ss, pair work
Time: 11 min

Activity 6
Aim: to encourage students to express freely and spontaneously on the topic
Objective: to use correctly the verb can in sentences
Procedure:Teacher tells students she has some cards with activities. Teacher asks a student
to draw a card. He/She has to mime the action using can. The student who guesses comes to
the front of the class and mimes another action. Students are asked to solve ex 3 on their
worksheets. They have to use the corret form of can according to the pictures and the given
prompts. Students are asked to solve ex. 4 on their worksheet. They write true answers about
themselves.
Class organization: T-Ss, pair work/group work
Time:8 min

Activity 7
Aim: to provide further practice for the use of verb can in real life situations
Objective: to use the verb can in real life situations
Procedure: Students are divided into pairs and asked to solve ex. 5 on their worksheets. They
are asked to write questions and answers using can and the verbs given. Teacher checks the
answers with the whole class.
Class organization: T-Ss, pair work/group work
Time:8 min

*If there is time left students will do ex 6 on their worksheets, if not, it will be given
as homework.
Assigning homework
-ex 6-worksheet. ; ex 7/pag 45 in the textbook. T gives all the necessary information,
appreciates the work of the students and rewards the most active ones with good marks.-2
min
 Worksheet
I Make sentences with these words. Write them in the correct order.
a) can/ She/ Italian/ speak.
b) cook/ can’t/ I.
c) you/ Can sing?
d) I/ Yes / can
e) No/ can’t / I

II Choose the correct answer

We use can to talk about obligation /ability

III
IV Complete the sentences with can or can’t to give true answers about yourself.
1. My mum __________speak English.
2. I____________cook.
3. My best friend_________swim.
4. My dad________play the guitar.
5. I__________ride a bike.
6. My grandparents________walk very fast.
7. My teacher________play tennis.
8. My classmate________do karate.

V In pairs act out the dialogue using the verbs in the box. Give answers that are true for
you.
climb a tree sing speak English dance ice-skate ski
A: Can you dance?
B: Yes, I can./ No, I can’t. What about you?
A: Yes, I can / No, I can’t

VI Complete the sentences with can(+) or can’t(-) and the verbs in the box.
speak ride ski play(x2) cook speak walk
run fly
Martin can speak Spanish.
1. My uncle ___________________a marathon. (+)
2. Suzy ___________________ a horse.(-)
3. We______________________the piano.(+)
4. I_______________________spaghetti!(-)
5. You__________________________French. (-)
6. Anna ____________________the guitar. (+)
7. The students_____________________10 kilometres. (-)
8. They ______________________a kite.(+)