Lesson Project

Teacher – Oana Zahiu

Date – October 29th, 2014

Secondary School – “Sf. Vineri”, Ploiesti

Form – 5th

Textbook – “Pathway to English” , Editura Didactica si pedagogica

Module – What Does She Look Like?

Time – 50 minutes

Aims – physical and character descriptions

Objectives – by the end of the lesson the students should be able to:

- make a physical description

- talk about somebody’s personality and bring explanations to sustain their

point of view

- produce complex structures using linking words

Teaching techniques

- speaking, writing, pair-work, interpreting images

Class Organization

- individual work, pair work

Skills

- reading, writing, speaking, listening

Recent Work

- vocabulary used for describing people

Anticipated problems

- students may find it difficult to express themselves freely in English

Vocabulary

- adjectives for describing physical appearance and character, linking

words
Stages of Activities Aims Materials Class Ti Obs
the lesson organi me

zation

Warm up Teacher and students - to relax Indivi 1’

greet each other. dual
- to encourage
work
The teacher asks the students to
students a few simple speak (IW)
questions like: “How
- to introduce
are you?”/ “Are you
students to
nervous?”
proper class
atmosphere

Homework - to check the notebook IW 4’

check work
The teacher asks
about the homework - to appreciate
and checks it orally it
with all the class.
- to correct it
The teacher asks for when
the feed-back of the necessary
students who are
listening to the
classmate reading the
homework by asking
them questions and
encourages them to
correct themselves.

Contents: The teacher hands - to encourage -worksheet IW 3’

students worksheets students to
Activity 1
and asks the student speak
to do the first exercise
- to revise some
individually. They
of the
have to circle the odd
vocabulary
 word out. The teacher they have
asks questions using acquired
the given vocabulary:
“Is Maria tall?”, “Has
David got freckles?”,
“Who has got long
wavy hair in your
class?”

Activity 2 The teacher reads for - to encourage worksheet IW 5’

the students the and develop
examples is ex. 2, oral and
making sure they written
have understood the production
structure given. Using
- to produce
liking words such as –
complex
as well as, and, who
structures
with – the students
have to produce
complex structures
using the information - use linking
given. The students words
write the sentences on
the blackboard and in
their notebooks.

Activity 3 Using the same - to repeat the -worksheet -IW 5’

linking words, the vocabulary
students have to fill
- to fix the new
the gaps of a text,
information
individually
- to get feed-
back as to the
level of
understanding
of the new
 information

Activity 4 The teacher asks the - to test the Interaction PW 5’

students to read the level of teacher –
descriptions on the understanding student
worksheets and of the new
match them to the structures
pictures.
- to stimulate
conversation

Activity 5 The teacher presents - to revise the Vocabulary GW 7’

the students a power vocabulary flashcards
point presentation. A
- to prepare a Power
robbery took place in
written point
a small English town
production presentation
and they are the
witnesses. The - to consolidate
students have to knowledge
provide detailed
descriptions of the
criminals (3 pictures).

In order for the

description to be
vivid and detailed –
the teacher presents
the students with
flashcards of the
vocabulary they could
use in their
descriptions:
wrinkles, freckles,
beard, bold etc. The
students have to
match the vocabulary
to each picture.
Activity 6 In pairs, the students - to develop notebook PW 10’
have to describe one writing skills
of the robbers using
- to use the
the vocabulary given
acquired
and similar complex
vocabulary in
structured as in the
structures of
previous exercises.
their own
Some of the pair will
read the descriptions
out loud.

Activity 7 The teacher gives - to fix

some directions to the vocabulary
students as to how to
- to encourage
make a good
students to
description. Namely
express
that, apart from the
themselves
physical description
orally
they have to provide
data about the - to encourage
personality. students to
argument their
In this respect, the
opinions
students have to
match the vocabulary
used for describing
character to the
behavior it describes.

The students have to

make oral complex
structures using
“who” to link the
information in
exercise 7.

Assigning The students have to - to consolidate notebook IW 2’

homework write the description the knowledge
of a close friend or acquired
relative. during the
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