LESSON PLAN

Teacher: Andra Elena Agafiţei

Date: 13th of March, 2014

Form: 1st grade

Level: Beginner

Unit 5: Animals

Lesson: Wild Animals

Lesson Type: Mixed

Time: 45’

Method: The Communicative Approach

Focus: Listening, Speaking

Aims:

 To create a relaxed, non-threatening atmosphere in the classroom;

 To get the students interested in the topic;
 To encourage pair-work in order to fulfill tasks.
Lesson objectives: By the end of the lesson, the students will be able to:

 Identify the wild animals presented in the lesson;

 Distinguish between wild and domestic animals;
 Correctly pronounce the name of the animals.
 Say if the wild animals are big or small.
Resources and materials:

 Flash cards, worksheets, blackboard, chalk.

 Group
Stages Time T’s activity Ss’ activity Skill Aids Purpose
interaction
The teacher enters the
classroom and greets
the children. The
teacher checks if all
the students are The students greet
present. their teacher.
To check the students’
Warm up The teacher asks the Students respond Speaking
5’ T ↔ Ss knowledge about
A1 students if they to the teacher’s Listening
domestic animals.
remember the questions.
previous lesson and
names several
students to answer
some short questions.

Lead in 5’ Teacher tells the The students come T ↔ Ss Speaking Flash cards To introduce the topic of
A2 students they will one by one, pick a Ss ↔ Ss Listening the lesson
play a game. The flash card and start
teacher asks some moving and
children to come to making noises.
her and pick a flash The other students
card. The student must guess the
must move and make wild animal.
noises in order for the
other students to
guess the name of the
 animal.
The teacher shows the
students flash cards
with domestic and
wild animals and asks
them to tell which is
which. The teacher The students Blackboard,
To correctly pronounce
A3 10’ gives the students repeat the words T ↔ Ss Speaking chalk
the new words.
time to copy from the after the teacher.
blackboard all the
words. After that,
they all repeat the
words for several
times.
The teacher shows
The students
again the flash cards, To insist on the
identify the animal Flash cards with
asking the students to Listening difference between
A4 5’ and say if it is wild T ↔ Ss wild/domestic
say if the animal is Speaking big/small, wild/domestic
or domestic, big or animals
wild/domestic,
small.
big/small.
The teacher gives the
students the
worksheet in which
The students solve Worksheet
they have to circle the Listening To associate the image
A5 10’ the exercise helped T ↔ Ss “Circle the
correct word. The Speaking with the word
by the teacher. correct word”
teacher helps the
students to solve the
exercise.
 The teacher gives the
students the no. 2
worksheet, in which
Two by two, the Worksheet
they must find the T ↔ Ss Listening To check the students’
A6 7’ students solve the “Wild Animals
names of 9 wild Ss ↔ Ss Speaking attention.
task. Word search“
animals. The teacher
asks students to work
in pairs.
The teacher tells the
students that their
homework is to think
about themselves and
Setting To develop the students’
3’ to choose one wild Step-lock
Homework creativity.
animal that they think
it represents them
best and draw it on a
piece of paper.