Lesson plan

School: Colegiul Național ’’Ferdinand I’’

Class: 9th
Level: intermediate
Number of learners:
Trainee: Ilie Narcis
Time: 50’
Lesson title: ’’Dream On’’
Type of lesson: Reading and Listening
Lesson Aims:
 creating interest in the topic of the lesson;
 promoting discussion and expressing opinions on reading;
 developing speaking and practising the new words;
 fostering fluency.

Skills: speaking, reading, writing, listening

Anticipated language problems: The students could become a bit noisy when discussing the
given topics. In some cases, pupils may not understand the task given by the teacher;
Possible solutions: The teacher may ask the students to see if there is any misunderstanding
regarding the task. He may repeat the task in order to be clear for everybody;
Teaching aids: the coursebook, the blackboard; audio material;
Modes of interaction: teacher-student, student-student,

Activity 1 - Warm up
Aim:- To familiarize the pupils with the new teacher;
-To accommodate the students with the topic of the lesson;
- To encourage the students to talk and express their opinion and ideas in English and also to
justify them;

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Teacher’s role: presenter, guide;
Skills: listening, comprehension;
Materials: the blackboard, the coursebook;
Class management: whole class activity;
Timing: 10 minutes

Activity 2 – Exercise N.1

Aim: To improve students’ level of comprehension and their ability to express themselves in
English;
Procedure:
1. Pupils are asked to open their coursebooks. They have to look at exercise n.7 and to
answer to a set of questions.
2. After having answered the questions, the teacher plays them an audio material as part
of the same exercise.
3. Then after listening to the audio material, the students and the teacher have a
discussion regarding the set of questions and the audio material.

Interaction: T-Ss, S-S;

Teacher’s role: guide, controller;
Skills: speaking, comprehension;
Materials: blackboard, copybooks, the coursebook, audio material;
Class management: whole class activity;
Timing: 10 minutes

Activity 3 – Exercise N2
Aims: -To improve students’ ability to read in English;
-To expand their vocabulary;
- To improve students’ ability to express themselves in English;
Procedure: The students are asked to look at exercise n.2 and to choose the right answer. In
order for them to know which one is the right one they have to read the text’’ A dream come
true?’’ which is on the same page right under the exercise n.2. Then teacher asks for volunteers ,
for each paragraph, that want read the text or choses to ask students to read if there are no
volunteers.

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After each paragraph the teach asks the students if there are any words that they don’t know or
asks the students if they know a certain word the he considers to be more ’’difficult’’.
Interaction: T-Ss, group work;
Teacher’s role: guide, controller;
Skills: writing, speaking, reading;
Materials: the coursebook, the blackboard ,copybook;
Class management: whole class activity;
Timing: 10 minutes

Activity 4: Exercise N3
Aim: To comprehend the text better;
Procedure: The students are asked to look at exercise n.4. in order to solve the exercise they
need to make use of the text from the previous exercise again. The task is for them is associate
each sentence (A-F) from this exercise with a ‘’gap’’(1-6) from the previous text.
Interaction: T-Ss, individual work
Teacher’s role: guide, controller;
Skills: reading, comprehension;
Materials: coursebook, copybooks;
Class management: whole class activity;
Timing: 10 minutes

Activity 5 - Exercise N4
Aims: To improve vocabulary
Procedure: The teacher asks the students to look at exercise n.6. In that exercise they a given
several definitions of words(words extracted from the same text used for the last two exercises) .
Two of those definitions are not correct. The students have to find the ones which are not correct
then to correct them by suggesting a definition for them.
Teacher’s role: observer, guide,
Skills: reading, writing,
Materials: coursebook, copybooks;
Class management: whole class activity;
Timing: 10 minutes

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Activity 6 –Homework
Aims: -To improve students’ ability to express themselves in English;
-To reinforce the newly gained information;
Procedure: The teacher asks the students to write a short essay about famous person that inspired
them, why did they choose that person and how it inspired them.
Teacher’s role: observer, guide,
Skills: reading, writing,
Materials: coursebook, copybooks;
Class management: whole class activity;
Timing: 20 minutes