Lesson Plan

Teacher:
School :
Date:
Form: 7th
Year of study: 7th
No. of classes/ week: 2
Textbook: Limba modernă 1 Engleză, ed. Litera
Unit: Famous writers and books
Lesson: Robinson Crusoe
Type: vocabulary lesson
Textbook:
Time: 50 minutes

Aims: By the end of the lesson students will be able to:

Cognitive:
- read correctly the lesson;
- write correctly the new words and understand their meaning;
- achieve a concise presentation of the novel “Robinson Crusoe”;
- describe the events that occur during an anecdote using the vocabulary taught.

Affective:
- create interest in reading adventure books;
- stimulate their imagination;
- be confident in them when speaking a foreign language.

Approaches: Communicative and Discovery Approaches

Techniques: Brainstorming, Elicitation, Written and Oral Drill Activities, Description,
Conversation.
Materials: Textbook, Blackboard, Worksheets, CD player.
STAGES OF

THE LESSON
Lesson stages Teacher’s activity Students’ Interaction Skill Time Purpose
activity
1. Teacher greets the students and calls the - Ss answer T-SS Speaking 1 min - to check if all students
I. roll are present;
Warm-up 2. Teacher begins the lesson with a small talk - Ss answer T-SS Speaking 1 min - to create a pleasant
and asks Ss if they are ready for the lesson. atmosphere in the
classroom
II. Checking - Ss answer and SS-T Speaking 3 min - to check if they all know
homework 1. Teacher checks homework correct their SS-SS Listening the previous taught
homework Writing material
1. Teacher reads out the title of the novel and - Ss answer T-SS Listening 2 min - to check what the Ss
III. elicits ideas from Ss about the content. SS-T Speaking already know about this
Lead-in topic
2. Teacher asks the Ss to read the biography - Ss read the SS-T Reading 5 min - to activate Ss’ interest in
text and asks them inferential questions about text and answer SS-SS Listening the lesson
it. the questions Speaking
IV. 1. Teacher offers feedback and encourages - Ss listen T-SS Listening 1 min - to let Ss know how well
Feed-back students to participate. they performed
1. Teacher announces the objectives of the - Ss listen T-SS Listening 2 min - to provide a context for
V. lesson and introduces the key phrases and the lesson
The content explains them.
of the lesson:

- Introducing 2. Teacher plays the CD track with the story - Ss listen T-SS Listening - to activate the Ss
new material; described by the key phrases and asks the Ss silently and SS-SS Speaking attention in order to be
- Listening; to underline those phrases that they expect to fulfil the given SS-T Writing able to think about the
find in the anecdote. task details of an anecdote by
listening the CD track .

- Reading; 3. Teacher asks Ss to read the extract from the - Ss read SS-T Reading - to activate Ss’
 novel. background knowledge
- Writing
4. Teacher explains the unknown words and - Ss listen and T-SS Listening - to learn new words;
writes them on the blackboard; T asks Ss to write Writing - to make sure Ss have the
put them down in their notebooks. 27 new vocabulary on their
min notebooks
5. Teacher asks Ss to answer the questions - Ss write and SS-SS Writing - to consolidate the main
(Textbook, Ex. 7, page 41). report their SS-T Speaking ideas and facts from the
answers new read material;

6. Teacher gives each student a worksheet - Ss write and SS-T Writing - to make sure they
(Appendix 1) and asks them to fill in the gaps. report their Speaking understood correctly the
answers meaning of the new taught
words.
7. Teacher gives the Ss the task to identify the - Ss write and T-SS Writing - to make a short revision
events that took place before and after the provide their SS-SS Speaking of the main ideas from the
main event of the story. answers SS-T text.
8. Teacher briefly revises the lesson and asks - Ss listen and T-SS Listening 3 min - to make sure all Ss
students if there is any piece of information offer feed-back Speaking understood everything in
they did not understand. the classroom

VI. 1. Teacher offers feedback and thanks - Ss listen T-SS Listening 2 min - to let Ss know how well
Feed-back everyone for the lesson. they performed;

1. Teacher announces the homework for the - Ss write the T-SS Writing 3 min - to let Ss know what they
VII. next lesson and explains their task: to write a homework have to prepare for the
Homework short composition on a typical day in the life next lesson
of a shipwrecked person on a desert island.
Appendix 1

1. Fill in the gaps with the appropriate word from the list below:

astonished, put up, drop, doorway, nerve, dirt, satisfied, pounded, fell down.

1. “However, I was still afraid to go back into my cave in case the roof ……………… on top
of me.”
2. “This thought made me so sad that I felt my heart ……….. in my chest.”
3. “I had found a cave to live in and had spent three or four months building a wall around its
………………. ”
4. “However, my tent was being …………. so hard by the storm that I was forced to go into
my cave (…)”
5. “When I had finally finished building, I …………… my tent in the space between the cave
mouth and the wall and felt very comfortable and……………..”
6. “The very next day, when I was busy in my new home, just inside the entrance to the cave,
I saw some ………….. falling from the roof of my cave (…)”
7. “The experience frightened me so much that I was…………….., and could do nothing but
stare around me.”
8. “When there was no shaking for some time, and it seemed that my wall had not been
damaged by the earthquake, I began to feel my………….. returning.”