LESSON PLAN

Info about the learners

Class / Age: 4 C/ 10 years old/ 16 students
Level: YLE (Flyers)
School status: primary/ 5 classes per week/ English primary curriculum
Learner profile: The fourth grade is currently preparing for the Flyers exam which will take place on the 23rd of May. In
parallel, they have been following the English Primary curriculum for stage 5. We are now at the end of chapter- A Box of
Delights, in which they found out that the well-know fairytales they have read also have different versions in different
countries. They were also taught the past tense and writing a short story based on pictures.
Info about the lesson
Title, topic: Fairytales- Beauty and the Beast
[Type of lesson]: REVISION/ Reading and Writing
Aims: By the end of this lesson, students will be able to:
-read different narrative texts and identify the stages of a plot; (A1)
-use the past tense correctly; (A2)
-write short texts based on given pictures; (Flyers-Reading& Writing, part 7) (A3)
Objectives:
-find out different versions of the same fairytale;
-write short stories;
-work with past tense.
Teaching aids and materials:
Board, projector, laptop, worksheets, map, different props for Beauty and the Beast, 2 characters (students from class 7),
pictures with the story
Procedure:
Stage Activity Interaction Time Skill Focus Observations
Warm-up Ss are greeted and are reminded that in T-S 3’ Speaking
this chapter they had fun learning about S-Ss
different versions of Cinderella. They are S-T
announced that they will discuss about
one of their favourite stories and they are
shown 3 pictures with clues, in order to
guess the story. (CASTLE- ROSE-
CANDLESTICK- CUP)
 Right after they guess the answer, 2
special guests enter in the classroom and
interact with them. (Beauty and the Beast)
Pre-reading Ss will be given small strips of paper on T-S 6’ Speaking
which they will find 3 pictures from the S-Ss
story. Each student will receive a different
set of pictures and they will have 1
minute and a half to think about a short
description.
They will have to prove the guests that
they are familiar with the story, by
describing the pictures orally in 3
sentences (approximately 35 words). The
pictures will be different and will
represent different scenes from the Disney
movie.
The pictures will be projected on the
 board and the answers will be shared with
the class. (2 students per set of pictures)
While- The 2 guests will provide students with 4 S-S 6’ Reading
reading different versions of the story Beauty and
the Beast in different countries.
The stories will be read out loud by 4
students in the class.
Post-reading Ss will also receive a map with some Group 20’
symbols (a mountain, a castle, a rose and work
a candlestick). They are invited to fulfill Individual
the 4 challenges in order to help the Beast work
become a prince again. A map will be
displayed on the board.
Controlled Challenge 1: The Rose
practice The stories they read were written in the Writing
present tense. Students will have to work Reading
together and put the verbs in the past
 tense. The list with the verbs will be
written in their notebooks. The answers
will be checked with the class after 3
minutes of group work.

Semi- Challenge 2: The Mountain Writing

controlled Each team will have to identify the main Reading
practice ideas in their text and write them on a
mountain with the stages of the plot.
(exposition, rising action, climax, falling
action, conclusion)
The answers will be shared with the class.

Free Challenge 3: The Candlestick Writing

practice In this challenge, each student will work
individually. Each student will receive a
worksheet with the story, in which they
 will have to fill in the gaps with their own
ideas in order to make the story
traditional. They will also have to write a
35-lines ending for their story: Beauty
and the Beast in Romania.
Some versions will be shared with the
class.
Follow-up Their stories will be exhibited on a board T-Ss 2’ Speaking
and and T will provide individual and general
conclusions feedback for the students’ performance.