LESSON PLAN

Created by: Radomira Marinova

Subject: English
Grade/ Students’ age: 8th-10th grade/ Age 14-16
Topic: The Handprint Icebreaker
Lesson Type: Interactive and team-building
Time: 40 minutes (1 lesson)
Objectives:
 Educational: presenting oneself, practicing vocabulary related to describing one’s
hobbies, interests, preferences, abilities, personality, favourite places, dreams; asking
and answering questions about a person’s hobbies, personality and preferences
 Skills: speaking and listening skills, fluency and confidence level
 Social: team-building, group bonding, getting to know your classmates
Materials/ Resources/ Equipment:
 Equipment: blank pieces of paper and pens
Cross-cultural links: Social and Emotional Learning

Lesson procedure:

№ Lesson Stage Teacher’s Activities/Task Students’ Time Notes

Description Activities

This activity is ideal for the first The students

Introduction/ lesson at the beginning of the follow the
1. Warm-up/ school year, especially when the teacher’s 5 min
Instructions class is new to the teacher, or instructions and
there are new students in the draw their
class. handprint outline.

The lesson starts with revision

of vocabulary related to hobbies,
interests, preferences, abilities,
personality and places.

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 Then the teacher draws a big
handprint outline on the
whiteboard and writes down the
following words and phrases in
each of the 5 fingers:
“hobbies/interests”, “good at”,
“travelling”, “values” and “a
dream”.

The students are given a blank

piece of paper and instructed to
draw a handprint outline of one
of their own hands on it.

The teacher explains the task –

Every student has to fill in the 5
fingers on their handprint with
information about themselves
regarding their hobbies/interest,
what they are good at, where
they have travelled or would
like to travel to, what they value
the most, and what their most
precious dream is.
2. Activities: The teacher observes students’ Students do the 10 min
individual work, helps them with new task – they fill the
vocabulary, if needed. “fingers” with the
information about
themselves, using
dictionaries or the
help of the teacher,
if needed.

When the students have finished

filling in the handprints, the
teacher collects and shuffles
them and then gives them out
again to the students, making
sure that no one gets their own
handprint. They are instructed to
stand up, walk around the
classroom and find out whose
handprint they’ve got only by
asking the rest of the class only
Yes/No questions, such as: “Are
you good at painting..? Do you
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 value democracy and freedom?”
etc.

Activities: The teacher observes students’ Students walk

3. group work and helps them, if needed. around the 20 min
classroom and ask
their classmates
Yes/No questions.
When they have
found the person
whose handprint
they’ve got, they
write the person’s
name on the paper.

Assessing students’ work Students share

4. Checking/ how they have felt
Assessment/ doing the activity –
Was it fun and 3 min
useful?

Students are assigned

5. Closure/ homework: They have to write a
Homework short presentation about
themselves /of about 100-150
words/ including information 2 min
about their character, personality
and a few fun facts about
themselves.

ПРОЕКТ 2020-1-BG01-KA101-078465

„УЧИТЕЛИ - ТВОРЦИ, НОВАТОРИ, МЕДИАТОРИ И ВДЪХНОВИТЕЛИ“

 ПРОЕКТ 2020-1-BG01-KA101-078465

„УЧИТЕЛИ - ТВОРЦИ, НОВАТОРИ, МЕДИАТОРИ И ВДЪХНОВИТЕЛИ“

 ПРОЕКТ 2020-1-BG01-KA101-078465

„УЧИТЕЛИ - ТВОРЦИ, НОВАТОРИ, МЕДИАТОРИ И ВДЪХНОВИТЕЛИ“