LESSON PLAN

Class: English
Date: the 22nd of November
Grade: 7th
Name: Decă Dănuța Ionela
Unit 3: Museums
Lesson 4: Sights around the world
Type of lesson: transmission lesson / assimilation of new content
Time: 50 minutes
Purpose: The purpose of the lesson is to present and discuss new information about some
sightseeings around the world.

Specific competences:
2.2 Give information about self, activities and events;
3.3 Extract some detailed information from a read text to complete a task;
4.4 Provide and request writing information about activities, persons, events,
experiences;
Cognitive Objectives:
a) To revise the main structures learnt so far;
b) To revise: “The Degrees of Comparison”;

Affective objectives:
a) To create a warm atmosphere for learning;
b) To appreciate their work and efforts;
c) To feel more positive when expressing their ideas in English.

Operational objectives: By the end of the lesson the pupils will be able:

O1 - to understand a short written text in English;

The aim is considered achieved if each child understands at least the main information
from one text.
O2 - to extract specific information from a written text;
The aim is considered achieved if each child extracts two pieces of information.
O3 - to answer questions;
The aim is considered achieved if each child answers at least one question.
Teaching strategies
1. Techniques: conversation, explanation, exercise.
2. Means of instruction: textbook, notebook, blackboard, chalk, poster, marker,
blackboard magnets, basket, laptop, video projector;
3. Types of interaction: frontal, individual, group.
Resources:
- Human resources: 20 students;
- Temporal resources: 50 minutes;
- Spatial resources: classroom;
Techniques of evaluation:
- Oral assessment;
- Written assessment;

Bibliography:
- Jean Brewster, Gail Ellis, Denis Girard (2002). The Primary English Teacher’s
Guide, Editura Penguin English Guides.
- www.didactic.ro
- www.islcollective.com

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 Teaching strategies
Lesson stages Objectives Activities Types of Means of Evaluation Time
Techniques
interaction instruction
The teacher greets the children and ensures the optimal
Arrangements conditions for the activities. Conversation Frontal Oral 2’
Informal conversation.
The teacher checks homework, explains the mistakes.
Reviewing the They revise the knowledge learnt so far. They answer
Conversation
previous some question about “Degrees of comparison”. The Frontal Oral 5’
Explanation
knowledge teacher writes on the board some adjectives and the
children say the comparative and the superlative forms.
The teacher shows the children a poster with a puzzle Poster,
Frontal
(appendix 1). The children have to discover five words. Conversation marker, Oral
Warm up Individual 5’
These words represent the names of five sights as Explanation blackboard Written
museum, monastery, temple, castle, palace. magnets
Using the discovered words the teacher announces the
Formulation of subject of the lesson: “Sights around the world” then Conversation
Frontal Oral 2’
the subject she presents the operational objectives adapted to the Explanation
children’s understanding level.
The teacher presents the children different sights and
some information about them. She uses a PPT PPT
presentation, on each slide there are a text or a story presentation,
Communication Explanation Frontal
about a different sight around the world. There are laptop, video Oral 8’
of knowledge Conversation Individual
texts about “The Jewel of India”, “Great Wall of projector,
China”, “Colosseum”, “Aya Sofya”, “Temples of Textbook
Angkor”.
Fixation of The teacher presents the children five texts about five
knowledge different sights around the world. She asks the children
O1 to read the texts one by one. She explains and Explanation Frontal Textbook Oral 6’
translates them the unknown words and expressions.

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 (appendix 2).

The class is divided into four groups. The teacher gives

each group a sheet which contains a text about a
O1 different sight and an information card (appendix 3). Conversation Information
O2 Each group has to reread the texts and to complete the Exercise Group cards, Written 7’
card with specific information. Then the leader of each textbook,
group reads the information the others group pay text
attention because in the following activity they have to
answer some questions about a different sight.

Each group writes three questions on a paper about

their sight and put them into a basket. The teacher
passes near each group and asks the leader to choose a
paper from the basket. If one group chooses their
questions the leader changes the paper with another
one. Each group discusses the questions with the
O3 members and then one member from each group or the Conversation Individual Notebook Oral 7’
leader reads the questions and the answers. The other Group Paper Written
groups agree or disagree the answers, they motivate Basket
their disagreement.
The teacher writes some ideas on the board. Some
ideas describe the sights, others don’t. The children Explanation Individual
Blackboard,
O3 should choose all the things that are correct about the Conversation Frontal Oral 6’
Feedback chalk
previous sights and identify exactly which of the sights
they belong to.
Children take notes about their homework, (Discuss a
Giving place in Romania, complete the information card for
homework and “Peleș Castle”). Conversation Frontal Textbook Oral 2’
assessment The teacher praises the most active children and
encourages the others.

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 Appendix 1

D O D D M M M T A V K Q

F G P N G A M E M M B Q

H D A X A G M M S E U M

C V L B T L K P F H E O

T J A K K W H L A L E N

I S C A F S W E A B T A

U V E C F P R B G S H S

Y N E N B P R V S J A T

I M F V V D D V S Y D E

A W C A S T L E S B G R

A W F F F E G G D G D Y

Appendix 2

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 Temples of Angkor, Cambodia

As the world’s greatest temple to the Hindu god Vishnu, Angkor Wat might seem
a bit off the grid in Buddhist Cambodia, but this magnificent monument is the greatest
treasure of a Hindu kingdom that once stretched as far as Burma, Laos and southern
China. Even in a region as richly gifted with temples as Southeast Asia, Angkor is
something out of the ordinary – a literal representation of heaven on earth, hewn from
thousands of sandstone blocks and carved floor-to-ceiling with legends from the
Ramayana, Mahabharata and Puranas.
Even better, Angkor Wat is the crowning glory in a complex of more than 1000
temples, shrines and tombs that forms a virtual city of spires in the jungles of northern
Cambodia.

Taj Mahal, India

How do you achieve architectural perfection? Start with acres of shimmering

white marble. Add a few thousand semiprecious stones, carved and inlaid in intricate
Islamic patterns. Take a sublime setting by a sacred river, in jewel-like formal gardens.
Apply a little perfect symmetry, and tie up the whole package in an outlandish story of
timeless love. And there you have the Taj Mahal.
Built by the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan as a mausoleum for his favourite wife,
Mumtaz Mahal, the Taj has been attracting travellers to India for centuries. Ironically, the
emperor spent his final years incarcerated in Agra Fort by his ambitious son, with just a
view of the Taj to remind him of everything he had lost.

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 Great Wall of China

Every country has its must-see monument – in China, that monument covers most
of the country. The Great Wall of China is not just one wall but an awe-inspiring maze of
walls and fortifications stretching for an astonishing 8850km across the rugged landscape
of the north of the country.
It’s a myth that you can see the Great Wall from space, but when confronted by
the sight of this endless structure stretching off into infinite distance, it seems almost
impossible that this wouldn’t be true. A few rugged souls trek the entire length of the
wall, but even if you pick just one section, you’ll be humbled by its aura of
indestructibility.
Colosseum, Italy

There’s nothing like a feisty Roman monument to rev up your inner historian, and
the Colosseum performs brilliantly. A monument to raw, merciless power, this massive
50,000-seat amphitheatre is the most thrilling of Rome’s ancient sights. Gladiators met
here in mortal combat, and condemned prisoners fought off wild beasts in front of
baying, bloodthirsty crowds. Two millennia on, the hold it exerts over anyone who steps
foot inside is as powerful as ever.

Aya Sofya, Turkey

Church, mosque and museum in one, Aya Sofya is a structure unlike any other on
the planet – defying easy categorisation just as it defied the rules of architecture when it
was built almost 1500 years ago. The man behind it all was Byzantine Emperor Justinian
I: he demanded a cathedral to eclipse the wonders of Byzantium’s sister city, Rome, and
moreover, one that would mimic the majesty of the heavens on earth. He got his wish,
and Aya Sofya still dominates the skyline in modern-day Istanbul.
The countdown doesn’t stop there – check out the top 11-20 in our ultimate travel
list for more unmissable sights and perhaps a few surprises. View the complete list of the
500 best sights on the planet in our new title Ultimate Travel, which is available now in
Lonely Planet's shop and where books are sold.

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Appendix 3

Top Sights Information

Name of the sight:
Location:
Date of construction:
Important ideas
about the sight:

Top Sights Information

Name of the sight:
Location:
Date of construction:
Important ideas
about the sight:

Top Sights Information

Name of the sight:
Location:
Date of construction:
Important ideas
about the sight:

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 Top Sights Information
Name of the sight:
Location:
Date of construction:
Important ideas
about the sight:

Top Sights Information

Name of the sight:
Location:
Date of construction:
Important ideas
about the sight: