Lesson Plan

Teacher: BOSOI CRISTINA

School: Şcoala Gimnazială Nr. 28
Date: November 27th 2019
Lesson: Lesson on vocabulary- Reinforcement
Unit: He felt relaxed
Textbook: Limba moderna 1, Engleza, clasa a VI-a, Audrey Cowan, Clare Kennedy, Chiara
Soldi, Diana Todoran, Ioana Tudose, Art Klett, 2019
Grade: 6th grade (6D)
No.of classes/ week: 2
Type of lesson: Reinforcement
Skills: speaking, reading, writing, listening
Aims:

1. To revise and consolidate the main words and structures learnt so far- human feelings
and emotions;
2. To develop reading, speaking, writing, listening skills;
3. To consolidate the use of idioms related to the topic;
4. To encourage students to learn the English language through dialogues, games,
conversation;
5. To give students more practice on pronunciation and vocabulary, contextualized
grammar;
6. to stimulate students’ imagination.

Techniques: discussion, exercise, explanation, games, role play, recontextualization, learning by

discovering.
Materials: notebook, handouts, pictures, laptop, whiteboard, video-projector.
Classroom management: frontal, individual.
Anticipated problems: Ss may not understand some oral commands or tasks; if this happens,
they will be provided more examples for a better understanding of the task.
Time: 50 minutes
CONTENTS:
Activity 1: Warm-up (7’)
Skills: Listening, Speaking
Aim 1, 4, 5 and 6
Class Organization: T- Ss
Progressive relaxation
Now, make yourself as comfortable as possible, loosen any tight clothing, and get comfortable in
your chair. Close your eyes and just focus on your body and feel the tension flowing out as you
relax more and more.
LULLABY SCENE + inhale, exhale 3 times.

Imagine you are in a clearing in the forest, or somewhere remote, like an island in the middle of
nowhere, having a great time, a whale of a time...Please seize the feeling, don’t let go...

Last time we met we opened a new chapter dealing with human emotions and feelings, called
”He felt relaxed”, teacher writes down the title and asks the question:

What makes a person relaxed, calm, at ease...?

-Discussion on the title, making assumptions:
“I presume/ I guess/ It might be...”

Activity 2: Homework (10’)

Aim 1,2,4,5
Class Organization: T- Ss
Procedure:
Playtime- checking the homework

The name of the game is NEVER HAVE I EVER...

Reminder: T provides some relevant examples to set the rules of the game.

Keeping in mind the title ”He felt relaxed”, Ss have to switch to the 1st person, singular and
provide some insight with regard to the way they feel:

Never have I ever felt sad when going on holiday.

Never have I ever felt happy when everyone forgot about my birtday.

Activity 3 (5’)
Skills: Speaking
Aims 4, 5,6
Class Organization: T- Ss
Procedure:
Playtime 2nd level, so push the button, initializing....

”People express different feelings in different ways. I am going to name a feeling and you
should show the feelings physically or verbally.”

- You are really happy and joyful. How would you show that? What would you say?

Hip hip hooray ! wow, it’s awesome!

- You are feeling anxious and fearful. How would you show that?

Oh no! Oh my god! Please God, save me!Eek, a mouse!

- You feel extremely sad

This can’t be true! I feel lonely! Why me? I cannot take it any more!

- You are extremely angry

Grr! What is this ridiculous ...?

Huff and puff

-You dislike something, you feel disgusted:

Eww, this apple is rotten! Yuck! Ick!

Activity 4 (10’)
Skills: Listening.Speaking. Writing
Aims 1,2,4
Class Organization: T- Ss,
Procedure:
Ss are asked to have a look at different ways of expressing various feelings. Ss have to turn to
page 49 and to identify the emotions as shown in the images.

Then Ss move on to some listening exercises related to the topic of discussion, exercices 3,4 on
page 49.

Activity 5 (15’)
Skills: Speaking, Writing
Aims 1,2,3,4,5 and 6
Class Organization: T- Ss,
Procedure:
Teacher reinforces vocabulary related to the topic by handing Ss worksheets with various
exercises dealing with colour idioms and emotions. The name of the game is WHAT IS YOUR
TRUE COLOUR?

Eg:
Red with anger
Yellow with jealousy
Green with envy
White with fear...

Group shares responses to feelings sentences.

Ss, in turn, read the sentences and think about how they would finish it. They have to provide
examples from their own experience, sharing their own feelings with the others and thus creating
a better group cohesion. They learn about themselves and about others, about acceptance and self
awareness.

Homework (3’)
Teacher assigns students their next homework and explains what they have to do.
Ss are invited to read a text about 10 proven ways to make someone happy and to think about
their own recipe of happiness, a quick and easy way to handle anxiety, depression, sadness, blue
Mondays at school.
T awards grades, praises active Ss and encourages the others.