LESSON PLAN

CLASS : 10th grade

NO. OF STUDENTS: 20
TIME: 50 minutes
COURSEBOOK: Upstream Upper Intermediate, Express Publishing House

UNIT: 6. GOING PLACES

LESSON: Holiday experiences
TYPE OF LESSON: Language focus, fixation of knowledge and of developing skills
MATERIALS/RESOURCES: coursebook, whiteboard, CD, handouts
COMPETENCES: 1.4. Identificarea de detalii din mesaje orale / scrise (autentice)
1.5 Selectarea de informaţii din mai multe texte în scopul îndeplinirii unei
sarcini structurate de lucru
2.1 Descrierea (oral / în scris) a unor activităţi cotidiene, obiceiuri

AIM OF THE LESSON: To teach and give practice on holiday experiences

OBJECTIVES:
By the end of the lesson, the students will be able to:
 O1: talk about holiday experiences
 O2: skim and scan a text related to holiday experiences
 O3: identify and use holiday vocabulary
 O4: write a holiday review

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 Stages Timing Interaction Objectives Activities Obs.
Teacher Students
1. Lead-in 5’ T-ss O1,O3 Greets the Ss and calls the roll. Read their homework aloud.
ss-T Checks the homework. Answer orally.
Asks Ss what the most important thing is
for them when they go on a holiday. Asks
a student to write on the board their
answers.

2. Presentation 5’ T-ss O2, O3 Announces the topic of the lesson and the Read about the programme
Ss-T objectives. and answer the questions.
Gives students handouts, focusing them
on TOP TV article. Asks students what the
name of the programme is and when is it
on. Students are asked to answer the
questions. Pre-teaches organic farm,
cosmetic surgery, safari.

3. Practice 5’ ss-ss O2 Tells students that they are going to listen Listen and answer the
(pair work) to part of the TV programme Call that a questions. Check answers
holiday? Asks ss the name of the with the class.
presenter of the programme and where
are Alan and Emily going on.
Checks exercise with the students.

Give students time to read questions 1-8,
then play the recording again.
10’ Tells students that Alan and Emily have
been to South Africa and Australia and
they have written reviews of their
holidays for the TV programme’s website.
In pairs, a student reads about Alan’
Listen, tick the true
sentences and correct the
false ones.
In pairs, a student reads
about Alan’ review while the
other student covers Emily’s
review. They answer the

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 review while the other student covers questions 1-6. Each student
Emily’s review. They answer the questions tells his colleague about the
1-6. Each student tells his colleague about review read.
the review he read. Teacher plays the
recording while students check their
answers.
Check their answers.
4. Production 5’ ss-ss O3 Tells students to solve ex. 6a (to cross out Solve ex. 6a from page 103
the word that does not fit)

8’ O1, O3 Asks Ss to solve ex. 6b on page 103 (to use Talk to each other about
the other words and talk to their partners their last holiday using the
about their last holiday) words from ex.6a

5. 10’ Ss-Ss O1, O3 Gives the Ss a 5 minute activity worksheet Solve the worksheet in pairs.
Consolidation ss-T related to the summer holiday Share some of their
/feedback Offers feedback on the sentences. sentences with the whole
class.
IF time allows O1, O3 Gives each student a vacation survey and Interview each other on
have them pair up to interview each vacation holiday.
other.
Choose a dream holiday for
Once they've interviewed each other, their partner.
have students choose a dream holiday for
their partner.

6. Homework 2’ T-ss O1, O4 Assigns students’ homework: to write a

holiday review.
Gives the necessary explanations.

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