LESSON PLAN

Date: 05.12.2023
Time: 45’
Class: IX H
Teacher: Morega Ionela-Adriana
Coursebook: Going for Gold, Longman
Unit 5: Things that matter
Lesson: 100 Years of Gadgets
Lesson type: acquisition of knowledge and skills practice
Contents:
Grammar: Time expressions

Competences:
1.1 Identificarea ideilor principale in mesaje orale si/sau scrise, referitoare la subiecte despre
viata cotidiana si depre domeniul de specializare
1.2 Identificarea, in mesaje orale si/sau scrise, de informatii punctuale relevante pentru a rezolva
o sarcina de lucru
3.1 Oferirea de raspunsuri concrete si de ordin personal la un chestionar/sondaj sau in cadrul
unui interviu
3.3 Participarea la conversatii folosind un limbaj adecvat la context si respectand conventiile
folosite in conversatiile si normele sociale si culturale
3.4 Solicitarea in mod adecvat a opiniilor interlocutorului si comentarea succinta a parerilor
exprimate de parteneri in cadrul unei conversatii/discutii in grup pe teme de interes

Skills: reading, listening

Lesson aims:
-to provide opportunities to practice the new grammar concepts
- to provide an opportunity to practice listening for specific information
- to look at different forms of the same verb
- to provide opportunities for speaking practice
-to predict the answers to a listening comprehension
-to practice the use of time expressions to link ideas in spoken and written English

Lesson objectives:
By the end of the lesson the students will be able to:
 - Use time expressions confidently
- Give their opinion and support it with arguments
- Listen for specific information

Strategy:
a) Methods and techniques
Explanation, elicitation, dialogue, exercise, inductive teaching, debate.
b) Types of interaction: individual work, pair work, group work
c) Teaching aids/ resources: coursebook, whiteboard, notebooks, computer, audio CD
d) Forms of evaluation: students’answers

Classroom management:
a) Level: upper intermediate
b) Expectations
I hope that by the end of the lesson the students will be better able to listen for specific
information and to use time expressions.
c) Anticipated problems
Some students may be shy and may not want to join in class discussion
Some students may do the exercises faster than the rest of the class
d) Solutions
Group or pair work before whole class discussions
Fast finishers can help other students do the exercises
Evaluation: students’ answers

AIDS/MATERIALS: coursebook, Cd player, notebook, blackboard

 STAGES OF THE LESSON

Activity Ti Aims Procedures Skills Interacti

mi on/class
ng manage
ment
Activity 1 2 -to create - The teacher greets the students Speakin T-Ss
Organizing mi a and checks attendance g
the class n relaxed /a - the students greet and prepare
proper for the lesson
atmosphe
re for
teaching
the new
lesson
Activity 2 3 -to check - The teacher asks Ss about their Speakin T-Ss
Checking mi previous homework g S-S
homework n. knowledg - The teacher assesses the Active
and e homework listening
previous -to give - The teacher checks Ss’
knowledge Ss homework or Ss interevaluate
feedback while switching copybooks and
on their listening to the correct solutions of
knowledg homework
e and - Ss listen, check or interevaluate
homewor the homework of deskmates
k
Activity 3 3 -to create -The teacher announces the new Speakin T-Ss
Transition mi interest in lesson, writes on the blackboard g, active
to the new n. the new the topic, title, key structures: unit listening
lesson lesson 5: Things that Matter , writing
- to - The teacher explains the new
familiariz focus of the new lesson
e Ss to - The teacher elicits from Ss
the new vocabulary related to the new
lesson lesson
- Ss talk to the teacher ,give
answers to question, take down on
their copybooks the notes on the
blackboard

Activity 4 5 -to T asks students about the names Speakin T-Ss

mi identify of the famous people and what g Ss-T
n the they are famous for: Archimedes Writing
people developed the principle of floating;
 that are Marie Curie jointly (with her husband
famous Pierre) discovered radioactivity and
isolated radium; Isaac Newton
developed the theory of gravity;
Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona
Lisa and invented various machines.
(ex 1a/44)
T checks the answers
T asks Ss to match each picture from
ex 1b/44 to one of the people.
A. Leonardo da Vinci (The picture
shows his drawing for a machine
similar to the modern helicopter.)
B. Isaac Newton (He invented the cap-
flap.)
C. Archimedes (He is reputed to have
discovered the principle of flotation in
his bath. Eureka! means I have found
it!)
D. Marie Curie (Her discoveries were
made in an old shed behind her house
which she used as a laboratory.)
Ss check their answers by listening an
extract from a radio programme
(ex2 /44) Listenin
Archimedes, Leonardo da Vinci g
and Marie Curie
Activity 5 10 -to -Ss read the incomplete sentences Listenin Groups
mi predict below and predict what the missing g of 2
n the words are (1-3 missing words in Reading
missing each sentence) Writing
words 1. the world
2. floating
3. the bath
4. technology
5. notebooks
6. draw
7. money
8. helicopters and parachutes
9. shed
10. two
11. radiation
Ss check the answers by listening
to the programme from ex 3/44

Activity 6 5 -to -Ss try to identify the nouns, Writing Groups

 mi identify adjectives and the verbs(ex 1/45) of 2
n the 1. science - noun; scientific - T-Ss
nouns, adjective; scientist - noun Ss-T
adjective 2. invent - verb; inventor - noun;
s and invention - noun
verbs 3. design - noun/ verb; designer -
noun
4. revolution - noun; revolutionary -
adjective/ noun; revolutionise - verb
5. art - noun; artist - noun; artistic -
adjective
6. employ - verb; employer - noun;
employment - noun
7. discover - verb; discovery – noun
T checks their answers

-Ss complete the sentences with the

Activity 7 words from ex 1/45
10 1. discover
mi 2. scientific
n -to 3. designer
identify 4. artistic
the words 5. employment
from ex 1 6. revolutionary
7. inventor
8. Discovery
T checks their answers

Ss put the time expressions in the

correct columns
One thing before another: before,
previously, earlier
5 One thing after another: after,
mi afterwards, later, following
n -to At the same time: while, when, during,
practice at this time, as
the use of Connecting times: since, by the time,
time in the meantime
expressio
ns
FINAL 2 Homewor Ex 4 / 45 : Answer to the questions
ACTIVITY mi k regarding the artists and their
n. assignme inventions.
nt