Direct Method and Audio-Lingual Method

Teacher: Secareanu Luciana

Grade: 7th
Textbook: English Scrapbook
Lesson: Famous Places
Type of lesson: acquiring new information and vocabulary; practicing communication skills
Skills: reading, speaking, listening
Purpose: The purpose of the lesson is to familiarise the students with the continent of
Australia by receiving information about it in a both attractive and interactive way, as well as
to enable student-student communication and interaction.
Didactic Strategies:
Methods: Direct Method; Audio-lingual Method
Techniques: reading aloud, conversation, chain drill, fill-in-the-blank exercise,
transformation drill
Organization: individual work, pair-work
Materials: textbook, notebook, board
Objectives:
O1. to create interest in the topic
O2. to offer new, attractive information to the students
O3. to practise new vocabulary so as to be able to use it appropriately
O4. to practise reading comprehension
O5. to extract main ideas from a text
O6. to ask and answer questions about a text
O7. to discuss about the topic of a text
Timing: 50’
PROCEDURE
Warm-up Interaction: T-Ss Timing:
Speaking 5’
 The T greets the Ss and they greet the T back.
 The T checks the Ss homework orally, encouraging them when it is required and
allowing them to self-correct if necessary.

Lead-in Interaction: T-Ss Timing:

Speaking 5’
O1. to create interest in the topic
 The T states the objectives and the subject matter of the lesson, raising the Ss’
curiosity this way.
 Then the T asks the Ss to name all the continents they know.
 Afterwards, the Ss are asked whether they have ever traveled to another continent or
not. If they have, they are told to name it.
 Then the T tells the Ss that they will learn new interesting things about an amazing
Continent called Australia.

Activity 1: Reading aloud (Direct Method) Interaction: T-Ss Timing:

Reading, listening 15’
O2. to offer new, attractive information to the students
O3. to practise new vocabulary so as to be able to use it appropriately
O5. to extract main ideas from a text
 The T names Ss telling them to take turns in reading aloud one paragraph from the text
on page 44.
 When the Ss mispronounce a word, the T interferes by pronouncing the word exactly
the same, but using a different intonation, so that the Ss know the word has been
pronounced incorrectly. This way, the Ss are given the opportunity to self-correct or to
 correct each other. If the Ss try a few times and still cannot pronounce the word
correctly, the T interferes, asking all the Ss to repeat after her.
 All the new words and concomitantly written on the board, as well as in the Ss’
notebooks, so that the reading comprehension is ensured.
 Then the Ss have to decide whether the text comes from a novel, a geography book, or
a tourist guide, stating the arguments for their choice.

Activity 2: Conversation(Direct)-Chain drill(Audio-lingual) Interaction: T-Ss, S-S Timing:

Speaking, listening 8’
O3. to practise new vocabulary so as to be able to use it appropriately
O5. to extract main ideas from a text
O6. to ask and answer questions about a text
O7. to discuss about the topic of a text
 In order to make sure that the Ss have understood what the text is about, the T asks a
question about the text, namely “Which is the origin of the name ‘Australia’?”. She
names one S who is supposed to answer the question. The she tells the same S to ask
another question about the text to another S, who, after answering it, has to repeat the
same operation. If one S does not give the correct answer, he or she loses the right to
ask a question himself or herself. This way, the T checks the Ss comprehension of the
text, as well as their ability to converse and ask intelligible questions.

Activity 3: Transformation drill (Audio-lingual Method) Interaction: T-Ss, S-S Timing:

Speaking 7’
 The T selects a number of 4 sentences in the affirmative from the text, which the Ss
then have to put in the interrogative and negative forms.
 Then, the T asks the Ss to find interrogative and negative sentences in the text and to
put them in the affirmative and either interrogative or negative. The Ss will discover
that there are no interrogative or negative sentences, so they have to choose one
affirmative sentence and put it in the interrogative and negative.
Activity 4: Fill-in-the-blank Exercise(Direct Method) Interaction: T-Ss, S-S Timing:
Reading, speaking 8’
 The Ss are told to solve exercise 2b on page 45 in pairs, deciding which sentence
should be placed in each blank. After the pairs have finished their work, the T checks
the Ss’ work, asking for the others pairs to say if they agree or disagree.

Follow-up: Homework Interaction: T-Ss Timing:

2’
 The T tells the Ss that they are supposed to do exercise 2c on page 45. Ss have to read
the text again and write two things they did not know about Australia, as well as to
write if they would like to go to Australia and why they would or wouldn’t like to go
there.