A Vegetable Party

Lesson Plan

Teacher: Ple[a Ramona

Class type: elementary level pupils (2nd grade students)
Frequency: 1 hour/week; 45’/hour
Textbook: The teacher has used an additional material: Children’s Picture Dictionary &
Teacher’s Resource book, Longman
Type of lesson: acquiring new information (Vocabulary)
Skills: Reading, Speaking, Listening

Purpose: The purpose of this lesson is to get the children acquainted with the names of
vegetables in a fun way by ‘organizing a party’. At this party the children
themselves play the roles of vegetables.

Lesson Aims:

1. to raise interest in the topic

2. to relate to their daily life; to promote discussion
3. to help the students to identify and name vegetables
4. to enable the students to use expressions such as “I am …” in order to introduce
themselves
5. to enable the students to play a role: a vegetable
6. to identify and name the colour of the vegetable they represent
7. to use simple questions and answers
8. to follow simple instructions
9. to use Present Simple and Continuous in simple statements
10. to practice the names of vegetables by singing a song

Didactic strategies:

 methods and procedures: conversation, explanation, dialogues, identifying/naming

things;
 materials and equipment: textbook, drawing board, handouts, pictures, flash cards
with colours, CD player, CDs, drawings done by the children as a homework (in order
to familiarize themselves with the vegetables that they are to represent)
 organization: class work, group work, individual work;

PROCEDURE

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Recent work : The students have been studying:

 ways to introduce themselves: “I am …”, “My name is …”

 the basic colours: red, white, green, grey, black, purple, orange, yellow, brown, blue
 the names of vegetables
 They have been preparing for the party by working on the sheets of paper which they
represent. They have also made coloured hats with drawings on them to get into the
party atmosphere.
 The teacher has been telling them things about the party in order to make them feel
excited, looking forward for the class and interested in the topic.

Warm-up Interaction: T-Ss; Ss-T Timing: 5’

Speaking

Aim 1: to create interest in the topic: vegetables

Aim 2: to relate to their daily life; to promote discussion

* The teacher has arranged the desks in a semi-circle so as to create a different atmosphere
then the usual: a party

 T. introduces the topic by discussing about vegetables in Romanian. She asks them
questions about what they eat, if they like vegetables and if they know their colours.
 T. points to the flashcards that she has previously stuck on the blackboard asking the
Ss to identify them.

Activity 1 Interaction :T-Ss; Ss-T Timing: 10’

Listening & Reading

Aim 3: to help them identify/name vegetables by listening to a CD

 T. points to the drawing board on the blackboard and asks Ss to read the title of the
lesson: A Vegetable Party
 T distributes the handouts – xerox copies of the drawing on the blackboard
 T. asks the Ss to pay attention to the numbers and pictures in the square
 T. introduces the vocabulary using the CD as a pronunciation model; Ss follow and
repeat

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Activity 2 Interaction: individual work; S- Ss; T-S Timing: 10’
Speaking

Aim 4: to enable the Ss to use expressions such as: “I am …”, in order to introduce
themselves
Aim 5: to enable them to play a role
Aim 6: to identify/name the colour of the vegetables they represent

 T. asks the Ss to present themselves as the guests at the party

 T. asks the Ss to say the colours of the ‘veggies’
( eg. “ I am a carrot. I am orange.
I am a potato. I am brown.”)

Activity 3 Interaction: group work Timing: 10’

Speaking

Aim 7: to use simple questions and answers

Aim 8: to follow simple instructions
Aim 9: to use Present Simple and Continuous in simple statements

 T. asks the Ss to stand up in a circle

 T. asks questions: “How many green vegetables are at our party?”
How many orange vegetables are at the party?”
 T. asks the Ss to separate by colours
 T . asks the Ss to look at the handout and say: “Who’s singing?”
The broccoli answers: “I am singing!”

“Who’s dancing?”
The eggplant answers: “I am dancing!”

“Who’s playing music?”

The cabbage answers: “I am playing
music!”

Activity 4 Interaction: group work Timing: 10’

Listening & Speaking

Aim 10: to practice the names of vegetables by singing a song: The Vegetable Song

 T. encourages Ss to listen to a song and try to remember it

 T plays the CD and asks the student to sing along
 T. plays the CD again

Ending the lesson: Teacher and students end the lesson in a partylike atmosphere! She
praises all the students for their participation and tells them to prepare for A fruit party!