Lesson Plan

Unit 03: Astronomy and the Solar System Teacher: Soumia Mesbah
Sequence: Listen and Consider Level: 3rd year S.E
Learning objective: By the end of the lesson, SWABTo acquire vocabulary items related to measurements of
dimensions, size and weight.
Materials: The whiteboard – markers.
Competencies: Interactive – Interpretive - Productive.
Rubric: Vocabulary Explorer Time Allotment: 1 hour

Lesson Procedures
Timing Stage Aims
s Teacher’s tasks Learners’ tasks
-After greeting pps, T draws figures on the board and asks them to answer the
Warming-up

following questions.
05  What do the figures represent? Name them. -To introduce
min the topic
 What are the dimensions of each figure?
 What question word is used to ask about the dimensions? implicitly.

-Pps interact with T to answer the questions.

Task 01:
-T asks pps to complete the following table.
Measurements Adjectives Measurements Adjectives
15 -To form
min Height ……… Speed ………… adjectives
Length ………. Weight ……….. related to
Depth ……….. Distance ………… measurements.
Width ………..

-Pps do the task and report their answers.

-Pps interact with T to correct on the board.

Task 02:
-T asks pps to match the words on the left with their associated words on the
Presentation

right.
1. Temperature A. miles, kilometres, knots (nautical miles)
2. Distance B. hot, heat, high, low, cold, warm, Celsius scale,
15
min Fahrenheit scale. -To acquire
3. Area
C. square foot, square metre, square kilometer, vocabulary
4. Volume acre items related to
5. Measurements/ Size D. feet, inches, metres, centimeters, tall, short measurements.
E. litres, centilitres, mililitres, cubic litres, cubic
metres.
-Pps do the task and report their answers.
-T checks pps’ answers and asks them to correct on the board.
Key:
1. B
2. A
3. C
4. E
5. D
 Task 03:
-T asks pps to ask the questions on the underlined words using the words from
the previous tasks.
1) Sputnik 1 weighed 84 KG.
15
2) Kalamsat is cubic in shape.
min
3) The distance of the Earth from the Moon is 384,402 km
4) Light travels at a speed of 300,000 km per second.
-To ask
5) The valleys of Mars have a length of 4,000 km. questions
about
Practise

-Pps do the task and report their answers. measurements

-T checks pps’ answers and asks them to correct on the board.

Pps’ expected answer:

1) How much did Sputnik 1 weigh? What was the weight of Sputnik 1?
2) What shape is Kalamsat? What is the shape of Kalamsat?
3) How far is the Moon from the Earth? / What is the distance between
Earth and the Moon?
4) How fast does light travel?
5) How long are the valleys of Mars?

-To use the

-T asks pps to write sentences of their own using vocabulary items related to acquired
Produce

10 measurements. vocabulary to
min produce
-Pps do the task and share their answers.
correct
sentences.