LESSON PLAN

Name: Student-teacher Cornea Alexandra-Marina Mentor: Chelariu Estera Date: 17th of November 2011 School: Colegiul Naional Iosif Vulcan Class: 4th D Level: starter Time: 50 Textbook: Welcome, Pupils book 2, Elizabeth Gray, Virginia Evans, Express Publishing Title of the lesson: Number six, Hill Street! Type of lesson: mixed Unit: 1 Skills: reading, speaking, listening, writing Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will have had: role played the text learnt to express directions learnt expression used to situate building in space (on the left, on the right, next to, between, opposite) used correctly the new vocabulary and phrases in everyday conversations employed correctly the prepositions of space Teaching aids: textbook, notebooks, blackboard, CD and CD player, pictures Anticipated problems: noise, learners may encounter problems in understanding the text they listen Modes of interaction: o Teacher Whole Class (T-Ss) o Individual work (Iw) o Student Student (S-S) o Students Students (Ss-Ss)

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Stages of Time Teachers activity lesson Teacher greets the class: Starting the 1 Good morning everyone! lesson and Teacher marks the absents: checking Whos absent today? attendance
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Learners activity
Students answer Good morning teacher! X is absent today.

Modes of interaction
T-Ss

Objectives
To check attendance

Warm-up

Homework checking

Teacher starts a short conversation with students. How are you today? Total Physical Response activity: Stand up! Sit down! Stand up! Sit down! Clap your hands! Stamp your feet! What was your homework for today? You had to write an email in which you presented yourselves. Now im going to collect them from you, chose several ones and read them aloud. Pay attention to my reading, because you are going to tell me who is the author of the email. The author is asked not to say a word.
Ill ask one pupil to get to the BB and to write down his contacts: Please get in front of the class and present yourself: name, age, nationality. Draw on the BB your identity card.

Students answer teachers T- Ss questions Fine, thank you. Ss react and move according to Ts commands.

To make students feel comfortable in the class To get them function in English To prepare them for the next activity To check if they were able to do their homework To check their comprehension To correct their mistakes

Students answer the question and T-Ss give their homework to the T-S teacher. They listen to her reading Ss-Ss attentively and try to guess who wrote those emails that she reads.

Introducing the title/theme

A pupil will get to the BB and will T-Ss write down his name, his surnane, T-S his age and his nationality. S-S Ss-Ss The student draws his identity card on the BB: My name is..., Im ... years old, Im Romanian. What else must we add? Students try to answer my We live somewhere, dont we? So we questions. must write down the address as well. Not the email address, but the address Students open their notebooks Iw of the house/flat we live in.Please open and write what they have been your notebook and write down your asked to write. contacts as well, following the pattern Students add in their notebook ill give you. their address.

To revise words and expressions already known

To add new word in their vocabulary To point the subject of the new lesson

Prelistening (Introducin g vocabulary, Picture Exploitatio n)

Ill help the pupil note down his address: I live at no ..., on ... street! Todays lesson is about numbers, streets, addresses, expressing address and about directions and position in space. Please open your textbooks at page 10, where you have the lesson well going to listen to in a couple of minutes. X, please tell me, who is sitting next to you? Pay attention, class: Y and Z are sitting next to X. Is Y sitting on his right? No, Y is sitting on his left. Who is sitting on his right? X is sitting between Y and Z, isnt he/she? I am standing opposite you. I stand in front of you.

Ss open their textbook at page 10.

T-Ss

To introduce new vocabulary, to avoid any comprehension problems

Y is sitting next to me. Z is sitting T-S next to me as well. No, y isntt sitting on his right. Z is sitting on his right. T-Ss Yes, X is sitting between Y and Z. Pupils watch and listen to me T-Ss attentively, trying to understand what im saying. X and Y came in front of the class T-S(s) and stand where I set them. The other Ss pay attention to their position and to what im saying regarding it, in order to understand clearly the meaning of T-S the prepositions i use. A third student comes and stands between them, then moves according to my commands. (TPR) Ss look at the images and answer T-Ss my question. They read silently Iw the words written on top of the page, trying to understand their meaning relating them to the images. They try to answer my question regardinf what do people do in a bank, what can we buy in a record shop, etc.

To accustom them with the vocabulary required in the new lesson

So that these prepositions be more clear to the Ss, Ill ask 2 pupil to came in front of the class to exemplify them. Ill place them face to face (X is standing opposite Y), next to each other (X is standing on X is standing on Ys left and Y is standing on Ys left and Y is standing on Xs right. Ill ask a third student to come and sit between them, then to move to Xs right, to stand opposite Y, to turn left, to turn right etc. (Total Physical Response activity).

To introduce vocabulary

new

Look at the images on the right top of the page 10. What can you see there? Read once the name written on the images and try to understand their meaning. What is a record shop? In a record shop we can find records, CDs, Ss formulate their own hypothesis T-Ss

To make Ss express, formulate hypothesis

Whilelistening

Check comprehens ion

cassettes. What is a bank? What do people do there? In a bank, people work with money. What is a station, train station? A train station is a place where trains stop for passengers. I think that the other words are clear, because they have the same equivalent in Romanian. Bofore listening to the recording of the text and without reading the dialogues, what do you think the text will be about? While listening, youll have to be attentive to the dialogues in order to solve exercice 2 (true, false). Cindys new house is in Tree Street. Yes or No? Cindys new house is number six. Yes or No? Listen and answer. Ill play the CD for the first time. Ill check the answers: So, is Cindys new house in Tree Street? Where is it then? Is Cindys house number six? What number is the house they tried to enter? Now listen carefully once again to the recording and note down the buildings mentioned and their position (left, right, next to). Ill play the CD once again. Which buildings are mentioned in the recording? Where are they? Where is the bank? Where is the record shop? Where is number six? Watch the images of the text. Where is the hotel? What can we find across the street, opposite the hotel and next to the bank? Turn the page. On top of page 11 there is a little map of the city. There is an intersection of 2 roads. Which are those streets/roads? What buildings can you see in the image? There is a child on Hill Street. Look at the map and say what is there on the left/on the right. What is there on New Road? What is

regarding the content of the text.

Iw

Ss take a quick look at the exercise 2 in order to be able to search for specific information while listening to the recording. Ss listen to it attentively and solve exercice 2, page 10. They read aloud their answers and correct the sentences so that they be correct. Ss listen to the recording once again, trying to answer my questions.

T-Ss

Iw T-Ss T-S Iw

To listen to the recording for specific information To search for specific information in the recording (and in the text) To search for specific visual information in the images of the text To reuse the new words in context

Ss search for specific visual T-Ss information in the pictures of the T-S text and try to answer my questions. Ss turn the page and look at the map. They listen attentively to my instructions and questions. They answer my questions. Ss solve the exercice and read their answers.

To reuse the prepositions of space To look for specific information in the images

To consolidate the usage of the learned terms

there on Hill Street? Lets try to solve exercise 5, page 11. You have to read and to say if it is true or false, by writing down YES or NO. Who wants to read the first sentence? Is it true or false? (the same with the other 3 sentences). Lets get back to exercice 4 and to the map. Youll have to situate the following buildings by using the expression we have learnt together today: on the left, on the right, opposite, next to. Situate one building in relation to another building/s. Ill give you an example: the record shop is between the cinema and the hotel/next to the hotel, opposite the bank/ on the right of the cinema. Do the same for the record shop, the supermarket, the restaurant, the station and the bank. Thats all for today. Did you enjoy the lesson? Was it difficult? Does anyone has questions regarding it? Thank you all for your attention. Have a nice day and see you next time! Goodbye! Ss pay attention to my instructions T-Ss and examples so that they would be able to do their homework.

To check if students understood the new words To make them use the new vocabulary To check if students understood the new words. To make them use the new vocabulary To help Ss to practice what they have learned during the lesson

Assigning homework

Ss note their homework for next time in their notebooks.

Ending the lesson

Ss who had trouble understanding S(s)-T the lesson ask me questions and T-S(s) further explication. Ss greet T.