LESSON PLAN

TEACHER: Ioana-Mirela Cojocaru

DATE: 3rd March 2009
SCHOOL:
FORM: 4th B
LEVEL: beginners
TEXTBOOK: WAY AHEAD 2, MACMILLAN
LESSON TOPIC: UNIT 13. WHAT IS THE WEATHER LIKE?
TYPE OF LESSON: teaching new items
VOCABULARY: - Weather items
- The seasons
- The months of the year
- Countries
GRAMMAR: to be
SKILLS: listening, speaking, reading, writing
OBJECTIVES:
A) COGNITIVE OBJECTIVES:
- to talk about weather (What is the weather like? Its ..)
- to revise the months of the year
- to revise country names (England, Romania, Australia, China, America)
- to identify the correct weather items
- to use to be properly according to sentence meaning
B) AFFECTIVE OBJECTIVES:
- to create a warm atmosphere in order to offer the background for smooth, easy conversations between
teacher and students
- to make students confident in themselves when speaking a foreign language
INTERACTION:
- T- Ss - PW
- Ss-T - GW
- IW
TEACHING TECHNIQUES:
- conversation - demonstration
- dialogue - role play
- exercises - What kind of
- explanation weather? Wheel Game
METHODS AND APPROACHES:
A. MAIN: Communicative Approach
B. ELEMENTS OF: The Oral Method, The Direct Method
TEACHING AIDS: tape, blackboard, coloured chalk, posters, flipchart, handouts, weather wheels
A) BIBLIOGRAPHICAL:
1. Official: The Curriculum for Primary Education
2. Methodical: Harmer, Jeremy: The Practical of English Language Teaching, Longman, UK, 1991
3. Textbook: Ellis, Printha, Bowen, Mary: Way Ahead 2, Macmillan, UK, 2006
4. Activity Book : Way Ahead 2, Macmillan, UK, 2006
5. Antonaros, Suzanne, Couri, Lilika: Young Learners Portfolio, 2, 3, Express Publishing, UK, 2003
6. Practice Book : Way Ahead 2, Macmillan, UK, 2006
B) HUMAN: the students of the class
TIME: 45 minutes

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NR. STAGE OF TEACHERS ACTIVITY STUDENTS ACTIVITY INTER SKILLS TEACHING AIDS PURPOSE/
CRT. LESSON/TIME ACTION TECHNIQU AIM
ES
1 CHECKING - T. checks attendance - Ss answer T-Ss Speaking Conversation - to check
ATTENDANCE Whos absent today? X is absent today. attendance
1 min
2 - T. asks students if they can - Ss sing a song. T-Ss - to make
WARM UP sing a song. Ss-T Speaking Conversation Ss feel
comfortable
2 min IW/GW in the class.
3 - T. checks Ss homework.
(Workbook page 66 ex. 1, 2).
T. helps Ss correct their Speaking
mistakes.
- to check
CHECKING Ex. 1 page 66 - Ss read their homework Conversation Workb accomplishment
HOMEWORK America, Egypt, Australia, and correct the mistakes, if Reading ook of given
instructions
2 min England, China necessary. T-Ss
Ss-T
Ex. 2 page 66
They come from China.
They come from England. Writing
They come from America.
They come from Australia.
They come from Egypt.
4 - T asks Ss to remember the - Ss answer accordingly. T-Ss - to review
animals and countries they Eg. America, China, Speaking Conversation Ss
knowledge
CHECKING have learnt the previous England, Egypt, Australia, Ss-T on animals
PREVIOUS classes. Romania and
KNOWLEDGE countries
2 min Eg. Camel, hippo, panda,
crocodile, bear, penguin,
zebra, monkey, kangaroo
5 ANNOUNCING - T tells Ss they will learn - Ss listen to the T. Flip -to make Ss
OBJECTIVES about weather items and T-Ss Speaking Conversation chart aware of the
items they
1 min seasons. will learn
6 - T explains the words spring, - Ss listen to the T. Draw
summer, autumn, winter and Explanation ings
uses pictures to make Ss
 understand them.

- T uses drawings to introduce - Ss write the sentences. T-Ss Speaking

Whats the weather like? - to enrich
Text Ss
vocabulary
- T shows certain drawings Demonstration Book
and tells the Ss that Its
sunny, and then writes the - Ss pay attention to the T.
items on the blackboard.
(T translates words if Ss-T
necessary.)
INTRODUCING
OF NEW - T changes the drawings and - Ss repeat after the T:
MATERIAL explains further items Eg. S1. Whats the Listening Blackb
20 min (hot/cold/cloudy/rainy/wind weather like? oard
y/wet/snowy/foggy/warm). S2. Its
hot/cold/warm/cloudy/win
dy etc.

- T plays the tape. - Ss listen to the tape and

point to the correct image.
TAPE 50: IW Conversation

Whats the weather like?

Its cold.
Its windy. Note
Its hot. Books
Its sunny.
Its wet. Reading - to check
comprehension
- T reads the poem - Ss listen and notice the of items
Ts movements. dealing with
weather

(fingers together above head) GW

(arms outspread)
(flap arms and hands) Exercise
(wag finger)
(make triangular shape of a sail)
 (hand movement like the waves) Tape
(palms facing to show a fish) Writing
(wag finger)

- Ss do what they are told.

- T tells Ss to open their
workbooks at page 74 to do
ex. 1(to match the columns).
7 - T gives Ss two handouts and
explains Ss they will make a Conversation Hand
ACQUIRING weather wheel. They have to - Ss stick the drawings on T-Ss Outs - to check
PERFORMANCE - stick some drawings and the wheels and act telling Speaking Demonstration 1&2 comprehension
10 min rotate the wheel to see hows the weather. Ss-T of learnt items
different types of weather Role play Wheels
IW Weather Pictures
Its sunny/cloudy/rainy/snowy. Wheel Game
8 - T gives Ss handout 3 to the T-Ss Speaking
Ss. They have to fill in the
-to provide
FEED-BACK blanks with the missing words - Ss fill in the blanks. Ss-T Reading Exercise Handout further
6 min (weather items) and letters 3 practice
(the months of the year). GW Writing
9 TRANSFER - T asks Ss to do the exercises - Ss write down what their T-Ss Speaking Conversation Handout
(HOMEWORK on handout 4 homework is. 4
SETTING) 1 min