4th - Lesson Plan

Lesson plan
School: Scoala Gimnaziala Aninoasa

Date: 22 nd January 2014
Class: 4th
Level: starter
Teacher: Grigore Gabriela Beatrice
Time: 45
Lesson : Revision Unit 5 Whats Cooking
Type of lesson: vocabulary and grammar lesson
Lesson aims:
to practise vocabulary connected to food;
to practise the plural of nouns;
to distinguish between countable and uncountable nouns;
to make correct use of much, many, a lot of;
to talk about eating habits.
Subsidiary aims:
to practise group work;
to practice listening, speaking, reading;
to follow instructions uttered in English;
to make a project.
Skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing.

Teaching aids: the textbook, handouts, pupils notebooks, the blackboard, computer, DVD Set Sail
4, flashcards, poster, food.
Methods: conversation, reading, explanation, elicitation, description, discovery.
Modes of interaction: teacher-students, student-student.
Anticipated problems:
Students could become noisy when working in groups;

Some students may not understand the task given by the teacher.
Possible solutions:
The teacher may ask students to keep their voice down while working in group and focus
on their task;
The teacher may repeat or rephrase the task so that all students will understand it; if
students still do not understand the oral commands or the tasks, these will be translated
into Romanian for them.
Feedback:
Both teacher and students provide continuous feed back through observation. The teacher
checks that the students complete the tasks entirely and correctly at any stage of the lesson, she
gives extra explanations whenever necessary.
WARM-UP
Activity 1,checking the homework

Teacher greets the students and they greet back. Teacher asks for absentees. Students on
duty name the absentees if there are any.
Teacher checks up homework: students had to write exercise 4, page 45; they had to write
conversations, folowing a pattern.
Procedure: Teacher asks students to read and act out some of their dialogues. Teacher
makes error- correction, if necessary.
Teachers role: controller
Skills: reading, speaking
Materials: students 'notebooks
Class management: whole class activity;
Timing: 5 minutes
PRESENTATION
Activity 2, What is this?/What are these?
Aim: To revise vocabulary connected to food;
Procedure: Teacher shows students flashcards. Students identify the pictures and revise
vocabulary connected to food.
Teacher announces the title of the lesson and writes it on the blackboard: Revision Unit Whats
Cooking.
Teachers role: organiser
Skills: speaking, writing
Materials: flashcards, blackboard
Timing: 5 minutes
Activity 3, practising grammar
Aims:
To revise the plural of nouns;
To revise quantifiers much/many/a lot of
Procedure: Teacher shows students flashcards again. This time students say plural words to
describe the pictures. Teacher asks students to write the words on the blackboard: singular and
plural form of nouns.
Teacher reminds students: much/many/a lot of.
Teacher asks students to do exercise 5, page 44. Students are asked to choose the correct
quantifier: much/many/a lot of.
Teacher uses peer correction, whenever possible.
Skills: reading;
Materials: worksheets;
Timing: 5 minutes
PRACTICE
Activity 4, Eating habits
Aim: To practise grammar in meaningful contexts.
Procedure: Teacher gives students worksheets and asks them about their eating habits. Students
answer the teachers questions.
Teachers role: organiser.
Skills: reading and speaking;
Materials: worksheets
Timing: 5 minutes
Activity 5, Eating habits worldwide
Aim: To consolidate vocabulary
Procedure: Teacher pins on blackboard a poster with 2 columns: food country; students will be
asked to match the words on the two columns after listening to a song, in order to find out how to
do it.
Teacher plays CD and asks students to match the columns; then students listen to the song again
and they sing along.
Skills: listening, reading, speaking;
Materials: poster, CD.
Class management: whole-class activity;
Timing: 8 minutes
PRODUCTION
Activity 6, My zany food project
Aims: To reinforce vocabulary and use it in meaningful contexts
Procedure: Students are arranged in four-member groups. Each group designates a leader who
goes to the teacher and picks up a note: a list of ingredients along with instructions about what to
do next. Students go to the food stand in front of the class, read their list and take the ingredients
they need. Then students go back to their groups and use the ingredients according to the
instructions on their notes. The first group that accomplish their task are the the winners.
Teachers role: facilitator
Skills: reading, speaking
Materials: notes, plates, food.
Class management: group-work.
Timing: 15 minutes
Activity 7, Evaluating and assigning homework
Teacher makes remarks on students activity during the English class and marks some students
with grades.
Teacher announces homework: exercise 6, page 45; they have to answer questions about
food around the world.
Timing: 2 minutes

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Lesson plan

School: Scoala Gimnaziala Aninoasa

to practise vocabulary connected to food;

to practise the plural of nouns;

to distinguish between countable and uncountable nouns;

to make correct use of much, many, a lot of;

to talk about eating habits.

to practise group work;

to practice listening, speaking, reading;

to follow instructions uttered in English;

Skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing.

Students could become noisy when working in groups;

Activity 1,checking the homework

Activity 3, practising grammar

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