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TEACHER:
DATE:
CLASS: the 4TH graders
TEXTBOOK: Limba moderna engleza Manual pentru clasa a 4-a - Jenny Dooley, Virginia Evans
TYPE OF LESSON: Revision
LANGUAGE STRUCTURES:
- What’s your name? / My name is...
- How old are you? / I’m + (age)
- The alphabet a-z
- Indefinite articles a/an: It’s a/an...+ (colour) + (object)
FUNCTIONS:
- Saying one’s name
- Saying one’s age
- Spelling words
- Identifying objects
VOCABULARY: -related to animals, school objects, toys, colours, numbers 1-10 and the Halloween
SKILLS: - main skills: speaking, listening; secondary skills: writing, reading
OBJECTIVES: by the end of the lesson, the students will be able to:
1. Ask and answer questions about their names
2. Ask and answer questions about their age
3. Use the letters of the alphabet to spell words
4. Identify objects and their colour(s)
ASSUMED KNOWLEDGE: The pupils are familiar with the target vocabulary and structures.
ANTICIPATED PROBLEMS: Some pupils might have difficulty with the pronunciation of some words or they might mention the
colour(s) after the objects they describe.
POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS: The teacher will provide the necessary guidance so that the students solve the tasks successfully.
TEACHING AIDS: personal photos, workbooks, worksheets, flashcards, letter cards etc.
TEACHING TECHNIQUES: explanation, conversation, dialogue, choral and individual repetition
APPROACH: the Communicative Approach
TIME: 45 minutes.
Stage Activities and language Interaction Skills Purpose
-The teacher greets the pupils and asks some introductory questions: How T-Ss -to create a
Organisation of
are you today? Who’s absent today? S/L comfortable
the class
atmosphere
-The teacher asks one or two pupils to come to the front of the classroom Whole class -to get Ss
Warm up and give some commands that the others must perform (e.g. Can you run? S/L
involved
etc.). They also sing the song I am Sally and say the poem One, Two...
Revising -The teacher invites two children to the front of the classroom and asks -to remind
questions and them to have a mini-dialogue: they greet each other, they ask and answer Ss-Ss S them the target
answers about their names and age, and they say good-bye. structures
-The teacher explains that they are going to play a game called Mix- T-Ss L/S
Freeze-Pair. She demonstrates the activity with the help of the two
children who are still at the front of the classroom by telling them that they
are zombies. She demonstrates what zombie means. When she says “Mix”,
the children act like zombies until the teacher tells them to “Freeze”. They
have to stop. Then, when she says the word “Pair”, they face each other
and perform the mini-dialogue they have just practised. Whole class S
-The teacher invites all the children to come to the front of the classroom. and open -to provide
They play the game. pairs practice in the
-The teacher distributes to the children some small pieces of coloured Individually W target structures
paper, each with a stickpin attached to it. She asks them to write their
names and age on them using the sentences My name is... and I’m ... and
then pin them up on their clothes.
- The children sing the song My name’s Tico, and then they replace the Whole class S/L -to ensure
name Tico with one of theirs and sing the song. consolidation
Revising the - The teacher reminds the children the letters of the alphabet by saying the T-Ss L/S -to remind them
letters of the letters using a certain rhythm. As she does so, she sticks the letters on the the ABC
alphabet blackboard and the children repeat them.
-The teacher presents to the children different flashcards showing different Ss-Ss S -to provide
objects on them. Children are then invited to the teacher’s desk to choose a practice in
flashcard, hold it up, ask the others what it is, write the name of the object saying the
in capital letters on the blackboard and then spell it. letters of the
alphabet and
Revising colours -To remind the children the colours, the teacher holds a teddy bear, says a Whole class S revise and use