LESSON PLAN

School: SCOALA GIMNAZIALA JINA

Teacher: CROITOR RALUCA
Date: 14th of February
Grade: 8th grade
Level: Intermediate
Number of students: 22
Topic: Conditionals
Time: 50 minutes
Type of lesson: grammar
Approach: communicative
Skills: Integration of the four skills
Aims:
To assimilate new grammatical rules concerning Conditionals
Help students improve their grammar using different types of exercises
Making a difference between the three types of Conditionals
Improve students pronunciation and their ability of speaking in English freely
Objectives: By the end of the lesson, learners will be able to:
By the end of the lesson, students will be able to;
1. fill in the blanks correctly when sentences are given.
2. match the if clauses with appropriate sentences.
3. complete the sentences with the appropriate type of conditional
4. state a sentence when pictures are shown.
Materials: worksheets, power point presentation, computer, overhead projector

Types of interaction: Teacher-whole class, Teacher- Student, Student- Student, Student-Teacher

Class management: whole class, individually
Teaching techniques:
conversation, explanation , grammar exercises
Anticipated problems
:
1. form

: Students may have difficulty in understanding the form of conditional clause.

2. meaning

: Students may have problems with tenses-present, past, perfect.

Solution

1. I will give more examples (I will explain in Romanian if necessary).

Stage of lesson

Teachers activity

Students activity

Interaction

Skill

Time

Purpose

I. Warm-up

1. Teacher greets the students

and calls the roll

- ss listen

- T-SS

- Listening

- ss listen

- SS-SS

- Listening

2 min

- ss listen and correct

their homework

-T-SS

-writing
-speaking

1 min

-T-SS

-listening

1 min

2. Teacher invites students to

open their textbooks and
notebooks
II. Checking
homework

1. Teacher checks homework

and corrects mistakes on the
blackboard

III.
Introducing
new material

Pupils are introduced to the

topic of the new lesson. Teacher
writes the title of the lesson on
the blackboard and presents the
main activities of the lesson, i.e.
discussing some grammar
issues.
(The objectives of the lesson
will be presented at the
beginning of the lesson)
Presentation:
discovery)

GRAMMAR
a.

Students listen to the

teacher

- to check if all
students are
present
- to create a
pleasant
atmosphere in the
classroom
- to let students
know how well
they did their
homework
- the provide a
context for the
lesson
- to activate SS
background
knowledge

(guided

- Show the first picture and ask

questions about the picture,
What do you see? Whats Tom
doing? What does Tom want to
do? What does he say? etc. (at
the same time put the slide on

T-SS

- to introduce the
new topic;

Presentation

the computer)

-- Student watch a
slide
- Elicit I want to catch Jerry
-students are
and I will eat him and write the introduced to the first
type of conditional
sentences on the board.
-students answer

- Speaking

Elicit answers and give

feedback.

Writing

-Write If I catch Jerry, I will eat

him.

5 min

- to make ss
interact and share
ideas;

T-SS
SS-T
- to consolidate
ss knowledge;

- Show the second picture and

ask How do they drive, fast or
slow?

5 min

- Elicit They drive fast

- Give feedback (at the same
time put the picture on the
board) and ask They drive fast.
What will happen then? Will
they have an accident?
- Elicit They will have an
accident, give feedback

- to introduce the
new topic;

Students answer to the

teachers questions

T-SS
SS-T

Speaking

- And say If they drive fast,

and make students repeat.
- Say They will have an
accident and make students

- to make ss
interact and share
ideas;

repeat.
- Say If they drive fast, they
will have an accident

T-SS

- Make students repeat the

sentence (first chorally, then
individually) and say the
sentence in Romanian.

T-WHOLE
CLASS

- Writing
Students repeat after
the teacher.

- to consolidate
ss knowledge;
1 min

Write the sentence on the board

Guided Discovery:
- Refer to the sentences and ask
meaning questions.

- Listening

How many actions are

there?

2 min

Students answer

Are we talking about

present, past or future?
Is there a condition?
Which action depends on the
other?
Is the second action
possible to happen?
- Elicit answers and write them
on the board.
-

-speaking

The teacher makes some

explanations about if
clause and focuses on

T-SS
SS-T

- Listening
- Writing

- to consolidate
ss knowledge

important points with

some form questions.

to make sure all

ss have given
correct answers;

How many events

do we have?

3 min

Which one is the

main action?
Where do we put
if?
Where do we put
comma?
SS-T

- Elicit answers and give

feedback.

1 After this activity, teacher will

show a power point presentation
with all the three types of
conditionals She sustains her
explanations
with
relevant
examples.
(powerpoint
presentation)
.

T-SS

-students write the

rules of conditional
sentences in their
notebooks watching
slide after slide

Listening
Writing

5 min

- to let ss know
what it will be
done in the
lesson;

T-WHOLE
CLASS

- to make sure all

b. Practice

Students write on the

blackboard, solving the SS-T
The teacher will show several
exercise from the
images from the four different
PowerPoint
T-SS
conditional types. They will
presentation. Students
have to put the verb into
come to the blackboard
brackets in the correct tense
and describe the
applying the rules of
picture using the
Conditionals. (they will have the words given and using
image and text shown on the
a conditional structure
slide )
They have to pay
Conditional type 0,1,2,3
attention to the tenses.
Several exercises are solved. All Students open Access

c. Production deal with the grammar issues Grammar 3/ page 75

previously presented.
and look at the
-Pupils
are
supposed
to exercises.
complete the sentences with the The teacher gives
right form of the verb.
explanations.
Students answer
Put the verbs in brackets They write on the
into
the
correct blackboard the correct
answers to the exercise
tense( ex. 1/page 73
Fill in the gaps with if or
Students pay attention
unless ex 2/page 73
Match the situation with to the tenses
the actions ex. 3/page 73
Building sentences ex

5 min

SS completed the
activity
- to make sure all
SS have given
correct answers;

Speaking
- - to consolidate
SS knowledge

Writing

SS-T
T-SS
Speaking
Writing

17
min

- to make sure all

SS completed the
activity
- to make sure all
SS have given
correct answers;
- - to consolidate
SS knowledge

IV. Feed-back

V. Homework

4/page 73
Match phrases in column
Ato the one in column B
ex 5/page 73
Underline the correct
item ex.6/page 73

1. Teacher offers feedbackStudents mark on the

worksheet the type of
conditional
it (they
close their textbooks and
notebooks )

1. Teacher gives the students an

exercise which deals with the
topic discussed during the
lesson

Students close all their -T-SS

notebooks and
textbooks and mark
the type of conditional
they consider to be that
sentence.

- Writing

3 min

- SS listen and write

down the homework
ex.10/page 74 Access
Grammar

- Listening

1 min

CONDITIONALS- WORKSHEET

- T-SS

-- to make sure
all students have
completed
correctly the type
of conditional
-to see if they
make the correct
difference
between the
conditionals
- to let students
know how they
performed
- to let students
know what they
have to prepare
for next week.

1.If I drink tea in the morning, it makes me feel sick.

Zero Conditional
First Conditional
Second Conditional
Third conditional
2.Ill tell her if she comes.
Zero Conditional
First Conditional
Second Conditional
Third conditional
3.If I had time, Id help you.
Zero Conditional
First Conditional
Second Conditional
Third conditional
4. If I were you, Id buy it as soon as possible.

Zero Conditional
First Conditional
Second Conditional
Third conditional
5. I would have done things differently, if I had been the manager.
Zero Conditional
First Conditional
Second Conditional
Third conditional
6. If you work hard enough, you may well pass.
Zero Conditional
First Conditional
Second Conditional
Third conditional
7. I would be surprised if it rained.

Zero Conditional
First Conditional
Second Conditional
Third conditional
8. Water boils if you heat it to a hundred degrees Celsius.
Zero Conditional
First Conditional
Second Conditional
Third conditional
9. If shed tried harder, she might have passed the exam.
Zero Conditional
First Conditional
Second Conditional
Third conditional