LESSON PLAN

Name: Olaru Mihaela

School: Liceul Tehnologic Todireni
Form: 6th grade
Date:
Textbook: Snapshot Elementary
Lesson: What would you like to do? The imperative for instructions and advice.
Lesson type: grammar
Aims: to introduce and practice the imperative for instructions and advice
to encourage Ss to communicate freely and spontaneously during the activities
to develop students speaking and writing skills
Objectives:
By the end of the lesson, the Ss will be able to:
use correctly the imperatives for instructions and advice
give instructions and advice

practise the grammar structures under discussion in sentences of their own

Skills: reading, speaking, listening, writing
Classroom interactions: individual work, whole class, pair work, group work.
Teaching aids: textbooks, notebooks, blackboard, worksheets, pictures.

Stages
Warm-up

Activity
The teacher greets pupils and they
greet back.
The T asks for absentees.
The teacher checks the homework
Homework and offers feed-back on it. The
check
teacher checks the students
previous knowledge.
The teacher shows the students a
set of pictures representing people
in various situations and asks the
students to describe what they are
doing. The students have to
recognize people giving
instructions and advice.
Introduction The teacher asks the students to

Time Techniques
Interaction Materials
8
Brainstorming Whole
Notebooks
Dialogue
class
Pictures
Individual Blackboard
work

Aims
To see if anybody
is absent
To prepare for the
new class
To check their
previous
knowledge
To prepare the
students for the
new lesson

15

To understand the

Discussions

Whole

Textbooks

Presentation read the short text in their

textbooks at page 96 and try to find
the words that express instructions
or advice. The words are written on
the blackboard and in the students
notebooks. The teacher explains the
grammatical problem to the
students. The new words are also
explained and written down.
Practice
The teacher asks the students to use 12
the imperatives they learnt in
sentences of their own and to state
if they express instructions or
advice. The students are asked to
work in pairs and give each other
instructions.
Use
The students are asked to work in
13
groups of four and think about the
advice that they can give to a
foreign visitor in their country.

Dialogue
Reading
Explanations

class
Individual
work

Discussions
Giving
instructions

Whole
class
Pair work

Discussions
Group
Giving advice work

Notebooks
Blackboard

Homework

Writing

Notebooks

The teacher asks the students to

write a short letter to a friend in
which they give advice in a
problem situation.

Individual
work

Notebooks
Blackboard

Blackboard
Notebooks

grammar patterns

To personalize
topic
To practice the
new grammar
patterns
To get feed-back
on the
understanding of
the grammar
structure taught
Preparation for
homework
assignment