Date: the 29th of January Teacher: Hij Florentina Elena Level: IIIrd grade- beginners Book: Way Ahead 1, Macmillan Topic: What are these? Type of lesson: Vocabulary Time allowed: 50 minutes Aims of the lesson: - to identify the shapes - to introduce the numbers 11-20 - to develop pupils' abilities to check specific information in written statements - to revise the numerals by means of addition and substraction - to check the new terminology related to the topic: food and shapes and the correct spelling - to encourage variety of interaction Skills: reading, listening, speaking, writing. Materials: textbook, worksheets, blackboard, crayons, markers Classroom interactions: Whole class, Individual work, Pair work, Group work.
Stages of the lesson
Activity 1: Checking homework Aims: to break the ice to introduce the new topic of the lesson to revise the shapes and colours Procedure: the T asks the Ss to read their homework and correct potential mistakes and gives them a handout with an exercise in which they are supposed to read some sentences and colour the image accordingly (worksheet 1) Interaction: T-Ss Ss-T Skills: reading and writing Timing: 7 Activity 2: Speaking Activity Aims: to introduce the numbers 11- 20 to encourage correct pronunciation Procedure: the T writes the numbers on the BB and the pupils copy them in their notebooks and then she pronounces each of them and the pupils have to repeat Interaction: T-Ss, Ss-T, Skills: writing, listening, speaking; Timing: 10
Activity 3: Vocabulary focus
Aims: to practise the newly introduced vocabulary Procedure: the T gives the Ss a worksheet in which they have to identify the numbers and match them with their pairs in the table (worksheet 2) Skills: reading, speaking, writing Timing: 7 Activity 4: Reading comprehension Aims: to develop pupils' abilities to check specific information and answer affirmatively or negatively to improve reading skills to check the ss understanding of written statements Procedure: the Ss have to solve ex. 2 - p 48 in their books and then the T checks their answers frontally Interaction: T-Ss, S-T Skills: writing; speaking Timing: 5 Activity 5: Writing focus Aims: to give further practice to the newly introduced language to encourage pair work Procedure: the Ss have to solve the exercise on worksheet 3 in pairs and provide the right answers by means of addition and substraction
Interaction: T-Ss, S-S, Ss-T;
Skills: reading, speaking, listening Timing: 8 Activity 6: Evaluation Aims: to revise the matters learned during the lesson to check the correct spelling of the words related to the topic: food and shapes to encourage variety of interaction Procedure: the T writes on the BB some syllable-pairs and asks the pupils to connect them in order to discover the full words (worksheet 4 ) Skills: writing, reading Interaction: S-T, whole class Timing: 8 Activity 7: Homework Aims: to summarize the ideas from early sections of the lesson to improve writing skills Procedure: the T asks Ss to copy the poem in the manual at page 50 and learn it by heart Skills: reading, writing Interaction:T-Ss Timing: 5