Description of

class

''Mea Selimovi'' primary school; Class: III; Class profile: 25 students; 8 years old; Subject: English language
Location: English classroom; School year: 2011/2012. Teacher: Amila Islamovi,prof.

Teaching unit
1.
Recent work

Hello! Greetings and introductions Hi! Good morning/afternoon: Goodbye

Type of lesson

Presentation common greetings and Class Book characters

Sources

Family and Friends 1; Class Book; Workbook; Teachers Book; CD; Family and Friends Alphabet Book; Reading
and writing; Grammar Friends 1
Aims and objectives
To present yourself
To become familiar with the Class Book characters and common greetings
Short term
To understand a short story
To greet people
Long term
To asks and answer the question: What is your name?
To start with some unfamiliar words
To act out the story
To make students interested in English
Act out the story
Methods
Work on short text
Illustration
Demonstration

Class management
Individual part

Pair work

Whole class

Interaction
Teaching aids, materials
and equipment

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S,S-S,S
S,S,S
Class Book, Workbook, CD player, Starter story poster,

Procedure

Introduction part, main part, final part

Additional plan

Listen and sing your name. Hello, hello, How are you? Im fine, thank you. Hello, hello, Whats your
name? My names .. That's my name. Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye to you

Main part

y part Introductor

Aims and objectives

To become familiar with the

common greetings
To present yourself
To motivate them respond
Hello, What is your name?
My name is

To become familiar with the

Class Book characters and
common greetings
To develop students skills
Listening & speaking
To introduce firs English
words and names
To make children interested
in topic

Class organization procedure and

activities

Teaching
aids

As children come into the class, teacher says Chairs

Hello and smiles. She encourages them to
say Hello in response. She introduces herself.
She asks one child to stand up and say hello
to him/her. She encourages the child to
respond with Hello.
Children turn to speak to the children next to
them and say hello.
Teacher points to herself and says: Hello!
My name is .. What is your name?
She encourages them to do the same in pairs,
greeting each other and saying their names.
She also says Stand up and indicates to the
class to stand at their seats. Say Sit down and
indicate for them to sit again.
Teacher says Open your books and she
demonstrates them what to do. They follow
her and open the books. She points to the
characters and pronounces their names
Rosy, Tim, Billy, Miss Jones
Children listen, point and repeat.
She puts flashcards 1 4 in an envelope. She
brings them out one at a time and says the
names for children to repeat in chorus.
She says Hello Rosy and children repeat.
They do the same for all characters. As she
brings out each flashcard, children respond
with Hello, Tim! Etc.

Class Book
CD player
Flashcards
CD

Possible
problems

Possible
solutions

None

None

Timi
ng

Some
children
might
have
problem
to
pronounce
the names
of the
characters.

Teacher
plays the
CD twice if
it is
necessary.

Main part

To present new story about

Class Book characters
To listen to the story
To play the game

Final part

Main part

To say the chant without

recording

Teacher plays the CD for children to listen to

the chant.
Then she plays the CD a second time for
children to say the words.
She asks children to say the chant together,
without the recording.
Divide the class into groups of four, one for
each character. Give each child a characters
name. Teacher says the chant with the class.
Every time when a child hears their name
they stand up quickly and sit down again.

Teacher invites children to listen to the story

again and repeat it.
To develop students' skills
Then they look at the starter story poster and
answer on teacher's questions about
To act out the story
characters. She motivates them to say what
they think is happening in the story (L1).
To encourage students acting Then she divides s the class into groups of
and speaking
five. Each child has the name of the
characters from the story. They practise
To motivate students
acting out the story. Teacher monitors the
working in groups
activity, checking for correct pronunciation.
She asks some of the groups to come to the
front of the class to act out the story.
To practise Class Book
characters
To trace and circle their
names
To practise My name is

Teacher uses Starter story poster and asks

children the names of Class Book characters.
She asks them to open their Workbook and
on page four and demonstrates it for them.
Then they trace and circle characters from
the story in exercise 1.
She asks them to draw themselves for their
homework and write their name.

CD player
CD
Class Book

Some
students
might
have
problems
to say the
chant.

Teacher
plays the
recording
two or three
times if it is
necessary.
10'

CD player
CD
Starter
story poster

Starter
story poster
Workbook
Pencil

Some
students
aren't
ready for
acting
story.
They are
to shy.

Teacher
encourages
them with
nice words
and smile.

None

None

15'

6'