LESSON PLAN

SCHOOL: Independenta Secondary School Calafat

TEACHER: Ana- MariaṢtefănescu
FORM: 11 th D
LEVEL: Advanced
NUMBER OF STUDENTS: 30
TIME: 50 minutes
LESSON: Reading : How to be a good traveller
SKILLS: Reading, Speaking

Teaching aims To encourage Ss to improvise a precise situation

To familiarize Ss with the idea of speaking after
introducing a range of advanced vocabulary

Learning aims To prove reading comprehension of a text

To express opinion

Assumptions Ss are already used to expressing opinions on a certain

topic

Anticipated problems Some students can be stuck in an unproductive stage

Some students are shy and sometimes they feel
embarrassed when they are asked to play a role

Classroom interaction Teacher-Student

Student-Student
Student-Teacher

Classroom management Classroom equipped with movable desks according to

the lesson activities which provide the necessary
physical environment for working in groups. Light and
pictures displayed on the walls create the comfortable
atmosphere which is an important thing especially in
“role-play” requiring creativity and interpretation.

Attending strategies Teacher’s role: conductor that is to establish contexts,

give instructions and monitor.
Teacher’s attitude: moves round the class, keeps
eye-contact, but she also encourages Ss to speak and
listen to each other using gestures and facial expression.
If a student is speaking too quietly, T walks further
away forcing, in this way, the quiet speaker to speak
louder and makes positive remarks. T does not interrupt
a student while speaking to correct mistakes

Evaluation Initial: warm-up

Continual evaluation
 Final: oral, homework
STAGES

Warm up:
Curriculum competence: 2.1
Procedure: discussion
Class management: whole-class activity
Teaching aids: none
Timing: 10 minutes
Description of the activity: T checks the homework- a cloze exercise/ a narrative paragraph
describing an incident, using narrative tenses

Activity one:
Curriculum competence: 2.1
Procedure: discussion
Class management: whole-class activity
Teaching aids: none
Timing: 5 minutes
Description of the activity: T asks Ss to remember the best and the worst holiday they have
ever had. Ss are asked to express opinions on what makes a good traveler, to discuss travel-
related issues

Activity two
Curriculum competence: 3.1
Procedure: reading
Class management: individual work
Teaching aids: text book
Timing: 20 minutes
Description of the activity: 1)T asks Ss to silently read a text which is devided into five
paragraphs and then Ss are asked to say whether they have understood the gist of the textx

Activity three
Curriculum competence: 2.1
Procedure: oral presentation
Class management: group-work
Teaching aids: text book
Timing:10 minutes
Description of the activity: Ss are supposed to answer a set of questions related to each
paragraph in order to prove reading comprehension

Homework
Curriculum competence: 3.2
Timing:5 minutes
Task: T asks Ss to write a 100- word paragraph on what travelling means to them