Lesson Plan - Countable vs uncountable (teaching)

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MINISTERUL EDUCAŢIEI

INSPECTORATUL ŞCOLAR AL JUDEŢULUI SUCEAVA


ŞCOALA GIMNAZIALĂ GĂINEŞTI
Com. Slatina, Judeţul Suceava
e-mail: scoala.gainesti@yahoo.com , CP 727491, Tel. mobil 0787635504

Lesson Plan

School: Scoala Gimnazială Găinești

Name: Finaga Ana

No. of students: 17

Grade: 6th grade

Textbook: Limba modernă 2 – Limba engleză pentru clasa a VI-a,


Ana Magdalena Iordăchescu – Mariana Stoenescu, Editura Litera, 2017

Level: L2 elementary

Unit: 4 Good citizens

Lesson: Countable vs Uncountable nous

Type of lesson: communication of new knowledge

Lesson Objectives:

By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:


1. recognize countable and uncountable nouns;
2. use the plural of the countable and uncountable nous (using quantifiers);
3. apply the grammar rules for countable and uncountable nouns;
4. use countable and uncountable nouns in real life conversation.

Methods and techniques:

 conversation;
 explanation;
 brainstorming;
 question – answer;
 matching exercises;
 discussion;
 multiple choice exercises;
1
 fill – in exercises.

Language Focus: Plural of nouns, vocabulary related to jobs.

Timetable fit: in the previous lesson, Ss have learnt about vocabulary related to jobs, plural
of nouns; the next lesson, they will learn about health problems and first aid.

Anticipating students’ problems:

 some students might need further help and extra indications in solving the tasks and
they may also need some of these indications to be given in Romanian;
 some students might feel nervous and reluctant to participate in the activity, so they
may need assistance;
 some students may encounter problems with connecting and connection;

Teaching aids/ Materials: Textbook, Meet, PPT presentation, Wordwall.net,


Liveworksheets.com; (Ss. will also find the lesson links on Google Classroom)

Students’ Intera Methods


Stages of activity ction Skills and
Teacher’s activity Aims
the lesson technique
s
1. Warm- 1. The teacher Students T-Ss Listeni Conversat checking
up greets the class answer the ng - ion presence
5 min. and waits for the teacher’s speakin and
students to login. question g brainstor introducin
The teacher asks ming g the
the students how students
they are feeling in the
about the day and subject
marks the
absentees. The
class prepares for
the lesson.
2. The lesson starts
with the activity
“how many types
of food can you
name?”
3. The teacher
shows Ss. cards
with different
types of food and
asks students to
2
name the items
presented and to
give the plural or
the singular:
Game: name the
types of food.
Plural or singular?
2. Teacher gives Ss listen. T-Ss speakin conversati Checking
Feedback feedback to Ss on on understan
g
1 min how well they ding of
have performed at the
home after problem
checking the
homework on the
platform -
Classroom
The teacher opens Students T-Ss Discussio
the PowerPoint watch the Ss-T n–
Presentation PPT explanatio
prepared for the presentation n
lesson and listen to
emphasizing on the teacher’s
the differences explanation
4. Lead-in
between the
activity :
countable and Listeni Question -
checking Creating
uncountable ng- answer
the interest in
nouns. Students speakin
previous the topic
In order to set listen and g
knowledge
up the background give the
7 min
for the lesson the answer they
teacher plays with see fit for
the students the the
following game: questions.
“What is this and
what do we fill it
with?”
5.Presenta 1.The teacher Students Ss-T Listeni Discussio teaching
tion and shows the Power listen ng- n– new
productio Point presentation carefully to speakin explanatio words
n: again emphasizing the g- n
Teaching on the quantifiers presentation. writing practicing
the new of the uncountable the new
material nouns. words
10 min. 2.The teacher orally
presents the through

3
quantifiers giving games.
examples:
a jar of
jam/marmalade,
a bottle of
water/juice, Students
a jug of listen
coffee/juice, carefully to
a cup of the teacher’s Brainstor
milk/tea/coffee, presentation. ming
a bowl of
soup/rice, Students
a kilo of make
sugar/salt examples of
/rice/meat, their own on
a bar of the board
chocolate/butter, following
a slice of the teacher’s
bread/cake, example.
a piece of bread/
cake/ pie,
a loaf of bread,
a glass of milk,
a carton of milk,
a can of juice,
a tin of fish,
a packet of
spaghetti.
3.Then the teacher
will ask another
question, using the
grammar issue
presented: “What
do you buy in a
supermarket?
Make a list of
groceries using
quantifiers (3
items)”
4.The teacher Students Listeni
shows students a take turns ng-
video that offers and suggest speakin
explanations for suitable g
the countable words for
nouns and the uses the task.
of quantifiers for Students
4
the uncountable offer
nouns. The teacher explanations
engages students on what they
into conversation have just
on what was heard giving
presented in the examples of
video. Stressing on their own. matching
the formation of Listeni exercises
the plural of the ng -
uncountable speakin
nouns. g
https://
www.youtube.com
/watch?v=fUvQ-
adlF7w

The teacher
reuses the cards
from the beginning Students
of the lesson for listen
further emphasis carefully to T-Ss
on the distinction the teacher’s
between countable presentation.
and uncountable
nouns.
6. Practice
The teacher asks
8 min
students to put Students
food in two listen
containers one for carefully to
countable (basket) the teacher’s
and different instructions.
(special) types of
containers for
uncountable.
7.Consolid Using Students T-Ss Listeni Matching,
ation WORDWALL listen Ss-T ng- choosing
7 min website with the: carefully to reading the
Random Wheel the teacher’s -writing correct
from where Ss instructions Multiple answer
have to choose if and answer choice/
the word is the fill in
countable or questions exercises
uncountable: form the
https://wordwall.n worksheets.
et/resource/602015
0/countable-
5
uncountable-nouns
the drag and
match for
countable or
uncountable
nouns:
https://
wordwall.net/
resource/
7948746/
countable-
uncountable-nouns
and the train of
nouns

The teacher Students T-Ss Conversat


gives feedback by listen. ion –
congratulating the explanatio
8.
students and n To let
Feedback
encouraging the students
and Listeni
less talkative ones know how
evaluation ng
to speak more. they have
1 min
https://wordwall.n done.
et/resource/389946
/countable-
uncountable-nouns
The teacher tells Students T-Ss Conversat
the students that listen ion –
their homework is carefully to explanatio Give
to solve a the teacher’s n students
worksheet on instructions. further
9.Assignin
liveworksheets.co work to
g Listeni
m regarding what encourage
homework ng
they have learned practice
1 min.
today which will of the new
be loaded on the learned
Classroom grammar.
platform

If there is any
10. time left Ss will
Contingen solve ex. 6 and 7
cy plan from their
textbook.(page 47)

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Bibliography:

1. Bonta, Elena, English Teaching Methodology, Suport de curs, Universitatea „Vasile


Alecsandri”, Bacau, 2001.
2. Harmer, Jeremy, The Practice of English Language Teaching, Longman, 1983.
3. Scrievener, Jim, Learning Teaching. A Guidebook for English Language Teaching,
Macmillan Education, Oxford, 2005.
4. Vizental, Adriana, Metodica predării limbii engleze, Strategies of Teaching and
Testing English as a Foreign Language, Polirom, București, 2008.
https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/sites/teacheng/files/Using%20stories%20in%20the
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