LESSON PLAN

NAME: RADU FLORINA-HERMINA OBJECT :ENGLISH GRADE :9TH GRADE TOPIC: Modal verb Can TIME: 50 MINUTES. AIM: *Introducing modal verb Can OBJECTIVES:
1.To make the students use the modal verb Can in sentences of their own. 2.To have the students eliciting the contexts where the modal verb Can appear 3.To use the modal verb Can properly in sentences of their own. 4.To solve some exercises with the modal verb Can

STRATEGIES:
1.Pair-work 2.Group work 3.Gap-filling 4.Rephrase

CONTENTS
OBJECTIVE1: ESTIMATED TIME: 10 MINUTES CONTEXT: SS Previous knowledge about modal verbs and especially about modal verb Can ACTIVITY/CLASS ORGANISATION: SS are divided into groups. They are given some sheets of paper and asked to solve the requirements on them.The requirements are: 1.Imagine you are having a friendly talk to some people and they all started to boast with things they are capable of.Make up the dialogue. 2.Imagine you have just heard some unbelievable things.Express your doubts. 3.Imagine you are a tourist who has just entered the lobby of a big hotel.You are speaking to the receptionist.Make-up offers and requests. AIDS: task-sheets LANGUAGE: all and any but mostly modal verbs. POSSIBLE PROBLEMS: SS. May no tuse the modal verb Can in their sentences.The teacher must try to elicite the desired answer ,asking questions of the typeCan you tell this in some other way?. OBJECTIVE2:ESTIMATED TIME: 1O MINUTES ACTIVITY/CLASS ORGANISATION: The teacher will ask the students to write on the blackboard those sentences containing the modal verbs,present in their previous task.Then the teacher will underline the modal verb Can and will ask the students about the reason for its usage there.Whenever a student gives the right answer, the teacher will ask him to write it ton the blackboard.If there arent enough examples for all the situations when modal verb can appear, the teacher will produce some more situations, till the whole chart of modal verb Can usage will be filled in. AIDS:Blackboard,chalk

LANGUAGE: ALL AND ANY POSSIBLE PROBLEMS: THE SS. May not see clearly why the verb has been used so the teacher must act like a helper and explain well all the situations. OBJECTIVE3:ESTIMATED TIME: 10 MINUTES ACTIVITY/CLASS ORGANISATION THE SS. Will be asked to keep their groups.Then they will be assigned a new topic.The teacher tells them they are to produce a short story or a joke,where they are to use modal verb can with some different values.The students in the other groups will have to recognize the values of the modal verb and write them on a piece of paper.In the end the teacher will discuss the answers pointing up to the mistakes and trying to correct them. LANGUAGE: ALL AND ANY POSSIBLE PROBLEMS: THE SS may have difficulties in using the modal verb in sentences of their own and they also may have problems with their recognising the values of the modal verb..The students must help them. OBJECTIVE 4: ESTIMATED TIME: 20 MINUTES ACTIVITY/CLASS ORGANISATION: The students will be asked to solve some exercises ,centred upon the modal verb can. LANGUAGE: ALL AND ANY. AID: Task-sheets POSSIBLE PROBLEMS: THE SS. May have difficulties in solving the exercises.The teacher will gently correct the mistakes and explain again the points where they didnt seem to have understood well. HOMEWORK: . Write about a genius.Tell what he/she could do when he/she was young,refer to present and express some things about the future.

Task-sheet
Modal verb Can 1.Complete these sentences about old people.Use can or cant and these verbs: hear,look,read,see,walk.
Eg. Im afraid Mr. Smith is deaf.______what you say. He cant hear what you say. 1.Mrs. Burns has to wear glasses._______ very well. 2.Mr.Black likes books with large print.__________them more easily. 3.Mr. hogg uses a wheelchair.__________very far. 4.Mrs.Bernstein is quite happy living alone.___________after herself.

2.Make comment son these situations using can/cant +infinitive:

e.g.Mark studied English for six years. He can speak it very well. 1.Jane never practises on the violin. 2.Vera takes part in international skiing competitions. 3.Dana is a member of the school choir.

3.Fill in the blanks with can(`T)/Could(`nt)+the right infinitive form of a suitable verb.
1.No one without water. 2.Mother,you a better meal,everything is delicious. 3.yes, my wife will bea t the concert,but Iunfortunately.

4.Use can and suitable verbs to express ability in the future.

e.g. Tudor us right class today. Tudor can meet us right after class today. 1.I all the work by next Moday. 2.I you more about my plans then. 3.Who.. this paragraph into english for next time?