One Big Happy Family CLS 4

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LESSON PLAN
Teachers name: Rnja Miruna-Crina
School: Scoala Gimnaziala Vasile Cristoforeanu Rm.Sarat
Form: 4
th

D
Time: 50 minutes
Lesson Type: mixed type
Lesson title: One big happy family
Date: 17.10.2014
Aims:
1. COGNITIVE:
a) To introduce vocabulary related to family members ;
b) To introduce adjectives describing someones physical appearance
c) To develop students speaking and reading skills;
d) To introduce grammar concerning possessive adjectives;
TYPES OF INTERACTION: T-Ss; Ss-Ss; Ss-T
TEACHING TECHNIQUES: communicative approach; exercises: write the answer, read and circle
ORGANIZATION: lockstep; individual work; pair work
MATERIALS: students notebooks; pupils book; WB and markers;

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LESSON STAGE AIM PROCEDURE TYPE OF
INTERACTION
TIME
Teachers activity Students activity
1.Warm up -to create a pleasant
atmosphere
-to motivate and
involve students in
being active
Teacher enters the
classroom and greets
students:
Hello children!

Teacher has a short
conversation with them
and asks them questions
like:
How are you today?; Is
everything all right?
Are there any absentees
today?

Ss respond back:
Hello teacher!

Ss pay attention and answer the
teachers questions

T-Ss

Ss-T
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2.Lead in -to announce the topic
and the objectives of
the lesson
-to prepare the context
of the lesson
Teacher announces the
topic of the lesson and
writes the title on the
whiteboard, She asks
students to open the
books page 10 and take a
look at the pictures in
order to guess the content
of the text. She may ask
them if they know some
members of the family.

Ss pay attention to the teacher and
write the title of the lesson in their
notebooks.

T-Ss

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3.Vocabulary
presentation:
family members
-to present and
familiarise pupils with
the members of the
family.
Teacher shows pupils a
photo of a family. She
points to each person and
says who they are (for
example grandmother,
mother,etc). She also
explains the relationship
between them (for
example: Your mums
Ss pay attention to the teacher
then they repeat chorally and
individually.

T-Ss
Ss-T

10
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mother is your
grandmother;
Your Dads father is your
grandfather
Your mums sister is your
aunt.)
After the oral
presentation the teacher
draws a word cloud on
the whiteboard in the
middle of which she
writes family members
and she connects to it
the members of the
family.
She writes on the WB the
examples she has just
given.

Pupils write the word cloud in
their notebooks.

Pupils repeat the examples
chorally and individually.

Pupils write down the examples.

4. Listening and
reading
-to familiarise
students with the text,
with the pronunciation
Teacher asks students to
look at the text in the
book while listening to
Students listen to the CDand
follow the text in the book. Then
they repeat chorally.
T-Ss
Ss-T
10
5

and intonation
-to provide practice on
reading skill
the CD. She plays the
She plays the cassette
again with pauses for
pupils to repeat chorally.
While doing this she
checks pupils
pronunciation and
intonation.
Then she names some
pupils to read the
dialogues by roles.

Pupils read out the dialogues.
5. Vocabulary
presentation:
describing
someones
physical aspect
-to introduce the
adjectives and
structures used for
describing someones
physical aspect.

Teacher asks pupils to
look in the book at the
first exercise and
explains the task to them:
they have to listen to the
CD and match the
adjectives with the
characters.
Teacher asks one student
to come in front of the
classroom and describes
Students listen to the CD and
match, then they check their
answers.

Pupils pay attention to the teacher
and repeat after her.

T-Ss

Ss-T
10
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him to the rest of the
class, echoing the key
words. She asks pupils to
repeat after her. She does
the same with another
pupil.
She writes on the WB the
adjectives and the
structures she has used.

Pupils write down.
6. Vocabulary
practice

-to reinforce the newly
introduced adjectives
-to encourage children
to describe themselves

She asks them to look at
the model of the exercise
on the bottom of page 10
and follow it in order to
use the adjectives they
have just acquired.
She invites other children
in front of the class and
asks the rest of the class
to describe them.

Pupils perform the task

T-Ss
Ss-T

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7. Grammar
presentation

-to introduce
possessive adjectives
-to reinforce the
structures with have
got and be
Teacher asks students to
look at the examples in
the box on page 11. She
writes the first sentence
on the whiteboard and
underlines my, then she
asks students to repeat
chorally. She writes the
second example and
underlines his. She
explains that we use his
for men and boys and her
for girls and women, its
for animals, our for what
weve got and their for
what theyve got. She
writes other examples on
the whiteboard and asks
pupils to help her fill in
with her/his/its/our/their.

Pupils pay attention to teachers
explanations and write down the
examples.

T-SS
Ss-T

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