LESSON PLAN Bicycle History

LESSON PLAN
SCHOOL: National Agricultural College Carol I

TEACHER: Nicoleta Magala
CLASS: a-XII-a A
LEVEL: Upper-intermediate
LESSON: Bicycle History
RESOURCES:
Straightforward, Macmillan, 2013
The overhead projector
Visuals
Audio CD
PowerPoint Presentation
Board
Worksheet
SEATING ARRANGEMENT: Horseshoe
CLASS PROFILE: This is a mixed-ability classroom, made up of twenty students. Most of
them have been taken from a very low level and still undergo remedial work to reach the
appropriate level, but they show enthusiasm towards improving their overall command of
English and often communicate their own ideas with some grammatical slips. They usually
understand instructions in English, yet sometimes T should revert to their L1 to facilitate
understanding. The activities they react positively to are prompted by pictures or cues and
they appreciate a supportive classroom atmosphere.
LESSON AIMS:
to define junk food and explain its popularity;
to brainstorm ideas/opinions about means of transport;
to build up vocabulary connected with way;
to skim and scan a reading text;
to use textual information to express personal view;
to reflect upon own learning and performance.
LANGUAGE SKILLS:
Speaking- productive skill
Reading- receptive skill
Writing- productive skill
Listening- receptive skill

TEACHING TECHNIQUES:
Explanation
Conversation
Questions and answers
ORGANIZATION OF THE CLASS: pair- work, individual work

AIDS: handouts, blackboard, students book
PROCEDURE
ACTIVITY 1 / WARM UP
TEACHERS ACTIVITY : Teacher tries to create a pleasant and comfortable atmosphere by
means of routine conversation: Greetings. Oral questions (Whos on duty today? Whos
absent? How are you today?).
STUDENTS ACTIVITY: Students answer the teachers questions. The students greet the
teacher
Hello teacher! .. is on duty. .. is absent!
METHODS : Conversation
EVALUATION: Oral evaluation
INTERACTION: T SS, SS T
TIME:1-3 min
ACTVITY 2 / LEAD-IN
TEACHERS ACTIVITY : Teacher writes two questions on the blackboard and elicits the
theme of todays lesson. Teacher gives them a few minutes to think about and then choose
some students to answer the task.
When and where do you think the bicycle was invented?
How do you think the bicycle changed the society
After the students answer freely to the questions, the teacher writes the title of the lesson on the
board.
STUDENTS ACTIVITY: They answer freely to the teachers questions thinking of the
advantages and disadvantages of the bicycle, thinking of how this means of transport changed
the life of their ancestors.
METHODS : Conversation
EVALUATION: Oral and written evaluation
INTERACTION: T SS, SS T
TIME:5 min
ACTVITY 3 / READING
TEACHERS ACTIVITY: Teacher split the students in pairs and they have to read the text
about the history of the bicycle, the changes in its design and why it was the greatest
technological invention since 1800. They have to match the headings to the paragraph. If the
students seem to have problems in matching the heading, teacher asks them to read each
paragraph in turn and then look back at the sentences for clues to do with reference words,
grammar. At the end of the activity the teacher shows the students a PPT about the history of
bicycle in pictures, so that students could understand better the message of the text.
STUDENTS ACTIVITY: Students read the text and solve exercise 3 in pairs. They could
compare their answers with their partner before checking with the class.
METHODS: explanation, questions and answers
EVALUATION: written evaluation
INTERACTION: T SS, SS SS, SS- T
TIME: 10 min
CULTURAL NOTES
mate is a colloquial word for a friend. It is used here anachronistically.
A dandy is a fashionable young man.
A rupture is a tear in the bodily tissue.
Bicycling is an old-fashioned term for cycling.
A suffragist was a woman who took part in public protests about giving women
suffrage (the right to vote) in the early 1900s; also called a suffragette.
To emancipate someone is to free them.
A corset is a stiff piece of underwear worn by women to make their waists look
thin.
A tenement is a block of flats; the word is often used to describe huge,
overcrowded blocks, notably in nineteen century London and New York
ACTVITY 4 / POST- READING

TEACHERS ACTIVITY : Teacher tells the students to look back at the highlighted
expression paving the way, in paragraph 7 of the text and say what they think it means (=To
create a situation that makes it possible or easier for something to happen; here, literally,
because the literal meaning of to pave is to put a hard flat on an area of ground. The writer
is alluding to the laying of road surfaces.)
STUDENTS ACTIVITY: Students answer the teachers question and then complete the
sentences with the adjectives and adverbs in the box in exercise 2 and 3. They could compare
their answers with a partner before checking with the whole class.
METHODS : question and answers
INTERACTION: T SS, SS SS, SS- T
TIME: 20 min
ALTERNATIVE PROCEDURE: DICTIONARY SEARCH
the exercise 2 and 3 could be done as dictionary research tasks. After the students
have filled the gaps with the expressions that they know, teacher gets the students
to look up way in the dictionary, and try to find any expressions they are not sure
about.
using the dictionary, teacher gets the students to categorize the expressions with
way according to the categories in Language notes below. Teacher asks them to
add any other useful expressions they find in the dictionary
LANGUAGE NOTES: WAY
According to the Macmillan English Dictionary, the expressions with way can be
placed in the following defining categories
1. method/manner
in a roundabout way, get her own way, change her ways
2. aspect/ attitude
in more ways than once, have it both ways
3. direction/distance
the wrong way round, on your way, lose your way
4. means of going in/out
force your way in, stand in someones way
5. area/ position
get in the way, keep out of the way
6. situation/ condition
in a bad way, the way the things are
7. phrases
go back a long way, know your way round, work your way up,
go out of your way, give away, have a way with words,
go your separate ways.
ACTVITY 5 / CHECKING UNDERSTANDING

TEACHERS ACTIVITY : Teacher asks the students to work in groups of four in order to
solve exercise 1 on the students worksheet. She tells them that the group that has no mistake
is going to win a prize. It is an exercise which checks their understanding regarding the
expression with way, both with adjectives and verbs. They are not allowed to look up in their
notebooks for the correct answers.
STUDENTS ACTIVITY: They form the four groups and do the exercise 1. In the end, they
choose one student from each group who will present their answers. The best group wins an
English magazine.
METHODS : questions and answers
INTERACTION: T SS, SS SS, SS - T
TIME:10 min
HOMEWORK
AIM: to develop Ss writing abilities

PROCEDURE: T explains to the Ss their task by giving clear explanations. Write a few
sentences about your favourite means of transport. If you wish, illustrate it with a picture.
INTERACTION: T-Ss
TIME: 2

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LESSON PLAN

SCHOOL: National Agricultural College Carol I

ORGANIZATION OF THE CLASS: pair- work, individual work

ACTVITY 4 / POST- READING

ACTVITY 5 / CHECKING UNDERSTANDING

AIM: to develop Ss writing abilities

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