LESSON PLAN N1

Subject: English
Form: VI
Date: 02.02.2015
Teacher: Victor Popov
Topic: Friends from USA
Lesson type: mixed lesson
Time: 45 min
Specific competences:
Pragmatic competences: producing oral messages (Spoken interaction)
Communicative competences: Receiving written messages (Reading)
Communicative competences: Producing written messages (Writing)
Sub-competences:
S2.6. Maintaining a conversation on the USA, using pragmatics of turn-taking, nominating topics, expressing agreement and disagreement
S3.3. Identifying the main ideas of the text (silent reading)
S3.2. Identifying the global meaning of a message (silent reading)
Grammar: Using Past Progressive
Operational objectives:
Knowledge: pupils will be able to maintain a conversation on the USA, to decode new vocabulary.
Skill: students will be able to indentify the main ideas and global message of the unknown text, listen to a short oral message for general
comprehension, describing a picture using new vocabulary.
Attitude: Students will form positive attitudes towards USA, volunteering and traveling.

Stages of the lesson

(Learning Activities)
I.
EVOCATION
1.Organization
The teacher greets the pupils and makes a short presentation
and asks pupils to make their personal presentation to create
the atmosphere. The pupils greet him and make the
presentations. For ex: My name is Ion Berezovski, I am 13
years old and my hobby is dancing.
a) Checking the homework
The teacher asks the pupils what they had to prepare for
homework and checks what they done
2.Warm up and preparation
The teacher refers the pupils to the topic of the lesson and
asks the pupils to say what they know about USA. The pupils
tell information that they know. For ex: United States of
America is situated on the American continent.
The teacher announces the competences and the subcompetences of the lesson.
Then the teacher refers the pupils to the picture from ex 1 and
asks them to describe it. The pupils describe the picture. For
ex: In the picture from exercise 1 are represented two people,
a man and a woman. They are smiling.
Further, the teacher asks pupils to answer at the following
questions:
What can you say about them?
What question would you like to ask them?
The pupils answer at the questions. For ex:
-I can say that they seem to be happy.
-I would like to ask them what makes them so happy.

Resources

Strategies(methods, Subtechniques, forms

competences
of activities)

Time

2-3min

Textbook
Blackboard

Discussing
Whole class work

1-2min

S2.6

2 min
Picture
Textbook

Picture description,
Whole class work
Opinion sharing

S3.3

S3.2

1-2 min

Notes

II.

REALISATION OF MEANING
New Material presentation
a) Pre-Reading
The teacher refers the pupils to the Word Bank: ballet,
college, law, shooting, clarinet, and soccer, volunteer,
graduate from etc. The pupils induce the translation of words
and put them down in their copybooks together with their
transcription and translation.
The teacher directs the pupils to the ex 2, p.48 and asks the
pupils to read the task and to make predictions about what
will be the text. The pupils come up with their predictions.
For ex: The text is about volunteers from USA.
b) While-Reading
The teacher asks the pupils to read the dialogue giving each
other a role. Pupils are supposed to read the dialogue and then
to indentify the main ideas of the text and to retell about what
is the text about. For ex: This text is about a couple of Peace
Corps Volunteers that came in Moldova.
c) Post-Reading
The pupils share their opinion and retell the text.
The teacher directs the pupils to ex 5, p. 49 and asks them to
read the task. The pupils read the sentences and complete
them.
For ex: 1) Chrys and John are Peace Corps Volunteers in
Moldova.
Then the teacher directs the pupils to the ex 4, p.49 and ask
them to read the task. The pupils read the task and choose the
best answer.
For ex: 1) Chrys and John are from the USA.
a) Germany b) France c) the USA

Textbook,
Copybooks

The Direct method,

Whole class work
2-3 min

Textbook

Pictures
Textbook
Copybooks

Textbook

Predicting
Opinion sharing
Argumentation
Whole class work
Aloud reading
Searching
Whole class work

S3.2

Error Correction
Individual work
Completing
Searching
Scanning

S2.6

3-4 min

3-4min

III.

REFLEXION

1) Pre-listening
The teacher refers the pupils to ex 5, p. 49 and asks the pupils
to read the task.
2) While-listening
The teacher read one more time the text and the pupils listen
to him attentively.
3) Post-listening
The teacher asks the pupils the following questions:
-What country are they from?
-Where did John and Chrys meet?
-What did Chrys and John like to do in their childhood?
-What would they like to do when they go back to the USA?
-What do they do in Moldova?
The pupils answer the questions:
-They are from USA
-Chrys liked to play the clarinet and ballet, music and figure
skating John liked to play soccer and basketball and also
shooting.

3-4 min

Aloud
reading
Copybook
Pen

Argumentation
Whole class work
5-6 min

1. Pre-Reading
The teacher referrers the pupils to ex 6, p.49 and asks the
pupils to read the task.
2. While-Reading
The pupils read the task and make a dialogue in pairs asking
and answering at question using the adjectives from the box.
For ex: A: Would you like to be lazy?
B: No, I wouldnt. I would like to be hardworking.

S2.6
Textbook
Copybook
Pen

Selection
Frontal
Questioning
Work in pair

3-4 min

3. Post-Reading
The pupils present the work. The teacher asks additional
questions. For ex: What kind of person would you like to be?
What kind of person wouldnt you like to be? Why?
Answers:
I would like to be an intelligent person. Because intelligent
persons become very important people in the world.

Textbook

Individual work
Argumentation
Discussion
Opinion sharing
3 min

IV.EXTENSION
a) Grammar production
The teacher asks the pupils to make sentences based on the
picture from ex 8, p.49, using Past Progressive. Pupils make
sentences using Past Progressive.
For ex: While Fred was doing his homework, Bob and Bill
were watching the TV.

Textbook
Picture
Copybooks
Pen

Whole class work

The
Communicative
Method
4 min

IV.

FEEDBACK

a) Assessment
The teacher refers the pupils to the competences and subcompetences of the lesson. The pupils decide what
competences have been achieved and what have not, they
make conclusions. The teacher gives marks to pupils.
b) Homework
The teacher writes the homework on the blackboard: to read
and translate the text p.48 and to learn the words from the
Word Bank.
The teacher announces the end of the lesson thanks the pupils
for attention and says goodbye. The pupils thank the teacher
for the lesson and leave for the break.

Pen
Copybooks

Generalization
Systematization

Using Past
Progressive

Blackboard
Chalk

2 min
S 2.6
Using Simple
Present be

1 min