Name:

Form: X C
School:
Object: English
Date: the 2nd of April 2014
Level: Intermediate
Time: 50 minutes
Number of students: 28
Lesson topic: Obligation Must have to
Lesson type: Communication of new knowledge
Language skills:
Speaking - productive skill
Reading - receptive skill
Writing - productive skill
Aims:
- to assimilate new grammatical pattern;
- to help students improve their grammar using different types of exercises
Objectives:
Cognitive objectives:
- SWBAT fill in the blanks correctly when sentences are given;
- SWBAT match some elements in specific sentences;
- SWBAT say the difference in usage between must and have to;
- SWBAT make some sentences with the modals must and have to.
Affective objectives:
- be confident in them when speaking a foreign language
- stimulate their imagination
Teaching techniques: explanation, conversation, grammar execises
Interaction: individual work, group work, pair work
Materials: worksheets, blackboard and chalk, students notebooks, flipchart
Anticipated problems :
Students may have difficulty in understanding when to use must and have to.
Solution :
I will give more examples (I will explain in Romanian if necessary).
Bibliography:
Harmer, Jeremy, The Practice of English Language Teaching, Longman, 2000
Vizental, Adriana : Metodica predarii limbii engleze Strategies of Teaching and Testing
English as a Foreign Language Polirom, Iasi, 2007
Hardin, Gerard& all, Gramatica limbii engleze pentru toi, Niculescu, Bucureti, 2000

Stages of
the lesson
1. Warm-up

2. Checking
homework

3. Lead-in

3. Announcing
objectives

Presentation

Teachers activity
a)Teacher greets the
students, asks them
how they are, and if
there are any students
missing;
Teacher checks
homework and
corrects mistakes on
the blackboard.

T asks Ss to make a
list of the modal verbs
they know. Then
reminds them that the
modal verbs only have
one form, do not
change and are
followed by a verb.
Teacher writes the
title of the lesson on
the blackboard and
announces the students
that today they will
learn the modal verbs
must and have to.
T writes on the
blackboard several

Students
activity
Students greet the
teacher.

Interaction

Skills

Techniques

T - Ss

Speaking

Conversation

Ss listen and
correct their
homework.

T-Ss

Speaking
Writing

Conversation

Aids

Aims

Timing

- to create a 2 min
pleasant
atmosphere
Notebook

- to check
their
previous
knowledge

6 min

Notebook

- to
2 min
activate
students
background
knowledge

Ss remember
T-Ss
some modal verbs
and write them on
their notebooks.

Writing

Students listen to
the teacher and
write the title of
the lesson in their
notebooks.

T- Ss

Listening

Conversation

blackboard

- to make
students
aware of
the items
they will
learn

2 min

Students write the

examples and the

T-Ss
Whole Class

Writing
Speaking

Explanation

Blackboard
notebooks

-to
introduce

10 min

Evaluation

Practice

Practice

sentences with must

and have to. T
underlines the modal
verbs must and have to
and asks the Ss about
the reason for its usage
there.
T tells them that have
to is an exception in
what concerns the
form, which has the
singular form changed
both for negative and
for interrogative and
also in the third person
singular.
T gives students the
Worksheet and tells
them to do the
exercise A. There are
some sentences and
they have to match
them with their
corresponding usage.
After that, T tells them
to match the 2 halves.
-Teacher asks students
to do the next two
exercises from their
Worksheet with fill in
the blanks in pairs.
After every exercise
the teacher nominates

theory in their
notebooks.
Also, they answer
to the teachers
questions.

Students receive
their worksheet
and complete the
sentences. After
doing their
exercise, they
raise hands and
read their
answers.
Ss do as required.
Students work in
pairs and then
raise their hands
to give the
answers. If one
student makes a
mistake another

the topic

T-Ss
IW

Reading
Writing

Conversation
Matching
elements

Worksheet,
exercise A

T-Ss
Ss - T
Pair Work

Writing
Reading

Fill in the
blanks

Blackboard
Worksheet

-to practice
grammar

5 min

-to 10 min
practice
grammar

Production

7
Feed back
8

Homework

some students to read

the answers.
-T tells students to
choose from the two
situations that are
written on their
Worksheet, exercise E
and to make some
sentences working in
pairs.
T will help if
necessary with
vocabulary. After the
activity is over, T asks
some Ss to read the
sentences.
Teacher offers
feedback telling the
students how well they
performed.

one will correct.

T gives students the

fifth exercise on the
Worksheet as
homework
assignment.

-Ss listen to the

Ts instructions
-Students work in
pairs and make
the sentences.
-Ss raise hands to
read the
sentences.

T-Ss
Pair Work

Writing
Reading

Conversation

Students listen.

T-Ss

Listening

Discussion

Ss write down
what their
homework is.

T-Ss
Ss-T

Speaking

Discussion

Worksheet

Worksheet

- to
develop
writing
skills

10 min

- to let
1 min
students
know how
well they
performed
- to provide 2 min
further
practice