Lesson plan

School: School Dragutesti

Teacher: Mitroi Mariela
Date: 29 th of April
Grade: 3rd grade
Level: Beginners
Number of students: 12
Topic: My favourite season
Time allowed: 50 minutes
Type of lesson: Vocabulary teaching
Approach: communicative
Skills: Integration of the four skills
Aims:
1. to motivate learners to communicate in English using language games
2. to recycle the vocabulary related to the months of the year, the seasons
3. to create extended activities for the vocabulary taught
Focus on:
1. The months of the year
2. The seasons
3. The weather
Objectives: By the end of the lesson, learners will be able to:
1. Recognize the months of the year, the seasons
2. Construct sentences of their own using the months of the year and seasons
3. Communicate effectively using the vocabulary taught
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Materials: flashcards (different sizes), worksheets, colored piece of chalk, cd player

Types of interaction: Teacher-whole class, Teacher- Student, Student- Student, Student-Teacher
Class management: whole class, individually, pair, group work

PROCEDURE
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Stages
Pre-speaking
activity

Teacher`s activity and

Students` activity and language Skills
language
Teacher
presents
the Students pay attention to what the T-S
teacher proposes for the lesson
objectives of the lesson so

Interaction

Time

Speaking
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that the children know

what they will learn during
the lesson. At the end,
learners will evaluate what
the teacher has proposed
and what was realized (a
checklist).
2

speaking

Teacher asks learners if Students participate into the

lesson.
they can draw a tree.

activity

Teacher starts drawing a

Controlled

T-S
S-T

Speaking

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tree on the board. Inside

the tree, the teacher will
place the 12 months of the
year. The teacher will elicit
the names of the seasons.
The teacher writes the
seasons in the following
colors
summer-

(springred,

green,
autumn-

yellow, winter- white). The

teacher elicits the numbers
(cardinal ones) .
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Back writing Teacher asks two children Students are very attentive to
teachers explanations. Students
(pair activity) to come in
(semi-guided
fulfill the task. Students write
front of the classroom for with their fingers on the back of
activity)
3

T-S
S-T

Speaking
Writing
Listening
Reading

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activity.

Teacher their colleague.

While

an

speaking

provides a model. Teacher

activity

writes with the finger on

the back of the child one of
the words taught (a month
of the year). The child has
to guess what the teacher
wrote on the back and has
to say some sentences, for
example:
It is December. It is winter.
It is cold.
In turns, children work
with a partner in front of
the classroom.

4.

(Matching

Children are invited to Students stick on the board the

flashcards, suitable for each
find suitable clothes for
season.
each season. They have to

activity)

choose just 2 pieces of

Guided
activity

T-S
S-S

Speaking
Listening

T-S
S-T

Speaking
Writing
Listening
Reading

clothing for each season.

Teacher asks students to
make up sentences using
the following structure:
I wear in spring.
What do you wear in
spring?
5.

Students pay attention to the

Teacher presents a song to song. They repeat the song about
work
the four seasons.
the children. They listen to

Bingo activity
(pair
activity)

the cd player and then

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repeat the song, according

to the negative.
.
6.

in Students make a circle and will

throw the ball from one to the
activity game advance a ball made of
other and will say a month of the
Continue the paper. Teacher starts with a year and will make up some
sentences
word
month of the year and
Teacher

Speaking

prepares

T-S
S-S

Speaking
Reading
Listening

T-S

Speaking
Writing

describes the month, says

the season etc., according
to the model:
It is December. It is
winter. I wear a pair of
gloves.
The child who receives the
ball

is

supposed

continue

in

manner

with

the
the

to
same
next

month to come.
7.

Evaluation of Teacher
activity.
the activity

evaluates

the Students participate in the

evaluation of the activity

Homework, ex 4/page80

T-S

Speaking
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Assignment