Lesson plan

Teacher: Lavric Natalia

Date:
Grade: 2nd grade
Level: Beginners
Topic: All About Me. The Parts of the Body
Time allowed: 45 minutes
Type of lesson: Vocabulary teaching
Approach: communicative
Skills: Integration of the four skills
Aims:

Teaching vocabulary through language games

Objectives: By the end of the lesson, learners will be able to:

1.
2.
3.

identify the parts of the body ( head, face, nose, eyes, ears, mouth, teeth)
use the vocabulary in language games and in different utterances;
create a personal material under the form of a mini book for their own use (containing the vocabulary taught)

Materials: 4 balloons, a picture of a person, colored pieces of chalk, flashcards, worksheets,

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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crt.
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Stages

Teacher`s activity and language

Students` activity and language

Skills

Time

Pre-speaking
activity

Teacher uses 4 balloons, each containing

bits of a human face. Teacher invites
learners to play with the balloons until she
says stop. The child who gets the balloon
will break it and will find inside the bit of
a picture. The four balloons are broken
and the four bits are reconstructed and
stuck on the board. It is the head of a
person.
Teacher tells the learners what the
objectives of the lesson are (under the
form of some flashcards). Teacher sticks
on the board the objectives written on
some pieces of paper. At the end of the
activity, children see what was
accomplished and not.

Students break the balloons and stick on the board

the bits of a face.

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S-T

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Students see what they have to do during the

activity

T-S

Teacher introduces/writes the new

vocabulary on the board starting from the
picture of the person. Each new word
introduced are repeated twice.

Students are very attentive to teachers

explanations. Students fulfill the task

Teacher asks some children to come in

front of the classroom and mime a part of
the body already taught. Children are

Students fulfill the task.

Presenting
objectives of
lesson

the
the

Controlled
vocabulary practice

4.
Free
speaking
activity (miming)

T-S
S-T

5
S-S

5.

Semi-guided
activities
(While
speaking)

6.

Postspeaking
activity (presenting
their products)

7.

Checking
comprehension

9
Evaluation of the
activity

asked to guess what it is and say it in

English. Children have to answer in
sentences:
This is a ..,
These are..
Children are invited to take some colored
pencils (green, yellow, blue) in order to
form groups. There will be 3 groups of 2
children. Each group will have two main
activities by the end of the lesson. The
first activity, for all the groups, will be to
cut, draw and then staple the worksheets
they have received. At the end of the
activity, their product will be under the
form of a small book, containing the
pictures for each part of the body taught.
The second activity will be chosen. There
will be 3 activities designed under the
form of a game.
a) Identity swap game
b) Touch me
c) True or false

Students will solve the task. Students will chose

some colored pencils to make 3 groups

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S-T

15

Students have the two activities proposed by the

teacher

T-S
S-S

Teacher shows the learners some

flashcards. Teacher asks learners to
identify them and then stick them on the
board.

Students fulfill the task

T-S

Teacher evaluates the activity

The teacher checks whether the objectives of the

lesson have been accomplished.

The groups formed (green, yellow,

blue) will go to their desks. One of the
groups will come in front of the classroom
and will forma semi-circle (sitting
onchairs). Meanwhile, the other two
groups will cut, draw and then staple the
pictures. Teacher has a speaking activity
with the first group, then the activity
continues with the second group and the
third group. While one group is having a
speaking activity, the other two groups
can follow the activity and at the same
time can do the actual occupational
activity. It is a combination of a mental
engagement activity with an actual
occupational activity.
.
Modeling- Teacher offers the first
example with her own book made up in
the same manner.
Teacher asks learners to present to their
colleagues their own book. Children are
advised to start with: This is my book,
This is.., and at the end That is all!
Thank you!

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3

10.

Assignment

Teacher asks children to draw the whole

book they have created in the classroom.