DIDACTIC PROJECT

Subject: English Language

Grade: 2 B
Level: Beginners
Textbook: Motivate! 4
Title: Dog Star: a short story
Objectives:
-to create interest in the topic
-to improve reading skills
- to promote the use of new vocabulary in context
-to activate previous knowledge
Aims

The students will be able:

- to read the text using multiple techniques
(skimming, reading for specific information)
- to answer the comprehension questions correctly
- to improve their vocabulary
- to improve their understanding
Type of lesson: Acquisition of new knowledge
Time: 45 minutes
Teacher: Andrada Danilescu
Skills: Reading, Listening

Motivation

 The purpose of the lesson is to consolidate the students’ knowledge and develop their
writing, reading and speaking skills
 The methodology used:
 involves the students in the teaching process
 gives an active character to the lesson
 gives students the possibility to work individually and in pairs
 allows the teacher to act as a guide and a mediator
 leads to the development of understanding, analysing, motivating, synthesising
skills.

Teaching techniques

 Conversation
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  Brainstorming
 Explanation
 Exercises
 Pair work

Materials

 the textbook
 CD
 blackboard
 notebooks

Assessment

 systematic observation of individual behaviour during the activities

 assessment of oral and written answers
 assessment of active involvement in completing the tasks

Introduction and warm-up (estimated time 4’)

The absents are written down(teacher – students interaction)

The homework is checked and corrected (ex. / page )(students – teacher interaction)
The topic of the lesson is announced

Pre-reading (estimated time 6’)

(Teacher – students interaction)The teacher asks the students about their opinion on space
travels and whether they have heard about the dog Laika.
Next, the teacher asks the students to look at exercise one, read the new words and explain
the meaning of unknown one, while further trying to anticipate the subject of the text.

Reading (estimated time 20’)

(Teacher – students interaction)The teacher asks the students to quickly skim the text and, in
pairs, answer the questions in exercise 9. (students – teacher interaction)
Next, the teacher asks the students to listen once to the text being read and then read in detail
and solve exercise 10.

Post-reading (estimated time 18')

(Teacher – students interaction)The teacher ask the students, in pairs, to try and answer
whether the statements in exercise 11 are true or false. (student-student interaction)Where they are
false, the students have to find and provide the correct information in the text. (students – teacher
interaction)

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 Then, the teacher asks the students, individually, to try and think to potential ways to change
the end of the text (students – teacher interaction)

Feedback (estimated time 2’)

The topic of the lesson is reminded.

The homework is given. (write two paragraphs where you have provided an alternative
ending to the text)
The students’ activity is rewarded.