LESSON PLAN

Teacher: Ghiorghiu Ioana Mirabela

School: Gimnazială Nr. 1 Telești
Date: 6th November 2017
Grade: 8th
Level: Intermediate
Textbook: Snapshot. Intermediate
Lesson: –“The Thirty-Nine Steps”
Type of lesson: Acquisition
Skills: Speaking, Writing, Listening
Linguistic Functions: Talking about your nationality and saying where you are from
Materials: textbook, CD, laptop, illustrations

LESSON AIMS:
 To activate vocabulary denoting countries and nationalities
 To practise the intonation of the nationality adjectives
 To talk about nationality and say where you are from
 To introduce the plural of the nouns
 To raise awareness of the forms of irregular plurals

PROCEDURE

Activity 1:
Aim: - a warm – up activity to check the pronunciation of different countries and capital
cities
Organisation: Pair-work
Materials: A map of Romania, textbook
Procedure:
T shows Ss the map of Romania and elicit the key words in the lesson: country,
capital city.
T asks Ss to open their textbook and find Romania’s number on the map. T asks
Ss to do ex. 1 /pag 20. Working in pairs, Ss have to match the names of the capital cities
with the names of the countries, then find their numbers on the map. T matches the names
of the countries and the capital cities in a table on the blackboard.
Assessment: Whole class assessment of the activity by correcting possible mistakes in
point of location on the map.
Expected difficulties: Ss may find difficult to pronounce the names of some countries or
capital cities.
Interaction: T-S; S-S
Timing: 7

Activity 2:
Previous work: Exercises dealing with the pronunciation and location of countries and
capital cities
Aim: - To introduce the nationality adjective for each country
To practise the pronunciation and intonation of nationality adjectives
Organisation: Individual work
Materials: textbook, laptop
Procedure:
T writes the nationality adjectives for some countries, highlights their endings and
then asks Ss to use them in order to name the nationality of the people living in the other
countries written in the table on the blackboard.
T plays the tape to check the answers and practise pronunciation.

Assessment: Whole class assessment of the activity by correcting possible mistakes in

point of spelling and pronunciation.
Expected difficulties: Ss may find difficult to form some nationalities adjectives.
Interaction: T-S; S-S
Timing: 7

Activity 3:
Previous work: the previous activity
Aim: - to practise talking about your country and nationality
Organisation: Pair-work
Materials: textbook
Procedure:
T reads the model dialogue in the textbook and then gives each Ss cues to
encourage them to substitute other people and nationalities. Ss listen to the information
and then ask and answer questions to find out who their partner is, where they are from
and what their nationality is. Ss have to write their questions and answers on the
notebooks.
Assessment: T evaluates dialogues.
Expected difficulties: Ss may have problems when asking questions.
Interaction: T-S; S-S
Timing: 11
Activity 4:
Previous work: the previous activity
Aim: - to introduce the rules for the plural of the nouns
- to practise the plurals of the nouns
Organisation: Individual work
Materials: textbook
Procedure:
T writes a list of nouns on the blackboard and asks Ss to look at them and decide
the rules.
T asks the rules governing the plural of the nouns on the blackboard, drawing Ss
attention to the irregular plurals and checks the pronunciation.
T asks Ss to write the plurals of the list of nouns at ex. 6 / pag 21.

Assessment: Whole class assessment of the activity by correcting possible mistakes in

point of spelling and pronunciation.
Expected difficulties: Ss may find difficult to guess the rules.
Interaction: T-S; S-S
Timing: 10

Activity 6 :
Previous work: the previous activity
Aim: - to consolidate the use of plurals
- to practise the use of the verb “to BE” plural
Organisation: Individual work
Materials: textbook
Procedure:
T writes a few sentences on the blackboard and asks Ss to change them into
plural. T draws attention to the change of the verb “to BE” and the form of the noun.
Assessment: Whole class assessment of the activity by correcting possible mistakes in
point of spelling and pronunciation.
Expected difficulties: Ss may not have retained all the rules correctly.
Interaction: T-S; S-S
Timing: 10

Homework: (2 minute)

Final Assessment: T comments on all the activities and appreciates Ss who have mostly
contributed during the lesson by giving marks. (3 minute)