LESSON PLAN

Date: 6th October 2008 No. of students: 20

Grade: 7th A Textbook: English Scrapbook Unit: Tastes and behaviour Lesson: Greetings from

Communicative aims: - to ask for and give opinions - to express opinions - to extract information from a given text - to practice vocabulary Skills covered: writing reading speaking adjectives ending in ed and ing

Grammar: Vocabulary:

- active- adjectives describing weather, people, food and places - adjectives expressing how someone feels - passive: nasty, traffic jam textbook worksheets postcards (realia) visual aids

Materials:

Activity 1: -

organizing the class checking homework

Aim: - to create a proper atmosphere for teaching the new lesson Procedure: -Conversation: T asks Ss questions Interaction: T- Ss Timing: 3 min

Activity 2: - warm-up activity Aim: - to familiarize the Ss to the new topic

Procedure: - T refers to each postcard and asks Ss to guess what countries the three postcards come from

Interaction: T- Ss Ss- Ss

Timing: 7 min.

Activity 3: - reading postcards - skimming Aim: - to develop the skill of reading for general understanding (gist) Procedure: - one S reads the first postcard - T elicits clues that confirm the postcard is from Hawaii - Ss read in groups of two the other extracts and match the two halves - T selects three Ss to read out the completed postcards and check answers Interaction: Ss- Ss T- Ss GW Timing: 5 min.

Activity 4: - reading and making notes - scanning Aim: - to develop the skill of reading for general information Procedure: - Ss read the postcard from Hawaii to complete the task - T asks class open questions - T makes notes on the Bb - Ss make notes - check the answers open-class Interaction: Ss- Ss T- Ss individual Timing: 5 min.

Activity 5: - presentation activity Aim: - to lead Ss to an awareness of the difference in meaning between ed and ing adjectives Procedure: -Ss read the list of adjectives from the Language Focus box - T highlights that ing adjectives are used to show what an object or person is like, and -ed adjectives are used to show how a person Interaction: Ss- T T- Ss Timing: 5 min.

feels about an object or another person - Ss answer the questions (ex 3)

Activity 6: - practice activity Aim: -to give practice in the use of ed and ing adjectives Procedure: - Ss work ex.4 - for further practice Ss are given worksheets - in groups, Ss solve the exercises - class feedback Interaction: Ss- T Ss- Ss GW Timing: 7 min

Activity 7: - conversation using certain adjectives - giving opinion - production Aim: - to give further practice in using ing adjectives Procedure: Interaction: - T asks Ss to look at the pictures quickly T- Ss and to read the conversation - T asks Ss how many people are speaking and which of the pictures the conversation Ss- Ss is about - T elicits that there are four people and they are talking about picture 1 - T asks a group of four to read the conversation GW substituting the adjectives for clowns - Ss are asked to work in groups of four and make role- play similar conversations - two groups act out the conversations in front of the class Timing: 10 min.

Activity 8: - report the groups opinions Aim: - to express and report opinions Procedure: -one S reads the e.g. on page 7/ex 5 b - the secretary of each group reports his/her group members opinions Interaction: Ss- Ss Timing: 3 min

Activity 9: - things generally people write about in a postcard Aim: - to prepare Ss for their written homework Procedure: - T refers to ex 6 and elicits answers - Ss discuss briefly their opinions - T writes the agreed topics on the Bb - Ss copy them into their notebooks Interaction: T- Ss Ss- Ss Ss- T Timing: 5 min.

Activity 10: - homework Aim: - to provide consolidation of language so far and practice in writing postcards Procedure: - Ss are asked to write a postcard - T hands them postcards - Ss are asked to use the adjectives from the Language Focus box - Ss are asked to write about what they like/ dont like about the place they are visiting Interaction: T- Ss Timing: 5 min.