LESSON PLAN

TEXT BOOK: Snapshot Pre-Intermediate, Students book, Macmillan

TEACHER:
SCHOOL: coala cu clasele I-VIII
DATE: 21.03.2012
GRADE: 7th grade
LEVEL: Pre-Intermediate
LESSON: First time at a festival
TIME: 50 minutes
CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT: students centred
AIMS:
- to enrich students vocabulary
- to enrich students communicative skills
- to practice speaking using the new information in order to talk about the
respective action
- to be able to listen for general understanding and to be able to listen for detail
- to be able to write about a studied text
TEACHING TECHNIQUES:
- monitorize group activities and maintaining students high interest through group
work
- to create a pleasant atmosphere in the classroom, in order to be able to work with
the pupils properly
- encouraging the less motivated and less able student to take part seriously in each
activity.
AUDIO VISUAL AIDS: text book, work sheet
METHODS: communicative
STRATEGIES: conversation, exercises
TYPES OF ACTIVITIES: whole class, pair work, group work, individual
SUBSIDIARY AIMS: encourage students to use their English

Timing

Stages

lesson
Warm-up

of

Activities

Subsidiary aims

Informal conversation, greetings: How To create a good

are you, today?, presence.

atmosphere

and

Teacher asks two students to come in front willingness

to

of the classroom and to act body discuss.

language, mime (watch and do): school To
2

Homework

activities.
Exercise 4 on page 83.

involve

students actively.
Students
read

check-up

their homework

Lead in

aloud.
To

Teacher asks questions:

What do you like to do in your free time? interest

provide
in

the

Do you like music?

topic of the new

What kind of music do you like?

lesson.

Would you like to go to a music festival?

Look at the picture of this lesson. What
can you see here? What do you feel when
12

Presentation

you look at it?

Teacher writes the title of the new lesson Teacher

checks

on the blackboard. Students are asked to students

do skimreading - exercise 5 on page 85. pronunciation.
Then Students are going to read the lesson
in turns. They are asked to translate some
fragments which contain new vocabulary.
The lesson is called First time at a
5

Elicitation

festival.
After reading the story students have to Work sheet
guess where some extracts go in the story To identify the
- exercise 6a on page 85 reading and extracts and fill
listening.

in the blanks in
the text.

Accurate

Teacher asks students, in pairs, to answer Cassette

reproduction

some questions about the text - exercise To help students

6b on page 85.

check

their

answers
5

Written

activity 1.
and Students are asked, in groups, to list as Pair work

oral practice

many different types of music as they can Cassette

Pair work

in two minutes and then to choose their To involve their

favourite from the list.

imagination.
give
written

Written
oral

comments about a pop festival, using too

students
and

Cassette

evaluation

much, too many or not enough exercise To

Homework
Dismiss

Exercise 7 on page 85.

Teacher marks students with grades and

students

then dismisses them.

Skimread the article and find:

1. the name of the event:

2. peoples names:

improve

students speaking
skills.

I.

To

spoken practice.
and Teacher asks students to rephrase some Group work

9 on page 85.
1
1

to

3. peoples ages:
4. days of the week:
5. a country:

Types of music
I. List as many different types of music as you can in two minutes:

II.

Choose your favourite type of music from your list. Then find the
most popular types of music in your group.

I.

Read the article again and answer the questions:

1. Why did Rachel want to go to the festival?

2. What did her parents think of the idea?

3. What made them change their minds?
4. What did Rachels mother talk to her about?
5. Why was it difficult for Rachel to phone her father?
6. Apart from listening to music, how did Rachel and her friends spend most of the
time?
7. Were there English people at the festival?
8. Why didnt Rachel feel the festival was dangerous?

I.Rephrase the comments about a pop festival, using too much, too many
or not enough:
Example:
1. There were so many people that we could hardly move.
There were too many people.

2. There was a lot of soft rock, which I dont like.

3. There was no room to pitch our tents.

.
4. There were only twelve toilets! Disgusting!
.
5.

How many old rock groups from the 1980s were there? At least six!

.
6. We took lots of food. We only ate half of it.
.