LESSON PLAN

TEACHER`S NAME: Anca Belascu

SCHOOL: Scoala cu clasele I-VIII Ion Agarbiceanu Alba Iulia
DATE: 14th October 2008
TIME: 9.00-9.50
NUMBER OF STUDENTS: 24
GRADE: VII A
TEXTBOOK: SNAPSHOT PRE-INTERMEDIATE
UNIT OF LEARNING: OVER THREE HOURS LATE
TOPIC: Extreme sports
SKILLS: writing, speaking, reading
LANGUAGE FOCUS : New vocabulary related to the topic;
LESSON AIMS: 1. to read about climbing and answer the questions;
2. to learn new words and revise the vocabulary the students have already achieved;
3. to listen to a tape and to be able to answer some questions after listening;
4. name some sports;
5. express preferences
AIDS (MATERIALS): chalk, blackboard, sheets of paper, tape recorder, laptop, retro
projector
ORGANIZATIONAL MOMENT: the student on duty tells the absents; the teacher
writes the absentees in the catalogue; then the teacher checks homework and students
correct mistakes, if necessary. The teacher asks the students to give the three forms of
some irregular verbs
Timing: 3 minutes
ACTIVITY 1: Warm up
Aims: -to introduce the topic: extreme sports
Procedure: The teacher asks the students several questions:
Have you ever heard about climbing mountains?
Do you consider it an extreme sport?
Timing: 5 minutes
Interaction: teacher-students
ACTIVITY 2: Reading a text
Aim: Practice reading skills
Procedure: the students read the text from their students book Climbing is our life.
Then the teacher asks them about the unknown words and gives some that she considers
more difficult; writes them on the blackboard giving them the explanation in Romanian
(to climb, snow-covered, disabled, mountaineer, trainer, freezing cold, to drag somebody,
the weather beats them, disappointed, definitely not, top.
Timing: 10 minutes
Interaction: T-S
ACTIVITY 3: Comprehension

Aim: understanding the written text

-completing a chart
-answer the questions
Procedure: The students work in pairs or individually. They have to resolve exercise 14
page 18: complete a chart and answer some questions about the text that they have
already read.
Time: 5 minutes
Interaction: S-S, T-S, pair work
ACTIVITY 4: Listening
Aim: practice listening skills
-answer questions about the information on the tape (feedback).
Procedure: the teacher uses the cassette recorder and the tape to listen to the new given
information. After they have listened, the students have to answer some questions from
the book for feedback. The teacher asks them to correct themselves and if necessary she
corrects them.
Time: 7 minutes
Interaction: S-S, T-S
ACTIVITY 5: Presentation
Aim: -to show images with extreme sports
-to teach new vocabulary related to the topic: water rafting, jet skiing, windsurfing,
mountain biking, parachuting, bungee jumping etc.
Procedure: The teacher shows the students a Power Point presentation about extreme
sports and writes some of these extreme sports on the blackboard. The students are asked
to speak about the sports they like and what they practice and if they consider sport a
dangerous activity. Some of the students were prepare new information about some
extreme sports. They read the new information in front of the classroom.
Time: 12 minutes
Interaction: S-S, T-S
ACTIVITY 6: Feedback
Aim: express preferences
Procedure: The students are asked to speak about their favorite extreme sports and to
name some of the most interesting presented sports.
Time: 5 minutes
Interaction: S-T
ACTIVITY 7: Setting homework
Aim: practice the new vocabulary and express their opinion.
Procedure: The students are asked to write about their favorite sports.
Interaction: T-S
Time: 3 minutes