LESSON PLAN

DATE: the 18 th of May, 2016

CLASS: X th D
TIME: 50 minutes
LEVEL OF STUDY: Upper-Intermediate
TOPIC: Reading Comprehension
TYPE: fixation of knowledge and of developing skills and abilities
SKILLS INVOLVED:
Receptive skills (focus on READING)
LISTENING
SPEAKING
WRITING

AIMS: to develop the students reading and speaking skills

to understand words and expressions from the context
to scan for specific information in a text
to discuss about a reading text
to role-play a dialogue
to check the students reading comprehension
to fill in the blanks with words from the text they have read
to get students have fun with English

OBJECTIVES: By the end of the lesson the students will be able to:

 understand complex words from the texts they have already read
express ideas in their own words

LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS: Understading words and expressions from the context

Reading for specific information
AIDS/MATERIALS:
WORKSHEETS
BLACKBOARD
PICTURES
FLASHCARDS
ASSUMPTIONS:
- Students must have a satisfactory level of English;
- Students must be eager to participate.
ANTICIPATED PROMBLEMS AND POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS:
- If students do not understand the oral commands or the tasks, they will be
translated into Romanian.

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Harmer, Jeremy, The Practice of English Language Teaching, Longman, 1991

Scrivener,Jim,Learning Teaching,Macmillan Books for Teachers,2005\

STAGES:

I. Warm-up
Aims: to create a pleasant atmosphere and to relax.
Interaction: teacher students
Procedure: The teacher greets the pupils. The pupil on duty tells the absents;
the teacher writes the absents in the roll; then the teacher checks their homework.
Timing: 2 minutes

1. Good afternoon, children !

2. How are you today ?
3. Who is on duty today?
4. Who is absent?

II: LEAD IN:

PRESENTATION
Activity 1: Frontal and individual activity
PRE-READING QUESTIONS
Aims: to prepare for the main activity
to have a guided dialogue
to describe and talk about books
Interaction: teacher-students; students-teacher
Procedure:
Before annonucing the title of the new lesson, teacher asks the students some
questions in order to encourage them to express themselves.

1. Do you like to read?

2. What do you usually read?
3. Do you read books or magazines, newspapers?
4. How many of you like to read?
5. Do you read Romanian or English books?
6. Are you a happy person?
7. What makes you feel happy?
Now, the teacher writes the title of the lesson on the blackboard: The Happy
Man and then she gives the students worksheets with the text.
Timing: 3 minutes

Activity 2: Individual activity

READING COMPREHENSION

Aims: to read the text aloud

Interaction: teacher student, student teacher
Procedure: Students have to read aloud and carefully the text given by
teacher, which contains a story about happiness.
Timing: 5 minutes
III. USE
Activity 3: Group work
GRAB BAG GOODIES

Aims: to organise and give clear instructions

Interaction: teacher students, students students
Procedure: After the students have read the story, teacher checks their
comprehension with a sequencing activity. She writes the major points of the story on
note cards, then she puts those cards into a grab bag, and shakes it up. Each member
of a group of 5 students, should then pull one of the cards from the bag and place in
its correct place in a sequence. Once group members have put all the cards in their

correct place in the timeline, ask the rest of the class to check if the sequencing is
correct. If it is, the group should then retell the story using the cards.
Timing: 10 minutes

Activity 4 : Individual work

ANSWER THE QUESTIONS
Aims: to check the students reading comprehension
Interection: teacher students, students teacher
Procedure: The teacher asks the students to read the story again and,
individually, to answer the questions above.
Timing: 5 minutes

IV: CONTROLLED PRACTICE

Activity 5 : Frontal and individual work

Aims: to have every student involued in the activity

to ask and answer about Bruce Lees life
Interaction: teacher students; students teacher
Procedure: Before giving the students another worksheet, teacher shows a
picture with an actor from the real-life and asks them who is him and about what they
will read about. The, she gives the students the worksheets about Bruce Lees life and
asks them to read it aloud. After finishing the reading, the students have to answer the
questions related to the text.
Timing: 15 minutes

V. FOLLOW UP
Activity 6: Individual work
CLASS VOTING

Aims: : to have each student involved in the activity

Interaction: teacher- students, students-teacher
Procedure:. Teacher gives each of her students two notecards and have her
write true on one and false on the other. Then, they have to decide if the statements
are true or fals.. Each person should hold up his vote and his card after you read each
statement. Have students check each other to make sure all agree. For the false
statements, the teacher asks students what they would need to do to make them true.
Timing: 7 minutes

VI. HOMEWORK ASSIGMENT

Aims: to develop the students reading and writing skills

Interaction: teacher students
Procedure: Teacher announces the homework and explain the students what
they have to do for the following English Class. The following letter from Mike about
his recent European vacation was sent to Linda. Unfortunately, her dog chewed it up
and now Mike needs to put it back in the right order. Can you help him? Put the
correct number into each of the boxes in the four missing parts. There are two extra
paragraphs you don't need.
Timing: 3 minutes

The following letter from Mike about his recent European vacation was sent to Linda.
Unfortunately, her dog chewed it up and now Mike needs to put it back in the right
order. Can you help him? Put the correct number into each of the boxes in the four
missing parts. There are two extra paragraphs you don't need.

1. Clive and his wife left us once we got to Germany by train. They went up into
Denmark but we continued to Munich. Wow - what a great city. I bought you a
surprise gift there. I hope you like it.
2. As I told you yesterday, I am in Rome today. Tomorrow we are getting the train
down into the south of the country and then the ship across to Greece.
3. I paid nearly $200 for it but it looks magnificent and is made of real leather.
4. OK, that's enough from me for now. I want to post this letter now so you get it by
the weekend.
5. At least when we got to Paris, the sun was shining! We only stayed for one
afternoon in the French capital because my friends really wanted to visit Euro Disney
which is to the east of Paris.
6. I sent her a postcard last night. It had the Eiffel Tower on it, which she has always
wanted to visit. Now she can look at it on a postcard every day!
Dear Linda,
How are things with you? It was great talking to you yesterday by phone.

I can't wait to arrive in Athens to see all that history. Let me tell you something about where we
have visited so far. I know you want to come here on vacation too one day!

We started in England and we spent two days in London and another day in Canterbury. We saw
lot of great history and the only bad thing was the weather - it rained for the whole time we were
there. Can you believe it?

Well, I have to say I prefer the American Disneyland. But we met some nice people from Canada
and spent two great days with them. One of them, Clive, is going to your university next year.
How's that for a coincidence!

After that, we went south into Switzerland. It was very expensive and we couldn't stay as long as
we wanted to, so that's why we're in Italy now!

See you soon,

Mike

READING COMPREHENSION
ACTIVITY: BRUCE LEE
1. Read the text and answer the questions
below:
Bruce Lee was the man who brought kung fu to the West with his famous film Enter
the Dragon.
Although Bruce Lee was born in Chinatown in San Francisco in 1940, his parents
soon moved back to Hong Kong. Unfortunately, the Japanese Imperial Army invaded
Hong Kong shortly afterwards but the family survived. His father Lee Hoi Chuon
was a famous Cantonese opera singer and actor and his mother Grace was a wealthy
aristocrat from Hong Kong. In 1957 Lee fought and won the Hong Kong high school
boxing championship and then became the Hong Kong cha cha cha champion for
1958.
At the age of 18, he returned to the United States where his sister and brother lived.
He studied drama and philosophy at the University of Washington in Seattle. Then he
opened his first martial arts school where he taught his friends Jun Fan Gung Fu.
Bruce Lee then had the original idea behind the very famous TV series Kung Fu but
Warner Bros. decided not to have a Chinese person as the star of the series. As a
result, Bruce and wife and children caught a plane to Hong Kong.
Back in Hong Kong, Bruce immediately made three very successful films with
director Raymond Chow called The Big Boss, Fist of Fury and The Way of the
Dragon. There is a very famous fight scene in The Way of the Dragon with Chuck
Norris filmed in the Colosseum in Rome where the gladiators fought. His last film
was Enter the Dragon and was also a huge hit. The movie has made more than 200
million US dollars.
Bruce Lee was a philosopher as well as a fighter and wrote a lot of books. He
believed that all knowlegde eventually became self-knowledge.
a). What is the text about?
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b). What did Bruce Lee win in 1957?
____________________________________________________________________
c). Which are the first very successful films Bruce Lee made?
____________________________________________________________________
d). What do you think about Bruce Lees beliefs?
____________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________
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2. Decide if these statements are true or false. Correct the false statements.
a). ________ Bruce Lee was born in China in 1940.
b). ________ His father was a famous opera singer and actor.
c). ________ Bruce Lee studied literature at the University of Washington.
d). ________ Bruce Lee was a kung fu expert.
e). ________ The movie Enter the Dragon made less than 200 million US dollars.
3. Find these words in the text and choose the best alternative for their meaning.
a). unfortunately
i. luckily
ii. fortuitously
iii. unluckily
b). wealthy
i. prosperous
ii. needy
iii. poor
c). successful
i. losing
ii. unfavorable
iii. victorious
d). huge
i. tremendous
ii. dwarf
iii. small
e). knowledge
i. ignorance
ii. erudition
iii. rudeness

THE HAPPY MAN

Once upon a time there lived an unhappy king. On New Years Day he went
to a wise man to be taught to become happy. The wise man consulted his books and
found the remedy.
Your Majesty, you must get into the clothes of a happy man, and only this
way his happiness will pass on to you.
Before setting off on his journey, the king questioned the most powerful men
on earth. But none was happy. Also, he questioned a handsome young man who wore
a sword of a solid gold. This young man once had been rewarded by the king so
generously that he was believed to be the wealthiest man on earth.
Are you happy, young man?
No, your Majesty. Perhaps it is because of my wealth. Therefore I want to
give you back all your money with many thanks.
The king started on his wandering determined not to look for wealthy or
powerful people as certainly they were all unhappy. He also asked peasants, workers,
clerks, but none was really happy.
One day, up in the mountains, he met a shepherd who was whistling.
Are you happy? asked the king. I can hear you whistling like a blackbird.
You could say I am happy, confirmed the shepherd.
As soon as he heard these words the king ordered his soldiers to remove the
shepherds shirt. But the happy man didnt wear a shirt!

1. Answer the following questions:

a) Who are the heroes of the story?
b) What did the king look for?
c) Where did the wise man advise him to go?
d) Was the young man happy?
e) Who did he meet one day?
f) Did the shepherd wear a shirt?
g) Are you a happy person?
h) When can people be happy?

2. Fill in the blanks with words from the text:

a) The king wanted to find a____________ for being_________________.
b) He had to get into the______________of a happy man.
c) The king questioned the most ________________men on earth.
d) The young man had been ______________by the king.
e) One day, up in the mountains he met a ______________who was ___________.
f) The happy man had no _______________.

3. Find the opposite:

unhappy

to die

to live

to lose

to find

to answer

happiness

to put on

to give back

unhappiness

to ask

to remove

to take

powerful