LESSON PLAN

SCHOOL: '' Radu Vlădescu'' High School Pătârlagele

TEACHER: Emilia Frinculeasa
GRADE: 6th Form- B
LEVEL: Intermediate
TEXTBOOK: Move Ahead
No. of students: 26
TIME: 50 minutes
DATE: May 11th, 2010
TITLE OF THE LESSON: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

Skills covered: Listening , Reading, Speaking and Writing

Aims:
- to introduce a famous piece of literature adapted to the students’ level;
- to develop Ss' skill of listening for specific information;
- to develop Ss’ reading, speaking and translating skills;
- to revise the past tense simple of regular and irregular verbs (affirmative and interrogative forms).

Anticipated problems: - some students may have little interest in the topic;
- some students may understand and work less than the others;

Aids: blackboard, video projector, audio files, handouts, power point presentation etc.

Classroom interactions: individual work, pair and group work.

Activity 1: A brainstorming activity meant to refresh the students’ memory about the topic (Mark Twain and
“The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”).
The teacher starts off the lesson by asking the following questions about the author:

a) Who was Mark Twain?

b) What was his real name?
c) When was he born?
d) When did he die?
e) What are Mark Twain’s most famous books?
f) When was the book “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” published?
Interaction: T>S Timing: 5 mins

Activity 2. Revision : Reading Comprehension to check Ss’ knowledge and accuracy.

The Ss are asked to answer Wh-questions about Chapter 2: “The Fence”

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- What did Aunt Polly ask Tom to do?
- What did Tom really want to do?
- How long did Tom paint the fence?
- Who was Ben Rogers?
- What was he doing that day?
- Why was Ben unhappy?
- How much of Ben’s apple did Tom receive and why?
- When did Ben get tired of painting the fence?
- Did Tom allow Billy Fisher to paint the fence?
Why?
- What things did Tom have at noon?
- How did he feel?
- What did Aunt Polly say to Tom?
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Interaction: T>S Timing: 6 mins

Activity 3. Writing and Listening to practice the past tense simple (affirmative and interrogative) of regular
and irregular verbs, order some sentences to write the summary of the fragment and listen to evaluate their
own results.The Ss are asked to fill in with the correct past tense forms and check the correct forms while
listening:
‘Tom!’ There 1…………(be) no reply. ‘Where is he?’ 2……………(say) Aunt Polly.
She 3…………….(go) to the door of the kitchen and 4………… (look) into the garden. ‘TOM!’ she 5
…………(shout) again.
There 6 …………(be) no reply from the garden. Then Aunt Polly 7 (hear) a noise in the kitchen. She 8
………… (turn) round and she 9………… (see) Tom. He 10………… (come) out of the food cupboard. He
11 ………… (run) towards the door. Aunt Polly 12 …………(grab) his jacket and he 13…………(stop).
‘Why 14 …………(be) you in the food cupboard?’ she 15………… (ask).
Then she saw Tom’s mouth. It was bright red.
‘I know!’ she said. ‘You were eating my fruit! Tom, you are a bad boy!’
The old lady 16 ………… (lift) her hand. She was going to hit Tom.
‘Look behind you, Aunt Polly!’ said Tom.
Aunt Polly 17 ………… (let) go of Tom’s jacket and 18 …………(turn) round quickly. Tom ran away. He
ran into the garden and 19 ………… (climb) over the fence.
‘Tom Sawyer!’ said Aunt Polly. Then she 20 …………(laugh). ‘He always plays tricks on me,’ she said to
herself. ‘I never learn.’

Then the Ss ask the questions to which the underlined words are the answer and order the seven given
sentences to write the summary of the fragment:
Evaluation: self-assessment.

Interaction: T>S Timing: 12 mins

Activity 4: Post-Listening Activity (Group-work to improve Ss’ skills of listening for details and
encourage competition and team work)

Each team is asked to write the correct words to complete the fragment bellow:
It was…….…….1). Tom was ……..….2) years old. He lived in St Petersburg, …………………….3). St
Petersburg was atown on the Mississippi ……………......4), in North America. Tom’s ………………5) were
dead. He lived with his father’s……..6) , Aunt Polly. Tom was not ………7) and tidy. He did not help Aunt
Polly with the……………….…….8) . He often behaved badly. But Aunt Polly ……..….….9) him very
much. Aunt Polly loved Tom but she worried about him too. ‘Tom must behave better,’ she said to
………................10). ‘He must obey me. He must be a good boy. He ………......11) my fruit and I will
…………………12) him. He must do some work. Tomorrow is ……………. …13) .There’s no school on
Saturday. Tomorrow, Tom will paint the ………………14).’

Interaction: T>S; S>S Timing: 10 mins

Activity 5: Quote translation (pair-work) to practice translation from English into Romanian and to express
opinions about them ;
The teacher provides the Ss with three quotes by Mark Twain:
“Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to
do.”
“I have found out that there is no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel
with them.”
“There comes a time in every boy’s life when he has a desire to go somewhere and dig for a hidden
treasure.”
The Ss will work in pairs to translate them into Romanian. Then the Ss are asked to express their opinions
about the quotations.

Interaction: T>S; S>S Timing: 3 mins

Activity 6: Feedback - to assess the impact of the activity

The teacher asks some Ss to answer these questions:
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1. Did you like our English class?
2. What new words did you learn?
3. Which chapter did you like :”The Fence” or “Look Behind You”?
4. What Romanian character did “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” remind you of ?
Interaction: T>S Timing: 2 mins

Homework: Write a paragraph about the best memory/day of your childhood. (Timing: 2 mins)