LESSON PLAN

School: Vadeni Secondary School

Teacher: Oancea Alina – Marilena

Date: 5.03.2018

Time: 09:00 – 09:50

No. of students: 15

Class : VI

Textbook: Snapshot, Longman Publishing House

Unit: “It’s the Highest in the World”

Type of lesson: Revision lesson

Title of the lesson: Adjectives: Degrees of Comparison

Assumptions: Students will be interested in describing people, animals and things

Anticipated problems: Some students will use their native language instead of English

Solution: I will encourage the students to use the English language

Teacher’s role: controller, resource, observer, tutor, motivator.

General aim: to practise the use of the comparative and superlative of short, long and irregular
adjectives

Objectives: by the end of the lesson students will have:

- practised the comparative and superlative of short, long and irregular adjectives
- fixed the comparative and superlative of short, long and irregular adjectives
- practised language functions

Language focus: to describe people, animals, things

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Lesson aims:

- recognise short, long and irregular adjectives

- use adjectives to describe people, animals and things
- to practise speaking

Teaching techniques: game, exemplification, explanation, exercise, discussion, demonstration

Skills: speaking, reading, writing, listening

Class organization: frontal, individual, groups

Interaction: T-C, T-S, S-S

Teaching aids: blackboard, laptop, speakers, worksheets, textbooks, notebooks

Time: 50’

LESSON STAGES

Organisational moment: the teacher greets the students, the student on duty tells the absents,
the teacher writes the absents in the register, the T checks the homework.

Timing: 3’

1. Warm-up:

Aim: to prepare the students for the lesson

Procedure: The teacher brings a “Qualities Box” and breaks the ice by extracting the first note
from the box. She reads the word written on the note and forms an example sentence. The
teacher asks the students to tell their names and give examples using the qualities from the box.
The students write on the blackboard the examples.

Interaction: T-Ss

Timing: 8’

2. Lead-in:

Aim: to introduce the topic/ to set the context

Procedure: The teacher asks the students what parts of speech the qualities are. The teacher
elicits the answer 'adjectives'. The teacher writes the title on the blackboard.

Interaction: T-Ss

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Timing: 3’

3. Presentation:

Activity 1: Speaking

Aim: to present the topic

Procedure: The teacher asks the students for a way of grouping the adjectives. The teacher
elicits the correct answers from the students. The students group the adjectives into short, long
and irregular adjectives.

Interaction: T-Ss

Timing: 5’

Activity 2: Speaking

Aim: to consolidate the Ss knowledge about the adjectives’ degrees of comparison

Procedure: The teacher revises the degrees of comparison by telling the students that the
adjectives are used to describe and compare people, animals and things. The teacher elicits
answers for the degrees of comparison of short, long and irregular adjectives through examples.
The teacher writes down the degrees of comparison of a long adjective 'intelligent', a short
adjective 'big' and an irregular adjective 'bad'.

Interaction: T-Ss, S-S

Timing: 5’

Activity 3: Listening

Aim: to exercise students’ ability to listen for specific information

Procedure: The teacher plays a video of a music song with lyrics including adjectives in the
comparative. The students must work in groups and write down the adjectives they hear in the
song. The teacher checks their answers.

Interaction: Ss-Ss, T-Ss

Timing: 8’

Activity 4: Writing

Aim: to consolidate the knowledge about adjectives

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Procedure: The teacher hands out a worksheet with two exercises to the students. The teacher
tells the students that they will be working in pairs, explains the exercises and sets up the time
for the task for 5 minutes. The students in pairs solve the exercises. The teacher checks the
answers.

Interaction: S-S, T-Ss

Timing: 5’

Activity 5: Writing

Aim: to consolidate the knowledge learnt in the previous lessons

Procedure: SS are divided into groups. The T gives a worksheet to every group. They have to
solve the exercise by completing the gaps with the suitable superlative. The students in groups
solve the exercise. The teacher checks the answers.

Interaction: Ss-Ss, T-Ss

Timing: 6’

Activity 6: Homework

Aim: to assign homework

Procedure: T gives the homework (ex. 7a, 7b from page 72)

Interaction: T-Ss

Timing: 2’

The T appreciates the best opinions, corrects the use of English and marks the students that were
active.

For SNC, the T gives special worksheets, adapted to their capacities and abilities