LESSON PLAN

TEACHER:
SCHOOL:
DATE:
GRADE: 8th
LEVEL: intermediate
LESSON TOPIC: Conditional Sentences
TEXTBOOK: Reward, Macmillan
TYPE OF THE LESSON: lesson of systematization and revision of knowledge
ESTIMATED TIME: 50 min.
SKILLS: listening, speaking, reading, writing

OBJECTIVES:
A. COGNITIVE OBJECTIVES: by the end of the lesson students will be able:

*to talk about superstitions

*to express a probable/improbable/impossible condition in the
present/past/future
*to recognize conditional sentences
*to use correctly tenses in If clauses type 1, 2 and 3
* to develop communication skills

B. AFFECTIVE OBJECTIVES: * to create a warm atmosphere in order to offer

the background for smooth, easy conversations between teacher and students
* to make students confident in themselves when
speaking a foreign language

INTERACTION: T – Ss
Ss – T
Group work

TEACHING METHODS: communicative approach

TEACHING TECHNIQUES: * conversation

* dialogue
* video/song

TEACHING MATERIALS: computer, video projector, blackboard, worksheet, video.

Nr. Stage of the lesson Teacher’s activity Students’ Interaction Teaching Aim Time
Crt. activity techniques
1. Checking Greetings Greetings T-Ss Conversation To check presence 1 min
attendance T. checks attendance Ss answer
‘Who’s absent today?’ ‘X is absent
today.’

2. Warm-up T asks the Ss to speak Ss answer the T – Ss Question-answer 4 min.

about their superstitions or teacher’s To make the
the ones they are familiar questions. transition to the
to. : “Are you lesson
superstitious? What Ss-T
superstitions do you
know?”
3. Revising structures T tells the Ss they would Ss work in Groupwork Matching exercise To make Ss aware 10 min.
revise If Clauses and groups and read of the items they
proposes a group work the superstitions will revise
activity in which Ss have to they find.
discover superstitions.
They receive halves of
superstitions which they
need to put together

4. Activity 1 T tells Ss they would listen Ss listen and fill Ss-T Song To develop 15 min.
-Listening to a song called “If I were a in the missing listening skills and
boy…”, sung by Beyonce tenses practice second
After listening to it, Ss will type of conditionals
have to work on the lyrics
of the song, filling in the
missing tense for the
conditional sentences they
hear in the song
 T will explain unknown
phrases, if any.

5. Activity 2- What T asks the girls to make a Ss work Group Conversation To practice second 5 min.
would you do if…. list of things they would do individually and work conditional
if they were boys and she present their
asks the boys to make a list answers
of things they would do if
they were girls.

6. Activity 3- T gives each Ss one Ss read one Ss-T To practice mixed 15 min.
worksheet ‘If worksheet. They have to sentence, in turn, Writing conditionals
Clauses’ complete the Conditional and complete the
sentences with the right missing tense,
tense. then they write
T corrects with the help of the answer on the
the Ss blackboard.

7. Homework T indicates the homework : Ss write down T – Ss Conversation To practice

Answer the questions: what their conditionals
What would you do if: homework is.
 you won the
lottery?
 you were the
president of
Romania?
 you were invisible?