Lesson Plan-English language for the 8th grade

Lesson Plan

 

 

Teacher: Mogos Cristina

Date:  12.12.2011

Grade: 8^th

School: Școala Generală cu clasele I – VIII, nr. 23, Timișoara

Time of lesson: 50 minutes

Textbook: Hotline Intermediate

Unit 6: Faraway Places

Lesson 3: Oz

(Limba modernă 2, anul 4 de studiu)

 

 

Lesson aims/ objectives:

1.      To raise Ss’ awareness of the English language

2.      To practice scanning

3.      To deduce from the context the meaning of some new words

4.      To answer the questions related to the text

5.      To learn about Australia

6.      To make a list of ‘false friends’

7.      To identify and compare linguistic aspects between English and Romanian

 

Materials:

Textbook

Blackboard

 

Skills involved: reading, speaking, and writing

Class management: pairs,individually

 

ACTIVITY 1 Warm up Aim: To raise students’ awareness of the foreign words in the English language To get students involved into the topic Procedure: Informal conversation, greetings Check if there are students which are absent Homework check (They had to solve ex. 2 at page 59 (done during that lesson).)	Interaction         T → Ss Ss → T	Timing           5 min
ACTIVITY 2  Reading + Speaking Aim: To practice scanning To deduce from the context the meaning of some new words To learn about Australia Procedure: Teacher names a student to come in front of the classroom to be asked some questions related to the Question tags, the previous lesson, and to be asked to say some examples of sentences showing the Passive Voice and write the sentences on the blackboard (all these for a mark). Then she writes on the blackboard the title of the new lesson and the date and tells the children to do so into their notebooks. They are asked to answer the two questions related to Australia in exercise 1 at page 60. They are asked to say everything they know about Australia and then to compare their ideas with the text by reading it. They are asked to read the text to find out more about Australia	Interaction         T → Ss   Ss → T	Timing         20-25 min
ACTIVITY 3 Reading + Speaking Aim: To answer the questions related to the text To make a list of ‘false friends’ To identify and compare linguistic aspects between English and Romanian Procedure: 1. They are to find four things that show the British origins of the Australians in exercise 4 at page 61.Also,the teacher asks them if they know any linguistical differencies between British english and Australian english.If not,the teacher writes on the blackboard a few differences.    2  .Then they are to complete some given sentences from the text. They are to fill in with numbers showing percentage. 3.Then they are given some examples of ‘false friends’> drum (toba), mine (al meu), closet (debara), box (cutie), ban (interdictie), car (masina), commercial (reclama), crime (infractiune), far (departe), library (biblioteca), magazine (revista), mare (iapa), novel (roman), plane (avion), prize (premiu), preservative (conservant), ordinay (obisnuit, usual, normal). 4.They are to write them into their notebooks. Teacher writes them on the blackboard. 5.They are asked to think about and say other words of this kind.	Interaction       T → Ss Worksheet(1) Ss → T             Worksheet(2)	Timing       20 min

 

Final activity (homework → 1-2 min.):

   >They are to make a summary of this lesson. Next time they are named to say it, to present it (without reading it) - only who wants.

They also are to make a project about Australia on a sheet of paper(having as source of inspiration the following images-Worksheet 3)).They are to write the references (or bibliography).

They are to make a list of ‘false friends’. This is compulsory.

 

Bibliography:

Tom Hutchinson, Ministerul Educaţiei şi Cercetării, Manual pentru clasa a VIII-a (anul IV de studiu), Hotline Intermediate, Students Book, Oxford University Press