LESSON PLAN

Time of lesson: from 11:00 to 11:45 Date: 13th May, 2015 Grade: 3rd A Lesson: Telling the time School subjects Textbook: Set Sail! 3 Lesson aims:

1. To use correctly grammar, spelling and punctuation.

2. To use “o’clock”, “half past”, “quarter to”, “quarter past”, “to”, “past” when

telling the time.

3. To match the pictures with the labels.

4. To identify the school subjects.

Materials: Blackboard, posters, worksheets, flashcards, blackboard, a ball, pictures.

Teaching techniques and methods: conversation, dialogue, exercise, brainstorming, explanation, observation, reading.

Assumptions: most of the vocabulary to be taught is already known to my students

Anticipated problems: Some students might need further help and extra indications in solving the tasks and they may also need some of these indications to be given in Romanian.

STAGES OF THE LESSON. PROCEDURE

ACTIVITY 1: WARM-UPAim: To create a pleasant atmosphere and to relax the Ss. Procedure: Interaction Timing

1. The teacher greets the pupils and asks them a few ordinary questions (Who is on duty today?/What day is today?/ T-StHow are you today?/What’s the weather like today?).

2. The teacher asks them about their homework and checks their notebooks.

3. The pupils read their homework while the other classmates pay attention in order to correct 5’them if necessary.

4. Passing a ball from one student to another the teacher asks the students St-T to introduce themselves and say their favourite number and the day of the week.

ACTIVITY 2: LEAD-IN

Aim: To identify the school subjects and to match the labels with the pictures.

Procedure: Interaction: Timing:

1. The teacher tells them that they are having a new lesson in which they will practice telling the time and the school subjects. T-St 5’The teacher writes the title of the lesson on the blackboard and the students copy it in their notebooks.

2. The teacher uses pictures and labels of the school subjects in order to revise them.

3. Ss come to the blackboard and stick the Open Class 5’labels for each school subject.

4. The teacher introduces “half”, “quarter”, “o’clock”when telling the time and gives some examples for differentsituations. T-St

5. The teacher asks children about the subjects they like (What’s your favourite subject? 5’

Do you like Maths?) and about how to tell time in English. The students have to tell St-T the time of certain subjects in a school day.

6. The students answer the question.

7. The teacher helps them if necessary andgives feedback.

ACTIVITY 3: PRACTICE

Aim: To use “o’clock”, “half past”, “quarter to”, “quarter past”, “to”, “past” when telling

the time.

Procedure: Interaction: Timing:

1. The teacher proposes an activity wherethe children have to tell the time. On the desk,the teacher has some flashcards which contain Open Class 5’pictures with clocks that show different times.she picks some students who have to choose a picture and tell the time.

2. The students deal with the task.

3. The teacher helps them id necessaryand offers feedback.

4. The teacher asks the students to dealwith exercise 1 on the handout where Individually 5’they have to write the time in numbers.

5. The students deal with the task.

6. The teacher checks the answers andoffers feedback.

7. The students are asked to deal exercise2 on the handout where they have to write the Individually 5’ time in letters.

8. The students deal with the task.9. The teacher offers help if necessary

and gives feedback.

ACTIVITY 4: SPEAKING AND WRITING

Aim: To encourage communication.

Procedure: Interaction: Timing:

1. For this activity the students are divided in groups. Each group has a different task, they have to make timetables Pair Work 10’ on the following topics:

G 1: Today’s timetable

G 2 : My ideal timetable

G 3 : The easiest timetable

G 4 : The most difficult timetable

2. The teacher gives them worksheets and labels with the names of the subjects and students have to choose and write in order to fulfill the task. At the end of the activity each group has todisplay and describe the timetable.

EVALUATION: The teacher appreciates the students’ effort and thanks for the collaboration.HOMEWORK: The students are asked to do ex. 1 page 82.