LESSON PLAN

Teacher: Vasile Mihaela Tamara

School: Scoala Gimnaziala Voetin, com Sihlea
Date: 18th of April 2018
Grade : 4th
Number of students: 17
Topic: The Fairy Garden
Textbook : Fairyland 4b
Structures: months of the year and ordinals
Type of lesson: teaching new vocabulary
Aims:
a)Specific aims:
-by the end of the lesson , students will be able:
 to talk about months and ordinals:
 to speak and write various ordinal numbers;
 to discriminate between cardinal and ordinal numbers.
 b)Affective aims:
 to create a warm atmosphere in order to offer the background for smooth, easy conversation
between teacher and students;
 to help students become more confident when speaking English
Skills : listening, reading, speaking, writing.
Methods: conversation, explanation, dialogue, exercise.
Main resources: board, worksheets, notebooks.
Classroom interaction: teacher-students, students-students, students-teacher;
Evaluation techniques: continuous, the teacher keep record of the student performance during
discussion activities and individual activities.
Time : 45 minutes
Nr. Lesson stage Teacher-Students activities Interaction Timing Materials
1. ACTIVITY 1  I greet the Ss and ask them how are they feeling, checks T-SS 5’ Notebooks
Warm-up Ss-T
homework and ask Ss to correct their mistakes.
2. ACTIVITY 2  Get the students to think about the topic.
Lead in
-I’ll ask the Ss to introduce themselves and say their
favourite number and day of the week passing a ball
T-Ss 5’ Ball
from one student to another.
Ss-Ss
E.G. ”I’m Elena. My favourite day is Sunday and my favourite
number is 10.”
 Ss play the game and throw the ball from one student
to another giving the required information.
3. ACTIVITY 3  Pin “The Months of the Year” poster on the board. Ask:
Presentation and
”What month is it?”. Then point to the month on the poster
practice
and answer: ”April”. The pupils repeat after me. Point the next
T-Ss Board
month and say: “May”. The pupils repeat after me. Repeat the
same procedure and present the rest of the months. Say the
Ss-T Notebooks.
months in order. The pupils repeat after me.
10’
 Then write the months on the board Poster

4. ACTIVITY 4  For this activity I’ll ask the following questions:

Introduce ordinal
numbers
-If Victoria and Victor are in a race and Victor finishes the race
after Victoria, in what position does Victor finish the race?
T-Ss Board
-In what position does Victoria finish the race? 10’
 I’ll write on the board thr new title “Ordinal numbers”
and ask Ss to do the same in their notebooks. Ss-Ss Notesbooks
 Next, I’ll write on board the cardinal numbers from 1 to
Coloured
10 and explain to the Ss the difference between the chalk
Ss-T
cardinal and ordinal numbers, write the form for each
ordinal number+ the short form. Use coloured chalk to
underline the specific ending for ordinal numbers.
MATCHING DAYS AND DATES
 I’ll check that the Ss remember the seven days of the
week.
 Do a ‘TRUE/FALSE’ activity. Point to a calendar square
and say “1st April is a Tuesday. Yes or No?”. I’ll
encourage the pupils to check on their calendar and call
out the correct answer.
 After I give five or six statements as examples, I can ask
for volunteers to take over from me. Alternatively, I can
set this up as a pair work activity, asking the pupils to
make three statements each.
 WRITING THE DATE
 I’ll point to today’s date of the calendar for April and
write the date on the board. E.G. “Wednesday ,18TH of
April “
5. ACTIVITY 5  In order to get feedback from Ss about the lesson, Ss T-Ss 10’ worksheet
Feedback
will be asked to do the worksheet, from Appendix1
6. ACTIVITY 6  I give the students to solve Appendix 2 T-Ss 5’ textbook
Homework
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