LESSON PLAN
Teacher: BONDOR FLORINA-RAMONA
School: “MIHAI EMINESCU”MIDDLE SCHOOL ARAD
Date: 9 th of March 2023
Grade: 4TH A
Number of students: 24
Lesson: Talking about animals!
Textbook: Art Klett, Limba modern-engleză, clasa a IV-a, București, 2021;
Content: Vocabulary: Animals
Grammar: Comparative
Communication : Talking about animals
Describing animals
Time: 50 minutes
Competences:
1.1. Identificarea unor detalii din mesaje simple articulate clar și rar în contexte cunoscute/
previzibile;
1.3. Manifestarea interesului pentru înțelegerea de detalii dintr-o varietate de mesaje orale simple,
articulate clar și rar;
2.2. Prezentarea unor activități în cadrul unei interacțiuni;
3.1. Identificarea unor detalii din texte simple care conțin informații uzuale;
4.2. Redactarea de mesaje simple despre sine/ despre alții;
Aims:
At the end of the lesson students will be able to:
1. find answers to riddles related to animals;
2. practice the correct forms of comparatives;
3. enrich vocabulary related to animals;
4. describe their favourite animal using comparatives;
Skills: speaking, reading, listening, writing
Techniques: conversation, explanation, observation, exercises, mime game.
Resources: Laptop, the Internet, worksheets, Powerpoint presentation, notebooks, whiteboard,
student book.
Anticipated problems:
1
- there are a few students who have a lower English level – they will get extra guidance from the
teacher and help from their colleagues
-some pupils might feel nervous and reluctant to participate in the activity, thus they may need
assistance.
Activities
Lesson stage/ Skills/
Activities Interaction Materials
Timing Methods
T tells Ss that she is happy to see them. Listening
The T asks them how their week-end Speaking
1. Warm-up Flashcards
was. The T tells Ss that they are going F Conversation
4 min. Envelopes
to play a mime game. They have to Mime game
mime some actions. Annex 1
T asks the Ss to read some riddles about Laptop
Speaking
animals and try to find the correct TV
2. Lead in Listening
answer. F Powerpoint
4 min Conversation
The riddles will appear on the Power presentation
Point presentation one by one. Annex 2
T announces the title and the objectives
of the lesson Talking about animals!
T shows Ss some imagines where they Marker
have to compare the animals with their Speaking Whiteboard
[Link] the babies: Listening Power Point
new lesson The puppy is smaller than the dog. Reading presentation
F
The lion is faster than the lion cub. Writing Notebooks
15 min Explanation Student
T explains the comparative rules and book
writes on the whiteboard.
T asks the Ss to read the sentences on
page 65 in the Student book.
4. New lesson T divides the Ss into groups of 4 then G Speaking Worksheets
15 min tells them that they are going to do F Writing Whiteboard
some exercises. When all the members Listening Marker
of a group have finished, one of them is Reading
going to read the answers. T gives Observation
2
feedback. Annex 3 Exercises
Ss play a game using the comparative of
short adjectives.
[Link] Writing
[Link] 53604689/untitled I Reading
Wordwall
10 min T asks the Ss to write about their F Speaking
favourite animal. What are your
favourite animals? Can you compare
them? Tell us about it!
[Link]
homework and
T gives Ss homework and offering Speaking
assessment F Workbook
positive feedback and encouragement. Explanation
2 min
Annex 1
Mime game:
- swim like a fish;
- fly like a bird;
- climb trees like a monkey;
- hop like a rabbit;
- jump like a frog;
Annex 2
“I’m brown. I live in the desert. I have a hump.” – CAMEL
“I’m blue and grey. I can swim very fast. I live in the ocean. I am very big.” – WHALE
“I’m black and very big. I’ve got a lot of hair on my body. I live in the jungle.” – GORILLA
”I’m grey. I live in the jungle. I have a long trunk”. –ELEPHANT
“I’m small. I like cheese. I can run faster than a cat.”- MOUSE
“I am very tall. I have long neck. I love green leaves. GIRAFFE
“I run very fast. I look like a cat.” – CHEETAH
“I live in the forest. I like to sleep a lot and steal honey from bee. I’m fatter than deer. -BEAR
