Lesson Plan

Teacher: Paulina Naleźna

Date: 17^th March 2010

Class: 3B

Coursebook: English Adventure 3

Topic: Bugs. Where are the ants? They are next to the bees.

Aim: At the end of the lesson Ss will be able to talk about location of insects using the plural form and will have revised vocabulary referring to insects.

Class description: The students in this class are 9-10. There are 11girls and 12 boys.

Teaching aids: the CD player

Phases, stages and aims	Time	Procedure	Skills	Patterns of interaction	Materials
I.Preteaching phase	5 min	T greets Ss, says: Hello, checks homework and attendance.	-	T-Ss	-
II.Interactive teaching phase 1.Warm-up Aim: to revise the names of insects Ss know from the previous lessons.	5 min	T fixes the flashcards with the insects to the board. Next points them out one after the other and asks Ss: What’s this? Ss’ task is to name the insects after T’s indication of the flashcard.	Speaking	T-Ss	Flashcards, board
2. Presentation Aim: To revise prepositions e.g. in front of, next to etc., to introduce new vocabulary, structure- referring to location, e.g.	10 min	T uses a toy to remind Ss prepositions: in front of, next to, behind. T puts at the desk her bag in a visible way. Next she puts hand puppetinto the bag and asks Ss a question: Where is it? (It’s in the bag). Later T puts hand puppeton the bag and asks the same questions. Ss answer: It’s on the bag.	Speaking	T-Ss, T-S	Hand puppet , the bag
3. Storage Aim: to practice the pronunciation of new prepositions of location.	5min	T puts hand puppet behind the bag in a way which is not visible to Ss. T says: It’s behind the bag. T writes this phrase down on the board and asks Ss to repeat it after her.	Speaking, reading	T-S	Hand puppet , the bag
4. Practice Aim: to practice the usage of the prepositions in a proper way. Controlled Practice	5 min	T in a similar way uses phrases next to and in front of (It’s next to the bag. It’s in front of the bag). Then T puts her hand puppet in different places around the bag and asks Ss to use sentences with the proper preposition in order to talk where is it.	Speaking,	T-S	Hand puppet , the bag
5. Listening comprehension practice Aim: to practice sentences with prepositions of location, to practise listening for specific information.	10 min	T asks Ss to look at the big picture at page 42-43 and says to them that in a moment they will hear a recording with the description of 5 insects. Ss’ task is to find described insect in the picture and to say aloud, where they are using prepositions: next to, in front of or behind. T play and stops the recording before the sentences describing the location of insects. Feedback: T asks Ss for answers. Next she plays onward of the recording to check their correctness.	Listening, Speaking,	S,S,S	Book p.42-43, The CD player
III. .Postteaching phase Aim: to sum up what Ss learned during the lesson.	5 min	T asks Ss to take their sets of flashcards with insects and put them in front of them with pictures up. Ss task is to arrange them in the way T describes, e.g. Put the fly behind the grasshopper. Put the beetle next to the fly. Put the ant in front of the grasshopper. T asks individual Ss about location of the insects, e.g. Where’s the ant?, etc.	Listening, Speaking	S,S,S T-S	Flashcards
Optional activities: WHAT’S MISSING GAME Aim: to revise vocabulary referring to insects.	5 min	What’s missing game T plays with flashcards. She shows them to the children one by one. Does this a couple of times while saying the words. T removes one and asks children What’s missing?	Speaking, Listening	T-Ss, T-S	Flashcards

Lesson evaluation

Lesson went according to the plan. Ss were interested in the topic. The objectives of the lesson were reached. Pupils participated in the lesson willingly and their hands very often were up to ask question or to answer the questions asked by T. Ss were prepared to the lesson, so the atmosphere was light and there was cooperation between T and Ss.