LESSON PLAN
Teacher: Vărgău-Iacob Iulia-Daria
School: Școala Gimnazială ,,Nicu Enea”, Bacău
Date: March, 21st
Grade: 6th
Level: pre-intermediate
Number of pupils: 22
Lesson title: Unit 6. Places in town. Asking for and giving directions
Topic: Giving directions
Lesson type: mixed (lesson of fixation of knowledge and developing skills and abilities)
Time allotted: 50 minutes
Skills: reading, speaking, listening and writing
Teaching points: grammatical: prepositions of place, Present Simple and Continuous – future
meaning
lexical: places in town,
functional: asking for and giving directions.
Learning objectives: By the end of the lesson, the students will be able to:
- use the vocabulary related to places in town;
- fill in the missing words while listening a text;
- identify some places from a map;
- complete a dialogue with some key words related to the topic;
- use the prepositions of place in a given context;
- provide coherent and logical answers to the questions;
- ask and say where the places are.
Lesson aims:
- To develop students’ speaking skills;
- To develop students’ listening and comprehension skills;
- To enhance students’ knowledge about places in town and giving directions;
- To enrich students’ vocabulary related to the topic;
- to reinforce students’ confidence in their ability to use the English language;
- To provide opportunities for collaborative work.
Methods and strategies: conversation, communication, explanation, brainstorming, reflection,
guided discovery, reading aloud, scanning.
Grouping and setting: whole-class teaching, individual, in groups.
Interactions: T-S, T-SS, T-G, S-SS, G-T
Assumptions: While working in groups, students can be noisy; some may be passive.
Predicted problems:
- The listening text may contain unknown words for the students – the teacher encourages the
students to listen for the general meaning, the central message of the text; the listening text
will be played two times.
- Some students may have difficulty in solving the task – the teacher offers them help and by
working in groups may help the students to work better.
- The students may have problems with pronunciation - the teacher tells the students the right
pronunciation.
- The students do not seem to fully understand the instructions – the teacher checks the
understanding of the instructions; where it is necessary, the teacher explains the instructions
again or makes a demonstration.
Materials: Whiteboard and marker
Worksheets
Rolls made of small sheets of paper
Recorded materials
Map
Bibliography:
Official: The National Curriculum
Methodical: Harmer, Jeremy: „The Practical of English Language Teaching‟, Longman, UK, 1991;
.Learning Teaching ,The essential Guide to English Language Teaching, Third Edition, Jim
Scrivener, Macmillan Books for Teachers
Cowan, Andrey, Kennedy, C., Soldi C., Rusu, C., Tudoran, D., Tudose, I. (2018): Limba modern 1.
Limba engleză, Student‟s Book, Clasa a VI-a, Make it ! 2, Cambridge, Ed. ArtKlett, Bucuresti.
The stages Didactic Interaction Teacher’s activity / Procedure Students’ activity Time
of the lesson strategies
1. Warm-up Conversation T-Ss The teacher greets the students, asks them to get The students greet the teacher, 2
S-T ready for the lesson and divides them in groups. answer the questions and make min.
groups of 5.
The teacher checks and listens the homework and 3
asks there were difficulties in doing it (the teacher The students read/present the min.
gives the necessary explanations if it is necessary). homework.
[Link] Conversation T-Ss The teacher asks students a question: The students answer the question. 3
students’att Reflection S-T Can someone tell me how do you get in this class min.
ention (Ice- Brainstormin from the school entrance?
breaking g
question)
[Link] Conversation T-Ss The teacher tells students what they are going to do / 2 min
the topic the aims of the lesson: The students listen to the teacher.
and explain We will talk about places in town; we will work The students open their workbooks
the with a map, asking for and giving directions; and and prepare for the lesson.
objectives about prepositions of place.
The teacher asks students to open their notebooks The students write in their notebooks
and write the title of the lesson and the date on the the title of the lesson and the date.
blackboard.
4. Check the Conversation T-Ss The teacher checks the previous knowledge and The students answer the questions 5
previous S-T writes some examples on the board. and give examples. min.
knowledge SS-T Present Simple – future meaning (schedule)
Eg: The train leaves at 4 pm from the station.
Present Continuous – future meaning (arrangements)
Eg: What are you doing on Saturday? I‟m meeting
my friends at the cinema.
5. Activity 1. Scanning T-Ss The teacher asks the students to pay attention to The students do the exercises and 8
Vocabulary Reflection S-T exercise 1 from page 75 (from the Students’ book). answer the questions. min.
Listening Inductive SS-T After this exercise the teacher writes on the board the
approach prepositions of place (next to, between, in front of,
Guided behind, near, opposite, on) and asks the students to
discovery tell where the places from ex. 1 are, using the
prepositions.
The teacher asks the students to listen to ex. 2/75 and
answer some questions.
6. Activity 2. Guided T-Ss The teacher moves to another activity and asks The students work and after they 7
Controlled discovery S-T students to go on page 81 and read the Key finish, they check the answers with min.
practice Conversation Ss-T expressions and take a look at the map because they the teacher.
Reflection need it for ex. 1/81. The teacher explains the task for
Explanation the exercise, asks them to work individually and
write the answers in the notebooks; then the teacher
checks the answers with the whole class.
7. Activity 3. Explanation T-Ss The teacher shows students a map with some places The students follow the teacher’s 18
Freer T-G which are missing (Annex 1). instructions and by working in min.
Practice and Guided G-T The teacher prepared some rolls with the missing groups; they have to decide who
production discovery S-T places from the map. comes to the whiteboard and writes
(speaking For this activity, the teacher asks students to work in on the map the missing words/places
and Scanning groups and every group receives two rolls and they and then, they have to answer the
comprehensi have to find the places on the map and then they have questions and come to the map to tell
on activity) to answer questions: “How can you get to ….. from the answer and show the others the
…..”. directions.
The teacher checks the understanding of the
instructions and the answers.
To fix the key expressions, they have to work
together to complete the next exercise:
[Link]
8. Activity 5. Communicati T-Ss The teacher announces the homework (the exercises The students write down the 2
Feedback on from the worksheet – Annex 2) and gives the homework and greet the teacher. min.
and instructions for the assignment.
homework Explanation The teacher appreciates the students’ behaviour, their
assignment answers and their active participation during the
lesson.
Annex 1
Find places on the map. Read the hints:
1. The toy shop is between the police station and the swimming pool.
2. The park is opposite the police station. It is also opposite the ZOO.
3. John’s house is next to Fiona’s house.
4. The pub is next to the drug store.
5. The theatre is between the supermarket and the bowling alley.
6. The bowling alley is opposite Adam’s house.
7. The university is behind the petrol station. It is also behind the bakery.
8. The night club is between the pub and the sweet shop.
9. Mary’s house is near the university. It is next to the bakery.
10. Susan lives near the petrol station.
11. The school is behind the florist.
12. The florist is next to the hardware store.
Say - how can you get to…
a) the park from Adam’s house
b) the supermarket from Fiona’s house
c) the school from the toy shop
d) the police station from Mary’s house
e) the pub from the university
f) the swimming pool from the florist
Annex 2
SWIMMING POOL TOWN HALL
SCHOOL BANK GYM THEATRE LIBRARY
HOSPITAL
SUPERMARKET
YOU LIVE HERE
CINEMA
POLICE STATION
POST OFFICE
CAFÉ
CAR PARK
HOTEL
COMPLETE THE SENTENCES USING NEXT TO- OPPOSITE – GIVE DIRECTIONS :COMPLETE THE DIALOGUES TAKING
BETWEEN – BEHIND - NEAR –ON INTO ACCOUNT WHERE YOU LIVE ( KEY WORDS: LEFT,
RIGHT, ALONG, PAST, CORNER, BETWEEN)
1-THE GYM IS ………………………..THE THEATRE AND THE
BANK 1-A:CAN YOU TELL ME THE WAY TO THE GYM?
2-THE HOTEL IS …………………….THE PARK B: TURN _________ INTO MAPLE STREET. GO _______
3- THERE IS A CAR PARK ………………..THE HOTEL THE LIBRARY, THE GYM IS __________THE ATRE AND
4-THE HOSPITAL IS ………………..SECOND AVENUE THE BANK
5-THE LIBRARY IS …………….THE CORNER
6-THE THEATRE IS ………………THE SUPERMARKET 2- A:CAN YOU TELL ME THE WAY TO THE CINEMA?
7- THE SCHOOL IS ………………….THE BANK B: TURN ________. GO ________ OAK STREET. THE
8-THE SWIMMING POOL IS…………………THE GYM CINEMA IS ON THE _________. OPPOSITE THE PARK
3-A: CAN YOU TELL ME THE WAY TO THE POST OFFICE?
TRUE OR FALSE. B: GO _________ THIRD AVENUE. GO _________ THE
POLICE STATION. THE POST OFFICE IS _________ THE
1-THERE IS A SCHOOL OPPOSITE THE HOSPITAL POLICE STATION AND THE CAFÉ
2-THERE IS A GYM BETWEEN THE BANK AND THE SCHOOL
3-THE BLOCK OF FLATS ARE ON OAK STREET 4- A:CAN YOU TELL ME THE WAY TO THE HOTEL?
4-THE LIBRARY IS NEAR THE TOWN HALL B: GO _________ THIRD AVENUE, TAKE THE SECOND
5- THE CINEMA IS ON SECOND AVENUE TURNING _________INTO PINE STREET. THE HOTEL IS
6-THE SWIMMING POOL IS OPPOSITE THE CAFÉ ON YOUR ______
