School: Colegiul National, Iasi

Trainee Teachers: Lavinia Adriana Fasola, Ana Scerbatii

Date: 13th November 2015

Lesson Plan
Class: 9 B,
Level:
Textbook:
Lesson: Dream on, Unit 4
Time allowed: 50 minutes
Previous work: Students have learned about friends and unusual friendships.
Class decription: The class are accustomed with communicative activities. They enjoy doing group work and expressing their opinion freely.
They like reading and improvising.
Aids:
Textbooks
Blackboard
Appendix 1
Aims:
Students will read and complete a text with sentences that have been removed
Students will identify different forms of a word (nouns, adjectives) and change them from one to another
Students will learn and practice the different functions of like and as
Objectives At the end of the lesson students will be able to:
Read and complete a text with sentences that have been removed
Identify different forms of a word (nouns, adjectives) and change them from one to another
Use like and as in appropriate contexts.

Time

Activity

Procedure

3 min

Warm-up

1.What dreams and ambitions do you have

for the future?
2. What can you do to achieve your dreams
and ambitions?
Who are the people in the photos? Why are
they famous? Would you like lives like
theirs? Why?/Why not?

2 min

Lead-in

Ss are asked to discuss with their partners

question 1 and 2 from ex.1 pg.35.

5 min

Pre-reading

Teacher writes on the blackboard:

Thanks to the rain, our picnic on the beach
was an absolute disaster.....................I've
never felt so cold in all my life!
a) Everyone said it was one of the best
days of their lives, despite the heat.
b) I love having picnics on the beach,
and have done all my life.
c) It poured down all day and the
temperature didn't get above 12
degrees.

Materials/
Aids

Skills

Interaction

Objective

Speaking

TS
T Ss

To introduce the new topic:

the media, in particular
dreams.

Textbooks

Speaking

T Ss
Ss Ss

To capture attention and

create expectations.

Blackboard

Speaking

T Ss
Ss T

To help Ss to focus on the

preceding and following
sentences.

8 min

Reading
Post-Reading

T asks Ss : Which of the sentences a-c best

fit in the gap between the other two
sentences? Why the other two weren't
suitable?
T asks Ss to do ex 3, pg. 35 and ex. 4,pg 35
Ss read the text A dream come true?
T checks answers.

Textbooks

Reading

Textbooks
Speaking

Introducing
Vocabulary

T asks Ss to form 5 groups. Each group is

asked to come up with a name. T writes the
names on the blackboard.
1) T gives a list of difinitions for
adjectives. Each group tries to name
the adjective as fast as they can. The
group who guesses first gets a point
which is marked on the blackboard
under groups name.
2) T presents a list of nouns. Each
group has to add a suffixe to form an
adjective. The group that answers
first, gets a point.
3) T presents a list of situations which
can be substituted with an adjetive.
The group that does the substitution
first gets a point.

Blackboard
Appendix 1

Speaking

Individually
T Ss
Ss T
Ss Ss
T Ss
Ss T

To develop Ss ability to
identify different forms of a
word ( nouns and adjectives);
To develope Ss ability to
change nouns to adjectives
using suffixes.

Grammar

The team that accumulates more points

wins.
The list of definitions, nouns and situations
are prepared in advance (see appendix 1)
Ss look at the ex.6 pg.39 in their textbooks.
Textbooks
T explains the different functions of like and
as. Ss match the defenitions with the
sentences in the same exercise.
Ss are asked to do exercise 7 as a group.
The first one to finish and to get the answers
right gets a point.
T explains the rules of the next activity
(weave-drill). One student from a team gives
a question to a student from another team.
The second student answers and then asks
another student another question and so on.
(questions exercise 7) At the same time they
have to identify and correct the mistakes. If
they do so, they get a point.

Speaking

T Ss
Ss T
Ss - Ss

To focus on the different

functions of like and as;
To strenghthen Ss ability to
use like and as in an
appropriate context.