Lesson Plan

Teacher: Sanda Nicoleta-Adelina

School: School C. Radulescu-Codin, Priboieni
Date: 9th May, 2014
Grade: 7th
Number of students: 21
Level: Pre Intermediate, 3rd year of study
Topic: Unit 16: They used to hide here Lesson 1: Smuggling in Cornwall
Students book: Snapshot Pre-Intermediate, Longman
Type of lesson: acquisition of new language(vocabulary)
Skills: speaking, writing, reading, listening
Structures: Forming verbal nouns by adding ing to the verb (verbal nouns refer to the
activity) Forming nouns by adding er/-or (they refer to the person performing the
activity
Vocabulary: Word building from different parts of speech
Methods: conversation, explanation, dialogue, exercise
Classroom interaction: individual work, pair - work
Teaching aids: blackboard, chalk, handouts, workbook, coursebook, crossword
Teaching techniques: dialogue, explanation, individual work, pair work, exercise.
Time: 50 minutes
Lesson aims:
-to make students activate their vocabulary
-to give students practice in speaking
-to give students practice in listening
-to enrich students vocabulary
Subsidiary aims:
By the end of the lesson the pupils will be able to:
-practise in speaking for fluency;
-use combinations of different functions and structures.
- use the new words in meaningful contexts;

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Lesson stage
Activity 1
Warm up

Teacher-student activities
Informal conversation
Teacher greets the

Interaction
Teacher

Timing

Materials

students,

students, and has a short

chat with them: How are

Students -

you today? / Is anyone

teacher

absent?

Workbook
Students-

Activity 2

T. invites the Ss to read the

Checking

homework and corrects

homework

them if necessary.

teacher

Notebook

Ss read and correct the

mistakes, if any.
Teacher Teacher gives each student

Activity 3
Lead in

students

a worksheet containing a

Worksheet

crossword. She explains

with

them that they have to read

the definitions from the

Students -

worksheet and try to fill in

students

the right answer, and if

they complete the
crossword correctly they
will discover the word
from the column AB
(smuggler), Appendix 1.
After SS finish the
crossword, the teacher
verifies the crossword with

Teacher
students,
Students teacher

crossword

students and corrects them

if necessary.

Pictures

Teacher asks students

Activity 4
Pre-reading
activity

and choose the ones that

represent goods people
used to smuggle in the

Picture
exploitation

to look at some pictures

past(wine, brandy, tea,

Teacher students

tobacco, gold, clothes, silk,

lace, playing cards,
weapons, DVDs,
computers, mobile phones,

Students
teacher,

diamonds, drugs) and then

open their books at page
92, look at the pictures on
the page, and guess what
the text is about. Teacher
asks students the following
questions:

Teacher
students,

What are the people

doing?

Students
teacher

What are they smuggling?

Can you approximate the
date of these pictures?
(18th, 19th century)
How do you know? (by the
clothes people wear,
objects)

Textbook

TeacherTeacher asks students to

read the text .

Activity 5

Reading
activity

Textbook

students

StudentsTeacher asks students

teacher

if they understood the text

and if necessary she

Activity 6

explains the unknown

Textbook

Post reading

words. Next, she tells

Students -

activity

students to do the exercise

students

1a from page 93, where

they have to skim the text

again and in groups, to
guess the meaning of the
words, then match the

Teacher -

word with its synonym or

students

definition from the

Worksheet

worksheet they have

received during the reading
activity. Appendix 2
Students are asked
next to answer True or
False to the statements
from exercise 1b from page
93. (1T, 2T, 3F, 4T, 5T, 6F)

Teacher writes the

example from exercise 3,

page 93 (smuggle-

Teacher-

smuggling-smuggler) on

students

the blackboard. Students

Activity 7

are asked to explain the

Vocabulary:

meaning of the three words

word building

and the difference between

from different

them as parts of speech.

parts of speech.
Based on the students
conclusions, a general rule
for word formation is
made: We can form verbal
nouns by adding ing to
the verb, verbal nouns refer
to the activity; while nouns
formed by adding er/-or

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refer to the person

Activity 8

performing the activity.

Word building

Teacher writes the rules on

practice

the blackboard.

Blackboar
d

Teacher gives the

example on the blackboard
(paint painting - painter)
and asks students to do the
same thing for the rest of
the words from exercise 3
a, page 93. Students work

Individual

individually to fill in the

work

chart on their worksheet.

Worksheet

Appendix 3

In order to get feedback

from students about the
lesson and to make them
practice at home the new
vocabulary, students will
be asked to do exercise

Activity 9

4/p.93 as homework. The

Feedback and

teacher marks some

homework

students.

Teacherstudents
notebooks

Appendix 1 Crossword Fill in the blank spaces from the next crossword and you will
discover on column AB the word used to define: ''a person who imports or exports things
without paying taxes''.

A
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8

B
1. Bacon and......... are eaten in the morning for breakfast.
2. A person who plays the drums is called a ................
3. A ship that can travel both on the surface of the water and under water is called a
....
4. An elephant is ..................... than a mouse.
5. The past simple of the verbthink
6. People who perform in a circus, wear funny clothes and make people laugh by doing
silly things are called ......
7. They are trousers made of denim.
8. Wild animals that have brown fur and eat fish.
Answers: 1. eggs, 2. drummer, 3.submarine, 4.bigger, 5.thought, 6.clowns, 7.jeans,
8.bears

Appendix 2 exercise 1a/93

Mach the words with their definitions:

1. Goods

a) difficult to hold on (in this case because the grease had

been applied
2. Contraband

b) you use this in machines to help them operate properly

3. Lace

c) do what you are told to do

4.

d) person who checks you pay tax on your things at ports

Duty
and airports

5. Customs officer

e) money you pay when you bring some things into the

country.
6.

Dirt

f) a smuggler (they hid things in their boots)

7. Bootlegger

g) something not clean

8. Barrel

h) a tall hat worn for very formal occasions

9. Top hat

i) a round wooden container for drinks

10. Obbey

j) go very quickly (for horses)

11. Gallop

k) a decoration for clothes

12. Grease

l) something you are not allowed to bring into the

country
13. Slippery

m) things you buy and sell

Answers: 1-m, 2-l, 3-k, 4-e, 5-d, 6-g, 7-f, 8-i, 9-h, 10-c, 11-j, 12-b, 13-a

Appendix 3
Complete the chart with words from the verbs given:

VERB
Verbal noun

COOK

ACT

DRIVE

HEAT PAINT

BUILD

(gerund ing form)

Noun (-er / -or)

Answers: cook-cooking-cooker, act-acting-actor, drive-driving-driver, heat-heatingheater/heating, build-building-builder, sing-singing-singer, paint-painting-painter

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