Teacher: Gtlan Florin

Date: 6th June 2017

Form: 8th
Level: Upper intermediate
Number of students: 24
Textbook: Highflyer Upper Intermediate
Lesson title: Rockin' and Rolling
Teaching point: grammatical: phrasal verbs
lexical: famous bands; new vocabulary
functional: talking about idioms related to music
Lesson type: acquisition of knowledge
Time alloted: 50 minutes
Skills: speaking, listening, writing
Main Objectives: By the end of the lesson, the students will be able to:
- provide written and then speaking practice of some phrasal verbs;
- understand the idioms in everyday contexts;
Learning Objectives: By the end of the lesson, the students will be able to:
O1: develop students skills of prediction when they come across new vocabulary
O2: choose the correct word from a multiple choice comprehension exercise based
on a text
O3: delineate the words from a text written without pause or punctuation marks
O4: identify phrasal verbs
Lesson aims:
- to develop students speaking skills;
- to enrich students vocabulary;
- to give students practice in reading and understanding the idioms in everyday
contexts;
- to improve phrasal verb vocabulary;
- to develop students listening and comprehension skills;
- to provide opportunities for collaborative work.
Methods and strategies: conversation, communication, explanation, brainstorming,
reflection, reading aloud, scanning, working with the textbook, scriptio continua,
scanning
Interactions: teacher - students (T - Ss); teacher - pairs (T - P); studentd teacher
(Ss - T); student student (S - S)
Assumptions: While working in pair groups, students can be noisy; some may be
more passive.
 Predicted problems and possible solutions:
1. The text may contain unknown words for the students the teacher encourages the
students to read for the meaning and the general message of the text.
2. Some students may have difficulty in solving the tasks the teacher offers them
linguistic props and assigns students into pairs.
3. The students have problems with pronunciation The teacher has the students
repeating the words / phrases, individually or in chorus.
4. The students do not seem to fully understand the instructions The teacher checks
the understanding of the instructions (by asking a student to say what the steps of the
activity are). Where necessary, the teacher explains the instructions again or makes a
demonstration.
5. If there are students who have a lower English level They will get extra
guidance from the teacher and help from thei mates.
Brief description of the lesson: In this lesson, the students will practice vocabulary
related to famous band ....
Materials: Blackboard and chalk, textbook, projector, notebooks and worksheets
 THE STAGES OF THE LESSON
1. Warm-up
Teachers activity / Procedure: The teacher greets the students and demands the
students to get ready for the lesson. He asks one student to name the absents, if any.
All the students will receive worksheets from the teacher.
Students activity: The students get ready for the lesson and pay attention to the
teacher. Absent students are written down.
Didactic strategies: Conversation
Interaction: T Ss
Timing: 2

2. Gain students attention

Teachers activity / Procedure: The teacher asks students to look at the projector
and then he announces the title of the lesson. The teacher begins the lesson by asking
the students what singer or band they will like to see on stage. He promotes discussion
by asking the students if they have ever been to a concert. He also asks the students
what they know about U2.
Students activity: The students name some bands or singers they will like to see on
stage. The students answer the teachers questions: I like Metallica/Bon Jovi/ AC/DC,
The Rolling Stones etc; U2 are an Irish rock band from Dublin formed in 1976; The
band formed in Dublin on 25 September 1976.
Didactic strategies: Conversation, Reflection, Brainstorming
Interaction: T Ss
Timing: 5

3. Present the topic and explain the objectives

Teachers activity / Procedure: The teacher writes the date and the title of the
lesson on the blackboard: U2's Zooropa show: The ultimate audio-visual experience
and informs the students that, by the end of the lesson, they will find out new things
about U2, they will understand the meaning of some new idioms related to music and
they will learn how to recognise and use some phrasal verbs.
Students activity: The students read the text and then they answer the questions
from the first worksheet.
Didactic strategies: Communication
Interaction: T-Ss; Ss-T
Timing: 5
 4. Activity 1
Teachers activity / Procedure: The students are given an exercise where they need
to fill in the blanks with a word from the exercise number 2, individually, to complete
the sentences. This way they develop their listening skills as well as techniques to take
notes and to listen simultaneously.
The students are asked to compare their answers in pairs before checking and
correcting them as a whole class activity. When the teacher hears a wrong answer, he
asks the whloe class for correction
Students activity: The students listen carefully to the teacher explanation and
choose the right word to complete the sentences. They work individually at first and
then in pairs, following the task.
1. Don't you think the Maestro conducted the orchestra well?
2. He beat the drums like a madman!
3. John Lennon wrote the lyrics to many of the Beatles's best songs.
4. You can tell when Peter is in a good mood, he hums one of her favorite tunes.
5. The most famous opera composed by Mascagni was "Cavelleria Rusticana".
6. Jazz musicians almost always improvise their solos.
7. Most professional musicians play their instruments up to five hours a day!
8. I can remember the time when President Clinton appeared on MTV to blow his
horn - the saxophone.
9. Would you please not tap your foot in time to the music?
10. Some of the best rock singers don't sing their songs, they shout them!
Didactic strategies: Conversation, Reflection, Brainstorming
Interaction: T Ss, Ss T, S S, P T
Timing: 5

5. Activity 2
Teachers activity / Procedure: Next, the teacher concludes that if you go to any
city in England, or to a concert, you will hear a lot of idioms (expressions whose
meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its constituent elements), and
draw students attention to the next worksheet. He starts asking students questions
such as: Have you heard about expressions like ,,piece of cake" / ,,Kill two birds with
one stone" / ,,Speak of the devil!" / ,,Your guess is as good as mine"?
He writes the definition of the idioms on the board, and then he explains to the
students that an idiom is a group of words in a fixed order that have a particular
meaning that is different from the meanings of each word on its own.
Students activity: The students answer teachers questions and they write down the
teachers explanations. After that, the students read aloud all the idioms from the
worksheet and they choose the correct idioms for the following sentences:
1. My husband is the manager so he always calls the tune.
2. Oh, Romeo, you are so sweet. I must admit that your words are music to my ears.
3. I don't want to sit near James at the party, he's always blowing his own trumpet.
 4. Stop complaining about your headache! Don't make a song and dance about it!
5. I bought these old records for a song at the flea market last week.
6. After the accident, she changed her tune on life.
7. Stop giving me orders, dear! I don't play second fiddle to anyone!
8. She's just whistling in the dark but she's really very afraid.
9. You were wrong, you shouldn't have hit him. Now you should face the music.
10. We lost our most valuable customer, and I'm sorry, but you know that it takes
two to tango.
Didactic strategies: Conversation, Explanation
Interaction: T Ss, Ss T
Timing: 5

6. Activity 3
Teachers activity / Procedure: The teacher moves on to another activity, which is
a pair activity. He tells them that the task consists in delineating the words from a
given text in order to obtain a chain story. He gives them two minute limit time,
monitors discreetly and provides feedback.
Students activity: Again, students work in pairs. The first pair to finish reads the
text aloud.
Didactic strategies: Scriptio continua
Interaction: T P, S S, P - T
Timing: 5

6. Activity 4
Teachers activity / Procedure: To continue with, the teacher present the students a
music quizz. He asks them to choose the correct phrasal verb. The teacher reminds
students that phrasal verbs are usually two-word phrases consisting of verb + adverb or
verb + preposition and gives the verb a new meaning.
Students activity: The students write the correct answers in their worksheets and
underline the verbs in the sentence.
Didactic strategies: Conversation, Explanation
Interaction: T Ss
Timing: 5
 7. Activity 5
Teachers activity / Procedure: The students are supposed to listen attentively to an
audio track and underline the phrasal verbs from their next worksheet, what contains
the lyrics from a song.
The teacher has the audio played. The students are asked to compare their answers in
pairs before checking and correcting them as a whole class activity. When the teacher
hears a wrong answer, he asks the whole class for correction.

Students activity: The students listen carefully both to the teachers explanation
and to the audio track and choose the right phrasal verb. After that, students will
identify the phrasal verbs according to their meanings and write them in the crossword
puzzle. They work individually at first and then in pairs, following the task.

Didactic strategies: Scanning, Communication

Interaction: T Ss; Ss T; S S; P - T
Timing: 10
 8. Activity 6
Teachers activity / Procedure: For the last activity, the students will receive a
worksheet with some details about U2 band. After they read the info, the children will
answer to the teachers questions.

Students activity: The students read the text and answer to the questions.
Didactic strategies: Scanning, Communication
Interaction: T - Ss
Timing: 6

9. Feed-back and homework assignment

Teachers activity / Procedure: The teacher announces the homework and gives
instructions for its assignment. The teacher gives students thanks for the time and
attention and dismisses the class.

Students activity: The students write down the homework. The children say good-
bye to the teacher.
Didactic strategies: Communication
Interaction: T - Ss
Timing: 2