Ministery of Education of Republica Moldova

Teacher`s Training University ”Ion Creangă”

English Language Department

Lesson Plan
The 8th form, Unit 4, Lesson 1
Theme: ”Folk Songs”

Sub-Competences (SC):
- Pronouncing correctly the folk instruments;
- Skimming the text and divided below into four stories;
- Give them titles at this stories;
- Describing the favourite folk instruments;
- Complete conversation by choosing the corect adjective or adverb from the
Word Promt;

Ps will develop linguistic and pragmatic (discoursive, socio/inter-

cultural communicative competences)
Specific Competence Indicators (SCI): Listening, Spoken Interaction,
Reading, Written Interaction, Grammar.
Visual aids and materials: textbook, pictures, tables.
Tehniques: warm up activity; debate; skimming; scanning;
brainstorming.
Forms of activity: work in small groups; pair work; individual; whole
class work.
 Stages Tehniques Teacher`s activity Pupil`s activity Tim
of the lesson and forms of ing
activity
Introduction Greeting Good morning children! Good-morning
Sit down please. teacher!
How are you today?
Who is absent today? We are fine! 1-2`
Thank you. Everybody/is
present, (nobody is)

Cheking up the Whole Class work Now, what was your Our homework for
homework homework for today? today was the 3`
Open your copybooks exercise 4 at pg. 31.
and read the sentences in We must write this,
the correct forms. these, those;
Phonetic Individual , mass work Listen to the song and 1. Ps listen to
Drill repeat after me: the song 3`
(warm up) ``The Happy Song``
If you happy and you 2. Ps song all
know it, clap your hands! together.
(clap-clap)...
Oral speech Whole class work 1.You have the 1. we have the
practice ``Brainstorming`` opportunity to play any opportunity to play
instrument you like. with different
What is it? instruments: violin,
2. Specialists advice that harp, and balalaika.
a performer should sit at 2. yes. that must
the keyboard for a make more effort but
specified amount of you must have an
time, without touching inclination towards
it? this.
3. What is pop music? 3. pop music is
4. How can you define ”professional music 4`
folklore? which draws upon
both folk music and
fine arts music”
characterized as a
softer alternative to
rock and rol.
4. Folklore is a
metacultural
category used to
mark certain genres
and practices within
modern societies as
being not modern.

Presentation Work in pairs How much do you know Work in pair and
about folk instruments? complete match the
Match the definitions to definitions to the
the words and inform words:
your class where in the
 world people play these 1.harp – their many
instruments. strings fasten directly
into the resonator, no
bridge is necessary; 4`
2.violin – the highest
pitched member of
the viclin family;
3.balalaika – a
Russian stringed
instrument...........

a) Voc-ry Pre-reading: Now let`s learn some Repeat the new

(mass work) new words. Look at the words: 8`
pictures and repeat after
me:
1.harp [ha:p] Harp
2.steel drum [`stil:`dram] Steel drum
3.violin [`vaIelIn] Sitar
4.sitar [sIta:] Pinepipes
5.pinepipes [`paInpaIps].. Violin

b) Text While – reading: Now we are going to

Skimming read the text. 10`
Divide the text below Ps devide text into
into four stories. four strories.
Give them titles. The first story is
called:``Twelve
pigs``
The second: ``the
panomonika``
The three:`` song to
the frog``
The four: ``the bird``
Feed- back Oral speach Let`s divide the class into
Practice the 3 groups. Here are 3
pictures, look at the
Group work pictures and prepare one
history
The Outrageous
Orchestral Offense Discuss in groups
1 gr: Excuse me please! about story.
Beg your pardon! 5`
2 gr: Please! Stop!
Excuse me!
3 gr: Damn! I hate
ELEVATOR music!
 Grammar review Complete their We have to put the
conversation by adjective or adverb.
choosing the corect Nice; tired; surely;
adjective or adverb from happily; quiet;
the Word Prompt. slowly;

Use an adjective (not an 4`

adverb) after copula
verbs: be, look, seem,
sound, get, become.
Most adjectives can be
used both:
Attributively (before a
noun) and
Predicatively (after
copular verbs)
Home task This is your homework. Ps write down their
assignment Exercise 7p.61 h/t
-Find the place for each
word within the
quotations below and 1`
expand on them;
-Describe your
experience of learning to
play a musical
instrument or give the
reasons why you never
did see.
Evaluation I would like to thank you Goodbye teacher!
for being active. 1`
Our lesson is over.
Goodbye.
See you again on
Tuesday.