LESSON PLAN

School: Liceul Teoretic “Pavel Dan”, Campia Turzii

Class: 9th
Date : May , 8th 2019
Name: Ioana Mandik
Number of students: 28
Textbook: Upstream Intermediate
Title of the lesson: Conditionals/If only/ Wish
Time: 50 minutes

General aims

 Developing productive skills: writing, speaking

 Developing receptive skills : listening

Lesson aims:
 to revise the conditionals and the verb „wish”
 to develop communication during class
 to check comprehension

Output:

By the end of the lesson students will be able to:

- Identify the conditionals
- Express wishes/regrets
- write a short paragraph using conditionals/if only/wish

Materials: handouts
video projector
Language skills:

 Speaking- productive skill

 Reading- receptive skill
 Writing- productive skill
 Listening - receptive skill
Teaching techniques:

 Conversation
 Questions and answers
 Discussion

Evaluation Techniques:

 Group monitoring and feedback

 Individual evaluation
 handouts
ORGANIZATION OF THE CLASS: pair- work, individual work, group work
 1. ACTIVITY ONE – Conversation – 5 minutes

- organization of the class ( the attendance of the pupils)

- checking homework.

2. ACTIVITY TWO – revising previously taught topic –conditionals - 15 minutes

The teacher plays some songs and while listening students have to fill in the gaps with the
missing information. The songs are „If it hadn’t been for love”-Adele. And “ If I were a Boy”
The teacher checks the students ‘answers with the whole class. The students recognize the
conditionals ‘ structure. (handout 1).

The teacher asks the students what would they do if they were the opposite gender for a day?

The teacher gives the students a handout where they have to match the sentences in order to form
correct conditional sentences. The students work in groups. (ex. 3/138) . The teacher checks the
students ‘answers and asks some of the Ss to write the sentences on the blackboard. (handout 2)

3. ACTIVITY THREE – introducing the new topic: the use of “Wish/If only”- 15
minutes

The teacher writes on the blackboard I WISH… and asks students to think about their biggest
wish , then the teacher writes on the blackboard I’M SO SORRY, IF ONLY….and asks the
students to think about something they deeply regret. After listening to some of the answers, the
teacher writes on the blackboard the title of the lesson, Expressing wishes/regret and plays a
PowerPoint presentation with some examples of the use of wish and if only and writes the rules
on the blackboard.

In the second part of the activity the teacher plays a short clip (“Spiderman” trailer) and gives
students a set of handouts( handout 3). They work in pairs and while watching the clip they have
to say if the sentences on their handout are true or false. The teacher checks the answers with the
whole classroom and asks the students to do the second exercise on the handout where they have
to write sentences related to the clip, using the verb WISH. The students work in groups and the
teacher checks the answers with the whole class.

4. ACTIVITY FOUR –controlled practice -10 minutes

Students are given handouts with exercises and they have to work in pairs. The teacher checks
with the whole class. (handout 4)

5. ACTIVITY FIVE – feedback and homework assignment -5 minutes.

The teacher will mark the students who gave answers during the class.

For homework assignment, the teacher will ask the students to imagine they found Aladdin’s
magic lamp and that they have been granted three wishes that they have to write but only one of
them should be about themselves.