Lesson plan
School: Ostritsa lyceum
Teacher: George Giba
Class – 7th grade
Topic: The Ghost castle
Module: Literature & Festivals
Type of lesson: fixation of knowledge and developing skills and abilities
Skills: Writing
Methods and techniques: conversation, observation, dialogue, explanation, exercise, brainstorming, the Hot Seat technique, project, photostory; Resources: notebooks, worksheet, blackboard, flipchart.
Interaction- T-S, S-S, individual work, group work.
Time: 45 min
General competences:
4.2. Briefly recount an incident using connectors to mark the chronological order
The students are tested for ability to:
C1 Identify and name main vocabulary items from a picture;
C2 Extract main ideas from an illustrated story and narrate the events in the right order;
C3 Use the adequate connectors to write a narrative;
C4 Write a narrative starting from a given model and using Past Tenses;
Values and attitudes:
Forming a positive attitude about your own physical, emotional, aesthetic, spiritual, intellectual, moral and social development;
Stages of the lesson
Stages |
Com peten ces |
Activities |
Types of organis ation |
Skills/m ethods |
Evaluati on |
Time |
1. Lead-in |
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T. greets class and checks attendance T announces the writing activity and its goals; |
frontal |
Convers ation |
Observat ion |
2’ |
2. Pre-writing activities |
C1 C2 |
1. Discussion: - Places you visited/travelled to. Ss name such places. - Did anything strange happen during your visit? 2. Ss look at the photo story provided in annex 1. - they fill in a word cloud with vocabulary derived from the image (ghost, castle, visitors, children, dinner, secret passage etc.) - What do you think happened? |
frontal |
Convers ation Exercise Word cloud |
Observat ion |
10’ |
3. Writing activities |
C1 C2 C3 C4 |
1. In groups of 5 Ss solve the tasks on worksheet 1 (annex 2)
Ss work in groups to write a paragraph in order to finish the story. They will use Past tenses (especially irregular verbs in Past |
Individ ual Group |
Worksh eet Project |
Fill in activities Matchin g activities |
20’ |
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Simple Tense). Team leaders will fill in a project diary. |
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4. Feedback |
C4 |
The speaker of each group presents the paragraph created. Each team leader will describe the other teams’ presentations using a single word. T presents the grading sheet. The Hot Seat technique – each member of the group will say to his colleagues “You helped the team with....” and “I would like to see more of...” |
Whole class |
Presenta tion |
Oral expressi on Selfevaluati on |
15 |
5. Homework assignment |
C4 |
Ss will have to write a two paragraph story narrating an unexpected event they encountered in the past. |
Individ ual |
Convers ation |
Written expressi on |
3’ |
Annex 1