Lesson Plan

Name: Grama Irina Cătălina

Date:the 12-th of January

Form: 7-th

Level:Pre-intermediate

Class size:20 students

Textbook: Snapshot,Pre-Intermediate,Longman,2001

Lesson: Vocabulary lesson-Food and cooking-You Ought to Try Them!

Type of lesson: consolidation and revision of knowledge

Time: 50 minutes

Objectives:

affective:-to create a pleasant atmosphere for study;

               -to make the students confident in the ability of using the English language and to use their knowledge in real life situations;

               -to work in pairs or in groups;

-to identify weak areas and provide opportunities for consolidation.

     At the end of the lesson the students will be able:

-          to recognize and give examples of words related to food and cooking;

-          to  identify utensils,ingredients,verbs connected to preparing and cooking food from a listening material;

-          to choose the correct order of the instructions of a recipe ;

-          to use their vocabulary related to the topic in order to describe a recipe;

-          to recognize a dish from a short description;

Skills:  Speaking, Listening, Reading, Writing

Methods of teaching:

-          Brainstorming

-          Conversation

-          Communicative Method

Teaching techniques:  individual work, group work, elicitation,webbing,game-describe the recipe, guess the dish

Description:This lesson plan is designed to consolidate the studentsvocabulary about cooking and to evaluate their understanding in order to describe a recipe

Preliminary lesson planning:

Materials:blackboard

-          chalk

-          worksheets

-          flipcharts, pictures,markers

-          riddle

I.                   Warm up activity (2 minutes): listening and singing-the song Happy-Pharell Williams

II.                Lead-in(3minutes)

Purpose:

    To create an appropriate atmosphere for the lesson

    To activate background knowledge, in order to introduce learners to the topic.

Procedure:

          T. greets the students and checks attendance.Checks their homework

          To introduce the new lesson,Ttelle the Ss about a great meal at the restaurant.T asks questions like:Do you like to eat?What do you like to eat?What is your favouritedish?What about cooking?Do you cook?Have you ever cooked for your family?This way T makes the transition to the vocabulary to be revised-food and cooking.

Skillsinvolved:speaking,listening.

Feedback:T appreciate all the good answers and encourages all the students to participate.

Interaction:T-Ss,Ss-Ss

II. Activity 1.Revision of vocabulary related to cooking(15minutes)

      Purpose-To give examples of words related to food and cooking-verbs connected to cooking,utensils,ingredients;

Materials:blackboard

Procedure: the next stage is an oral completion step.Twrites on the blackboard key words like food,cooking,utensils,ingredients.Ss identify words connected to each of the key words.T asks the Sswewre they can use all of these words in real life situations.T asks questions in order to get to the word recipe.

Feedback –T appreciates the good answers and  encourage all the Ss to participate.

Skills:speaking,

Interaction:T-Ss,Ss-T,

III.Activity 2-Listening a recipein order to find the missing words(14 minutes)

Purpose:-to  identify utensils, ingredients, verbs connected to preparing and cooking food from a listening material;

Materials-a listening material of 40 sec.-the description of a recipe, worksheets

Procedure: T gives instructions to the Ss for the listening stage. Ss listen the material two times:the first time without pauses and the second time with pauses. They will complete the first exercisefrom the worksheet with the missing words while listening the material the second time.The second exercise involves a matching task using quantifiers.After they finish the worksheet they switch the papers with their mates.Here it is used peer-correction.T evaluates their answers and corrects errors.

Feedback:T offers feedback, encouraging all the students to ask for the next stages.

Skills:speaking,listening,writing

Interaction:T-Ss,Ss-T

IV.Activity 3.Find the order of the instructions(10 minutes)

Purpose:-to choose the correct order of the instructions of a recipe ;

-to use their vocabulary related to the topic in order to describe a recipe;

Materials:worksheet,flipcharts,pictures,markers

Procedure:1.T splits the Ss in four groups,gives them flipcharts and a picture with the chocolate cake and different pictures with ingredients.They have to complete first the ingredients and then to cut up the instructions to find the right order of the cooking steps. Ss work in group and after a stated time they present in front of the class their charts. T encourages selfcorrection and peer-correction .

Skills:writing,speaking

Feedback-T.offers feedback appreciates the good answers ,the right completion of task.

Interaction:T-Ss ,Ss-Ss

V.Activity 4-riddle time (4 minutes):

Purpose:

To see if the Ss guess a dish using the description of the recipe.

Procedure:T reads three riddles.She describes the recipe and they have to guess the dish .Ss guess the dishes.T

Feedback:T evaluates the Ss”answers and the whole class activity.T asks Ss to insist in repeating every week the vocabulary.

Skills:speaking

Interaction:T-Ss,Ss-T

VI .Homework assignment(2 minutes)

T asks the Ss to choose their favourite food and to describe the recipe.

Evaluation-T congrats all the good answers ,praise the best answers with good marks and evaluates orally the whole class performance.