Lesson plan 1

Class: 3^rd class

Level: starters

Time: 45 minutes

Teaching materials: Happy Street 1 New edition (student´s book, workbook, additional materials – cards with pictures, CD), interactive board

Aims: They will use vocabulary and basic phrases. They will pronounce new words correctly. They will remember new words with an indefinite article.

Procedure:

1. Welcoming – greetings, a poem at the beginning (Point to the ceiling, point to the floor, point to the window, point to the door, clap your hands together, one two three, sit down and look at me) – children perform the whole poem and say it alone except the last sentence.  2minutes
2. Hangman – three words on the board, children fill in the missing letter by using English alphabet.  5minutes
3. Revising: a) going through the class and each child ask one of these questions: How are you? What is your name? Where are you from? Can I borrow your….? ; I expect also a reaction on: Thank you.        b) using cards for revision vocabulary, numbers, plurals and colours – children are supposed to answer first together as a whole class later everyone separately, they also must answer in the whole sentences.   5+10minutes
4. Introducing new vocabulary: a) Showing cards with an ice cream, an apple, an orange, a cake, a pear, a banana; asking if somebody knows the vocab in English, then I tell them myself, they repeat first for themselves then together.    b) Drawing the pictures of new vocabulary to exercise books plus spelling and pronunciation. Two pictures will be given as HW.             3+10minutes
5. Relaxing part – singing songs from textbook, usually with some learned body exercise – displayed on the interactive board (online support for the textbook).    8minutes
6. Final revising of new vocabulary again with cards.    2minutes

Assessment: The welcoming part is now routine, everybody is involved. Hangman took us more time because pupils struggles with the words more than usual but still enjoyed. I did not want to interrupt the activity. The warm-up revision is also routine now, b) part is practising of rather new subject matter, so I had to sometimes ask the others for help because I did not want to push pupils too much in order not to discourage them. I always underestimate the part with drawing new vocabulary, some pupils like drawing and it takes too much time then. I had to give more than one picture for homework. Singing part of the lesson seems to be most favourite. Pupils are happy to act and sing the songs. The final revising was brief because of lack of time. However, new vocabulary won’t be difficult for pupils, almost everyone has already known them.