LESSON PLAN

Date: 29.11.2011Grade: 8BTime: 11.00 – 11.50Number of students: 16School: “ Simion Barnutiu” Baia MareTeacher: Camelia CiurdasType of lesson: lesson of acquisitionTextbook: Snapshot IntermediateUnit of learning: TravelLesson: Heat and Dust

Recent work: Vocabulary: - related to travelling , places in town- clothes- special uncountable nouns

Structures: - past simple vs present perfect - the definite and zero article - should(n’t), ought(n’t) to, had better (not)

Objectives:- to engage and activate students in using the English language- to reinforce and revise giving , accepting/refusing advice- to ask for and supply additional information- to create confidence in students in using information to design a book cover - to develop communicative and receptive competences

Teaching aids: picture(s) postcards maps handouts worksheets blackboard glue

Skills: Speaking Reading

Interaction:

Teacher – Whole class Teacher – Student Student - Teacher Student - Student

Class management: Pair work Group work

Anticipated problems: there will be explanations in Romanian (if needed)

Bibliography: Snapshot Intermediate - Language Booster (Longman)

Procedure

ACTIVITY I – Warmer – The Lying Game (Group work)

Aim: to warm Ss upTime: 5 min.Procedure: The T. divides the class in two groups. She writes 10 statements about herself on the blackboard. Some of them are true and some are false. In groups Ss have to guess which statements are true and which are false. Each correct guess is given a point. The group who has the most points are the winners.

Statements: I was born in Constanta.My son’s name is Luca.I lived in Spain a few years ago.My favourite colour is brown.I don’t have a driving license.I love eating vegetables and fruit.I can’t swim.I teach French, too.I have got a red car.

I have been teaching English since 1997.

Interaction: Ss-Ss; Ss- T

ACTIVITY II - Reinforcing and checking the previous knowledge (Pair work)

Aim: to practice asking for and giving adviceTime: 10 min.

Procedure: The teacher asks students to get in pairs. She gives each pair Worksheet 1 and asks them to match the sentences in column A with the advice in column B. After matching, the sentences are read aloud.Interaction: Ss – Ss; Ss - T

ACTIVITY III – Pre-reading – “Heat and Dust “ (Group work)

Aims: to create interest and introduce Ss into the topicTime: 5 min.Procedure: The teacher writes the title of the story on the board asking the students if they know the meaning of the words. Then she tells them about the author Ruth Prawer Jhabvala who wrote about a trip in India. The teacher asks students if they know anything about India and she explains the possible unknown words they could come across.Interaction: Ss – Ss, Ss-T

ACTIVITY IV – While-reading (Group work)

Aims: to practice reading for specific information Time: 10 min. Procedure: The teacher divides the class in three groups and gives each group a copy of the fragment from the story – Worksheet 2. Each group has a specific task to do while reading Worksheet 3. Interaction: Ss – Ss; Ss - T

ACTIVITY V – Post-reading – Advertisement (Group-work)

Aim: to use the information acquired in designing an advertisement Time: 15 min. Procedure: Ss are given large sheets of paper, they are asked to design an advertisement of the places in India based on the fragments read and on the pictures given by the teacher representing sites in India. Then, they present their advertisement in front of the class. Interaction: Ss – Ss; Ss - T

ACTIVITY VI - Evaluation and homework assignment

Aim: to evaluate the Ss. work to assign Ss. their homeworkTime: 5 min

Procedure: The teacher grades some Ss. As homework the teacher gives the students the following task: Design a book cover and give it a name. The other classmates have to make up a story after the picture.Interaction: T – Ss

WORKSHEET 1

Match the sentences in column A with their correspondents in column B:

Column A Column B 1. He’s put a lot of weight, hasn’t he? a. He should wear warmer clothes.2. He always seems to have a cold. b. She should be more careful.3. Ann nearly fell off her bike last week. c. You shouldn’t give him so much to eat.4. The fuel tank is always empty. d. You should search the internet.5. Stop! The dog’s loose! e. You ought to buy a car.6. I keep getting headaches. f. You should buy another one. 7. My dog died last week and I miss him. g. We’d better get some petrol. 8. I saw my boyfriend with another girl yesterday. h. I’d better not go in, then!9. I’m tired of taking the bus all the time. i. You’d better see a doctor.10. I would like to read more about London. j. You ought to finish with him.

WORKSHEET 1

Match the sentences in column A with their correspondents in column B:

Column A Column B 1. He’s put a lot of weight, hasn’t he? a. He should wear warmer clothes.2. He always seems to have a cold. b. She should be more careful.3. Ann nearly fell off her bike last week. c. You shouldn’t give him so much to eat.4. The fuel tank is always empty. d. You should search the internet.5. Stop! The dog’s loose! e. You ought to buy a car.6. I keep getting headaches. f. You should buy another one. 7. My dog died last week and I miss him. g. We’d better get some petrol. 8. I saw my boyfriend with another girl yesterday. h. I’d better not go in, then!9. I’m tired of taking the bus all the time. i. You’d better see a doctor.10. I would like to read more about London. j. You ought to finish with him.

WORKSHEET 2

HEAT AND DUST

by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

… I have not yet travelled on a bus in India that has not been packed to bursting point, with people inside and luggage on top; and they are always so old that they shake up every bone in the human body. If the buses are always the same, so is the landscape through which they travel. Once a town is left behind, there is nothing till the next one except flat land, broiling sky, distances and dust. Especially dust: the sides of the bus are open with only bars across them so that the hot winds blow in freely, bearing desert sand to choke up ears and nostrils and to set one’s teeth with grit….. The days and nights are really heating up now. It is unpleasant to sleep indoors and everyone pulls out their beds at night. The town has become a communal dormitory. There are string beds in front of all the stalls, and on the roofs and in the courtyards: wherever there is an open space. I kept on sleeping indoors for a while since I was embarrassed to go to bed in public. But it just got too hot, so now I too have dragged my bed out in the courtyard. I no longer chance into a nightie but sleep, like an Indian woman, in a sari. It is amazing how still everything is. All one hears is occasionally someone crying in their sleep, or a dog – maybe a jackal – baying at the moon. I lay awake for hours with happiness actually. I have never known such a sense of communion….

WORKHEET 3

Group 1

Read the sentences and answer T (true) or F (false):1. ___ The author has travelled on a crowded bus before and she enjoyed it.2. ___ The dust is all over choking up ears and nostrils of travelers.3. ___ The author doesn’t like the heat and the outdoors sleeping.4. ___ She left India because she didn’t like their lifestyle .5. ___ After a while she felt like an Indian woman .6. ___ She finally enjoyed sleeping outdoors with other people.

WORKSHEET 3

Group 2

Find words and phrases in the text to illustrate the following:1. The bus was very crowded.2. The bus was uncomfortable.3. The weather was hot.4. The dust was unpleasant. 5. The town was crowded at night.6. The night was not quiet.

WORKSHEET 3

Group 3

Answer these questions:1. What is the first impact of India upon the narrator?2. Where do most people sleep? Why?3. What was the narrator’s problem at first? How did she manage?4. What does she wear to sleep in?5. What can she hear at night? Is she frightened? 6. How does she feel in the end?