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Free Time Activities

LESSON PLAN

TEACHER`S NAME: Anca Belascu

SCHOOL:  Elementary School „ Ion Agârbiceanu” Alba Iulia, Romania.

DATE:   2^nd December 2015

TIME: 10.00-10.50 (50 minutes)

NUMBER OF STUDENTS: 27

GRADE:5^th A

Optional Class: Creative English

UNIT OF LEARNING: My time

TOPIC: Free Time activities

SKILLS: writing, reading, speaking, listening

LANGUAGE FOCUS : hobbies, leisure, likes, dislikes.

2. LESSON AIMS:

1) to speak about free time activities;

2) to watch a video on free time (real English);

 3) to learn new words/expressions related to leisure, hobbies;

 4) to reinforce the vocabulary.

AIDS (MATERIALS): notebooks, board, CD player, video projector.

ORGANIZATIONAL MOMENT: The students read the homework and the teacher corrects it.

Time: 2 minutes

ACTIVITY 1: Warm up

Aims: -to announce the activity of the day: free-time activities.

Procedure: The teacher asks some students to speak about their free time. They have to answer the questions: How much free time do you have and when? What are your hobbies?

Time: 3 minutes.

Interaction: teacher-students.

ACTIVITY 2: Listening/Watching a video and comprehension

Aims: -watch a video entitled Students, Hobbies and Interests.

Procedure: Before watching the video the students are instructed to write down or just remember as many answers as possible. The students watch a video where several English students answer the question of a reporter What are your hobbies and interests? (2min). The video is not subtitled. After watching it the teacher asks them several questions, for the comprehension part. What activities do students like doing in their free time?/What would you like to do from what you have heard?/Name three things that you don’t enjoy doing and you’ve heard on the video.

Time: 10 minutes.

Interaction: independent work, teacher-students.

ACTIVITY 3:

Aims: Writing (Mindmaps)

Procedure: The teacher uses the board to write two words: INDOOR/OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES. Students go and write activities done indoor or outdoor. If necessary the others students or the teacher corrects the spelling of the students.

Time: 5 minutes.

Interaction: teacher-students, students-student.

ACTIVITY 4:

Aim: -Practice-writing, listening.

Procedure: The students have to do several exercises from the book. They listen to several dialogues and answer the questions, or match the answers. Exercises from the students’book, Ex.1/18 (Fill in the gap, listen and check your answer), Ex.4/18 (Listen to three dialogues and give the answer), Ex5/18 (Complete the sentences with the given words-Expressing preferences)

Time: 10 minutes

Interaction: independent work, students-teacher.

ACTIVITY 5:

Aims: Vocabulary reinforcement.

Procedure: The teacher writes on the board the phrases used for expressing preferences, they have already heard on the video or on the CD, to be sure they also know the spelling and the correct usage:

LIKES	DISLIKES	Noun	Verb+ING
I like	I don’t like	X	X
I prefer	I don’t prefer	X	X
I’m interested in	I’m not that interested in	X	X
I’m keen on	I’m not that keen on	X	X
I’m really into	I’m not too into	X	X
I love	I hate/can’t stand	X	X

After writing them on the board the teacher asks the students to use any of the expression above to express their preferences. They play a game Answer and pass it!. The teacher starts the game by throwing a litthe hedgehog to one of the students and ask the question What is your hobby?. The first student passes it to the next one asking the same question. They have to use different expressions on the board!

Time: 15 minutes

Interaction: Teacher-student, Student-student.

ACTIVITY 6:

Aims: Setting homework.

Procedure: The teacher asks the students to write about their hobbies and give as many details as possible.

Interaction: Teacher-student.