Lesson plan Form: 9-g subject: English Theme

Lesson plan

Form: 9-G

Subject: English

Theme: School Council

Objectives:

• to provide PP with extensive speaking and listening practice in the

context of talking about student councils

• to enable PP to talk about democratic structures in schools

• to practise reading for the main idea

• to practise listening for specific information

Procedure of the lesson:

I. Organizing moment: Motivation, Greeting, checking the preparation of the lesson.

II. Pre-activity:

Activity 1a. Listen and sing. 10 min

Objectives: to warm up; to create a friendly atmosphere

STEP 1: The teacher explains how to sing the song.

STEP 2: He/she sing a song and the pupils repeat after him/her.

Then pupils check the words in the Wordlist and are taught whether the words noun, verb or adjective by teacher.

Activity 1b. 5 min

Objectives: to set the scene to build a vocabulary to introduce Pupils to the concept of student councils

Pupils choose one of the stickers from the fir-tree which is written new vocabularies and stick on the poster in right column whether it is noun, verb or adjective.

III. Main part:

Activity 2a. 3 min

Objectives: to set the scene for the listening and speaking activities to follow; to introduce PP to the concept of student councils in the UK

Pupils look at the picture and describe it.

Activity 2b. 3 min

Objective: to give practice in listening to check specific information

Pupils listen to the CD and find the person who is described in the pictures in Activity 1a.

CD script:

Hi! My name is Michael. I’m a senior at the Pleasant Valley High school in Chico California. Our school has an educational responsibility to promote an understanding of discipline. I think where there is good discipline there are good results. I’m a student councillor of my school. I was elected at an election at the end of the school year. My project is: “For the best school

discipline”. A student council in our school is elected each year at the end of the school year and forms a student council for the next school year. As a student councillor I lead a “student government” lesson which is once a week. There are 40 senators in the government. There are senators from each class of the school and they make 10 groups. Each group has a leader and he/she is responsible for his/her group work and for sport, environment, discipline, finance etc. The “Student government” has its own project and constitution. Our goal is to help our school to develop as fully as possible.

Activity 2c. 2 min

Objective: to practise listening for specific information

Pupils listen to Michael speak about a school council in California, and then answer the questions in pairs. Check the answers with the whole class.

IV. Post-activity:

Activity 3a. 10 min

Objective: to revise the types of schools

From each group one member comes to the blackboard. The teacher gives a question related to the types of schools and they must beat on the answer with the stick. Who beats at first on the correct answer this group will be the winner of the game.

Activity 3b. 5 min

Objective: to provide practice in reading for the main idea

Ask the pupils to say which speech they like best and why. Then let them vote for one of them.

Homework. 2 min

Ask Pupils to think of what they would like to improve in their school if they were a member of the student council. Ask one or two Pupils for examples to write on the blackboard. Ask all Pupils to prepare their speeches for homework.