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Vocabulary Lesson: "I Can" Activities

This lesson plan is for a 5th grade English class and focuses on teaching vocabulary related to activities using the phrase "I can". The plan has 4 activities: 1. A warm-up where students discuss activities their favorite celebrities can do to introduce the topic. 2. An activity where students answer questions by raising their hands to demonstrate abilities. 3. Students work in pairs asking each other "What can you do?" using toy props to practice the vocabulary. 4. Students complete a table listing activities they can and can't do, then write sentences using "I can" and "I can't". The lesson aims to introduce vocabulary, promote conversation about abilities, practice the target

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Vocabulary Lesson: "I Can" Activities

This lesson plan is for a 5th grade English class and focuses on teaching vocabulary related to activities using the phrase "I can". The plan has 4 activities: 1. A warm-up where students discuss activities their favorite celebrities can do to introduce the topic. 2. An activity where students answer questions by raising their hands to demonstrate abilities. 3. Students work in pairs asking each other "What can you do?" using toy props to practice the vocabulary. 4. Students complete a table listing activities they can and can't do, then write sentences using "I can" and "I can't". The lesson aims to introduce vocabulary, promote conversation about abilities, practice the target

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Lesson Plan

Unit 4: ‘Can you spell that, please?’


Can David Beckham play football?
Can Hanna Montana sing?

Teacher: BITCAU ALINA


Grade: starter level pupils (5th grade)
Textbook: Snapshot Starter, Longman
Type of lesson: acquiring new information (Vocabulary about activities, the modal -Can)
* The lesson provides grammar practice of “I can”
Skills: Reading, Writing, Speaking, Listening1
Purpose: The purpose of this lesson is to provide students with the vocabulary related to
activities, at a starter level.

Didactic strategies:
 methods and procedures: conversation, explanation, dialogues, miming
 organization: class work, pair work, individual work;
 materials and equipment: textbook, handouts, pictures, photocopies, toys

Lesson Aims:

1. to create interest in the topic of activities that one CAN do;


2. to promote conversation expressing ability
3. to study relevant words for the topic; to use “I can”
4. to practice vocabulary spoken and written;

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the listening skill was assured by children listening to the song, to the teacher and their colleagues;

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PROCEDURE

Warm-up Interaction: T-Ss; Ss-T Timing: 10’


Speaking; Reading

Aim 1: to create interest in the new topic; to promote discussion;

 T. asks Ss about their homework, the letter to their favourite star


 Ss read the homework
 T corrects the homework (in terms of pronunciation)
 T asks the students what their favourite star does, what he/she CAN do, introducing the
new lesson

Activity 1 Interaction :T-Ss; Ss-T Timing: 5’


Speaking

Aim 2: to encourage the Ss to discuss about what they can do(Romanian & English)
Aim 3: to raise expectations and involvement in the speaking task;
Aim 4: to answer by rising hands in order to confirm expectations;

 T. asks the Ss. questions as: Who can …? (miming activities)


 Ss. answer by rising their hands

Activity 2 Interaction: T-Ss; Ss-T ; pair work Timing: 15’


Writing; Speaking

Aim 4: to study relevant words for the topic;


Aim 5: to ask and answer questions

 T. shows the toys, saying: ”Let’s see what they can do”
 T. takes a toy and says “I can…” as it is written on the paper stuck on the toy
 T. asks another toy “What can you do?” and answers the question
 T. asks Ss. to work in pairs, come in front of the class, to ask “What can you do?” and
answer “I can…”
 T. checks the answers and corrects the possible mistakes;

Activity 3 Interaction: individual work Timing: 15’


Writing

Aim 6: to practice vocabulary spoken and written;

 T. draws a table with activities on the blackboard


 T. asks the Ss. to complete the table by putting a star / a cross near the activities that they
can or can’t do
 T. writes on the blackboard the pattern I can …, but I can’t…
 T. asks the Ss. to write in their copybooks the whole sentence, by using their tables

Activity 4 Interaction: individual work Timing: 5’

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Listening
Ss listen to the song “I can” and try to sing along.

Homework: The T. asks the Ss to continue writing the sentences if they haven’t finished

Assessment: T. appreciates (offering stickers) the Ss. who were active during the entire lesson
and gives advice to the less active ones;

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