Lesson Plan
Teacher Trainee Date Number of Students
Soufiane El Gharbaoui 10/02/2025 38
Level Coursebook Time
8th grade Spotlight 2 55 mins
Unit Lesson Lesson Focus
2 – How about a snack? Countable & Uncountable Nouns Grammar in Context
Lesson Components
Speaking, Reading, Writing
Lesson Objectives:
- By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
• Identify countable and uncountable nouns in context.
• Use "a/an," "some," and plural forms correctly with countable and uncountable nouns.
• Apply the concept by writing a short email about food and drinks for a party.
Materials:
Whiteboard –
Stages Procedures Timing Rational M of W
- T & Ss warmly greet each other. Greetings
Warm-up
- T conducts the speaking-based homework Homework Commented [SE1]: -T says “today, we’re going to know
4 mins correction Class work whether you’re good cooks or not.”
by selecting some Ss to tell the rest what - When some Ss tell their shopping lists. T asks the others to
mention the food items haven’t mentioned.
we need to make Harira & Tagine. ‘Tell me the other that your friend didn’t mention’
Activity A:
- T & Ss work collaboratively to identify & 3 mins
classify the names of the food categories
in the pictures. Commented [SE2]: - dessert: eat after a meal.
Presentation
- fast food: you can prepare& eat quickly in the kitchen
- T & ss work on the categories one by one. 2-2-2 - snack: you can get from a shop, give him 1 dh & give you
- T gives them time to write the matching min sth.
letters next to the pictures.
- Ss share their answers. 1-1-1
min
- T praises ss who has most of the answers
correct.
Activity D:
Lesson Plan
1:
- T asks ss to look at Exercise C, read the 1 min
conversation silently & find:
5 mins
o Food items that start with ‘a, an’ or
ends with ‘s’ & write them in the left
column.
o Food items that do not have ‘a, an’ or
‘s’ & write them in the right column. 5 mins
- Then, T elicits the answers and writes
them on the board.
2 mins
- T asks “What do you think the difference
is?”
- T elicits or explains that the nouns with
‘a/an or s’ are items that can be counted,
and the items without ‘a/an or s’ are
things that cannot be counted.
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2:
2 mins
- T reads the grammar box aloud and have
students fill in the missing words. 1 min
- T goes over the answers with the class &
Practice
writes them on the board.
- Ss correct their mistakes 2 mins 18 mins
- 3: Ss label the table columns in Exercise 1
with Countable & Uncountable. 3 mins
Activity E:
5 mins
- T instructs ss to work on the exercise.
- T invites ss to answer on the board & 5 mins
explains if ss still don’t understand.
Activity F:
• T says: “this is my email, okay. I am 1 min
Production
going to read it.”
5 mins
• T explains & asks Ss to write a short
email reply.
o Prompt: "write food & drinks for a
party, use countable & uncountable
nouns."
Lesson Plan
• Example sentence starters:
Hello dear friend,
o You should make …
o How about …
o Why not try some …
o You should have…
- T invites ss to write their suggestions on 5 mins
the board.
- T tells ss to take the first part on their
copybooks & write the date and lesson’s
name quickly & write after me.
- Ss copy:
Wrap-up
o Countable nouns (a/an or s): 7 mins
a pizza – bananas
o Uncountable nouns (without a/an or s):
soda – meat – sugar.
- Ss copy the e-mail.
