LESSON PLAN GHOST STORY

1. LESSON PLAN GHOST STORY Prof. MarinescuMarilena Scoala Nr. 18 Pitesti

2. PROCEDURE 1.Organisational moment: Greetings, absents, Homework check-up. (5) 2. Warm-up: Books open. Teacher reads the title and gets the students to look at the picture of the haunted house. I want you to describe this house. What adjectives could be used to describe the house? E.g.: old, lonely, deserted, haunted, isolated, frightening, etc. What do you think this lesson is going to be about? (3’)

3. 3. Reading and listening activity: Teacher asks students to work in pairs and answer the questions in their books. Do you believe in ghosts? What would you do if you saw one? etc. Teacher checks answers with the whole class. Now, you are going to read a ghost story. In pairs, I want you to read the first part of the ghost story and put the paragraphs in the correct order. Teacher encourages the students to read quickly for gist, without using dictionaries or asking about vocabulary. If they are having difficulty with the ordering, teacher points out the first paragraph for them and encourages them to look for sequences, particularly time phrases in each paragraph, e.g.: one evening, ten years ago, one day, soon after they had arrived, the next day, after that. Now listen to the cassette and check the correct order. Teacher plays the tape, once only, for confirmation of the correct answer. (10’)

4. Reading activity: 4.Teacher divides the class into pairs for this activity, encouraging students to guess the function and meaning of the words from the context, without using dictionaries. Teacher points out the fact that they must define the words as they are used in the text: e.g. ‘mark’ could be used as a verb, but it is actually used as a noun in paragraph a; it could mean the score a student gets in a test, but here it means ‘stain, spot, dirty area’. Read the first part of the story again, with the paragraphs in the correct order. Find these words. Are they verbs, nouns or adjectives? What do they mean? Teacher checks students’ answers with the whole class. (15’)

5. 5. Writing and listening activity: What happened next in the story? Work with a classmate. Talk about the pictures. Then write about what happened. I want you to use time markers and the words from the vocabulary list you made in exercise D. Teacher asks some students to read out their version of what happened next in the story, then plays the tape for the students to check how close their versions were to the real story. Underline the parts of your story which are the same as the one on the tape. Teacher discusses with the whole class which students came closest to the real story. (10 min)

6. 6. Speaking and listening activity: Work in groups of 4 and discuss these questions with your classmates: Where had the coins come from? Who had put them inside the wall? Who was the ghost in the old house? Write down your ideas. Teacher asks some students to answer the questions. Now I want you to listen to the final part of the story and find out the answers to the questions in G. Who was the closest to the real version? Can you think of a title for the story? (5’) 7. Homework: Write a ghost story beginning with the following sentence: It was late at night and I was fast asleep in my bed when suddenly I heard…….. (18-20 lines) (2 min)

7. ADDITIONAL POSSIBILITIES 1. The last letter game: 2 teams. Students build words with the last letter of the previous word. Each team has 3 seconds to answer, if not the other team members get the point (no proper names, no numbers, and no repetition of the same word). (5') 2. 'A mime game ' .Teacher explains the task: imagine that I have a magic box here. I am going to take something out(teacher demonstrates it using mime). What is it? Now you take the magic box and take something out. What is there? The class have to guess what it is being mimed. Whole class activity. (5’)