LESSON PLAN
Teacher: Fatıma Erdoğan
Grade: 9th
Level of the students: elementary
Topic: The birth of a star
Duration: 40 min
Materials: smart board, board marker, worksheet
Objectives:
By the end of the lesson,
students will be able to;
·
Identify the
meaning of some words which is related to the story.
·
Practice their listening
and writing skills.
·
Recall and
analyze about reading passage.
·
Use ‘present continues
tense” in the meaningful sentences.
Preparation (10 min)
1. The teacher begins the lesson with a warm-up activity
which is a song includes present continues tense sentences. It is for fun. The
students listen to the song and try to sing the song together. After then, she
hands out worksheet to them about song. It is gap-fill activity. The students
listen to the song again and try to fill in the blanks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK94AbfZg6E
2. The teacher asks some questions about sky and stars.
She shows some pictures related to words. For ex: cloud, telescope, pushchair
etc. The students try to guess words by looking pictures. Later, she hands out
a worksheet. It is matching activity. Students match the pictures to their
definitions.
The Main Activity (15 min)
1.
The teacher asks them work in pairs and underline the time expressions
which is present continuous tense in the story. Every pairs read the story once and underline.
2.
The teacher asks
some questions about story .For ex: What is the story about?
3.
The teacher asks them to find a suitable title for story and writes them
on the board.
Follow-up (15
min)
1. The teacher hands out a worksheet which is ordering
activity.
2. The teacher asks them to write a story by using words
and tense: astronomer, cloud, nappies, pushchair, telescope and present
continues tense.
Read the story.
June 5th 2006
Henry looks carefully into the telescope which lets
him see far, far away. He sees distant nebulae on the far edges of the Milky
Way. Henry is an astronomer. He looks at the sky, and at stars. His favourite
thing is looking through the telescope. And today he is very excited. He isn’t
sure, but he thinks that there is a dense cloud which might be the beginning of
a new star.
July 5th 2006
Henry is still looking for a tiny point of light in
the sky. He checks the lists and lists of numbers that his computer produces,
and tries to make sense
of
them. He tries to turn the basic data into an image, a picture of the star. He hopes to see, but it
is not possible. He
arrives home. His wife Anna sits down next to him. “I have some news…” she says.
August 5th 2006
Henry is so excited about being a father. Anna is feeling sick and
tired. Henry is no longer thinking about nebulae and clouds and gases. He is
thinking about pushchairs and nappies.
September 5th 2006
Anna and Henry go to the doctor. Anna has an ultrasound scan. Henry
looks at this image. It almost looks like a cloud. He can see the outline of a
head, the features of a face.
October 5th 2006
Anna finally starts to get fatter. Henry is feeling terrified. For the
first time now, he realises exactly what it means. In a few months time, he
will be a father.
November 5th 2006
Anna
looks at her tummy and now starts to feel that there is another living person
inside her. She thinks about Henry’s job, and remembers how excited .He could
see a new star.
December 5th 2006
Henry thinks that Anna looks a bit like a whale, but that she is very
beautiful anyway. He thinks that next Christmas everything will be very, very
different.
January 5th 2007
Anna feels that she wants to sleep all the time. The baby is kicking her from inside. She feels
like a football. She can’t wait to become a mother. Henry calls her ten times a
day on her mobile phone.
February 5th 2007
Henry doesn’t care about seeing his star any more. He knows that
although he may be the first person
to see a new star, it is impossible for him to see the birth of a star, from
its beginning to its appearance. But he doesn’t care because a new star has
just entered his life.
“But we don’t have a name” says Anna, holding the tiny baby in her arms.
“I have” says Henry. “I’ve got a beautiful name for her.”
“What is it?”
“Stella.
Let’s call her Stella.”
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