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The lesson plan is about teaching students how to make polite requests in English through speaking, reading, and writing exercises.

The lesson teaches students how to make, accept, and reject requests using phrases like 'Can you...', 'Could you...', and 'May I...'. It focuses on developing students' ability to communicate in English at an elementary level.

The teacher leads warm-up questions, presents new vocabulary, and has students practice making requests through role plays, identifying requests in emails, and writing their own emails with requests.

Lesson Plan

School: Liceul cu Program Sportiv Iolanda Balas Soter,Buzau


Teacher: Catalina Vrinceanu
Grade: 10th
Number of students:22
Subject: English language
Theme: Can/Could/ May
Function: making polite requests
Level: elementary
Date:
Time:50 minutes
Competency: students are able to communicate in English for elementary level
Language skills: speaking, reading, writing
Materials: textbook, picture, cards
Teaching methodology: lecture, answer and question,observation
Language aims: students will know how to make a spoken and written polite
request;
students will know certain words that usually are used for making
a request
Objective: students will know how to ask for something;
students will be able to make a polite request;
students will be able to make,accept and reject a request

Target language: make a polite request;


accept a polite request;
reject a polite request

Warm-up
Teacher asks studentsthe following: Have you ever asked for a break?; Have you
ever asked for a holiday?;When was the last time you asked for something? What
was it?; How did you asked?.
Aim: to attract students attention on the lesson
Technique: speaking
Interaction: T-Ss
Time: 5minutes
Students activity: they answer the questions
Presentation of the new language
Teacher writes the target vocabulary on the blackboard separating it into sections
titled Making requests; Accepting requests; Rejecting requests.
Aim: to focus students attention on the new vocabulary
Technique:speaking
Interaction: T-Ss
Time: 5 minutes
Students activity: they write the new vocabulary in their notebooks
Practice
Activity 1
Teacher asks a student to come up to the front of the class. She asks the student if
he can give her his book using the target vocabulary.
Aim: to encourage students to use one of the phrases to accept/reject a request
that she wrote on the blackboard
Technique: speaking
Interaction: T-Ss
Time: 5 minutes
Studentsactivity: they answer using the target language

Activity 2
Teacher gives cards to students who then move around the classroom making polite
requests to other students.
Aim: to encourage students to use the vocabulary listed on the blackboard
Technique: speaking
Interaction: T-Ss; Ss-Ss
Time: 10 minutes
Students activity: they make polite requests and answer to them
Activity 3
Teacher gives students an e- mail . The students read it and identify the polite
request.
Aim: to encourage students to give their own warnings
Technique: reading, speaking
Interaction:T-Ss
Time: 5 minutes
Students activity: they read the text and answer the question
Activity 4
In groups, the students write their own e-mail.They will ask their coach to give them
more free time.
Aim: to encourage students to write polite requests
Technique: writing
Interaction: T-Ss, Ss-Ss
Students activity: they write the e-mail
Time: 10 minutes
Activity 5
A volunteer from each group reads the e-mail to the class

Aim: to encourage expressing a request orally


Interaction: T-Ss, Ss-Ss
Students activity: they read their e-mails
Time: 5 minutes
Activity 6
Teacher asks students to write their own request e-mail as homework.
Aim: to encourage writing requests
Techique:speaking
Interaction:T-Ss
Time: 3 minutes
Students activity: they listen to teachers explications
Assessment
Teacher assesses students participation in class discussions and understanding of
audience.
Aim: to reward students for their activity
Technique: speaking
Interaction:T-Ss
Students activity: they listen to teachers observations
Time:2 minutes

MAKING REQUESTS
Can you give me 5 dollars?
Could you help me with the
homework?
May I borrow your bike?

ACCEPTING
REQUESTS
All right!
Here you are.

REJECTING REQUESTS

Yes, of course.

Sorry, Im using it right

No, Im sorry. I cant.


Sorry.

now.

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