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1. DEVELOPING ENGLISH THROUGH ART ORIENTED ACTIVITIES
LESSON PLAN, THEME: SHAPES AND VOLUMES
School: “Carmen Sylva” College of Art, Ploiesti, Romania
Grades: lower secondary, 11 to 12 years old
Unit: “Metamorphosis”
Teachers: Adriana Brăileanu
Lessontype: mixed
Lessonobjectives:
1-Cognitive objectives:
a) Stimulation of creativity using arts, English, mixed media and ITC;
b) To learn to reinterpret the meaning of shapes, to reconstruct shapes and
contours using imagination as a tool;
2-Affective objectives:
a) To make students confident in themselves, when using English, creativity,
performing arts and computing;
Skills: communicating in English, draw, using different technics of mixed media in art;
Interaction: Teacher-Students; Students-Students;
Assessment activity: the students will be assessed on class participation, and for the percent of
creativity released.
Teaching technique: dialogue, draw, perform different media technics, questioning;
Method of teaching: Communicative approach
Time: 50 minutes
Motivation:
The lesson is about ways of reinterpreting the shapes and volumes. We learn that shapes and
volumes are not fix and unchangeable, with rigid meaning. We can take a shape with certain
representation, which in our mind represent something very clear and unmistakable and
transform in other thing, with a different meaning. For example we may choose a human body

2. shape which is by far the most identifiable shape. Using magazines and papers with people and
cut their shape, turn them on the other side and reinterpret the meaning. We may use the resulted
shapes in a collage in order to reconstruct a new shape with a new meaning. Thus we provoke
our imagination and creativity to reinterpret the shapes other than we expect their original
meaning.
Teachers activity Student activity Spent
time on
the
activity
The purpose of
activity
Teachers makes introduction
of subject, present the main
idea about Shapes and
Volumes, engage students in
conversation.
Students participate with
information; generate a
short brain-storming on
subject.
5’ Students get interested
in subject.
Teachers present the main
parts of lesson, develop the
concept and suggest forms of
application.
Students takes notes,
prepare for lesson with
materials.
10’ Students prepares for
active participation.
Teachers present some
examples of how to re-
interpret the shapes using
samples of people contour
which were cut before.
Students listen and take
notes, ask question.
5’ Involve students in
active interest of
lesson.
Teachers help students to
engage in their own work,
help with choosing most
expressive shapes, from
different media.
Students make their own
templates with mixed
images and media.
15’ Active participation of
students, engagement
in the process.
Teachers provoke students to
reinterpret shapes from the
resulted templates, mixing
and combining the shapes.
Students find different
figurative shapes in
abstract forms resulted in
prior activity.
10’ Students find joy and
satisfaction in work
with abstract
concepts.
Teachers stimulate students
to find practical and
theoretical conclusions from
the resulted images,
conceptual and aesthetical
analyze of the results.
Students participate at
analyses; find new form of
applications of the ideas.
5’ Forming conclusions
and evaluation.