Lesson plan for the 4th grade

1. Where do people live? Fun homes
RuslanaShamanska,
a teacher of English,
secondary school # 4,
Hadiach,
Poltava region
Objectives:
ABCD objectives – students of the 4th grade (A- auditory) will be able to use grammar
construction – there is/are, tell about their own houses and understand dialogues for the
purposeof choosing some information (B- behavior ) after completing the lesson
(C- conditions) with 70-80% accuracy (D- degree).
Procedure:
Good morning, everybody. I am glad to see you. Let’s see at our today’s plan for the
lesson. (It’s my routine. Plan for each lesson with tasks for the next lesson or even for
the whole week is written on the additionalblackboard. Plan is written in English with
some Ukrainian words, but teacher hasto explain the stages of the lesson only in
English)
Plan
1. Game “Знайди your pair ”
2. Sing “House song”
3. Read the text “Fun homes”

2. 4. Grammar exercise There is/ There are
5. On-line game “Furniture”
6. Watching video
7. Listen to the dialogue
8. Learn the poem from the Internet
1. WARM-UP
T: Today we continue to speak about different places where people live, about houses
and flats, about rooms of our flats and about the furniture in our houses.
At the beginning of the lesson I would like to ask you some questions. In fact you will
ask them and your friends will answer them, so you have to find the pair “Question-
Answer”
(Teacher gives some children cards with questions and other kids get cards with
answers. One by one kids stand up and read their question, students listen and child who
has an answer should also stand up and read the answer. These kids continue to stand
until all children in the class will stand near their desks.)
Question Answer
Where are you from? I am from Ukraine
Where do you live? I live in Hadiach

3. What is your address? My address is Komsomolska street,
23
Do you live in the private house or in
the flat
I live in the private house
How many rooms do you have? I have three rooms.
Where do you sleep? I sleepin the bedroom
Where do you eat? I eatin the kitchen
What is the number of your flat? My flat is number 45
Who lives with you? I live with my mother and my father
Do you have your own room? I don’t have my own room. I share it
with my sister.
T: Well done, kids. So and now let’s remember the “House song” by Busy Beavers
about rooms and sing together.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DR5qPNPGCmY or
http://www.beaverenglish.com/jukebox/the-house-song/
“House song”
Where’s Mr. Penguin – He’s in the bedroom

4. What’s he doing? – He is reading a book.
Where’s Baby Elephant? – He’s in the bathroom
What’s he doing? – He is taking a bath.
Bedroom, Bathroom, Living Room, Dining Room
Kitchen, not chicken
It’s a kitchen
Where’s Mr. Lion – He’s in the living room
What’s he doing? – He is watching TV
Where’s Billy Beaver? – He’s in the dining room
What’s he doing? – He is studying English.
Bedroom, Bathroom, Living Room, Dining Room
Kitchen, not chicken
It’s a kitchen
Where’s Mr. Brown Bear – He’s in the kitchen
What’s he doing? – He is cooking spaghetti
Where’s Mr. Zebra? – He’s in the kitchen
What’s he doing? – He is washing the dishes

5. Bedroom, Bathroom, Living Room, Dining Room
Kitchen, not chicken
It’s a kitchen
T: Thank you everybody. Let’s applause each other. Sit down, please.
2. MAIN PART
READING:
Pre-reading activity: Are there all these room in every house? Is there a dining room
in your house? Is there a bathroom in the village house of your grandmother? Some
houses are really strange and fun. Todaywe’ll read about some really unusual house.
Look at the picture, is it strange? (Teacher shows a picture of the house, madeout of the
old train carriage. Kids try to explain whatis unusualin this house).
Reading:
This is Jack’s fun house. It is a train. It is very long, but it
is not very big inside. In the train there is a long table and
a small kitchen. In the kitchen there is a small fridge. The
kitchen is next to the living room. There is a TV and a sofa
in the train. There are some bedrooms in the train and
there are lots of big windows, so it is not dark. Outside there is a big garden. It is a great
house – it’s good fun!

6. After -reading activity:
 Try to explain the underlined structures.
 Writing in the exercise-books. Fill gaps with – there is, there are
1. __ there a table? Yes, _______is.
2. Is ______a TV? _________ there is.
3. _________________ there any bed? Yes, there _____.
4. Are ___________any stairs? No, there ______.
5. _____ there a big fridge? ______, there isn’t.
6. Is _____ an attic? No, there _____.
GRAMMAR. Let’s revise some grammar materials
Vocabulary work.
 Please, find all names of the furniture in the text. (table, fridge, sofa)
 Practicing of speaking using prompts. There is a sofa in the living-room.
Is there...? Are there...?
Is there a
bathroom?
Yes, there is.
No, there isn't.
Are there any
windows?
Yes, there are.
No, there
aren't.

7.  Language shooting game “Furniture” from the British Council Kids site.
http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/language-games/balloon-
burst/furniture
(I have a laptop with a wireless mouse and an over-head projector in my
classroom, so kids play the game from their own place.)
The main task of the game is to shootballoons with letters to write the words
which means some item of the furniture. (bath, bed, table, chair, sofa). After
game kids have to make sentences using prompts.
LISTENING
Pre-listening activity.
I would like to show you some other fin house. It is a tree-house. Let’s watch this small
video about tree-house. It was made by ANIMOTO.
http://animoto.com/play/X7YtIlC56av6f1YWVu9qsw

8. Watching video about tree- house
Have you ever seen a tree-house? Do you have a tree-house?
Listen to Monika’s interview with Alex. What furniture does he have in his tree-house.
While-listening activity:
During the listening you have to write down all items of the furniture.
- Hi, Alex. Tell us about your tree-house.
- Well, it’s small and it’s in the garden.
- Is there a living-room?
- Yes, there is. And there is a bedroomtoo.
- Is there a TV?
- No, there isn’t. But there are some books and games. They are on the desk
behind the door.
- Are there any chairs?
- Yes, there are. There is a chair under the window. My skateboard is behind the
chair.
- Is there a cooker or a fridge?
- No, there isn’t a cookeror a fridge, but there is a cupboard with some drinks.
- Is there a bed?
- Yes, there is a bed next to the desk. My mouse is under my bed.
- What’s his name?
- His name is Scratchy.

9. - And is the tree-house fun?
- Yes, it’s really fun.
After -listening activity:
Speaking : Tell about Alex’s tree house. What furniture does he have in his tree house?
(TV, desk, chair, cooker, fridge, cupboard, bed.)
LEARNING POEM
 Todaywe spokeabout different fun houses. We read about train – house, listen
about tree-house and now let’s learn the poem about some very strange house.
http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/ru/short-stories/dark-dark-wood
Teacher gives students worksheets with the beginningof the poem. They have to putthe
numbersto the words in order with the poem and translate these words.
In the dark-dark wood, there is a dark-dark house

10. And in that dark-dark house, there is a dark-dark room
# Word Translation
1 House
2 Room
Ghost
Cupboard
Box
Shelf
SUMMING UP
Well, today we worked really hard. Let’s check our plan – have we done all tasks.
1. Did we play game “Знайди your pair ” ?
2. Did we sing “Housesong”?
3. Did we read the text “Fun homes”?
4. Did we do grammar exercise.?
5. Did we play on-line game “Furniture” ?
6. Did we watching video about tree-house?

11. 7. Did we listen to the dialogue?
8. Learn the poem from the Internet?
Excellent work. And you have excellent marks.
HOMEWORK
At home you have to learn by heart the poem “In the dark-dark wood”and write 7
sentences about your house. (Teacher also explains how to find poem at the site of
British Council Kids)