Global education - My International Penfriends - Lesson Plan. By Daniela Buda

On December 5, 2019, I had a very interesting lesson with my 4th grade B. Here is the Lesson plan I made for this lesson. Feel free to use it if you find it interesting and useful. :)

LESSON PLAN

Date	05.12.2019
Grade	4 B
Time	50 minutes
Number of students	28
Teacher	Brigitta Daniela Buda
School	Scoala cu cls. I-VIII “Vasile Alecsandri” Baia Mare
Lesson (Lecția)	Global education – My International Penfriends
Objectives (Obiective)	Identify our partners’ towns and countries on the world map
	Read for specific information in the letters the students got within the eTwinning project
	Listen for specific information
Skills (Abilități dezvoltate)	Reading for specific info Listening for specific info Identify the countries on the continents on the world map: Romania, Germany, Italy, Turkey, Georgia, Bangladesh, Taiwan, Palestine, Kenya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Ukraine Teamwork skills
Language	Vocabulary: countries, continents, flags
	Structures: Present simple
Types of interaction	Student - Student
	Student - Teacher
Possible problems	Some students may turn to Romanian at certain stages. The teacher will remind them to switch to English.

PROCEDURE

Activity (Activitate)	Aims (Obiective)	Teacher (Profesoara)	Students (Elevi)	Type of interaction	Class management
Ice breaker -The imaginary ball game	Remove nervousness	Teacher shows Ss an imaginary ball, which she opens and asks everyone to throw in their nervousness and then throws the ball out of the classroom	Ss throw their nervousness into the imaginary ball	Teacher - students	Whole class
Identify friends and countries	Create curiosity	How many friends have you got in the eTwinning project? From which countries?	Students look through the letters they got from their partners and identify their towns and countries	Student- student	Whole class
Identify the countries on the map and group them by continents	Match countries to continents	Let’s identify them on the world map. Romania, Germany, Italy, Turkey, Georgia, Bangladesh, Taiwan, Palestine, Kenya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Ukraine T opens google maps and asks Ss to point to each country on the world map.	Ss group the countries by continents after watching the world map projected SS match countries to continents Match the flags to the countries. What colours are there in their flags? HO: world maps and the flags of the partner countries. Worksheet 1. Match the flags and countries to the continents	Student - student	Group work
Listening to letters read aloud	Listen for specific information	Choose one letter you like most and read it aloud. Your colleagues will tell us from which country and what age your friend is.	Some students choose one letter and read it aloud and the other students listen to the text and select and fill in the information in Worksheet 2. After that they discuss the info	Students- student
Song	Have fun	“The more we are together, the happier we are” Link:	Students listen and sing the song	Whole class
See messages from our partners on Twinspace	Listen to the messages from their peers and watch the photos from activities.	T. opens Twinspace for Ss to see the messages they got from their peers within the project	The students watch and comment on the materials they see on Twinspace.	Whole class
Homework			Finish the Christmas cards, the December letter

Worksheet 1.

Group work: Group the following countries by continents and match the flags to the countries:

Continent	Country	Flags
EUROPE	ROMANIA
ASIA
AFRICA

Worksheet 2

Identify the following information from the letters you hear read by your colleagues:

	Letter 1	Letter 2	Letter 3	Letter 4
Boy/ girl
Age
Town
Country
Favourite food