1. Teaching vocabulary and pronunciation Bogdan tefania

2. April Fool’s Day Grade: 4’th Level: beginners Topic: Special Days Lesson title: April Fool’s Day

3. I chose three different types of activities, in order to teach vocabulary related to April fool’s day: 1.) General discussion based on realia; ( frontal activity) 2.) Word Hunter - crossword regarding pranks, tricks, imagination and some other words related to the spring season; ( individual activity) 3.) “Making – up my own prank!” (group activity)

4. First activity T: Let’s remember together the last 1’st of April.  What kind of a day is this, is it a special day, a holiday? How do we use to celebrate it? Why it is called the Fool’s day?  How did you spend April Fool’s day this year? How would you describe this holiday?

5. Second activity Ss. are given a crossword that contains the following words: April, games, funny, prank, joke, butterfly, spring, laugh, imagination, surprise, tricks, joy, childish, flower, sun. There are fifteen words that Ss. have to find in a given time (5’); the activity will be organized as a competition and the Ss. who find all the words will come to the board and write them down. All the unknown words will be explained, if necessary.

7. Final activity This is a more complex activity because it has two parts; Reading: Ss. are given a worksheet with a text about how April Fool’s Day is celebrated in the U.S.A; the main task is to identify precise information from the text and apply it in the group activity that follows; Group activity: based on the rules given by the text, Ss. arranged in groups of four will make – up their own pranks; at the end of activity, each group will present it’s prank.

9. Extra activity: What colour socks do bear wear? They don’t wear sock, they have bear feet / bare feet. What do you call bears with no ears? “B”. What’s orange and sound like a parrot? A carrot. What occurs twice in a week, once in a year but never in a day? The letter “E”.

10. Objectives: To identify the meaning of April Fool’s day. To list words related to the topic of the lesson. To recognize some given rules from a text. To design an original prank/joke.

11. Techniques: 1.) Realia: using a real fact, T. builds – up a discussion about the topic, introducing and getting Ss. familiarizing with 1’st of April related vocabulary. 2.) Game: the crossword is a funny and competitive way of learning new words or even to remember them. 3.) Group – work: this activity can be seen as a mean of reinforcement, because Ss. have to use the new vocabulary in order to make – up a joke and also to introduce the new words in their own syntactical structures.