NAME    Iiuliia Naumenko                                     

 

 

LENGTH  45 min

LEVEL  elementary

 

 

TOPIC/THEME City and  village

 

LESSON FOCUS:  Listening , Reading

AIMS:

Main: By the end of the lesson, students will have practised  listening  for gist and specific info skills  and they will be able to  speak about cities and villages

 

Subsiduary : to famililiarize  students with such grammar notions such as “ noun” , “adjective” and “verb”

      

 

PERSONAL AIMS:

To give clearer instructions

To  prioritize activities in order to achieve the aims

Try to avoid echoing

Practise regrouping

 

Class profile:

ASSUMPTIONS:

Students might know the construction there is/are

 

 

CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT: ANTICIPATED PROBLEMS/SOLUTIONS

 

1. Students might speak Russian

Solution;;to encourage students to use only English

2. Some students might ask the questions not relevant to the topic.

Solution; to say that we are going to deal with topic later.

 

 

 

PROBLEMS/SOLUTIONS when teaching receptive & productive skills: Reading/Listening/Speaking/Writing

 

Problem; Students might worry that they might not understand all the words in the text.

Solution ; To  explain what skills we are practicing at this lesson

 

 

 

SOURCES OF MATERIALS:

New Headway Elementary , the third edition , 2007 , Oxford University Press , Students’s Book , Page 42
 

 

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PROCEDURE

AIMS

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INTERACTION

Lead in

 

 

 

 

Preteach blocking vocabulary

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Focus on pronunciation

 

 

 

 

 

Pre-listening

 

 

Feedback

 

 Listening for gist

 

 

Feedback

 

 

 

 

Listening for  Specific Information

 

 

 

Feedback

 

 

 

 

 

Focus on useful vocabulary

 

 

 

 

 

Follow-up writing

As preparation for speaking

 

   

 

 

 

Follow up

Speaking

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Feedback on accuracy      and content

 

Teacher asks questions like ; Do you live in a flat or in a house ? Do you live in the city or  in the village ?

 

 

 

Convey the meaning of the word “ town”. Elicit or provide through the context.  Write on the board the  words : Kyiv  ,  Vasilkov , Novo Petrovtsi .  Ask questions : Is Kyiv a country ? Elicit the answer-( a city).  Is Novopetrovtsi a city ? Elicit-a village . Is Vasilkov a city or a village ? Elicit/Provide –a town . Check  understanding  using CCQs.

Elicit/provide the meaning of the words :

Lisbon,  New England , Seoul and Samoa

 Practise pronunciation;(/ˈlɪzbən/

/soʊl/ ,Samoa (/səˈmoʊ.ə/;

 

Ask Students to look at the pictures and ask : “ What can you you see in these pictures ? “ Elicit/ provide the word “ church”

 

 Ask Ss to match the pictures with places

 

 

Ss check  in pairs . Open class.

 

 Set the task : Listen to 4 people speaking about these places. Put  these pictures in the  correct order

 

Check in pairs. Open class

 

 

 

 Give the handouts with a  table and ask Ss to look at the questions   quickly

 Set the task : Listen  again and complete the table with  the info about these places.( Don’t write long sentences , only short phrases )

 

 Pair comparison

 

Open-class discussion

 

 

 

Write the words “ CITY” and “ Village “ on the board .

Convey the meaning of the words ( Quiet , noisy , dirty , polluted, cheap , expensive , modern  , Kitchen garden , Domestic animals, public transport, exciting) Elicit / provide the vocabulary using pictures , antonyms. Check understanding /CCQs

 

 

 Divide the class into two groups;

Set the task ; You really like living in the city / village

Write as many things as you can about the city? Village

Set the time limit-7minutes

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Now we have a competition. Teams stand in line facing each other.

The task is to make a sentence about a city/ village

( Each  team  in turns  makes  sentences about  a city/village. They throw a toy to  their opponents . Tell them they must throw the toy to the people who have not answered yet.) Give them the criteria ;  for every correct sentence they get a point . If  the person can’t make a sentence , he can give the toy to another member of the team but then the team will get only .0,5 point .

 

Highlight errors and elicit corrections

To set the scene and  make students interested in the topic

 

 

 

To enable students to learn the vocabulary that will be used in the following activity

 

 

 

 

 

To give Students an opportunity to pronounce the words correctly

 

 

                                               

 

 

 

 

 

 

To check if students have completed the task successfully

 

To develop students’ gist listening skills

 

 

To check if  Students  have done the task correctly

 

 

 

To develop Students’s  listening  scanning  skills

 

 

 

 

To check understanding

 

 

 

 

 

To enable students to learn the vocabulary that will be used in the following activity

 

 

 

 

 

 

To give students an opportunity to prepare for the next speaking activity

 

 

 

 

 

 

To develop students speaking skills

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To encourage students and provide them with feedback

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