English Teacher: Grades

Lesson 3 Small - smaller - the smallest

The aim of the lesson:

Educational: to learn to say, read and write about insects and birds;

Developing: to enable pupils to say, read and write about birds; to enable pupils to find a bird by asking Yes/No

questions; to enable pupils to compare birds and use the simple, comparative and superlative degrees of one-syllable adjectives

Socio-cultural: to raise awareness of birds; to raise awareness of the ways of comparing the things in English

Competence: SC2, SC and LC in comparing by size

Learning outcomes: At the end of the lesson pupils will be able to: - name insects and some birds; - use the three degrees of one-syllable adjective with birds; - find a bird by asking Yes/No questions; - pronounce the letter combinations ―ea‖ - [i:].

Type of the lesson: At the end of the lesson pupils will be able to: name insects and some birds; use the three degrees of one syllable adjectives with birds; find a bird by asking Yes/No questions-standard, mixed

Method of the lesson: group work, pair work

Equipment: Pupil's book, Workbook, the DVD, word cards: caterpillar, grasshopper, insect, butterfly, ladybird, mosquito

The Procedure of the lesson:

1. 
   Organizing moment: - Greeting.
   

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  Checking the register
  
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  Checking homework and asking words from previous lesson
  

2. Pre-Activity

Warm up Listen and sing 5 min

Objective: to warm up.

Play the DVD. Ask the pupils to listen to the song and sing together with the DVD. DVD script: U6 L1 Activity 1.

3. Main-Part

Activity 1 Play "Draw and guess". 10 min

Objective: to revise the names of insects.

Divide the class into two teams and invite one member of each team to the board to be the 'artist'. Divide the board into two and give each artist a word card. They must draw the insect for their team to guess what it is. The first team

to guess correctly wins a point. Word cards: caterpillar, grasshopper, insect, butterfly, ladybird, mosquito, ant Note: If the class is not good or keen on drawing, it can be replaced by miming.
Activity 2a Look, listen and repeat. 5 min

Objective: to introduce the new vocabulary.

STEP 1: Ask the pupils to look at the picture. Explain that it is a school for birds. The director is the eagle. Ask the pupils to find the director and the word for it (eagle). Elicit what the translation can be in mother tongue. Ask the pupils to look at the picture on the right of the director and the word "peacock". Ask what "peacock" is in mother tongue. Then do the same with the other five pictures and the words for them

Activity 2b Play "Mime a bird". 5 min

Objective: to consolidate the new vocabulary.

Invite a pupil to the front of the class. Ask him to mime a bird in Activity 3b, the others in the class ask Yes/No questions as shown in the example below until they find the bird. e.g. Pupil A: (mimes a peacock) Pupil B: 'Is it an ostrich?' Pupil A: 'No.' Pupil C: 'Is it a peacock?' Pupil A: 'Yes.'

4. Post-activity

Activity 3a Look, say, listen and repeat. 5 min

Objectives: to introduce the superlative degree of one-syllable adjectives to consolidate the comparative degree of one- syllable adjectives.

STEP 1: Ask the pupils to look at the pictures and the words under them. Then say: 'The swallow is small.' and show its size with hands. Then say: 'The sparrow is smaller than the swallow.' and show its size. After that say: 'The humming bird is the smallest.' with gesture.

Activity 3b Look and write. 5 min

Objective: to consolidate the comparative and superlative degrees of one-syllable adjectives

STEP 1: Ask the pupils to open their Workbooks at Page 32 and look at Picture A in Activity 3b. Ask them to compare the birds‘ speed and write the comparative and superlative degree of the word ― fast‖ under the pictures. Help if necessary.

5. 
   Giving homework 3 min
   
6. 
   Evaluation. Giving marks according to pupils participating in classwork activities 2 min
   

Lesson 4 Project

The aim of the lesson:

Educational: to learn about the birds

Developing: to enable pupils to make posters; to enable pupils to make a presentation; to develop pupils' creative abilities

Socio-cultural: to raise awareness of birds

Competence: SC4, FLCC and PC in commands and speaking about school objects

Learning outcomes: By the end of the lesson, pupils will be able to: make a poster about a bird using a model; make a group presentation

Type of the lesson: non-standard, mixed

Method of the lesson: group work, pair work

Equipment: Pupil‘s book, Workbook, the DVD contour pictures of: penguin, ostrich, peacock, eagle, sparrow