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Unit 10 Plants

Lesson 1 Water, forest, mountain, desert

The aim of the lesson:

Educational: - to learn about the four habitats for animals and plants; to learn what animals and plants live in the four habitats; to learn what 4 things animals and plants need to live

Developing: - to enable pupils to say the four habitats for animals and plants

Socio-cultural: - to raise awareness of the habitats for animals and plants; to raise awareness of the four things the plants and animals need to live

Competence: SC2, LC and PC in saying about nature

Learning outcomes: At the end of the lesson pupils will be able to: act out a joke phone talk; say the four habitats for animals and plants; say what animals and plants live in the four habitats

Type of the lesson: non-standard, mixed

Method of the lesson: group work, pair work

Equipment: Pupil's book, Workbook, the DVD, "My plants" booklet

The Procedure of the lesson:

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   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

Activity 1 Listen and repeat. 5 min Objective: to warm up

STEP 1: Play the DVD. Ask the pupils to listen to "The planting song" and say what the song is about. Accept all reasonable answers. STEP 2: Play the DVD again and ask the pupils to sing it together with the DVD. The planting song Working on the farm all day long. Everybody sings the planting song

Working on the farm all day long. Everybody sings the planting song.

First you take a seed and put it in the ground, put it in the ground, put it in the ground. Then you get some water and pour it all around, pour it all around, pour it all around.

When the sun comes out the light shines down, the light shines down, the light shines down.

The leaves grow green and the stem grows brown, the stem grows brown, the stem grows brown._ When the fruit is ripe, they'll be big and round, big and round, big and round.

We'll pick the fruit and take it to town, take it to town, take it to town

3. Main-Part

Activity 2 Work in pairs. Play "Telephone". 10 min

Objective: to consolidate the material of the previous unit

STEP 1: Ask the pupils to read the telephone conversation silently for a minute. Tell them that it is a joke.

STEP 2: Ask the pupils to work in pairs. Explain that now they will also do a similar joke telephone conversation. The pupils can use their own mobiles or pencil cases as phones.

4. Post-activity

Activity 3a Look, listen and repeat. 10 min

Objectives: to introduce the topic of the unit; to introduce the new vocabulary of the lesson.

In advance, bring to class a completed "My Plants" booklet (like the one the pupils did about family in Unit 1 and about birds and insects in Revision 3) for the pupils to see. Look at Unit 10 Lesson 2 Activity 3 for the instructions to make a booklet. Draw the pupils' attention to the topic of the unit "Plants". Explain to them that they know the word "plant" as a verb. It can be a noun, too. Explain its meaning as a verb and noun in mother tongue. Tell the pupils that during this unit they will learn different habitats around the world where animals, fish, birds and plants live. Show the pupils the "My Plants" booklet completed by you. Explain that they will be making one of their own where they will draw a picture of what they learned or something interesting they remember for each lesson.

Activity 3b Read and answer. What animals and plants live in forests? 5 min

Objectives: to practise reading for specific information; to raise awareness of the forest as a habitat for animals and plants.

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

Lesson 2 Trees and flowers

The aim of the lesson:

Educational: - to learn about the four habitats for animals and plants; to learn what 4 things animals and plants need to live;

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  to learn some trees and flowers
  

Developing: - to enable pupils to read and write about flowers; to develop the pupils' creative abilities Socio-cultural: - to enable pupils to read and write about flowers; to develop the pupils' creative abilities Competence: SC2, SC and LC in speaking about nature and plants

Learning outcomes: At the end of the lesson pupils will be able to: say the four habitats for animals and plants;

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  say what 4 things animals and plants need to live; to read about a sunflower and write about a cactus; to name some trees and flowers
  

Type of the lesson: non-standard, mixed

Method of the lesson: group work, pair work

Equipment: Pupil's book, Workbook, the DVD, "My plants" book-lets enough for each pupil, pictures of a forest, desert, mountain and underwater

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

Activity 1 Listen and repeat. 5 min

Objective: to warm up

Play the DVD. Ask the pupils to listen to ―The planting song‖ and sing it together with the DVD. DVD script: See Unit 10 Lesson 1 Activity 1 for the DVD script.

Activity 2 Answer the questions. 5 min

Objective: to revise the material from the previous lesson

Explain that now you will ask some questions about the previous lesson. Elicit answers for the first question.

Answer key: food, water, air and sun Then elicit answers for the second question. You can show the pictures of a forest, desert, mountain and underwater one by one to help the pupils answer the question.

3. Main-Part

Activity 3a Look, listen and repeat. 5 min

Objective: to introduce the new vocabulary of the lesson

STEP 1: Ask the pupils to look at the pictures and s.ay what they are in their mother tongue. After they have recognised them correctly, you can have them listen and repeat the words (a willow, a tulip, a rose, a mulberry) after you/the DVD in chorus, rows and individually as usual. Write on the board: [л] - bus, cut, mulberry, [ju:] - pupil, tulip. Drill the words and sounds drawing the pupils‘ attention to the different sounds of the same letter.

STEP 2: Then you can ask the pupils to do ―Point and say‖ activity in pairs.

4. Post-activity

Activity 3b Mime and guess. 7 min

Objective: to consolidate the new vocabulary

Ask the pupils to come to the board in turns and mime a tree/ plant that they have learnt so far. The class will guess.

Activity 4 Look and read. Draw and write about a rose. 20 min

Objectives: to give practice in reading for main ideas; to prepare for the homework activity; to develop the pupils‘ creative abilities. Advance Preparation: Prepare a ―My Plants‖ booklet for each pupil. To make the booklet, fold a sheet of colour paper in half. Then fold four blank sheets of paper in half and insert into the folded colour paper. Staple at the seam to hold the booklet together.

Ask the pupils to look at the picture of a sunflower and read the text. After they have finished reading, draw their

attention to the words ― leaves‖ and ―need‖ . Explain that if we talk about one, we say or write ― leaf‖ . If we say, about two or more, we say or write ― leaves‖ . Ask the pupils to look at the Remember box and draw their attention to the spelling changes. Then say the meaning of the word ―need‖ in mother tongue. Then have the pupils repeat the words after you in chorus.

5. 
   Giving homework 3 min Workbook at Page 52
   
6. 
   Evaluation. Giving marks according to pupils participating in classwork activities 2 min