Grades English Teacher

Lesson 1 What’s the weather?

The aim of the lesson:
Educational: – to learn how to say seasons and weather
Developing: – to enable pupils to speak about seasons and weather; enable them to understand and perform commands Socio-cultural: – to raise awareness of the seasons and the ways of saying weather; – raise awareness of the pronunciation of the sounds [aʊ], [ʊə] and [s].
Competence: SC1, FLCC and PC in questions
Learning outcomes: By the end of the lesson, pupils will be able to: – speak about seasons and weather; – perform commands; – pronounce the sounds [aʊ], [ʊə] and [s].
Type of the lesson: non-standard, mixed
Method of the lesson: group work, pair work
Equipment: Pupil‟s book, Workbook, the DVD, cards with: letters; hop, jump, walk, run, and climb

The Procedure of the lesson:

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   Organizing moment: - Greeting. - Checking the register - Checking and asking homework
   
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   Pre-Activity
   

Activity 1 Listen and repeat.
Objectives: to introduce the words for weather (sunny, cloudy, rainy, windy, snowy); to introduce the song “What’s the weather?” (music by Clementine)
Put five flashcards with the pictures depicting weather in front of the blackboard: one of the flashcards has a sun above a tree (sunny); the second flashcard has the same tree but there are clouds above it (cloudy); the third flashcard also has the same tree but there are clouds over it and it is raining (rainy); the fourth flashcard also has the same tree but wind is blowing (windy); the last flashcard also has the same tree but it is covered with snow and it is snowing (snowy).
Say that it is winter now and it is cold, sometimes it snows and sometimes the sun shines. People are always interested to know what the weather is like today. The weather forecasters report what kind of weather will be today or tomorrow.

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