Grades English Teacher

Lesson 2 What colour is winter?

The aim of the lesson:
Educational: to learn how to say seasons, their colour and the kind of weather
Developing: – to enable pupils to speak about colours and seasons, and the kind of weather; – to enable pupils to understand and perform commands
Socio-cultural: – to raise awareness of the seasons and the ways of saying a season, and a kind of weather. – raise awareness of the pronunciation of the sounds [ɔ:], [ɒ], [ʊə] and [u:].
Competence: SC6, PC and LC in saying seasons and the kind of weather.
Learning outcomes: By the end of the lesson, pupils will be able to: – speak about colours and seasons; – say the kind of weather; – perform commands; – pronounce the sounds [ɔ:], [ɒ], [ʊə] and [u:]
Type of the lesson: non-standard, mixed
Method of the lesson: group work, pair work
Equipment: Textbook; the DVD of the book; flashcards: colours, spring, summer, autumn and winter.

The Procedure of the lesson:

1. 
   Organizing moment: - Greeting.
   

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  Checking the register
  
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  Checking and asking homework
  

2. 
   Pre-Activity
   

Activity 1 Listen and sing.
Objective: to warm up and revise colours
Look at Unit 7, Lesson 1, Activity 1 for instructions.

3. 
   Main Part
   

Activity 2 Play “What Colour is Winter?”
Objective: to introduce the question “What colour is winter?” and the answer “Winter is white”.
First, repeat the material of the previous lesson on the seasons and the question “What season is it?” Show the pictures of all the seasons, ask questions about them and get answers like “It‟s winter”.
Then say that you will now ask a new question about the song “Spring is green”, and ask “What colour is winter?”. Explain that the word “colour” denotes “rang/цвет” and the question “What colour is winter?” means “Qish qanday rangda?/Какого цвета зима?” in Uzbek/Russian. Ask the pupils whether they remember what colour the winter is. Surely, their answer will be “oq/белая”. Clarify that “oq/белая” is “white” in English. After that, together with the children practise the answer “Winter is white”.
Further, explain that the children need to be careful because they will have to say the colour of the season which is said in the question. So ask “What colour is spring?” and have the pupils translate the question into their native language. Then ask pupils to answer the question. Listen to the answers and select the right one. Praise the children and say that the answer is correct because “spring” is “bahor/весна”, and the spring is green. So the correct answer is “Spring is green”. After that, work on the sentence in chorus. Further, work on the rest seasons of the year.
The children must be taught to give an answer as it sounds in the song.