Level: B1 Time: 45 min. Target skills

Lesson plan

Teacher: Anjiyeva Zarnigor

Topic: Australian English

Level: B1

Time: 45 min.

Target skills: Vocabulary and reading

Other skills involved: Speaking

Aim: To improve students awareness about Australian English and to develop their cultural awareness through the slides, articles and relevant activities.

Activity	Objective	Procedure	Time	Mode of interaction	Materials
Warm up activity	To introduce the ppt and the focus of the lesson	Teacher divides class in groups and ask them some general questions	15 min.	Group work
Pre - activity	To explain new words related to the topic	Teacher asks questions to students and they exchange their ideas	10 min.	Group work	Handouts videos
While activity	To improve learners vocabulary skills	Teacher distributes handouts, students should find true or false and analyse answers	15 min.	Individual work	Worksheet
While activity	To improve learners awareness about Australian English	Teacher distributes handouts, students should answer the questions and analyse them	15 min.	Individual work	Worksheet
Post activity	To increase pupils' speaking and pronunciation skills	Retelling the context of the passage and expressing opinions	15 min.	Individual work	Worksheet
Conclusion	Revision of the topic	Home task: to find extra information about Australian English	5 min.	Individual work

DETAILED PROCESS OF THE LESSON

Warm up

Materials: Warm up activity

Objective: Introduce the focus of the lesson

Procedure: Teacher explains to students about Australian English

Activity 1

Objective: To consolidate the auditory students have already learnt the previous lessons

Procedure: Teacher divides the class in 3 groups and asks some questions so that they can exchange their ideas

What kind of types of English do you know?

Do you know Australian culture?

Do you like its animals? Why?

Activity 2

Materials:Ppt and handouts

Objective: To explain new words related to the topic

Procedure: Teacher asks specific questions based on ppt that they saw

Activity 3

Materials:worksheet

Objective: Increase vocabulary and comprehension

Conclusion

Materials: worksheet, ppt

Objective: The revision of the topic

Procedure: students should review all previous topics and find extra data about differences of English language variations

Assessment criteria

Assessment: total 5 points for the lesson

5 – excellent

4 – good

3 – satisfactory

Activity 1

Activity 2





Activity 3



Australia - Reading Exercise

Complete the text about Australia with the words below.

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Australia is also called the land "Down Under".

It has about 16 million ____________________. By the way, Australia has more ___________________ than people. 88% of the population lives in towns or cities. One of the most ___________________ cities is Sydney. It has 3.5 million inhabitants. This centre of finance, commerce and tourism has the largest harbour, but also one the ____________________ beautiful beaches (e.g. Bondi Beach). Furthermore, the well-known Olympic Games of 2000 ____________ there. Although Sydney is the ___________________ city of Australia, it is not the capital. That's Canberra. Canberra is a planned city. There has been a real fight ______________________Melbourne and Sydney because both wanted to become the capital of Australia. The compromise was to _______________________ up Canberra. They started the project in 1914. Under thousands of names for the city, they have

________________ an Aborigines' word. The English translation is "meeting place".

The American ______________________ Walter Burley Griffin constructed the city. It is the place of the government. But the head of the "Fifth Continent" is the British Monarch, because Australia is a ____________________ of the Commonwealth.

Of course, it has important ____________________, too. Australia produces wool and exports beef, lamb, wheat and nearly all minerals.

Furthermore, Australia has a typical landscape - the Outback. It is a nearly empty, treeless and flat __________________. Sometimes you can find one of the Bottle Trees or you might meet some _______________, koala bears or a dingo. There is only one larger town there - Alice _________________.