Методика-новый indd

Warm up  
5 min
Play the DVD. The pupils listen and repeat the poem.
DVD: 
Thirty days have 
September, 
April, June and November.
All the rest have thirty-one,
except 
February alone,
Which has twenty-eight days clear,
And twenty-nine in each leap year.
Activity 1a Look and say in your mother tongue.   
5 min
Objective:  to raise awareness of the similarity of months in 
English and the mother tongue 
STEP 1: Ask the pupils to look at the word “months” and the 
balloons. Give them one or two minutes to try to read the months 
on the balloons silently for themselves. 
STEP 2: explain the word “months” in the mother tongue. 
Then say that the words on the balloons are the months of the 
year. Then ask the pupils if they could notice any similarities 

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between the months in english and the months in their mother 
tongue. elicit some answers.
STEP 3: summarise that all the months in english are similar 
to those in the mother tongue except some differences in spell-
ing and pronunciation. explain that it is very easy to learn and 
memorise them if they compare the months in english and the 
mother tongue. Write the months on the board in the order they 
are presented on the balloons (not like the order in the calendar!) 
and their equivalents in the mother tongue. For example, in Uz-
bek it would be as follows: 
April — aprel; June — iyun; August 
— avgust; May — may; February — fevral; September — sentabr; 
January — yanvar; December — dekabr; March — mart; November 
— noyabr; July — iyul; October — oktabr. 
Language Note: here, explain that in english the months are 
written with capital letters everywhere in the sentence: at the 
beginning, in the middle and at the end. however, in the mother 
tongue they are written with small letters in the middle and at 
the end but with capital letters at the beginning of the sentence.
STEP 4: Read aloud what you have written on the board one 
after another and have the pupils see how much similar and dif-
ferent they are.