Unit 1 Greetings

Activity 1 Sing a song.

Objectives: to warm up

You can repeat any warm up song you want.

Activity 2 Look, listen and number.

Objectives: to recycle the learnt vocabulary

to develop the pupils’ listening skills

The pupils should listen to small statements and choose a season.

Explain the task. Ask the pupils to look at the pictures and say the things they can see in them. Correct! Seasons. In what order are they located? In the logical order. After spring is summer, after summer is autumn and then winter.

At the bottom corner of each picture there is a small empty square. What for is it necessary? Of course, for writing the numbers there. Then say that you will read a text about any season but you will not name it. The pupils must listen attentively, guess what season you are talking about and write the number of the text in a small square at the bottom of a picture. Warn the pupils that you may start to speak from any drawing.

Ask the pupils what they should know to perform the given task and offer to recollect the necessary things.

1 What words do we use for describing the weather?

Cold, hot, warm, cool, sunny, cloudy, rainy, windy, snowy.
2 What can we do in various seasons?

Ski, skate, play hockey, play snowballs, go, jump, run, swim, sleep, climb, fly, dance, fly a kite, play football, jump a rope.

Say that after repeating all the words, the pupils should cope with the task successfully. Then ask the pupils to listen attentively.

Text 1. (Winter)

It’s cold. It’s snowy. I can play snowballs. (Read 3 times)

After that, ask the pupils what season you have just spoken about. The pupils answer “About winter”. But how did they guess? The pupils explain. Sum up that the words “cold”, “snowy” and “play snowballs” say that it is winter. Then ask all the pupils to take pencils and write number 1 in a small square under the picture of winter.

Further, remind the pupils that they should listen attentively.

Text 2. (Summer)

It’s hot. It’s sunny. I can swim. (Read 3 times)

Explain to the pupils that now they should find out independently what season is spoken about in the text. Ask those pupils who have difficulty finding the answer to raise their hands. If 1-2 pupils raise hands, you should approach to them and help individually. Further, ask the pupils to put number 2 in a small square under the necessary season.
Then ask the pupils to be ready to listen to the text 3.