Unit all about Uzbekistan Lesson Where’s Uzbekistan?

Objective: to consolidate Past Simple regular and irregular verbs
STEP 1: Make groups of 5. Explain that every group will write past tense sentences about yesterday’s chores on separate pieces of paper but they have to make a mistake when writing the verb (most pupils will really enjoy being allowed to make a mistake on purpose!). For example, “Yesterday I have breakfast at 7 o’clock.”
STEP 2: After writing some sentences on different pieces of paper, have the pupils swap papers with other groups and make corrections.


Activity 3 Play “Touch the cards.” 10 min
Objectives: to revise weather words;
to practise saying the weather outside
STEP 1: Invite a pupil to walk around the classroom touching the weather cards and saying the weather, for example, ‘It’s sunny’ and having the pupils repeat after him/her.
STEP 2: Next, get all your pupils to stand up. Shout out a weather word, for example, ‘It’s rainy!’ and the pupils have to run over to the correct picture, touch it and say the weather. If you have a lot of pupils it is worthwhile having multiple pictures of each card placed around the walls of the room.
STEP 3: Invite the pupils to come over to the window. Say: ‘Look outside! What’s the weather?’ Elicit from the class the weather, and if it is hot, cold, cool or warm. For example, ‘It’s cloudy and rainy. It’s cold’. Then ask each pupil in turn: ‘What’s the weather?’ and encourage them to reply.


Activity 4a Read. Write T for True or F for False. 8 min
Objectives: to practise reading for detailed information;
to develop the pupils’ reading skills
STEP 1: Ask the pupils to read the sentences and write T for true and F for false sentences in their Workbooks.
STEP 2: Go through the sentences one by one asking the pupils if they are true or false. If the pupils say ‘False’, ask them to correct the information.
Answer key:
1) The winter in Uzbekistan is in December, January and February. True.
2) The weather is always warm in winter. False. The weather is always cool and cold.
3) Snow never falls in winter. False. Often snow falls.
4) It is usually cold in winter. True.
5) Sometimes the rain pours in December. True.
6) There are sometimes windstorms and thunderstorms in December. True.
7) The sun sometimes shines in January. True.
8) Sometimes hot wind blows. False. Hot wind never blows in winter.
9) February is often cloudy, rainy, windy and warm. True.
10) We can usually see snowstorms in winter. True.