Unit all about Uzbekistan Lesson Where’s Uzbekistan?

Activity 1 Listen and sing. 5 min
Objective: to warm up by repeating the song
Play the DVD. Ask the pupils to listen to the song and sing it.
Look at Unit 5 Lesson 1 Activity 1 for the DVD script.
Note: Do not worry if the pupils cannot sing everything. It is OK if they sing some lines or even just some words.


Activity 2 Play “Basketball”. 8 min
Objective: to revise the weather words
Put the pupils into two teams. Explain that you will show a weather flashcard, a pupil from their team will say two sentences about it and take a shot with a ball (or a scrunched up piece of paper) at a trash can/box/basket. First demonstrate: show a weather flashcard (e.g. sunny) to Pupil 1. If s/he answers correctly (e.g. ‘It’s sunny. It’s hot.’), then s/he can have a shot at the basket. If the pupil gets the ball in the basket, then s/he wins 2 points. If the pupil hits the basket without going inside, then s/he wins 1 point. The team with the most points is the winner.


Activity 3 Work in pairs. Check your partner’s homework. 10 min
Objectives: to check homework;
to develop the pupils’ reading skills
Ask the pupils to take and swap their Workbooks in pairs. Then ask them to open the Workbooks to Page 27 and look at Homework 1. Explain that they must write true or false next to the statements. Explain that when they finish with Homework 1, they can read the text about a season in Homework 2 and write what season it is under the text.


Activity 4 Work in groups. Make a poster about your region. 20 min
Objective: to develop the pupils’ creative abilities
STEP 1: Make 4 groups. Explain that they are going to make a poster about their region. So in their group they are going to write a part of the project.
STEP 2: Allocate the following topics to 3 groups: location and cities; weather; interesting famous places/sights. The 4th group will make a design of a poster with the photos/pictures the pupils have brought. Monitor the groups’ work and help if necessary.


Homework 2 min
Ask the pupils to open their Workbooks and look at the homework. Check that everybody understands what to do. If necessary, explain that they must write about their region, its location, weather and interesting places like the one they did in the project lesson.