Specialized lyceum №24 named after Mukhtar Aryn

Short term plan № 23

Theme of the lesson: City life, country life

Unit 1:

Unit: 2 DAILY LIFE AND SHOPPING

Teacher name:

Bekbaeva Zh.M

Date:

8a 24.10.2023

8 b 18 .10.2023

8v24 .10.2023

Grade: 8 a, b, v

Number present:

Absent:

Theme of the lesson:

City life, country life

Learning objective (s) that this lesson is contributing to

8.4.2.1- understand specific information and detail in texts on a range of familiar general and curricular topics;

8.3.7.1 use appropriate subject-specific vocabulary and syntax to talk about a growing range of general topics, and some curricular topics;

8.3.8.1 Recount some extended stories and events on a growing range of general and curricular topics

Lesson objectives

Most learners will be able to:

• read a text about life in the city and in the country.

• decide if information about the text is true or false.

• talk about their families.

Teacher’s actions

Students’ actions

Assessment

Resources

Greeting

2 min

Greet students; students respond to greeting and take their places. Hello, boys and girls! How are you?

Hello, teacher!

Warm up

3 min

Warm-up

• Books closed. Divide the board in half and write a heading in each half: City life and Country life.

• Divide the class in half. Ask students in one half to discuss in pairs or groups the advantages of living in a city. The students in the other half discuss in pairs or groups the advantages of living in the country. Set a time limit (e.g. two minutes) for students to brainstorm ideas.

• Invite students from each group to write their ideas on the board (in note form). Point out who had most ideas and discuss with the whole class which advantage is more important for each lifestyle.

Background

In the Altai Region of Western Mongolia, the remarkable Kazakh eagle hunters (called Berkutchi in Kazakh) practise their ancient tradition of hunting with golden eagles. The Golden Eagle festival takes place every year with the birds soaring through the air looking for the elusive Corsac fox. The festival also features horse racing and archery. The Berkutchi prefer to use young female eagles and it is believed that the strongest birds are those that are caught in the wild rather than those taken from their nests. The 4000-year-old tradition attracts many tourists and it is a unique occasion to witness and experience the nomadic lifestyle of the Kazakh people.

Teachers book

Practice

2 min

1 • Books closed. Write the questions from Exercise 1 on the board.

• Explain that students are going to pretend they are in a speaking exam and have to answer these questions. Give them a minute to think about their answers. Encourage them to give an extended answer (i.e. talk for more than 30 seconds) and give an example if necessary. Point out that in

the first question, they can describe where they live.

• Before students do the task, give them some assessment criteria. For example, write on the board: How did your partner describe his/her city/town/village?

Did he/she use a variety of adjectives?

Did your partner explain why they like the place?

Was your partner answer long enough?

What else could he/she talk about?

• Students do the task in pairs. Encourage them to make assessment notes and give their partner feedback.

Answers

Students’ own answers

Eyes open 4

P 27

3 min

2 • Students open their books at page 27 and look at the photographs. Explain that they are going to read about Alina and where she lives.

• Ask students to skim read the text once and find all the places she mentions. (Aktau, Astana, the Altai Mountains)

Have they ever visited these places?

• Before students do the task, check their comprehension of settle in, models, hospitable, keep something alive.

Give them a time limit to mark the sentences true or false and encourage them to correct the false sentences with information from the text.

• Students can compare their answers in pairs before you check answers with the class.

• Draw students’ attention to the information About Kazakh families. What do they know about their ancestors? Discuss with the whole class.

Students skim read the text once and find all the places she mentions Suggested answers

1 F (She used to live in Aktau.)

2 T

3 F (It freezes in winter.)

4 T

5 F (Sheep go up into the mountains in summer.)

6 T

7 T

Comments

Eyes open 4

P 27

10 min

3 • Students read the text again and list all the things that Alina likes about moving to Astana and all the things that she doesn’t/didn’t like.

• Students try to think of other possible good or bad aspects of moving to / living in Astana e.g. living in a different type of house/apartment, getting around, size of school, etc.

• Students decide, using their notes on the text, whether they think Alina is generally happy about moving to Astana or not. Do all students agree?

Answers

Positive: Has good friends now, exciting because it is

growing fast, great things to do (e.g. skating, shopping

centres)

Negative: Missed friends at first, extreme weather, often have to stay indoors in winter Overall, Alina seems happy to have moved to Astana.

Eyes open 4

P 27

20 min

Ask students to scan the text and underline all the adjectives Alina uses as well as any modifiers (easy, good, exciting, quite extreme, cold, great, nice, famous, beautiful, completely different, really impressive, enormous, amazingly skillful, young, hospitable, important, national).

• Elicit the adjectives and discuss with students why it’s important to use a variety of adjectives (e.g. to make the text more interesting to read, to avoid repetition). Discuss which adjective the students think are useful for them to learn and use (possibly impressive, enormous, skillful, hospitable).

• You can also encourage students to think of synonyms and opposites, e.g. enormous/large/gigantic/huge/big, and note them down in their notebooks.

Conclusion 1 min

Let’s revise what we have learnt today.

Evaluation

2 min

Students are evaluated according to the criteria, answers and activeness

Homework 2 min

research information about life in different places.