At the Travel Agency

Long-term plan unit:

Geography and Travelling

School:

Date: 05.02.2018

Teacher name:

Grade: 9

Number present:

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Theme of the lesson At the Travel Agency

Learning objectives(s) that this lesson is contributing to

9.S respond with limited flexibility at sentence level to unexpected comments on an increasing range of general and curricular topics

9.W write with support a sequence of extended sentences in a paragraph to give basic personal information

9.UE3 use a growing variety of nouns on a limited range of familiar general and curricular topics

9.C organise and present information clearly to others

9.R understand with little support specific information and detail in short, simple texts on a limited range of general and curricular topics

9.L understand a sequence of supported classroom instructions

Lesson objectives

All learners will be able to

• name words of previous lesson connected with the topic

• learn more topical words while working in pairs with some support

Most learners will be able to

• practice answering questions while watching a video

• improve listening skills

Some learners will be able to

• develop their critical thinking skills by composing their dialogues

Language object

Use a growing variety of nouns

Value links

Respect, responsibility, honesty, trust, creativity.

Cross curricular links

Self-knowledge, Psychology and Art

ICT skills

Projector or Smart board

Intercultural awareness

Students will be able to understand that every person and country has their own values.

Kazakh culture

Students will be able to differentiate family values in Kazakh culture

Pastoral Care

Students will be able to understand the importance of individuality

Health and Safety

Everyday classroom precautions will ensure that safety measures are provided to prevent the exposure of electrical power cords

Previous learning

Travelling

Plan

Planned timings

Planned activities

Resources

Beginning

3 mins

Today we’ll continue speaking on the topic “Travelling”. First of all, we’ll remember all the words connected with the topic.

Name as many words as you can.

Well, let’s form 3 groups from three rows. (Teacher names facilitators of each group and give them assessment sheets)

assessment sheets

Middle

2 mins

5 mins

4 mins

5

mins

2

mins

3

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4

mins

10

mins

Lead in

Activity 1: Look at the slide and make sure understanding the meaning of these words. You may name their synonyms or just translate the word.

Activity 2: Read and answer the questions.

1. Who is a holiday maker?

2. Where do people travel?

3. Have you ever been to a resort?

4. When do people fill in customs declaration?

5. How can people get to the place of their destination?

6. What documents do people need for travelling abroad?

Activity 3: Watching a video file.

Watch the video and try to answer the following questions:

1. Where does the conversation take place?

2. What are the speakers?

Well done! So, the theme of our lesson “At a travel agency”. Write down the date and the theme of the lesson.

We’ll revise using of some Modal verbs, study some peculiarities in the job of travel agents and try ourselves in their roles.

Activity 4: Ok. So, planning a holiday is a very important task. It includes a number of steps. Have a look at this slide. Here you see some of these steps.

• I want you to arrange them in the correct order.

Arrive to the place of destination. 4

Plan holiday activities. 2

Go to the station or to the airport. 3

Visit a travel agency. 1

Enjoy the vacation. 5

- Now check yourselves (from slide)

Physical activity: Let’s imitate means of travelling

Activity 5: Professional skills of modern travel agents:

• Listen to them and try to guess their meanings

• Listen and practice their pronunciation

skill budget to balance to coordinate to master

Activity 6: Grammar reference. Let’s refresh using meanings of some modal verbs.

Activity 7: Writing Practice.

Do matching skills of travel agents with correct modal verbs.

Activity 8: Composing the dialogues on the topic according to the fact files and filling them.

• 2 learners from each group compose the dialogue

• The rest learners listen and do filling in the file facts:

1. Destination:

2. Transport:

3. Time of leaving:

4. Holiday activities:

5. Documents:

slide 1

slide 2

a video file

slide with steps of planning a holiday

slides with means of transport

slide with new lexic

slide Modal V

cards with fact files for composing a dialogue

sheets with file facts

End

2 mins

Feedback:

• Let’s have a short quiz “What kind of person are you?”

• Facilitators’ comments

sheets with

the quiz

Additional information

Differentiation – how do you plan to give more support? How do you plan to challenge the more able learners?

Assessment – how are you planning to check learners’ learning?

Cross-curricular links
Health and safety check
ICT links, Values links

• More support can be given in Activity 6 when they elicit the using of modal verbs

• Provide more support less-able learners with arranging the steps of planning a holiday in Activity 4

• More-able learners can be encouraged to compose own dialogues.

• Monitor when they guess the meaning of the topical words in Activity 1

• Monitor when learners read and answer the questions in Activity 2

• Assessment criteria for facilitators

• Use of Smart board or projector while presenting the words and tasks

• Develop learners’ love, respect to their friends and country, a sense of responsibility and concern for the future.