Biography of a writer

LESSON: Unit 9. Reading for pleasure.

Biography of a writer.

School: Atameken secondary school

Date: 27.04.2018

Teacher’s name: Aydaeva Nagima

Class: 5

Number present: 12

absent: 0

Learning objectives that this lesson is contributing to

5.L2 understand an increasing range of supported questions which ask for personal information

5.S2 ask questions to find out about present and possibly past experiences on an increasing range of general and some curricular topics

5.W4 write with support a sequence of short sentences in a paragraph to give basic personal information

Lesson objectives

All learners will be able to:

- do the tasks by listening;

Most learners will be able to:

-talk about people’s lives using a lifeline;

Some learners will be able to:

-make up sentences in past simple;

Language objective

Learners can:

Learners can make up sentences about people’s life.

Key words and phrases:

Be born, start a job, go to school, have children, get married, retire, die, graduate;

Useful classroom language for dialogue/ writing: vocabulary and listening

Discussion points:

Make sentences by using past simple form of verbs.

Can you say when……?

When we use past simple form of verbs?

Writing prompts:

Complete the sentences with the words by listening to the CD.

Previous learning

Pupils have learnt about regular and irregular forms of Past simple.

Plan

Planned timings

Planned activities

Resources

Warm-up

5 minutes

Organization moment.

How are you pupils?

What did we learn at previous lesson?

Yes, you are right. We have learnt about Past Simple and its forms: regular and irregular verbs. Have you learnt them by heart?

Ok, now everybody come here and choose one card. I want to divide you into two groups by the “X” and “O”.

Let’s play a game as a review to past simple forms of the verbs. Here we have two teams and we have from one to nine numbers and at the background of the numbers are hidden verbs in present simple tense and you must find it’s past simple form. If you find it’s past simple form you must draw your symbol on this table. Your task is to fill one line vertically or horizontally. Which team fills first that will be a winner.

Worksheet

Slide

Blackboard and a chalk

Main part

30 minutes

1.Write the past simple of the verbs and learn their translations.

2. Fill in the gaps by listening to the CD. It’s an individual work.

He was one of the great poets and philosophers of Kazakhstan.

He was born on August 10, 1845.

He was from Semei in East Kazakhstan.

In English ‘abai’ means ‘careful’.

He was a great poet. He was also a translator, philosopher and composer.

He had 4 children.

He wrote poems such as ‘Spring’ and he wrote books such as ‘The Book of Words’.

He died on the 6^th of July in 1904.

If you have finished you must check your work and assess themselves according to the descriptor. Right answers are on the board.

Now, Who is this text about?

Yes, you’re right about

Abai Kununbeav.

What do you know about him?

Do you know his poems by heart?

Who can read one of his poems

by heart in Kazakh?

3. Your next task is to put the words in right order in the lifeline.

Was born, went to school, took exams, went to college, graduated from college, started a job, got married, had children, retired, died.

4. Work in groups. Think about a famous person and make sentences about their life. Then two group exchange your work and try to guess who is famous person is?

Slide

CD disk and worksheets

A3 papers, glue and worksheets

Reflection

5 minutes

The Five fingers method.

1)The thumb. What went well?

2) The index finger. What could be

improved?

3) The middle finger. What went

wrong? Negative feedback.

4) The ring finger. What we like

to keep?

5) The pinkie finger. What did

not get enough attention?

Pictures of a palm

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

ICT links

Health and safety check

Values links

More able students will be active in doing activities and I’ll put them some referential questions. They will support less able students.

I’ll give smiles for pupils after each task and I use “The five finger” method as a reflection. Criteria based assessment.

History and Kazakh literature

Active board and CD disk

To teach pupils to be more active.

Reflection

Were the lesson objectives / learning objectives realistic?

What did the learners learn today?

What was the learning atmosphere like?

Did my planned differentiation work well?

Did I stick to timing?

What changes did I make from my plan and why?

Summary evaluation

What two thing went really well (consider both teaching and learning)?

1:

2:

What two things would have improved the lesson (consider both teaching and learning)?

1:

2:

What have I learnt from the lesson about this class or individuals that will inform my next lesson?

№

Name of the pupils

Knows the past simple forms of the verbs

(2 score)

Can fill in the gaps by listening

(9 score)

Can make lifeline

(2 score)

Can make sentences in the Past Simple

(2 score)

Total

15 points

1

2

3

4

5

6

№

Name of the pupils

Knows the past simple forms of the verbs

(2 score)

Can fill in the gaps by listening

(9 score)

Can make lifeline

(2 score)

Can make sentences in the Past Simple

(2 score)

Total

15 points

1

2

3

4

5

6