Celebrations and special days. Talking about family celebrations and relationships

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Theme: Unit5. Values

Celebrations and special days

Talking about family celebrations and relationships

Level and number of learners/ class profile

Beginner level

Timetable fit

Learners already know about holidays which British people celebrate;

Main aim(s)

Learn and practice verbs to talk about celebrations;

Subsidiary aims

Practice talking about celebrations and special days;

Assumptions

Learners can make positive and negative sentences in present simple;

Anticipated problem

Learners may have problems in answering to the questions in start thinking;

Possible solution

To give learners sentence starters;

Timing

Procedure

Stage aims

Aids and materials

Interaction pattern

10minutes

Learners talk to the questions in start thinking.

Books closed. Learners tell each other what they did on their last birthday.

T gets feedback from a few pair by asking a few learners to describe their partner’s birthday.

To get learners talking

Warm-up: to get learners talking and introduce the topic

Sentence starters:

My birthday is on the…

My favourite months are…

In my country the next celebrations are popular…

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Individual work

Pair talk

T eacher

Individual learners

15minutes

Ex1p54 Learners look through at the different celebrations at page55 and decide which one they think looks more fun.

Learners repeat, write down the new words from the blackboard. Individual learners read the new words.

Dance[ dæns ], Wear[ wer ]

Sing [ sɪŋ ], Decorate

[ ˈdekəreɪt ], Cook [ kʊk ]

Celebrate [ ˈselɪbreɪt ]

Learners complete 1-6 with six of the words in yellow from the quiz.

To get feedback

To introduce new vocabulary

Student’s Book

Tablet slide

Student’s Book

T eacher

Whole class

T eacher

Individual work

Individual work

10minutes

Ex2p54 Learners in pairs do the quiz on page55. They may guess the answers if they don’t know.

Ex3p54 Learners do the activity individually before checking their answers in pairs. They have to choose the correct combinations of verbs and nouns.

To give information about famous celebrations of the world;

To make affirmative and negative sentences

Student’s Book, Celebrations Quiz

Student’s Book

Pair work

I ndividual work

Pair work

5minutes

Ex4p54Learners find the celebrations in the quiz and complete the phrases.

To highlight the importance of prepositions

Student’s Book

I ndividual work

Whole class