I love weekends

Unit 2. Daily life and Shopping

Term 1

LESSON: I love weekends

School:

Date:

Teacher name: Tulevova Z

CLASS: 8

Number present: 2

absent: 0

Learning objectives(s) that this lesson is contributing to

8.4.3.1- understand the detail of an argument on a range of familiar general and curricular topics, including some extended texts;

8.4.6.1- recognise the attitude or opinion of the writer on a growing range of unfamiliar general and curricular topics, including some extended texts;

8.1.3.1- respect differing points of view;

8.1.4.1- evaluate and respond constructively to feedback from others;

8.3.5.1- interact with peers to negotiate, agree and organise priorities and plans for completing classroom tasks;

8.2.3.1- understand with little or no support most of the detail of an argument in extended talk on a wide range of general and curricular topics;

8.6.5.1- use questions which include a variety of different tense and modal forms on a range of familiar general and curricular topics;

8.3.6.1 link comments with some flexibility to what others say at sentence and discourse level in pair, group and whole class exchanges

Lesson objectives

All learners will be able to:

• understand the main idea about the weekends

• practise speaking skills through communication

• improve reading and listening skills through working on the text and video

Most learners will be able to:

• understand the speaker’s viewpoint about the weekends

• practise speaking skills through communication in groups

• improve writing skills through spelling the most of the words accurately

Some learners will be able to:

• understand and explain the speaker’s viewpoint about the weekends

• practise speaking skills through communication and presenting a project

• improve speaking skills through expressing their opinion

• understand and explain the speaker’s viewpoint about the weekends

• practise speaking skills through communication and presenting a project

• improve speaking skills through expressing their opinion

Language objectives

Use present simple, future simple, prepositions

Value links

Respect and support classmates’ points of view and their choices

Cross curricular links

Geography, History

ICT skills

Smart board for presenting a PowerPoint Presentation and video, a computer

Intercultural awareness

Students will be able to understand that every sight in our city is important and worthy

Kazakh culture

Students will be able to value the places to visit at weekends in our city

Pastoral Care

Students will be able to understand the importance of respecting values

Health and Safety

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

Previous learning

Phrasal verbs, British Teen Scenes, clothing and shoes

Plan

Planned timings

Planned activities

Resources

Beginning

Class organisation

Warm-up and lesson objectives presentation

Learners should guess the topic of the lesson through looking at the screen with a riddle.

Teacher introduces the lesson objectives. Yes, we’ll talk about weekends. And at the end of the lesson you will make a project about the possible ways of spending weekends in our city.

PowerPoint Presentation

Middle

Lead-in

Discussion

Teacher asks students to work in pairs discussing the following questions:

• Do you like weekends? Why/Why not?

• What do you usually do at weekends?

Working with the text and video.

Learners are given a task to watch the video about weekends and fill in the gaps in the textbooks. They check each other’s answers looking at the PowerPoint Presentation. The pupils should give one point for each correct answer in the evaluation papers.

They check answers through looking at the screen. The pupils evaluate themselves for this task giving one point for each correct answer. They use evaluation papers.

Speaking

Learners answer the questions: What does Jane/Nurlan do at weekends? Discuss as a class.

Students work in three groups, preparing a blog or a webpage about spending weekends in our city. The first group is #entertainment, the second group is #nature, the third group is #culture. They use pictures, hashtags.

The pupils present their blogs or instapages.

PowerPoint Presentation

Pupils’ book

PowerPoint Presentation

Video

Evaluation papers

PowerPoint Presentation

Evaluation papers

Handouts (pink and blue cards)

PowerPoint Presentation

posters, pictures

End

Feedback

How do we usually evaluate blogs?

The students give their “likes and comments” to the blog they liked most of all.

stickers