Lesson plan Edutainment. How stories help us 7 grade

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Beginning

5 min

Organization moment:

1. Greeting

- Good morning! I am glad to see you!

I will teach you in English today.

How are you?

What date is it today?

If you are doing well then let's start our lesson.

2. Talking to duty
-Who is on duty today?
-What day is it today?
-What date is it today?

Greeting

I’m on duty today.

-Today is the …

Verbal evaluation

Middle

35 min

1. New theme

Theme of today’s lesson is How stories help us. Open your books and write theme and date.

Ex 1.Why is it important to read or tell stories? Use the list to tell the class. Can you think of more reasons?

Stories are important because they:

- help us communicate with others

- allow us to dream

- help us see how people solve their problems

- shape our culture

- influence the way we think and behave

- teach us ethics & values

- make us want to do the right thing

- help us see the difference between good and bad

- make us experience a variety of emotions

- develop our imagination

Ex 2. Create your own good and bad characters for a detective story. Think about:

-his/her name

-where he/she lives

-what he/she looks like

-what he/she is like

Present your fictional characters to the class.

Ex3. Do the quiz. Mark the sentences T (true) or F (false).

1 Sherlock Holmes was a famous real detective. ………

2 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote The Time Machine. ……….

3 H.G. Wells was born in 1867. ……

4 The Eloi are friendly people. ………

5 The Morlocks live underground. ……..

6 Kai is a special type of dancing. …….

7 Maadai - Kara had a son. ………

8 The Garden of the Poor had no trees in it. ……..

Ex 5. Song: Read the song and in pairs complete the gaps with: pleasant, face, good, scream, safe, right.

Go through Module 5 again and prepare a quiz similar to the one in Ex 3.

Students answer with partners using known words

A: I think stories help us see how people solve their problems.

B: I agree and I also think that stories help us to see the difference between good and bad.

A: I think stories shape our culture.

B: Yes, and they also develop our imagination.

Mary Jones is a tall thin detective with red hair who lives in England. She is cheerful and good at science, and she uses this knowledge to catch criminals.

Ben Thorn is a tall, fat business man who is bald. He lives and works in the USA, and he uses his company to hide the fact that he is damaging the environment to make money.

Answer:

1 F (He was a famous fictional detective)

2 F (H.G. Wells wrote The Time Machine)

3 F (He was born in 1866)

4 T

5 T

6 F (It is a special type of singing)

7 T

8 F (It was full of trees)

Students prepare a quiz in notebooks

Students listen to the song and complete the gaps

Taken from book, page 62

Taken from book, page 62

notebooks

Hangouts

Ending the lesson

5 min

Home task: Ex 4.

Reflection: "What did you know about this lesson?"

Share your impressions of the lesson.

Emoticon

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