Unit 5. Reading for pleasure

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Date: 15.01.2024

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Grade: 8 «а», «ә»

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Theme of the lesson

Movie technology.

Learning objectives(s) that this lesson is contributing to

8.3.3.1- give an opinion at discourse level on a wide range of general and curricular topics;

8.4.1.1- understand the main points in texts on a growing range of unfamiliar general and curricular topics, including some extended texts;

Lesson objectives

-give an opinion about movie technologies.

-identify the meaning of the text about the history of cinema;

-use suffixes -er and -or;

Planned timings

Teacher’s activities

Pupil’s activities

Evaluation

Resources

Warming-up

Team work

5 min

Organization moment:

1.Greeting.

Checking up the home task.

Look at the pictures. Match the film genres with pictures.

Method “Short conversation”

Let’s talk about Movies.

Students matches the film genres with pictures.

Students choose one card and answer the questions about movies.

At the organization moment T tries to award active Ss. «The praise» method is used to evaluate Ss with phrases like:

“Good job!

Well done!”

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Middle of the lesson

35 min

Exercise 1,p.58. Look at the words in the box.

When students have done this task , teacher asks round the class to find out if they guessed correctly.

ANSWERS

1 colour 2 sound 3 3D 4 surround-sound

5 computer-generated images 6 digital projectors

Students read through the words in the box with the class and

elicit or explain the meaning.

• Students guess the order of the words on the timeline in

pairs.

• Students can check their answers by reading and listening

to the text.

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Exercise 2.

Find the answers to the questions.

• Teacher gives time to read the study strategy carefully.

In a weaker class, go through each point and check

understanding. In a stronger class, ask students if this is

something they do already.

Encourage all students to follow the tip step-by-step, by

underlining the key words in the questions then looking

for these in the text.

ANSWERS

1 In 1902.

2 There were more than 4,000.

3 They listened to a pianist.

4 Some actors lost their jobs because they didn’t have good

voices or because they could not act and speak at the same

time.

5 Surround-sound became popular in the 1970s.

6 With future technology it is possible that we will be able

to feel a character’s emotions by connecting our bodies to

special cinema seats

• Students read the text “ Moving pictures: technologies and movies” again and answer the questions.

• Students can compare their answers in pairs before you

check with the class

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Exercise 3

• Do the first item with the class by asking students to read

the text, and to put their hand up when they find the

correct word (viewer).

• Check answers and spelling by asking students to come

up and write the words on the board.

ANSWERS

1 viewer 2 producer 3 actor 4 projector

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Exercise 4

• In a weaker class, ask students to identify the verb in

each sentence, then do the first item with them as an

example.

• Check answers with the class and point out that there is

no rule in English to say whether a noun will end in -er or

-or, so students must learn the noun for each verb.

ANSWERS

1 director 2 speaker 3 conductor 4 inventor

5 painter 6 translator

Students find corresponding nouns in the text ending with the suffix -er or -or for giving verbs.

Students write the noun for each verb, then check their

answers in a dictionary.

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Exercise 5

• Read through the questions with the class and check

understanding.

• Ask some students to report back to the class on their

discussions.

• In a stronger class, open up the discussion by asking

their opinions on films with computer-generated images

and those in 3D. Ask: Are some of these films better made

than others? Have you got a favourite? Why? Do you

appreciate the films for the effects or the story, or both?

Students tprepare their answers individually.

Then students ask and answer the questions in pairs.

Some students report back to the class on their

discussions.

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Ending the lesson

5 min.

Reflection

KWL chart

K - Recall what you KNEW about the subject before the lesson start.

W - Recall what you WANTed to learn in the beginning.

L - Identify what you LEARNed so far.

Hometask:Read the text

Students complete the chart .

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