National parks

Unit of a long term plan:

Unit 3 Our Countryside. Lesson plan 32

School:

Date:

Teacher's name:

CLASS: 6

Number present:

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Lesson title

My country: National parks.

Learning objectives(s)

6.C3 respect differing points of view

6.R6 recognise the attitude or opinion of the writer on a growing range of unfamiliar general and curricular topics, including some extended texts

6.UE14 use prepositions to talk about time and location; use prepositions like to describe things and about to denote topic; use prepositions of direction to, into, out of, from, towards on a limited range of familiar general and curricular topics familiar general and curricular topics

6.S7 use appropriate subject-specific vocabulary and syntax to talk about a limited range of general topics

Lesson objectives

All learners will be able to:

• Identify the theme, new words and use them as the basis for discussion.

• Demonstrate basic knowledge for usage of the Present Tenses.

• Identify some of the main ideas and specific information correctly in text and use some target vocabulary correctly in response to prompts

• Offer constructive peer-feedback using rubric.

Most learners will be able to:

• Select, compile, and synthesize information for an oral presentation

• Provide a point of view in conversations and discussions;

• Identify most of the main ideas and specific information correctly in text and use a range of target vocabulary correctly in response to prompts

Some learners will be able to:

• Respond to and discuss the reading passageusing interpretive, evaluative and creative thinking skills.

• Apply the correct form of the Present Continuous Tense in the context;

• Identify all of the main ideas and specific information correctly in text and use a range of target vocabulary correctly in response to prompts

Level of thinking

Higher order thinking skills (according to the revised Bloom's taxonomy).

Assessment criteria

• Read the given text and identify the general information.

• Demonstrate skills of organizing and expressing ideas accurately.

• Illustrate a viewpoint in a discussion.

Target language

National park, landscape, animals and plants, environment, species, willows, honeysuckles, vertebrates, paradise, eagles, attractions, sand dune, organ, signs, the paintings on the rocks, archaeological sites.

Values links

Responsibility, Global Citizenship, love too flora and fauna

Cross-curricular links

Natural Science, Social Science.

Previous learning

Vocabulary relating to people's activity and animal's life and actions

Plan

Planned timings

Planned activities (replace the notes below with your planned activities)

Resources

Start

5 min

Pre-learning (W)

Teacher greets the class and suggests playing the game to the learners. Teacher explains the rules for this game.

• Game “Back to Blackboard” Rules:

One person stands back to the picture of an animal;

Classmates should not name the animal;

Classmates can give some associations with the animal’s name;

Classmates can mime the animal’s name;

Classmates can sing some lines from the songs.

• Teacher can organize competition between two teams, when the first team mimes, the second should guess the word

The teacher introduces the objectives of the lesson.

Teacher informs that they are going to take a new material about national parks and asks Sts. if they know some parks in Kazakhstan.

Slide (useful phrases)

Pictures

Presentation

Main part

The main part of the lesson.

• Teacher suggests doing a translation exercise connected with a popular national park. This task should be done in pairs or groups.

Алтын -Эмель» — государственный национальный природный парк в долине реки Или на территории Алматинскойобласти Казахстана. Парк организован 10 апреля 1996 года. Цель создания парка — сохранение уникального природного комплекса, археологических и историко-культурных памятников,редких и исчезающихвидов растений и животных, развитие экологического туризма. Флора парка насчитывает около 1800 видов растений, среди них 21 вид занесён в Красную книгу Казахстана. Установлено обитание 1658 видов беспозвоночных. На территории парка обитают 78 видов млекопитающих, 260 видов птиц, 25 видов пресмыкающихся, 4 вида земноводных, 26 видов рыб.

invertebrates, reptiles, amphibians, mammals, rare and extinct.

What other national parks do you know?

This is a list of national nature parks in Kazakhstan:

• Altyn-Emel National Park

• Bayanaul National Park

• Burabay National Park

• Buiratau National Park

• Charyn National Park

• Ile-Alatau National Park

• Karkaraly National Park

• Katon-Karagay National Park

• Kokshetau National Park

• Kolsay Lakes National Park

• Sayram-Ugam National Park

• Zhongar-Alatau National Park

• Working with the text"Altyn - Emel NationalPark". Read the text and do ex. 1 - 2. Fill in a table:

Animals (fauna)	Plants( flora)
1.	1
2.	2.
3.	3.
4.
5.

• What can you say about flora and fauna of this park?

• Flora and fauna here is unique.

Taranga tree

Willows

Honeysuckle

3 groupswill speak about unusual plants.

Ex. 4 - 5 p. 40.

Whiteboard

Writing

Worksheet

A list

Student's Book p. 40

A table

Pictures

Posters

End

Home task. Write about one national park.

Students express their attitude to the lesson and give self-assessment using the method: “Six thinking hats”:

• Green: How can you use today's learning in different subjects?

• Red: How do you feel about your work today?

• White: What have you leant today?

• Black: What were the weaknesses of your work?

• Blue: How much progress have you made in this lesson? (Now I can, I still need to work on, I've improved in, Today I learnt... )

• Yellow: What did you like about today's lesson?

Slide (Homework)

Slide "Six thinking hats"

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?

Health and safety check

Differentiation can be achieved through content (Based on the theory of Multiple Intelligences different tasks are used with the same text).

By support:

Less able learnerswill be supported through step-be-step instructions, glossaries, thinking time.

By task:

For more able learners additional leveled tasks are offered.

Assessment criteria:

• Read the given passage and identify the general information.

• Demonstrate skills of organizing and expressing ideas accurately.

• Illustrate a viewpoint in a discussion.

Descriptors:

A learner

• reads the text for global understanding;

• selects meaningful information, constructs the answer;

• presents information in the group discussion.

• evaluatesthepeers’ answers.

Teacher's observation using observation checklist (Appendix 2 - reference to the resource "Literature Circle Role Sheets" by Christine Boardman Moen. p.28) and monitoring.

Self-assessment.

Health saving technologies.