Term 1

Unit 1 "Our world"

School:

Date:___26___.09.2018

Teacher’s name: Kuitekenova Zhumagul

Grade 8 __

Number present:

Number absent:

Theme of the lesson:

My country: Our world.

Learning objectives(s) that this lesson is contributing to

8.C8 develop intercultural awareness through reading and discussion.

8.UE2 use a growing variety of quantifiers for countable and uncountable nouns including several, plenty, a large/small number/amount on a range of familiar general and curricular topics.

8.S5 interact with peers to negotiate, agree and organise priorities and plans for completing classroom tasks.

Lesson objectives

All learners will be able to:

• Recognize and use verbs connected with the environment, phrases to talk about quantity.

• Identify the meaning of the text about an environmental problem in Kazakhstan.

Most learners will be able to:

• Use speaking and listening skills to solve problems cooperatively.

Some learners will be able to:

• Discuss and give their opinions about local environmental problems using own words.

Value links

Being environmentally conscious/friendly, actively providing solutions to global problems.

Cross curricular links

Ecology.

Previous learning

Writing an email about an environmental problem.

Use of ICT

Smart board for showing a presentation, getting additional information, playing the audio files.

Intercultural awareness

Learners share and compare environmental problems in Kazakhstan and other countries.

Health and Safety

Breaks and physical activities used.

Plan

Planned timings

Planned activities

Resources

Beginning the lesson

The lesson greeting.

The teacher sets the lesson objectives, letting students know what to anticipate from the lesson.

Warm up.

Using pictures related to the text for discussion.

• Where do you think it is?

• Do you know of any problems associated with Aral sea?

• Think of any other environmental problems and their causes.

Main Activities

Ex.1 p.16. Conveying the meaning of new words. Use of dictionaries.

Reading for detailed comprehension.

Gap filling activity.

Answers:

1) irrigate

2) shrink

3) split

4) restore

5) flow

6) increase

Ex.2 p.16. Justifying true/false statements with reference to the text.

Answers:

1) F - It was one of the largest lakes in the world.

2) F - It's in Kazakhstan.

3) T

4) F - A small number of freshwater fish species have returned.

5) T

Ex.3 p.16. Recognition exercise.

Answers:

1) uncountable

2) two

3) two

4) countable

5) 100 percent

6) more than enough

Ex.4 p.16. Ticking off items.

Answers:

1) amount

2) plenty

3) Both

4) several

5) all

Ex.5 p.16. Speaking about local environmental problems in a form of discussion.

CD

CD

Ending the lesson

Giving the hometask. Poster "An environmental problem in my country"

“Cinquain” is a five-line poem based on the content of the material under the study.

Line 1 – One-word title.

Line 2 – Two adjectives for describing that word.

Line 3 – Three verbs.

Line 4 – Four feeling words.

Line 5 – A synonym for the title word.

End

1min

Feedback: Teacher asks students what task was difficult to them and which pair worked well.

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?

Critical thinking

Differentiation can be achieved through the selection of activities, identification of learning outcomes for a certain student, provision of individual support to learners, selection of learning materials and resources based on the individual abilities of learners.

Assessment criteria:

1. Raise awareness about cultural diversity through reading and discussion.

2. Apply the correct quantifiers including much, many, a lot of, some, any for countable and uncountable nouns in the context.

3. Demonstrate the ability to participate in a conversation.

Descriptor:

A learner:

• recalls some events based on his/her own experience.

• completes the task with proper quantifiers.

• discusses questions and answers the questions within the group.

• Observation

• Feedback on the work

• Self-assessment

Students think critically, exploring, developing, evaluating and making choices about their own and others’ ideas