Strange Town USA

Unit 9 Transport.

Lesson

Teacher’s name:

Date:

Grade: 6

Number present:

absent:

Lesson title

Strange Town USA

Learning objectives

6.3.1.1 provide basic information about themselves and others at sentence level on an increasing range of general topics

6.2.4.1 understand the main points of supported extended talk on a range of general and curricular topics

6.4.5.1 deduce meaning from context in short texts on a limited range of familiar general and curricular topics

6.5.1.1 plan, write, edit and proofread work at text level with support on a limited range of general and curricular topics

Lesson objectives

Learners will be able to:

• Learn the affirmative past simple form of regular verbs.

• Practise the skills needed in multiple-choice listening tasks.

• Listen to a radio programme about the origins of town names in America.

• Listen for general meaning and specific details

Plan

Stages / Time

Teachers’ actions

Students’ actions

Assessment criteria

Resources

Beginning of the lesson

5 min

Organization moment

1.Greeting.

Ask about the weather.

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

Warm-up

Method speaking phone was used to develop speaking skills.

Lead – In

• Write on the board: Christopher Columbus America.

• Ask students what verb should go in the gap (discover) and elicit that the verb must be in the past tense because this happened in the past.

Students' attention is drawn to the lesson.

Students discuss the pictures in pairs.

Determines the topic and aim of the lesson

Students say different words from the picture

Formative Assessment

Good job!

Assessment criteria

-Identify detailed information in extended conversation with support

Pictures

Student’s book

Middle of the lesson

Presentation part.

35 min

Ex: 1 P:108

• In a weaker class, check students understand the meaning of the verbs in the box, and allow them to complete the activity in pairs

Ex: 2 P:108

• Read through the spelling rules with the class.

• Students copy the table into their notebooks and add the past forms of the verbs from exercise 1.

• Check answers with the class. Point out the double l in travelled and tell students that some verbs double their final consonant in their past tense form.

Ex: 3 P:108

• Explain that if students read the questions and the options carefully, they may be able to eliminate some options that they know are false.

• Do not check answers at this stage.

Ex: 4 P:108

• Refer students to the photos and the information about Strange Town USA. Allow students time to read it.

• Play the CD. Students listen and choose the correct answers. Play it again for them to confirm their choices.

Conclusion during the lesson some tasks differentiated by outcomes of the students and by their abilities.

Students complete the sentences with the verbs in the box. Do the sentence refer to the past or the present?

Differentiation:

«Verbal support» method is used to help Students use new words in the text.

Students study the spelling rules. Then complete the table with the verbs.

Students read the information about Strange Town and listen to the programme.

- Descriptor:

-complete the sentences

Total: 1 point

Descriptor:

- complete the table with the verbs.

Total: 1 point

Descriptor:

- read the information

- listen to the programme

Total: 1 point

Worksheets

End of the lesson

5 min

FEEDBACK

Learners provide feedback on what they have learned at the lesson.

Students evaluate each other and encourage classmate with phrases like:

Well done! Brilliant!

Poster