The Weather

Unit: 7. The natural environment

School:

Date:

Teacher name:

Grade: 2

Number present:

absent:

Theme of the lesson

The weather 1

Learning objectives

2.L1 understand a range of short basic supported classroom instructions

2.W3 write support simple, words, phrases and sentences on familiar topics

2.S3 use a limited range of basic words, phrases and short sentences to describe objects, activities and classroom routines

Lesson objectives

All: use some of the new words and describe the weather with the help of teacher

Most: use most of the new words and describe the weather in pairs
Some: use all of the new words and describe the weather themselves

Assessment criteria

Understand short basic classroom instructions
Read and follow simple words and phrases and sentences
Use basic words, phrases and short sentences to describe objects, activities.

Values links

Learners will respect and help to each other working together as a grоup/pair

Cross-curricular links

Geography, Primary science

Previous learning

“Hot or cold”. Learners knew some words according to the theme “weather”

Plan

Planned timings

Planned activities

Resources

Beginning

0-3 min

3-5 min

5-6 min

6-14 min

3-5 min

Greeting: Stand up, please. Hello boys, girls. How are you? Sit down, please.

Warm-up

Teacher: Now watch the video and repeat the actions.

After the video lеаrners find the name of today’s lesson.

Teacher: You watched the video. What is it?

Learners: The weather.
Now we check the words you knew.
“How many seasons in a year? “. What are they

Winter, summer, spring, autumn

Presentation: Using flashcards: Magic eyes
There are flashcards on the board. Repeat the words after me. We repeat the words 3 times.

Then teacher divides the learners into three groups. Teacher gives sheet of papers to the learners and learners read the papers and find their own group.

The 1^st group: “Sunny”

The 2^nd group: “Rainy”

The 3^rd group: “Snowy”

Slide 1

https://www. youtube.com /watch?v =XcW9Ct000yY

The Sun Comes Up!

Sheet of papers

Middle

14-24 min

24-29 min

29-36 min

Practice. Task 1. Draw the weather.
Choose the weather from the first picture and draw it to the next.

Feedback:

If learners’ work is correct: Your work is right, but try to give full answer in some sentences, e.g you gave short answer only hot or windy. Right answers are Today, it is hot, today it is windy.

If learners’ work isn’t correct: Your work is good, but you have some mistakes in your work, e.g you have drawn It’s cold in the first picture. Right answer is It’s sunny.

Teacher will evaluate learners with yellow , blue and red stars for learners answers:

for every correct answer I will give yellow star

for partly correct answer I will give blue star.

For incorrect answer I will give red star

Production

Task 2 Teacher will give to each group papers which have sentences. Learners will read the sentences, find true/false sentences and answer by the method “Think and find”.

E.g

Feedback:

If learners’ work correct: Your answers are correct, but pay attention in your pronunciation in some words, e.g cloudy, snowy, autumn.

If learners’ work isn’t correct: Your work is good, but you have some mistakes in your work, e.g you have written TRUE in the sentence Spring is snowy. Right answer is FALSE and pay attention in your pronunciation in some words, e.g cool, rainy, cloudy, snowy. Then try to work with group.

In this task learners will evaluate each other by method “thumb”

Production
"What`s the weather like today?" What’s your favourite season? What is the weather like in summer?

Feedback:

If learner’s work is correct: Your sentences are excellent, but pay attention in your pronunciation in some words, e.g cloudy, snowy.

If learner’s work isn’t correct: Your sentences are good, but you have some mistakes in your grammar e.g you have said Autumn cold, summer sunny, winter cold. They are wrong answers. Correct answers are autumn is cold, summer is sunny, winter is cold. Then pay attention in your pronunciation in these words: autumn, windy, cloudy.

Cards, pictures

Stars

Slide 10,

Worksheets

End

Reflection

36-40 min

Learners will reflect themselves on their learning by

answering the questions

-What I knew?

-What I learn today?

-What I want to learn?

Feedback

Teacher will evaluate learners by method “Two stars, one wish”.

Teacher: you were very active and you have understood the tasks very well. But you gave short answers, for example rainy or sunny. Try to give full answers like spring is rainy, summer is sunny.

Slide 12,

Additional information

Differentiation – how do you plan to give more support? How do you plan to challenge the more able learners?

I have differentiated my first task by needs of learners. I organized pair work, group work.

Weaker students worked with teacher’s support

Stronger students provided weaker students with additional support.

Differentiation:

All learners match the sentences and words with the pictures

Most learners answer the questions using the pictures

Some learners describe characteristics of weather and retell to each other

Assessment – how are you planning to check learners’ learning?

Through formative assessment;

Checking the task and giving feedback on the work.

In the first task I evaluated learners with yellow, blue and red stars for learners answers:

for every correct answer I gave: yellow star

for partly correct answer I gave: blue star.

For incorrect answer I gave red star

In the second task learners evaluated each other by method “thumb”

Health and safety check

Physical training with watching video

Reflection

Were the lesson objectives/learning objectives realistic? Did all the learners achieve the lesson objectives/ learning objectives? If not, why? Did my planned differentiation work well? Did I stick to timings? What changes did I make from my plan and why?

Summary evaluation

What two things went really well (consider both teaching and learning)?

1: The second task (true/false) was really well. Because learners worked with group. Learners have found answers together. This task helped improve learners’ reading and speaking skills.

2: Game “Catch the ball” was interesting for learners and helped improve their speaking and critical thinking skills. I gave them opportunity to generalize of thought and speak about the weather. I knew their understanding the theme by speaking. I evaluated them effectively.

What two things would have improved the lesson (consider both teaching and learning)?

1: The first task improved the lesson. Because learners memorized adjectives by matching pictures and sentences. I saw this from their answers to teacher’s questions.

2: Game “Catch the ball” improved the lesson. Because I saw the result of my lesson. Learners showed their sentences effectively. Also this game taught them speed.

What have I learned from this lesson about the class or individuals that will inform my next lesson?

I have learned from this lesson that I would improve learners’ communication skills effectively. And I would improve their writing skills next lesson.