Every weather has its charm
2-С form
Objectives:
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to activate the vocabulary on the topic ”Seasons and weather”;
to practice speech and grammar skills;
to develop students’ listening skills;
to teach students to write letters;
Needs: panaboard presentation, DVD songs, CD music, letters, cards to fill in (listening activity)
St-s’ objectives: to be able to describe weather, to say what they like doing, to write letters
Procedure
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IV.
Greeting: Good morning, students! How are you? Do you like today’s weather?
What is it like?
Warm – up: What season is it like?
Let’s sing a ”Weather song ”
(DVD song)
Topic and aim
of the lesson:
As you understand today we’ll speak about seasons and weather and
what people like doing in every seasons. The topic of our lesson is
“Every weather has its charm”. (Slide 1)
At the lesson we’ll dramatize poems about weather and seasons, make
up sentences and we’ll write letters.
Vocabulary
Revision:
Riddles
(Slide 3)
№1 The weather is cold. It is often snowy. The days are short and the nights are long. You
can see snow everywhere. The rivers and lakes freeze and we can go skating and skiing.
№2 It is a very nice season. The weather is fine, it is warm. There are many green trees in
the streets, in the parks and in the yards. Sometimes it rains, but as usual the sun shines
brightly. The birds come back from the hot countries and make their nests.
№3 It is hot or warm. The days are long and the nights are short. There are many green trees
and nice flowers in the parks and in the squares in summer. The pupils don't go to school,
they have got their summer holidays.
№4 It is cool. The weather is changeable. It often rains. The days become shorter and the
nights become longer. The birds fly to the South. There are yellow, red, brown
leaves everywhere. It is time for school.
How many seasons are there?
V.
Matching:
Let’s revise the words which can help you to describe the weather. What can the weather be
like? Match the parts of the words and say when is it sunny, cloudy, rainy.
Sun –ny
fog-gy
Clou-dy
fro-sty
Rai-ny
wa-rm
Make up sentences with them: It’s cloudy in autumn.
VI.
VII.
VIII.
Making sentences: (Slide3)
Choose the activity and say when you like doing it.
- Skating
- Riding a horse
- Swimming
…..
Action game:
Go to the board and show the activity you like doing. All the rest will guess what it is.
- Do you like skating?
- Yes I do/ No I don’t
Writing sentences: (Slide 4,5,6)
Look at the photos and pictures and say they like doing these.
IX.
Relaxing
Exercise:
(DVD song)
“Head and shoulders”
X.
Video
activity:
We’ve got an email message from American boy. His name is John. He wants to come to
Ukraine and he wants to know what the weather is like in Ukraine and what you like
doing . And he says about himself. So listen and put a tick near the activities he likes
doing.
John likes
Horse
riding
Cooking
Swimming
Eating
fruits
Eating ice
cream
Eating
bananas
XI.
Anwer the
Questions:
1. Does he like horse riding?
2. Does he like cooking?
John doesn’t
like
3.
4.
5.
6.
Does he like swimming?
Does he like eating fruits?
Does he like eating ice cream?
Does he like eating bananas?
XII.
Writing a letter
Now write a letter to John about yourself and about weather in Ukraine.
(music is playing)
XIII.
Summarizing
So you see that the weather can be nice in winter and in summer, in spring and in autumn
and you can do many interesting things in different seasons because every weather has its
charm.
I see that you can describe weather, make up sentences and write letters.
XIV.
A secret message
A secret message:
A
1
B
C
2
3
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
4
5
6
7
8
9
10 11
12
13
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
14
15
16 17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
5+22+5+18+25
XV.
23+5+1+20+8+5+18
H/T: wb unit 11
8+1+19
9+20+19
3+8+1+18+13