Unit  3 Earth and our place on it

Topic: Do you like living in the city or in the countryside?

School: 

Date:

Teacher’s name: 

CLASS: 9

Number present:

absent:

Learning objectives that this lesson is contributing to

9.4.3.1- understand the detail of an argument in extended texts on a range of familiar general and curricular topics;

9.6.3.1- use a variety of compound adjectives and adjectives as participles and  a variety of comparative structures to indicate degree on a range of familiar general and curricular topics;

9.5.3.1- write with moderate grammatical accuracy on a wide range of  familiar general and curricular topics;

Lesson objectives

All learners will be able to:

Tell about the given topic with some support and do the tasks;

Most learners will be able to:

Tell about the given task without support with some mistakes;

Some learners will be able to:

Provide coherent idea on the given topic

Assessment criteria

Learners have met the learning objective if they can: speak about advantages and disadvantages of the city and countryside

Value links

Explore the themes of native places

Cross – curricular links

Geography

ICT skills

None

Previous learning

Mountains of the world

Plan

Planned timings

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

 Resources

Beginning of the lesson

10 minutes

1   Greeting

Teacher greets the students.

•  Good morning boys, girls!
• How are you today?

(Each student tell how he/she is)

• Who is on duty today?
• What date is it today?
• What  was your homework?

You are given exercise 2. You have to check these words and phrases in your dictionary. Did you check? If you do it, we’ll know it during the lesson. Because you’ll use these words in your speech.

Today we have an interesting theme: Do you like living in the city or in the countryside?

Vocabulary (G)

Right now I want to check your vocabulary. On the board there is an alphabet. You have to write the words beginning these letters. Be attentively and quicker. Are you ready? Start!

Assessment: Group applause the winner group

Exercise 2, page 39

Board, cards

Middle of the lesson

25 minutes

I have a question for you. Where do you like living in? In the city or in the countryside? Answer please, one by one

Learners answer the question

Teacher assess learners orally: Very good!  Great!

Practice work (I)

On page 39 there is an exercise 3. There are missing words. You have to complete the article using the phrases from exercise 2.  Write down on your copybook.

Teacher assess learners with different  pictures of houses.

What is this article about? What have you understood from the article? What city is New York? Do you want to live there?

Poster (G)

Now you are going to prepare a poster about advantages and disadvantages of living in the city and in the countryside

Criteria:

1. Provide main information.  

2. Organize coherent ideas

3. Use appropriate topical words

4. Use modal verbs.

5. Provide grammar  accuracy sentences

Descriptor A learner

 brainstorms the ideas

 provide grammar correct  spech on topic;

 organizes ideas clearly with suitable topical words;

 uses modal verbs;

 checks the work using the criteria. 

Each group assesses each other by rising smiles. Groups use table of criteria

Book, pictures of houses

Paper, marker, criteria sheet, smiles

Ending of the lesson

5 minutes

Reflection

Our time is going to be over. So I want  to know about your reflection on the lesson. It’s a figure of  my  house. These are windows as you note. You’ll write your reflection and stick them on the house.

Your homework is Exercise 4 on page 39. 

Lesson is over. You may be free.

Pictures

Book

Additional information

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

challenge more able learners to structure final speaking  to include key words

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

monitor for spoken accuracy in plot prediction task and use a range of oral correction techniques

Cross-curricular links
Health and safety check
ICT links
Values links

Reflection

Were the lesson objectives/learning objectives realistic?

Did I stick to timings?

What changes did I make from my plan and why?

Use the space below to reflect on your lesson. Answer the most relevant questions from the box on the left about your lesson