Animals and plants

Lesson: 35

School: №226

Date: 15.01.2018

The name of the teacher: Karazhan F.

Grade: 8 “V”

Number present:

absent:

The theme of the lesson:

Animals and plants

Lesson objectives:

All learners will be able to: understand the new theme and get more information about animals and plants

Most learners will be able to: make sentences using new words

Some learners will be able to: remember word-formation, adverbs formed with the help of suffixes

Language objectives:

Learners can: learn to use necessary words in making sentences

Key words and phrases: include, species, discover, air, desert, soil, root, insect, move, common, earth, discovery, breathe, support

Discussion points: What do living things include?

Plan

Planned timings:

Planned activities

Resources:

Start

5 min

I. Greetings. Checking up the homework.

Exercise: 4 p. 116. Express the same in English.

1. Mississippi is the longest river in the USA.

2. Russia, Canada and China are the largest countries in the world.

3. The English Channel is wider than the straits of Gibraltar.

4. Today is colder than yesterday.

5. The climate along the Pacific Ocean is much warmer than that of the Atlantic Coast.

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Middle

End

35

10 min

Today we have an unusual theme. The theme of our lesson is «Animals and plants». Today we are going to speak about animals and plants on the earth.

II. New words.

IV. Doing exercises.

Exercise: 1 p. 114. Read the text and say in what animals are different from plants.

Animals and plants

As scientists say, an animal is any living thing (including people) that is not a plant. No one knows how many different species of wild plants and animals there are on our planet. People discover hundreds of new kinds every year. In what way are animals different from plants? This question is not always easy to answer. Animals and plants get their food differently: animals eat plants or other animals, while plants get their food from the air and soil with the help of their leaves and roots. But we know that some plants catch and "eat" insects. Also animals can move about while plants grow in the same place but there are some plants that can travel and some animals that never leave their place. As you see plants and animals have very much in common. There are more than 300,000 different species of plants on earth. Some plants grow very tall and live a very long life. Other plants are so tiny that you can see them only through a microscope. The same is true about animals. You can find plants and animals in the oceans and deserts, in mountains and in cold tundra plains. When people first learned to cultivate plants and domesticate animals, our civilization began. We can't live without them. Plants are able to use sunlight to build themselves up. They use carbon dioxide gas and "breathe out" life-giving oxygen. They support life on the planet.

Good reading – 3

Average reading – 2

Bad reading - 1

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Exercise: 3 p. 119. Classify the animals into groups: mammals and non-mammals.

Complete the sentences with the new words:
1. I know my family will always s...me. 2. This place looks like a d ..., there are no plants growing there. 3 Bees and ants, as people think are i ... that live in a big group. 4. Rabbits and hares look nearly the same but in fact they are two different s... 5. The 15-th century was the time of great geographical d ... s. 6 My favourite subjects a ... biology and chemistry. 7. Cactuses can grow in dry s ..., practically without any water. 8. Doctors say it is very good to b ...a see a ... .9. At home l d ... all my family waiting for me. 10. It is not always easy for me to find a c ... language with my elder brother. 11. The Browns are planning to m...from London to New York. 12. How many oceans are there on the E...? 13. Plants get their food and water from the s... with the help of their r...s. 14. Planes are a lot heavier than a... but they can fly.

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Homework. Exercise: 3 p. 118. Match the following words with their meanings in English.

1. Include

2. Species

3. Discover

4. Insect

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Cards, posts

Additional information

Differentiation

Assessment

“5” for 22 – 18 points

“4” for 17 – 14 points

“3” for 13 – 9 points

More support

Create mixed ability groups

Pronunciation of the words

Asking questions

Reflection:

Were the lesson objectives realistic? What did the learners learn today?