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Term 1

Unit 1 "Our world"

School:

Date:______.09.2018

Teacher’s name:

Grade 8 __

Number present:

Number absent:

Theme of the lesson:

Reading: The 'no impact' family.

Learning objectives(s) that this lesson is contributing to

8.C9 use imagination to express thoughts, ideas, experiences and feelings.

8.S3 give an opinion at discourse level on a wide range of general and curricular topics.

8.R2 understand specific information and detail in texts on a growing range of familiar general and curricular topics, including some extended texts.

Lesson objectives

All learners will be able to:

• Identify the meaning of the text about a family that wants to reduce its impact on the environment.

Most learners will be able to:

• Synthesize information from the reading passage for a discussion.

Some learners will be able to:

• Discuss and give their opinions about an alternative lifestyle using own words.

Value links

Being environmentally conscious/friendly, actively providing solutions to global problems.

Cross curricular links

Ecology.

Previous learning

Everyday objects vocabulary, numbers, expression of quantity.

Use of ICT

Smart board for showing a presentation, getting additional information, playing the audio files.

Intercultural awareness

Perception of different global problems, such as impact on the environment, in learners' own country and around the world.

Health and Safety

Breaks and physical activities used.

Plan

Planned timings

Planned activities

Resources

Beginning the lesson

The lesson greeting.

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

Warm up.

Ex.1 p.10. Prediction based on the title, pictures.

True/false statements.

Answers:

1) True

2) False

3) True

4) True

5) False

6) True

Main Activities

Ex.2 p.10. Text completion.

Answers:

1) b

2) e

3) c

4) a

Ex.3 p.10. Word formation activity.

Answers:

1) shopping

2) bed

3) washes

More compound nouns in the text:

Toilet paper, dishwasher, light bulb, bathroom, shampoo bottles, toothpaste, second-hand things, plastic bags, takeaway food, plastic cub, plastic pots, lifestyle.

Ex.4 p.10. Gap-filling.

Answers:

1) ice

2) birthday

3) shopping

4) washing

5) kitchen

6) chicken

Ex.5 p.10. Discussion task.

CD

Ending the lesson

Giving the hometask. WB p.12.

Peer-assessment.

Two stars and a wish.

• You did a really good job on ...

• I really like how you ...

• Maybe you could ...

End

1min

Feedback: Teacher asks students what task was difficult to them and which pair worked well.

Additional information

Differentiation –

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

Assessment –

how are you planning to check learners’ learning?

Critical thinking

Differentiation can be achieved through the selection of activities, identification of learning outcomes for a certain student, provision of individual support to learners, selection of learning materials and resources based on the individual abilities of learners.

Assessment criteria:

1. Convey opinions, notion, experiences and feelings creatively.

2. Provide a point of view in conversations and discussions.

3. Identify particular information and details in reading passage.

Descriptor:

A learner:

• uses imagination to express thoughts, ideas, experiences and feelings.

• presents his/her information to the class.

• completes sentences with right phrases.

• Observation

• Feedback on the work

• Peer-assessment

Students think critically, exploring, developing, evaluating and making choices about their own and others’ ideas