Australia in Brief

Grade:

11 A

Theme of the lesson:

Australia in Brief

Aim:

- Can say and express their opinions fluently

- recognise the texts for listening, teacher and pupil’s speech

- make a poster and describe it

- review grammar Conditional Sentences and noun-formation suffixes

Outcomes:

Learners will be able to:

- understand the text and speech

- say and express their opinions fluently

- recognise the texts for listening, teacher and pupil’s speech

- make a poster and describe it

- make sentences in Conditional form and form the nouns with the suffixes

Previous learning

Conditional Sentences and noun-formation suffixes

Plan

Planned timings

Planned activities

Recourses

Beginning

5 mins

Teacher greets students; students respond to greeting and take their places.

Teacher gives out the papers of pictures ( kangaroo, flag and island) and divide students into 3 groups then answer the question how do they think what is the topic of the lesson. Pupils must guess the theme and put the aims to the lesson.

-What will we do today?

- We will…

Speak about Australia

Read the text about this country

Know new information

Brainstorming

-Do you know why people call Australia as the upside down country?

Warming up

Quiz in pairs

Predict. Cover the text and do the quiz in pairs (we will return to the quiz after reading the text and we will check ourselves)

Teacher gives out the lists of criteria of the lesson

Smiles,

Middle

30mins

5 min

Ex.2 Reading and Speaking. In groups students read their parts of the text and make the posters according the text

Each group describe their poster and ask one question to the groups

Ex.3 True or False/checking understanding

1.Watching the video “Introduction of Australia”

-What is the video about?

2.Listening for details

Do the test

1. The population of Australia is…

1. 20 million people

2. 21 million people

3. 22 million people

1. Australia is often referred to as…

1. the lucky country

2. the unlucky country

3. interesting country

1. It…

1. isn’t perfect and hasn’t problems

2. is perfect and has problems

3. isn’t perfect and has problems

1. Australia has…

1. unique animals

2. unique people

3. unique traditions

1. Over 85 percent of population lives…

1. in towns

2. in villages

3. in towns and cities

1. The main cities are…

1. Sydney, Perth, Brisbane and Melbourne

2. Los Angeles, London and Singapore

Ex. 6 Word formation (noun-formation suffixes) Work in groups.

You have to read the definitions and find the words , write down the noun-forming suffixes and remember them. Work in groups.

–er , -e, -ist, -ty, -ship, -or, -ing, -ance, - hood, -ment, -tion, -sion, -ness

Photographer Guitarist dishwasher ability friendship engineer journalist actor building importance childhood excitement happiness education division admission tin-opener refugee activity greatness

Sheets of papers

Markers

Video

handouts

End

5 mins

Reflection

Were the lesson objectives realistic?

What did you learn today?

Do we have answer to our questions?

Write one good moment and one wishing to the lesson

Home task: Ex.4 p.190 , 277

Read and answer the questions

Good-bye. The lesson is over

stickers

Additional information

Teacher’s story about Australian teachers who were the first one in her studying ( photos, wishing postcards)