Open lesson for english teachers

Theme: Merry Christmas

Aims:

Educational: to introduce words associated with Christmas

Developing: to develop reading, listening speaking skills

Socio-cultural: to compare Christmas celebrations in the USA and UK and New Year in Uzbekistan, to learn famous Christmas song

Learning outcomes for English competence C1, C2, C3, C4

Type of the lesson:mixed, traditional

Methods of the lesson: frontal, group work

Required equipment : Textbook, handouts

I. Organizing moment:

- Greeting, Checking up pupils’ presence.

- Checking up pupils’ homework: Recycling the language learnt in previous lessons.

- New theme

- Consolidating.

II. Введение в сюжет урока.

Today our lesson is devoted to the most popular holiday in Great Britain and the US. This holiday is Christmas. We will have two lessons today. During the first lesson you will read the text and then you are going to do some exercises after it. And on the second lesson I want you to do some tasks which are connected with Christmas.

As you see our lesson is unusual. There are a lot of guests here. And we will try to amaze them.

III. Работа с текстом

Before reading the text about Christmas I want you to answer some questions.

Pre-Reading questions

1. When is Christmas celebrated?

2. What are the main Christmas symbols?

3. When is Christmas celebrated in Russia?

Now you will have the text. Your task is to read it and match the titles with the paragraphs of the text.All these titles are after the text. We can read them right now. But there are some words in the text you don’t know. Let’s read them. I will read and you will repeat after me.

Now read these words one by one.

I give you 5-7 minutes for reading this text.

New words:

Tinsel [tinsl] – гирлянды Baubles [bo: blz] – шарики Fairy lights – елочные огни

Cracker – хлопушка Sprouts [sprauts] – брюссельская капуста Covering of icing – корочка из глазури Mince pie – пирожок с начинкой из изюма, миндаля, корицы и сахара Bake – пекут Pudding – пудинг Tangerine – мандарин Santa Claus – Cанта Клаус Supposed – предполагается, что

Christmas

Christmas is the main public holiday in Britain and the US. This day is held on December 25^th in honour of the birth of Jesus Christ. People often see it as a time of merry-making and present giving.

Christmas is a religious holiday, when Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. The Christmas story comes from the Bible. An Angel appeared to shepherds and told them that a Savior had been born to Mary and Joseph in a stable in Bethlehem.

All houses are beautifully decorated. Holly and mistletoe are used to decorate the house. They put branches of holly and mistletoe over the doors.

The most important meal is Christmas dinner. At the start of the meal, British people often pull a cracker, which contains a small toy, a paper bat, and a joke. The typical meal nowadays consists of turkey with potatoes and other vegetables such as carrots and sprouts.

In Britain the dinner is followed by Christmas pudding – a sweet pudding containing a lot of dried fruit and often covered with burning brandy. Other traditional foods in Britain include Christmas cake – a cake containing a lot of dried fruit and usually having a covering of icing (hard sugar) made to be eaten at Christmas, and mince pies. Traditionally a coin is put into the pudding. It brings luck to a person who finds it. 

People sometimes go carol singing, which means singing carols in the street, outside people’s houses.

There is a tradition that children should put a long sock called a Christmas stocking at the end of their bed or by the chimney or hang it by the fireplace so that Santa Claus will fill it with presents. Tangerines or nuts are often put into the stockings. Santa Claus is supposed to visit each house on Christmas Eve by climbing down the chimney.

Santa Claus, also called Santa, Christmas stockings

1. The day after Christmas

2. Santa Claus

3. The history of Christmas

4. Decorations of the houses

1. The celebrating of Christmas

2. Carol singing

3. Christmas dinner

4. Christmas tree

5. Christmas desert

Let’s read this text and check what you have done.

IV. Выполнение послеткстовых упражнений

And now as I’ve already said you are going to do some exercises after the text.

1. The first task for you is to match Russian equivalents with the words and phrases above.

2. Fireplace

3. Imaginary

4. Beard

5. Sale

2. Now you will work in groups of four. Your task is to make up three questions to the text. After it each group will ask another one. You are to answer all the questions.

Учащиеся составляют вопросы в группах. После этого задают вопросы друг другу. В это время двум ученикам раздаются индивидуальные задания по тексту. Они выполняют их письменно.

3. Well, you will work in pairs. Your task is to complete short texts about celebrating Christmas in different countries. You will have them, but you are to put the sentences into a logical order and then you’ll read them to all of us.

V. Конкурсы (Activities)Now you are going to do some tasks which are connected with Christmas. All these activities you are going to do in groups of four.

1. Christmas Word Find

In the puzzle, find and circle the 20 hidden holiday words listed on Santa’s sack. The words go across, up, down, and diagonally in the puzzle. Some words may share a letter.

December     Eat Santa       Candle Feast      Happy Present    Carol Celebrate    Tree

Family          Reindeer Cards     Christmas Decorations               Merry

Christmas around the world

Below are holiday greetings from six different countries. See if you can match each greeting on the left, with the country it comes from, on the right.

1. Feliz Navidad ____                  a. Italy

2. Joyeux Noel ____                   b. Spain  

3. Frohliche Weinachten ____    c. France  

4. Glaedelig Jul ____                  d. Germany

5. Buon Natale ____                   e. Poland

6. Wesolych Swiat Bozego           f. Germany

    Narodzenia ____                    

VI. Conclusion. In the end of our lesson I want you to tell me in a few words what you’ve known about Christmas in Britain.

Выставление оценок.

Are the statements true or false? Correct the false statements.

1. Christmas day is a public holiday.

2. This day is held on December 25^th in honour of the birth of Santa Claus.

3. In Britain people eat pudding before the dinner.

4. Christmas cake contains dried fruit.

5. Carol singing means singing carols at home at a Christmas table.

6. There is a tradition that children should put a long sock called a Christmas stocking.

7. Santa Claus visits each house on Christmas Eve by climbing down the chimney.

8. Santa Claus is a real old man in red clothes and with a long white beard.

Choose the right answer

1. What is the main public holiday in Britain?

1. St. Valentine’s Day       b) Christmas           c) April Fool’s Day

1. What does carol singing mean?

1. singing carols in the street  b) singing carols at home   c) singing carols at school

1. What do British people usually do at the start of the Christmas meal?

1. they usually play cricket    b) they usually pull a cracker   c) they usually play snowballs

1. What do British children do before they go to sleep on Christmas Eve?

1. they do their homework    b) they go carol singing   c) put a long sock at the end of their bed or by the chimney

1. How is the day after Christmas called?

1. it’s called Boxing Day    b) Independence Day   c) Labour Day

VII. Giving homework Ex. 1, 2.

Theme: Happy New Year.

Aims:

Educational: to revise Present Simple, imperatives

Developing: to develop reading and speaking skills

Socio-cultural: to talk about and compare New Year celebrations in the USA and the UK

Learning outcomes for English competence C1, C2, C3, C4

Type of the lesson:mixed, traditional

Methods of the lesson: frontal, group work

Required equipment : Textbook, handouts

I. Organizing moment:

- Greeting, Checking up pupils’ presence.

- Checking up pupils’ homework: Recycling the language learnt in previous lessons.

- New theme

- Consolidating.

ii.Today we'll speak about the New Year celebrations in different countries. I'd like to draw your attention to some interesting national traditions of different countries and cultures. First of all let's talk about the celebration of the New Year in our country.

Students: On the 31st of December we celebrate the coming of the New Year. We send greeting cards, buy presents, decorate the New Year tree and our houses, and congratulate each other. It is the favourite holiday of the year. On the 7th of January it is Christmas Day. We also have our school holidays.

2. Teacher: Now let's speak about the celebration of the New Year in other countries. We are going to have a competition. We have 2 teams. They are: Snowflakes and Elves.

Let's start our competition with the song "Jingle bells".

iii. Соmpetitions

1 Read the text and choose the correct version.

At the end of December in this country the summer is at its height, but there the New Year is celebrated with European traditions, too. But because of the heat, Santa Claus moves not in a sledge but on a wind-surfer, he has the same red cap and white fluffy beard, but he doesn't wear a fur-coat and valenki, he wears a bathing-suit. On the there are no fir-trees, there is neither snow, deer, nor sledges. But before the New Year, inhabitants place a little tree called metrosideros in their houses. The tree is very beautiful. At that time it is covered with bright-red flower-bunches and looks like a decorated fir-tree. In this country, celebrating the New Year's Eve is not popular. Inhabitants get up at 5-6 o'clock in the morning but at 10 minutes past midnight they will have already gone to bed. But in the New Year evening, it is popular to go in big groups to parks and have a jolly time much like anywhere in Europe at night.

4. MadridAustralia Japan

5. Before the New Year, the people of the country often wrap bells up with blankets that they should see off the old year with muted quiet striking. And only at 5 minutes to twelve the blankets will be taken off and the bells will meet the approaching of the New Year with merry chimes In the country before the New Year a door in a house must be opened - it is the custom to let the New Year in. Late in the evening, people open a back door to let out the old year with all its troubles, which happened this year, and when the clock begins to strike twelve, they open the front door to let the New Year in. If in the house there is only one door, they open it. At first through it the old year goes away and then the New Year enters.

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6. These people consider that good luck or failure the coming year depends on who is the first to enter a house. For this, a guest must have a piece of coal in hand and it is necessary to throw it into a fireplace. And if the fire burns bright, the following year will be more successful. By popular belief, dark-haired men bring much more happiness. The people are grateful to the first visitor who brings a piece of coal, a piece of bread and a coin. A piece of coal symbolizes warmth, a piece of bread - the constant presence of food, and a coin - welfare in the coming year.

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The team which guesses the first gets one point for each part of the text.

7. Complete the text with the missed words.

Words: Eve, boat, Bible, parade, gold, friends', their, lighted, any, fi rst, sack, are, sing, parents, good, presents, brings

Merry Christmas

In Mexico, during the nine days before Christmas people visit their (1)________ houses in the evenings, carrying (2)________ candles. They (3)________ carols and knock at the door. At (4)________ they are not let in. This is one of the customs of the Posada! Then they explain they are Mary and Joseph, (5)________ of the Christchild. They (6)________ welcomed warmly. In many European countries, children receive (7)________ from St. Nicolas on the 6th of December. In the Netherlands, he arrives in Amsterdam by (8)________, with his servant Black Peter, who carries a (9)________ to take away (10)________ children who have been naughty. He brings presents for the (11)________ children. In many ports of Spain and South America it isn't Father; Christmas or St. Nicolas who (12)________ the presents, but the Three Kings or Three Wise men. They do it on the (13)________ of the 6th of January. In Madrid, there is a (14)________ in the streets of the Three Kings riding their camels. This commemorates the visit of Melchior, Caspar and Balthuzar to the baby Jesus in Bethlehem, with (15)________ gifts of (16)________ and frankincense as described in the (17)________.

8. KEY: 1. friends'; 2. lighted; 3. sing; 4. fi rst; 5. parents; 6. are; 7. presents; 8. boat; 9. sack; 10. those; 11. good; 12. brings; 13.

Eve; 14. parade; 15. their; 16. gold; 17. Bible

9. Answer the questions:

 10. Make up as many new words as you can using the letters of the words:

ivNew Year celebrations

The team with the most words gets one point for each word.

11. Listen to the song and put in the missing words on the cards.

Words: ski, ice, cold, skate, dance, morning, frosty

This is the way we __________ and skate

Ski and skate, ski and skate.

This is the way we ski and ____________

On a cold and ___________ morning.

This is the way we dance on the ___________

___________ on the ice, dance on the ice.

This is the way we dance on the ice

On a _________ and frosty _____________.

The team which is the fi rst to complete the task gets one point.

Take sheets of paper and draw a Funny Snowman and write down your wishes!

Happy New Year!Merry Christmas! Happy Holidays!Have a nice holiday!Best wishes!
V. Conclusion. Come to the blackboard and show us your drawings. Read them.

The team with the funniest snowman gets one point.

Teacher: That'll do for today. You were active and creative today. Who wins the competition? Let's count your points. Congratulations! Now let's recite a poem all together:

Happy New Year! Happy New Year!
Is likely to come
Happy New Year, Happy New Year!
You are welcome!
Snow in the window
Much confetti
Bright-blue, red and yellow
Lights on the tree.

vi.Homework. Learn new words by heart

Vii. Evaluation. Giving marks

Тhe theme of the lesson : Happy pets.

The aim of the lesson:

Educational: - to learn to write questions from jumbled up words;

- to learn to say how one looks after pets.

Developing: - to enable pupils to say how one looks after pets;

- to enable pupils to talk as animals about humans.

Socio-cultural: - to raise awareness of saying about favourite things.

Competence: SC5, PC and LC in dialogue

Learning outcomes: By the end of the lesson, pupils will be able to write the description of an animal;

gossip about humans as animals.

Type of the lesson: non-standard, mixed

Method of the lesson: group work, pair work Equipment: Pupil‟s book, Workbook, the DVD

The Procedure of the lesson:

1. Organizing moment: - Greeting.

• Checking the register

• Checking homework

1. Pre-Activity

Activity 1 Listen and sing. 5 min

Objectives: to introduce the unit topic; to warm up

Play the DVD. Ask the pupils to listen to and sing the song.

Look at Unit 9 Lesson 1 Activity 1 for the DVD script.

1. Main part.

Activity 2a Draw a pet and write. 15 min

Objective: to prepare for the next activity

STEP 1: Everyone should draw one of their pets on a sheet of paper. They colour it if possible. It should take no longer than a few minutes to draw. Ask the pupils not to show their pictures to others.

STEP 2: Collect drawings and stick them on the board.

STEP 3: Ask the pupils to write a description.

STEP 4: Next ask a pupil to read out his/her description. The other pupils look at the pictures on the board and try to guess which one is being described.

STEP 5: Finally, ask the pupils to draw their pets again in their exercise books and complete the information.

Possible answer: Animal: dog Name: Rex Food: meat, bones

Colour: brown Look after: go for a walk, keep clean

Activity 2b Write questions. 5 min

Objective: to practise writing questions

The pupils write the jumbled questions in the correct order in their exercise books.

Answer key: 1) What pet do you want? 2) What is your pet‟s name? 3) What colour is your pet? 4) Do you look after your pet?

5) What food do you give it? 6) Do you keep your pet clean

Activity 2c Work in pairs. Ask and answer. 5 min

Objective: to practise asking and answering questions

Tell your pupils to make pairs. The pupils take turns to ask questions they have written and answer. Give help if necessary.

Activity 3 Imagine you are a fantasy dog. Talk about your human. 8 min

Objectives: to practise new vocabulary; to have fun

Ask the pupils to work in pairs. Ask them to imagine that they are dogs. They should gossip about their humans. They can use the words given in the cloud or they can say anything they like about their humans.

1. Post-activity

Activity 4 Listen to the song „On the farm”. 5 min

Objective: to learn the song

Play the DVD. Ask the pupils to listen to the song and sing it with you.

See Pupil‟s book for the DVD script.

1. Homework. Learn new words by heart

IV. Evaluation. Giving marks

Theme:How much are they?

The aim of the lesson:

Educational: - to learn how to read and say numbers.

Developing: - to enable pupils to read and say numbers; - to enable pupils to write and act out dialogues; - to enable pupils to read and listen for specific information.

Socio-cultural: - to raise awareness of shopping and selling language

Competence: SC1, SC6, LC, FLCC

Learning outcomes: At the end of the lesson pupils will be able to: - recognize numbers; - write and act out dialogues;read and listen for specific information.

Type of the lesson: non-standard, mixed

Method of the lesson: group work, pairwork

Equipment: Pupil‟s Book; the DVD; cards with numbers for Activity 3b

i.The beginning of the lesson:

Teacher: Good morning, children.

Pupils: Good morning, good morning!

Good morning to you!

Good morning, good morning!

We are glad to see you.

T: -Who is on duty today?

• What date is it today?

• Who is absent today?

• What was your homework for today?

ii.Warming up activity

Thanks. Now let’s do a warming up activity:“think of…

1. One red fruit, one green fruit, one yellow fruit.

2. Two kinds of food which are made from milk.

3. Three things people have for breakfast.

4. Four kinds of vegetables from which we can make salad.

The pupils give the names of food.

iii. Grammar Box

How many?Countable nouns are nouns (things) we can count.
For example: flowers, tomatoes, etc.

We use a or an before a noun we can count.
For example: a potato, an orange. (It means one potato, one orange.)

How much?

Uncountable nouns are nouns (things) we cannot count.
For example: sugar, rice, etc.

We use some before a noun we cannot count.
For example: some sugar, some rice

IV. Activity 1a Work in pairs. Read and answer the questions.

Objectives: to practise working with the Wordlist; to pronounce the words correctly and establish their mea ning; to practise reading and listening for specific infor mation

STEP 1: Ask the pupils to look up the words with *: customer, pay, paid, half a kilo and anything else? in the Wordlist. They should write the present and past form of the verb in their exercise books. Ask them to repeat the words after you in chorus, in rows/pairs and individually.

STEP 2: The pupils work in pairs. They read silently. Then they listen to the dialogue and answer the questions.

Answer key: 1c; 2b; 3a

 Activity 2 B Put the conversations in order.

Activity 3. Underline the correct word.

For example: I don’t have many/ much apples.

1. We don’t have that many/ much potatoes.

2. I bought so many/ much sugar yesterday.

3. How many/ much tomatoes are there in the basket?

4. How many/ much rice did you buy?

5. There is too many/ much coffee in the cup.

6. How many/ much water do you drink every day?

7. Are there many/ much bananas?

8. There isn’t many/ much tea.

V. Homework

Ask the pupils to look at the homework on Page 93. Check that everybody understands what to do with the two tasks. If necessary, explain how to do the homework.

Answer key for Task 1: 1) any; 2) kilo; 3) 3000; 4) Thank you. 5) much; 6) please; 7) 5000; 8) Here you are.

Answer key for Task 2: 1) 1750; 2) 6000 3) 2400; 4) 1200; 5) 5500; 6) 2150; 7) 8350

1. Evaluation.

2. Giving marks

Theme of the lesson:Lesson 2 How are you?

The aim of the lesson:

Educational: to learn basic greetings; to ask and say how one feels

Developing: to enable pupils to greet, ask and say how they feel

Socio-cultural: to raise awareness of ways of greetings, asking and saying how one feels; to raise awareness of the pronunciation of the sounds [w] and [h]

Competence: SC3, FLCC and LC in greetings.

Learning outcomes: By the end of the lesson, pupils will be able to: understand the greetings, use a question for asking how somebody is and say how they feel; to pronounce the sounds [w] and [h].

Type of the lesson: non-standard, mixed

Method of the lesson: group work, pair work

Equipment: Textbook, the DVD of the book, puppets; a mirror.

Pre – activity.

I.The beginning of the lesson:

Teacher: Good morning, children.

Pupils: Good morning, good morning!

Good morning to you!

Good morning, good morning!

We are glad to see you.

Activity 1 Listen and sing.

Objective: to sing the song “Good morning”

Look at the instructions in Lesson 1. This time practise singing the song with your pupils.

OPTION: Besides you can play the game “Good morning. Good bye”. Say that now they will play a good game, but first they must learn how to say one little word “Goodbye”. Explain that it is very important to learn it because polite

people should not only greet but also say goodbye properly. Then work with your pupils on the pronunciation of “Good bye”.

III. Main Part

Activity 2 Watch and do.

Objective: to practise and pronounce the sound [w]

STEP 1: Explain that there lives Mr. Tongue in our mouths. He lives very comfortably with us in our mouths. It has a cosy and warm house, near the house there is an upper and a lower fence (upper and lower teeth) and even a dog.

At night, when you sleep, he is awake and he is bored. Therefore, he lights a candle and reads. In the morning when you wake up, he needs to put out the candle, but sometimes he forgets to do it. Then he needs help. And Zumrad tries to do

it. She offers children to help her put out the candle, but it must be done correctly. In order to do it correctly, it is necessary to put the lips forward and “blow out” the candle [www-what-what-what].

STEP 2: Play the video game “What‟s your name?” and then ask the class to play the same game with their own names.

Activity 3 Play “Ask and Answer”.

Objective: to practise the new language material “What’s your name?”

You should praise all the pupils, but say that two or three pupils were the best to put out the candle and call their names. Therefore, offer to sing the song “What‟s your name?” with their names. Also say that they will sing the song with the names of the other pupils of the class in the next lessons.

Now, the pupils are more likely to say the question, so they can ask and answer the question “What‟s your name?” in chains. See the instructions in the Introduction (the section 7) for how to organise the chain drill activities.

Activity 4 Watch and do. Objective: to do physical exercise and energise the pupils

Play the DVD. Ask the pupils to watch and repeat.

Post-activity

Activity 5 Watch and do.

Objective: to practise the question “How are you?” and an appropriate answer to it

STEP 1: Explain that when Zumrad and Jasur meet, they greet and ask each other how they are. So ask the pupils to repeat together with them the question “How are you?” At first train the pupils to pronounce the sound to help

Zumrad and then repeat the question “How are you?” Ask them to look at Zumrad and repeat the answers together with

her. STEP 3: Practise the language as follows:

You: How are you? Pupil 1: I‟m OK. / Pupil 2: Good. / Pupil 3: Great. Pupil 4: So-so.

Optional Activity 7 Play “Ask and Answer”.

Objective: to practise the question “How are you?” and an appropriate answer to it

Now you can do the chain drill activity with the target question “How are you?” and answers “Good”/ “I‟m OK”/ “Great”/ “So-so”.

See the instructions in the Introduction (the section 7) for how to organise the chain drill activities.

V. Homework: Explain to the pupils that they should colour the picture on the right hand page at home and remember how people greet each other and ask and answer how they feel.