| Date: 27.11.2020 | Grade: 3 | English |
| Theme: | Unit 6 We are small. Lesson 3 Small - smaller- the smallest
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| Aims | Learning | Vocabulary | Required |
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| outcomes | and structure | equipment |
| Educational: | At the end of the | sparrow, eagle, | Pupil's |
| - to learn to say, read | lesson pupils will | peacock, swallow, | book, |
| and write about insects | be able to: | ostrich, penguin, hum- | Workbook, |
| and birds; | - name insects | ming bird, the superla- | the DVD, |
| Developing: | and some birds; | tive degree of adjectives: | word cards: |
| - to enable pupils to say, | - use the three | big, small, tall, long, | caterpillar, |
| read and write about | degrees of one- | strong, short, slow, fast | grasshop- |
| birds; | syllable adjec- |
| per, insect, |
| - to enable pupils to find | tives with birds; |
| butterfly, |
| a bird by asking Yes/No | - find a bird by |
| ladybird, |
| questions; | asking Yes/No |
| mosquito, |
| - to enable pupils to com- | questions; |
| ant |
| pare birds and use the | - pronounce the |
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Warm up 5 min
Play the DVD. Ask the pupils to listen to the song and sing together with the DVD.
DVD script:
See Unit 6 Lesson 1 Activity 1 for the DVD script.
Activity 1 Play "Draw and guess". 10 min
Objective: to revise the names of insects
Divide the class into two teams and invite one member of each team to the board to be the "artist". Divide the board into two and give each artist a word card. They must draw the insect for their team to guess what it is. The first team to guess correctly wins a point.
Word cards: caterpillar, grasshopper, insect, butterfly, ladybird, mosquito, ant
Note: If the class is not good or keen on drawing, it can be replaced by miming.
Activity 2a Look, listen and repeat. 5 min
Objectives: to introduce the new vocabulary;
to practise the pronunciation of the letter combinations "ea".
STEP 1: Ask the pupils to look at the picture. Explain that it is a school for birds. The director is the eagle. Ask the pupils to find the director and the word for it (eagle). Elicit what the translation can be in mother tongue. Ask the pupils to look at the picture on the right of the director and the word "peacock". Ask what "peacock" is in mother tongue. Then do the same with the other five pictures and the words for them.
STEP 2: After the pupils get the meaning, you can ask them to repeat the words after you or the DVD in chorus, rows and individually. Write on the board the words: eagle, peacock, leaf, read and underline the letter combinations "ea". Explain that they are pronounced as [i:]. Then have the pupils repeat the words after you in chorus.
Activity 2b Play "Mime a bird". 5 min
Objective: to consolidate the new vocabulary
Invite a pupil to the front of the class. Ask him to mime a bird in Activity 2a, the others in the class ask Yes/No questions as shown in the example below until they find the bird.
e.g. Pupil A: (mimes a peacock)
Pupil В: 'Is it an ostrich?'
Pupil A: No.'
Pupil C: 'Is it a peacock?'
Pupil A: 'Yes.'
Activity 3a Look, say, listen and repeat. 5 min Objectives: to introduce the superlative degree of one-syllable
adjectives;
to consolidate the comparative degree of
one-syllable adjectives.
STEP 1: Ask the pupils to look at the pictures and the words under them. Then say: 'The swallow is small.' and show its size with hands. Then say: 'The sparrow is smaller than the swallow.' and show its size. After that say: 'The humming bird is the smallest.' with gesture.
STEP 2: Help the pupils say first the meaning of the words 'small', 'smaller' and 'the smallest' and then the sentences: 1) The swallow is small. 2) The sparrow is smaller than the swallow, 3) The humming bird is the smallest. At last have the pupils repeat the words and the sentences after you in chorus and rows.
Activity 3b Look and write. 5 min
Objective: to consolidate the comparative and superlative degrees of one-syllable adjectives
STEP 1: Ask the pupils to open their Workbooks at Page 32 and look at Picture A in Activity 3b. Ask them to compare the birds' speed and write the comparative and superlative degree of the word "fast" under the pictures. Help if necessary.
Answer key: fast, faster, the fastest
STEP 2: Draw their attention to Picture B. Tell them to compare the size of the birds now and write the appropriate degrees under them. Help if necessary.
Answer key: big, bigger and the biggest
Activity 3c Work in threes. Speak about the birds in 2a. 8 min
Objective: to give further practice in saying comparative
and superlative degrees of one-syllable adjectives
STEP 1: Divide the class into groups of three. Ask the pupils to draw very simple pictures of birds in Activity 2a on small pieces of paper.
STEP 2: When they finish, draw their attention to the word cloud. Say the words with gestures and ask the pupils to repeat.
STEP 3: Ask the pupils to put the pictures they have drawn in order and say the sentences as in the example using the adjectives in the word cloud.
STEP 4: If time allows, you can ask some groups to make a presentation.
Homework 2 min
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