План урока по теме "Празднование Рождества"с показом короткого фильма

План урока по теме «Christmas »

с использованием короткометражного фильма

«Mog’s Christmas Calamity»

Language level: Pre-intermediate (A2) – Intermediate (B1)

Learner type: Young learners, teens and adults

Activity: watching a short film, speaking and writing

Topic: Christmas

Overview

This EFL lesson plan is designed around a short film commissioned by the British supermarket chain Sainsbury’s titled Mog’s Christmas Calamity inspired by the children’s writer Judith Kerr. In the lesson students collate vocabulary related to Christmas, talk about Christmas customs, watch a short film and predict the ending of the film.

Plan

Step 1

Dictate the following words:

Christmas card, present, tree, decorations, snowman, turkey, cracker, chestnuts and candle.

Step 2

Ask your students to think of verbs which go with Christmas card. Try to elicit:

Write a Christmas card, send a Christmas card, open a Christmas card.

Put your students into pairs and ask them to come up with verbs which collocate with the other nouns.

Step 3

Get feedback from the whole class and write up the most typical collocations such as:

Choice a present, wrap a present, send a present, put a present under the Christmas present, unwrap a present, open a present, return a present.

Step 4

Put your students into small groups. If they celebrate Christmas ask them to describe Christmas traditions and customs in their families. If they don’t celebrate Christmas ask them to describe any Christmas traditions and customs they have seen in films or television series.

Step 5 . Watch the film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuRn2S7iPNU

Tell your students they are going to watch a short film in which they will see a family home on Christmas Eve where everything has been prepared perfectly for Christmas Day, but that the fat family cat called Mog caused a series of calamities which ruin everything. Put them into pairs and ask them to predict what they think Mog might do to ruin Christmas Day. You might like to give an example such as, “Mog might climb on the table and eat all of the turkey.”

Give them five minutes to come up with things that Mog could do to ruin Christmas.

Step 6

Get feedback from the whole class on how Mog might ruin Christmas Day

Step 7

Tell the students to watch the film and compare their predictions with what actually happens to Mog. Pause at 02:40.

Step 8

Get students to describe what happened to Mog and what Mog did.

Step 9

Ask your students what they think is going to happen to the Thomas family now and what they are going to do to celebrate Christmas Day.

Step 10

Now show the rest of the film and ask your students if they like the ending.

Step 11

Pause at the caption “Christmas is for sharing”. Ask your students if they agree with this message and give examples of how we can share at Christmas.

I hope you enjoy the lesson.