Dates English Teacher

Activity 2c Read and answer the question. 7 min

Objective: to practise reading for gist

STEP 1: Ask the pupils to look at the picture and answer the questions: 1) What can you see in the picture? 2) What do you know about this bird?

STEP 2: Ask the pupils to read the text and answer the questions: Would you like to visit Antarctica? Why?/Why not?

Activity 3a Work in pairs. Look and say. 8 min

Objectives: to present ‘to the north/south/east/west of...’;

to enable pupils to talk about the location of some countries in Central Asia

STEP 1: Ask the pupils to look at the map and the wind rose. Draw their attention to the letter N and the word „north‟ in the wind rose. Elicit or tell them what the letters S, E and W stand for.

STEP 2: Read the sentence. The pupils repeat after you in chorus, then in rows and/or individually.

4. 
   Post-activity
   

Activity 3b Work in groups of 4/5. Play “Guess the Country”. 8 min

Objectives: to develop speaking and listening skills; to consolidate Central Asian countries

STEP 1: Make groups of 4/5 pupils.

STEP 2: Say they will play a game. Explain that as in the example Pupil A thinks of a country and gives a short description; the group listens to it and guesses the country. Then Pupil B continues.

5. 
   Homework 2 min
   

Ask the pupils to look at the homework on Page 104. Check that everybody understands what to do with the two tasks. If necessary, explain that in Task 1 they must find any map of Uzbekistan and write five sentences about the location of its cities/regions as in the example. In Task 2, they should write three questions about the location of the cities/regions of Uzbekistan.

6. 
   Evaluation. Giving marks