Dates English Teacher

The aim of the lesson:

Lesson 4 Let’s play!

Educational: - to learn two more letters: Uu and Vv; to revise Class 1 vocabulary (wild animals)

Developing: - to enable pupils to identify capital and small letters; - to enable pupils to make sentences out of two halves Socio-cultural: - to raise awareness in identifying capital and small letters; to raise awareness of different pronunciation of the letter―U‖ sounds and a single pronunciation of ―V‖.

Competence: SC6, LC and PC in dialogues

Learning outcomes: By the end of the lesson, pupils will be able to: - recognise, say and write letters Aa and Bb; - say animals and sounds they produce; - recite a poem; - recognise different pronunciation of the letter ―A‖ and single pronunciation of ―B‖.

Type of the lesson: non-standard, mixed

Method of the lesson: group work, pair work

Equipment: Pupil‘s book, Workbook, the DVD, separate cards with capital and small letters, cards with all wild animals from Class 1, sets of cards with beginnings and endings of sentences

The Procedure of the lesson:

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   Organizing moment: - Greeting.
   

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  Checking the register
  
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  Checking and asking homework
  

2. Pre-Activity

Activity 1 Listen and sing. 5 min

Objectives: to warm up; to revise days of the week. Look at Unit 2, Lesson 1, Activity 1 for the DVD script (days of the week). Play the DVD and ask the pupils to sing along with the DVD.

3. Main part

Activity 2 Play ―Find your pair‖. 10 min

Objective: to revise the letters learnt so far

STEP 1: Ask the pupils to look at the picture. Ask the pupils to guess what letter the boy in the first pair is holding (He is holding a capital letter ―B‖ because his partner is holding a small letter ―b‖.) The girl in the second pair is holding a small letter ―f‖.STEP 2: Say that the pupils will play the game as the pupils in the picture. Distribute cards with big and small letters to the pupils and ask them to keep them secret! STEP 3: Say that the pupils must go round the class and say

the letter from their cards loudly, listen to each other in order to find a pair. Demonstrate what to do with one pair.
Activity 3 Write the letters. 15 min

Objectives: to learn two letters of the alphabet – Uu and Vv; to practise writing the letters; to consolidate the letters.

Ask the pupils to look and listen. Play the DVD, letters U, V. Let the pupils listen to the pronunciation several times. Show the pictures. Pronounce the letter U as {jul} and V as {vil}. Say that U as [v] is for Cucumber (click on the picture of the cucumber) and as [v] is for Under (click on the chair with a cat under it). Then say that V as {v} is for Volleyball (click on the picture of the volleyball game) and Vase (click on the picture of the vase). The pupils listen to the DVD and repeat. Use Chain Drill activity to remember the pronunciation of the letters. Then ask the pupils to open their Workbooks on Page 26 and start writing the capital letter ―U‖ and then small ―u‖. Ask them to look at the example and follow the arrows. If necessary, demonstrate on the board. Then repeat the procedure with the letter ―Vv‖.

Activity 4a Work in pairs. Make sentences. 10 min

Objectives: to consolidate the sentence structures; to prepare for the next activity.

STEP 1: Ask the pupils to work in pairs and look at the example. Ask the pupils to match other parts to make sentences. Answer key: I‘ve got a plane. I like pumpkins. That‘s a cucumber. She is eight. STEP 2: When they finish, ask some pupils to read and translate the sentences.

4. Post-activity

Optional Activity 4b Play ―Running dictation‖.

Objective: to consolidate the sentence structures STEP 1: Prepare two sets of cards enough for groups of 4 like the ones in 4a. Put all beginnings of the sentences in one box and 65 Unit 3 all endings into another box. Prepare more cards than the pupils will need in order to make 5 sentences in each group. STEP 2: Explain that each group must make up 5 sentences in 3 minutes. Say that all cards will be on your table. Explain that Box 1 has the beginning and Box 2 has the ending of ences. Say that every member of the groups in turns must come to the table and take one card and bring to the group. Say that all five sentences must be different.

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   Homework: WB page 27 Activity 1, 2 Then learning new words
   
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   Marking. Giving marks according to pupils‘ attendance