English Teacher

Lesson 2 How old are you?
The aim of the lesson:
Educational: to learn basic greetings; – to learn how to ask and answer questions
Developing: – to enable pupils to ask and answer questions about age and objects; – to enable pupils to say the numbers 1–10 and backwards
Competence: SC5, SC and PC in questions.
Learning outcomes: By the end of the lesson, pupils will be able to: – ask and answer the question learnt in this lesson and previous unit in small situations; – ask and answer a question about what something is; – name some school things. Type of the lesson: non-standard, mixed
Method of the lesson: group work, pair work
Equipment: Pupil‟s book, Workbook, the DVD, cards with: letters; hop, jump, walk, run, and climb
The Procedure of the lesson: I. 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 repeat. Objective: to reinforce the greeting “Good morning”
Ask the pupils to remember the poem “Good morning” that they learnt in the previous lesson. Ask if anybody can say the poem by heart. If there is any, ask him/her to say it. Then recite the poem, the pupils repeat after you.

2. 
   Main Part
   

Activity 2 Look and count.
Objective: to introduce the question “How old are you?” and the answer “I’m six/seven.”
STEP 1: Explain that in many countries it is traditional to put a certain number of candles on the cakes according to the age of the child on his/her birthday. Then ask the pupils to look at the pictures in the textbook and guess how old the puppets are. After hearing the answer, ask this pupil to tell the class how he/she knew it and praise him/her.
STEP 2: After that, offer the pupils to learn to ask the question “How old are you?” Tell them its meaning in their mother tongue (Yoshing nechada? / Сколько тебе лет?). Then have the pupils practise it in chorus and individually.