Dates English Teacher

Lesson 2 What’s your hobby?

The aim of the lesson:

Educational: - to learn two more letters: Yy and Zz - to learn the structure: ―Let‘s play …‖

Developing: - to enable pupils to make suggestions using ―Let‘s play …‖

Socio-cultural: to raise awareness of various hobbies; - to raise awareness of different pronunciation of the letter ―Y‖ and single pronunciation of ―Z‖ sounds.

Competence: SC5, PC and SC in questions about one‟s hobby

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, flashcards with letters, snowy, rainy, hot, warm, windy and cool weather

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

Objective: to warm up Look at Unit 4 Lesson 1 for the DVD script.

3. Main part

Activity 2 Play ―What‘s your hobby?‖ 10 min

Objectives: to learn a new word ―hobby‖; to practise the question ―What‘s your hobby?‖

STEP 1: Ask the pupils to answer the question ―What‘s your hobby?‖. If they cannot guess what the word ―hobby‖ means, translate it into the mother tongue. Then have the pupils repeat it after you. STEP 2: This is the usual Chain Drill activity. Ask the pupils to ask and answer the question ―What‘s your hobby?‖ in turns. You can revise words the pupils know before starting the Chain Drill (football, computer games, tennis, volleyball, toys, dolls, kites, trains etc). Pupils can say: ―My hobby‘s football.‖ etc. You can also play the DVD to show how to do this activity correctly. Note: British people say ―My hobby‘s football.‖ or ―My hobby‘s balls.‖ Both are acceptable.
Activity 3 Play ―Let‘s play games.‖ 10 min

Objectives: to revise the vocabulary related to the weather;to reinforce the structure ―Let‘s play ...‖.

STEP 1: Stick the flashcards describing snowy, rainy, hot, warm, windy and cool weather on the board. Ask the pupils to look at the board or play the first part of the DVD and say what pictures they see there. Ask them to recall the structures to describe the weather in the pictures Answer key/DVD script: It‘s snowy. It‘s rainy. It‘s hot. It‘s warm. It‘s windy. It‘s cool. STEP 2: Ask the pupils to look at the picture in the textbook and say what they see there. Answer key: The pupils in the picture are playing a game. They threw a dice (number 5). Now they are looking at the picture # 5 on the board and saying: It‘s windy. and Let‘s fly a kite. You can also play the second part of the DVD to show this.

Activity 4 Write the letters. 15 min

Objective: to learn two more letters of the alphabet – Yy and Zz; to practise writing the letters; to consolidate the letters. Ask the pupils to look and listen. Play the DVD, letters Y, Z. Let the pupils listen to the pronunciation several times. Show the pictures. Pronounce the letter Y as{wai} and Z as {zed}. Say that Y as [ j] is for Yellow (click on the picture of the first bee saying ‗Do you like yellow?‘) and Yes (click on the picture of the second bee saying ‗Yes!!‘). Then say that Z as {z} is for Zebra (click on the picture of the zebra) and Zoo (click on the picture of the zoo). 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 30 and start writing the capital letter ―Y‖ and then small ―y‖. Ask them to look at the example and follow the arrows. If necessary, demonstrate on the board. Then repeat the procedure with the letter ―Zz‖. Say that ―Zz‖ is the last

4. Post-activity

Optional Activity 5 Look, listen and read.

Objectives: to consolidate the animals which live in the zoo; to read for fun.

Ask the pupils to look at the picture and guess what they see in the picture. Then play the DVD and ask the pupils to listen and repeat. After that ask the pupils to read the rhyme. Look at Activity 5 in the Pupil‘s book for the DVD script letter in the ABC.

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   Homework: WB page 31 Activity 1, 2 Then learning new words
   
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   Marking. Giving marks according to pupils‘ attendance