Done by Urinova Nigora Checked by Class: 2 a date

Done by Urinova Nigora
Checked by ________________
Class: 2 A
Date: 27.02.2017
Theme : January, February…

Aims	Learning outcomes	Vocabulary and structure	Required equipment
Educational: to learn the months of the year Developing: to enable pupils to say the months in order;	By the end of the lesson, pupils will be able to: — say the months of the year in order;	month, January, February, March, April, May, June,	Pupil's Book, Workbook, the DVD of the book

— to enable pupils to use the calen-	— arrange the	July,
dar;	months in	August,
— to enable pupils to understand and	alphabetical	September,
use the short forms of the months.	order;	October,
Socio-cultural:	— guess the	November,
— to raise awareness of the similari-	months from	December
ties and differences of the months in	their short
English and the mother tongue;	forms.
— to raise awareness of the use of
short forms of the months.

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Warm upPlay the DVD. The pupils listen and repeat the poem. DVD:
Thirty days have September, April, June and November.
All the rest have thirty-one, Except February alone, Which has twenty-eight days clear, And twenty-nine in each leap year.
Activity 1a Look and say in your mother tongue. Objective: to raise awareness of the similarity of months in Eng­lish and the mother tongue
STEP 1: Ask the pupils to look at the word "months" and the balloons. Give them one or two minutes to try to read the months on the balloons silently for themselves.
STEP 2: Explain the word "months" in the mother tongue. Then say that the words on the balloons are the months of the year. Then ask the pupils if they could notice any similarities between the months in English and the months in their mother tongue. Elicit some answers.
STEP 3: Summarise that all the months in English are similar to those in the mother tongue except some differences in spelling and pronunciation. Explain that it is very easy to learn and mem­orise them if they compare the months in English and the mother tongue. Write the months on the blackboard in the order they are presented on the balloons (not like the order in the calendar!) and their equivalents in the mother tongue. For example, in Uzbek it would be as follows: April — aprel; June — iyun; August — avgust; May — may; February — fevral; September — sentabr; January — yanvar; December — dekabr; March — mart; November — noyabr; July — iyul; October — oktabr.
Language Note: Here, explain that in English the months are written with capital letters everywhere in the sentence: at the beginning, in the middle and at the end. However, in the mother tongue they are written with small letters in the middle and at the end but with capital letters at the beginning of the sentence.
STEP 4: Read aloud what you have written on the blackboard one after another and have the pupils see how much similar and different they are.
Activity 1b Write the order.Objective: to enable pupils to put the months in order
STEP 1: Check the pupils' knowledge of the order of the months by asking if there is anybody who can say the months in order in their mother tongue. Ask a pupil to say them. When s/ he finishes, ask some more pupils to do the same.STEP 2: Ask the pupils to open their Workbooks and look at the jumbled months. Explain that the order of the months in English is just the same as in the mother tongue: it also begins with January and ends with December. Then ask them to choose the month February among the jumbled ones and write the num­ber 3 on it. Explain that this because February is the third month of the year. When you see everything is clear to everybody, say that they should go on in this manner until they have numbered all the months.
Activity 1c Check.
Objectives: to enable pupils to listen to check their answers;
to practise the pronunciation of the new words
After the pupils finish numbering the months on the calen­dar, you can play the DVD and ask them to check their answers. Play the DVD the second and the third times. The pupils listen and repeat after the DVD. While repeating, draw the pupils' at­tention to the correct stress in months that have more than one syllable as shown in bold type in the DVD script.DVD: A typical calendar. The months and their sounds appear one by one in the correct order: Months, January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, No­vember, December.
Activity 2 Play "Say in order".Objective: to reinforce saying the months in order
This is a usual Chain Drill activity. You can organise it in pairs, rows or the whole class according to your choice. PupilA says a month, Pupil B says the month next to that month in order.
Activity 3 Write the months in the boxes. Objectives: to explore the calendar;
to give more practise in memorising the months.
Ask the pupils to open their Workbooks and look at the months in Activity 1b. Explain that some months have 30 days and some have 31, and there is one which has even less than 30 days. To­gether with the pupils find a month among the months which has 30 days and write it in a relevant box. Do the same thing with the other boxes as well. After that have the pupils continue exploring the months and complete the boxes. When they finish, ask which month has less than 30 days and get the answer 'February'.
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