Earth Day short plan 6 grade

Date: 19. 04.2018

Form:  5 «Г»

Subject: English                

The theme

Earth Day

Links

Internet resources

Aims

to enrich their vocabulary

to develop their speech activity using modal verb “should/shouldn’t”

to develop their feelings towards a pure land on which we live

to develop pupils’ skills of listening and speaking and critical thinking;

The expected result

Students will enrich their knowledge about the problems of nature; they will practise working in groups and will understand the importance of the environment; they will express their opinion on the theme.

Exercises

1. Warm-up

2. Catch the question

3. Group work

4. “2 stars and a wish” evaluation

5. Reflexion “Ship”

Resources and aids

1.   PowerPoint presentation

2.   Worksheets

The stages of work

Teacher’s activity

Students’ activity

Organization moment

-   Good morning, boys and girls! Sit down, please. Glad to see you. How are you? You are going to have an unusual extracurricular lesson. Now let’s make a circle and greet each other. Say your best wishes.

-   Teacher offers to pupils to choose one picture and divides them into 2 groups.

1 – “Earth”         2 – “Water”

Pupils greet each other

I wish you success! I wish you luck! I wish you health!

I wish you happiness! Be pretty! Be boldness!

Be modest! Be powerful. Be clever!

Be honesty! Be beautiful! Be handsome!

Pupils choose pictures and according to it they are divided into 2 groups.

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Presentation of new theme Catch the question

-  Now let’s watch the film “Home” by Luc Besson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8IozVfph7I (slide 1)

And let’s talk about this film. What does it tell you about?

Teacher throws a ball and ask the questions.

1.           We live on a beautiful planet. What is its name?

2.           What colour is our earth?

3.           Why is it called « a blue planet»?

4.           What are there on the planet?

5.           How many continents do you know?’

-  Very good! So today our theme is The Earth Day. (slide 2)

The student who catches a ball and answer the question

-   It tells us about Nature.

-   It tells us about wild animals.

-   We see our planet.

-   It is beautiful. It is green.

-   The wild animals are beautiful.

-   We see oceans and seas.

-   The oceans are beautiful.

-   Its name is Earth.

-   Our planet is blue because there is a lot of water.

-   There are continents and oceans, mountains and rivers.

They guess the theme of the lesson

Vocabulary work

Vocabulary work (slides 3-13)

rubbish bin, environment, litter, human being, throw into, pollute, prohibit, recycle, reuse, waste water/energy, protect, throwaway

Pupils are introduced with new words, repeat after the teacher and practice the pronunciation

Working with text

Reading the text (slide 14-17)

On the 22^nd of April we celebrate The Earth Day. It was founded by U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson in 1970. Now this holiday is popular in many countries of the world.

Earth Day is a very special day. On this day, people think about air, water to drink, food, animals and plants. Earth Day is also the time to remember that we share the Earth, our home, with millions of other plants and animals. Some people’s activities do a lot of harm to the forests. People cut down trees to build farms, homes and roads. Many animals and plants lose their homes. 

Pupils read the text, translate it and answer the questions

Group work

Task 1

Teacher gives to the groups the worksheets “Save the world” (slide 18)

People should / shouldn’t  

Pupils do the tasks in group and then change their works with another group for checking each other

Task 2

“Environment signs”

Match the signs with their definitions (slide 19)

Evaluation

“Traffic lights” 

Teacher asks groups to evaluate each other

They evaluate each other by this method

Playing the game “Build a letter or number”

Teacher says any letter or number.

Pupils should quickly form it while teacher counts till 10.

Task 3

Gabage disposal

-       Over 160 million tons of garbage is pro­duced every year. Ten percent is recycled, ten percent is burned, and the rest is put in landfills. A city that has solved this problem in an unusual way is, Machida, in Tokyo, Japan. They have developed totally a new approach to garbage disposal. Families must divide their garbage into categories.

1.   garbage that can be easily burned (that is, combustible gar­bage), such as kitchen and garden trash;

2.   noncombustible garbage, such as small electrical appliances, plastic tools, and plastic toys;

3.   products that are poisonous or that cause pollution, such as batteries;

4.   bottles and glass containers that can be recycled;

5.   metal containers that can be recycled. (slides 20-24)

-       We have some containers. Please throw litter and say why you do it.

Each group divides the litter into litter bins

-  I throw bottles in this containers, this litter will be recycled, etc.

Conclusion of the lesson

Reflexion

“Ship”

Gives them ships to paint them

They paint the sails of ship

Green - if they like and manage to do all the task;

Yellow – if they had a little difficulties with tasks;

Red – if they had some difficulties and needed the teacher’s help.