Festivals around the world

Unit 3 :

Entertainment and Media

Teacher’s name

Amirkhanova L.N.

Date:

Grade: 8 Г

Number present:

Number absent:

Theme:

Festivals around the world. Фестивали по всему миру

Learning objectives(s) that this lesson is contributing to

8.3.3.1- give an opinion at discourse level on a wide range of general and curricular topics;

8.4.2.1- understand specific information  and detail in texts on a growing range of familiar general and curricular topics, including some extended texts;

Lesson objectives

   By the end of the lesson learners will be able  to identify  and describe main ideas and details from short texts about festivals using scanning and detailed reading strategies.

Planned timings

Teacher activity

Learner’s activity

Assessment           

Resources

Beginning

5 min

Organizational moment

Greeting

Warm-up.

Ask:

Show images of various festivals (including Shakespeare’s Birthday and Festival of Nomadic Civilisation).

Ask:

What do you celebrate in your culture?

 What do you wear, eat, or do?

Lead-in

Ask:

Do you know who Shakespeare is?

Where did he live?

What is a yurt? Where can you see it?

Show pictures

 The theme of lesson is      Festivals around the world . Today you will  learn how to find and talk about the main ideas and important details in short texts about festivals.    

Ss greet teacher

Ss respond the questions

Ss respond the questions

Verbal assessment

Verbal assessment

board

pictures

Middle

30

Activity 1. Pre-reading

Present new words

Have Ss  read the titles of the two texts: Shakespeare's Birthday and Festival of Nomadic Civilisation.

Ask:

What do you think these texts are about?

 Elicit Ss guesses

Activity 2.  Reading

Divide Ss in two groups

1. scanning Assign each group a text to read and find

When, where, what people do.

Instruct Ss to fill in the table ex.3 p. 37 (only assigned text)

Ask a volunteer from each group to fill in the table on the board

2.detailed reading Distribute handouts, have Ss read the task and match the fact to the festival

Then ask groups to exchange their papers and check each other.

Write the keys on the board

Fact                                                                  Festival

People take part in a parade.                                 ?

Celebrated in Kazakhstan.                                     ?

Involves remembering a famous writer.                 ?

People demonstrate traditional crafts.                  ?

Celebrated near Shakespeare’s grave.                  ?

Activity 3.  Post-reading

Ask Ss to return to the table and make some sentences about each festival

Extra activity. Sentence Building

Have students create sentences using the vocabulary

 1) in/Stratford-upon-Avon/ was born/ 1564/ William Shakespeare/in.

2) theatre/ London’s/ 1576/ first/opened/in.

3) in/ Shakespeare/ London/as an actor/ worked.

4) wrote/Romeo and Juliet/a tragedy/ Shakespeare.

5) all over/ people/ his/the world/ like/masterpiece.

Ss repeat new words

Ss  read the titles and share their ideas

Ss scan the text, identify  specific information,  record the answers and complete the  table

Ss read the text and match the fact to the festival correctly

Ss describe each festival using full sentences.

Verbal assessment

Monitoring/ Group assessment

Group

assessment

.

Individual assessment

Excel for Kazakhstan  grade 8, p. 37

pictures

Excel for Kazakhstan  grade 8, p. 37

Excel for Kazakhstan  grade 8, p. 37

handouts

Excel for Kazakhstan  grade 8, p. 35

End

5 min

REFLECTION  

Quick exit slip: Write 1 fact  you learned + 1 new word.

Home task:   ex. 2 p. 37 answer the questions using full sentences

At the end of the lesson, learners reflect on their learning.

Students summarize the key rule of the lesson by answering the final question.

Excel for Kazakhstan  grade 8, p.37