The grove of the dancing birches.Lesson plan

Unit 7. Reading for pleasure

School:

Date:

Teacher’s name:

Class:

Number present:

absent:

Theme of the Lesson:

The grove of the dancing birches

Learning objective(s) that this lesson is contributing to

 6.4.1.1 understand the main points in a growing range of short, simple texts on general and curricular topics

6.4..8.1  use independently familiar paper and digital reference resources to check meaning and extend understanding

Lesson objectives

✓      To read for comprehension of general  information

✓      To comprehend the story using different resources to check meaning of words and phrases

Assessment criteria

✓      A learner can understand the main points of the story

✓      A learner can use different resources to comprehend the story

Value links

Respect, Lifelong learning and academic honesty

Cross curricular links

English Literature

Previous learning

Peter Pan

Plan

Planned timings

Planned activities (replace the notes below with your planned activities)

Resources

Beginning

0-3

4-7

Organization moment

The teacher greets learners and asks how they feel today. The teacher offers to choose the colour which conforms to their mood.

After that, the teacher says that everyone's mood is different, and offers to make a few compliments to a deskmate to cheer up.

Warm –up

Teacher asks some questions to lead-in the topic.

•      What do you see in the picture?

•      Do you know where this area is located?

•      Have you ever been to Burabai? If you’ve been, have you seen this place?

•      Do you know what this place is called?

Learners answer the question and teacher listens to them.

The teacher presents the theme: The grove of the dancing birches

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Middle

7-10

       10-20

20-32

32-40

Focus on reading

Pre-reading

Teacher asks learners to read the words

pine tree, recognize, grove, jewel, decide, grace, competition, seat, intelligence, compliment, skill, turn into, strength, admire, realise.

Reading

The teacher divides learners into small groups and asks the ablest learners from each group to read the story “The grove of the dancing birches” aloud. The other learners can ask to repeat the sentences using the phrase: Can you repeat, please?

After this activity learners read the text independently one more time.

Post-reading

The teacher divides learners into pairs and asks them to choose five new words from the text. In pairs, learners compare their five words and try to explain or translate their partner’s words. Then they choose five words from their combined list of ten.

After that pairs join to make groups of four. Learners compare their words and translate or explain as before. Again they choose five words from their combined list of ten. Each group writes their five words on the board. Learners explain the word to the class.

The teacher explains any words that are left.

Formative assessment

 Ex.3 p.84

Ex.4 p.84

Answer keys ( ex.3)

1.decided 2. took 3. recognised 4.  realized 5. froze 6. turned

Answer keys  (ex.4)

 intelligence - understanding

recognize - identified

ordinary - normal

amazed - impressed

grace - elegance

grove – a small group of tree

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Excel 6 Student’s book

Grade 6

Express

(Ex 1 p82)

Excel 6 Student’s book

Grade 6

 (Ex 2 p83)

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Excel 6 Student’s book

Grade 6

Ex 3 p84)

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End

40-45

The home task is ex.1,2,3 p.54 Workbook

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

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DIFFERENTIATION – how do you plan to give more support? How do you plan to challenge the more able learners?

ASSESSMENT – how are you planning to check learners’ learning?

Health and safety rules

less-able learners can be supported by teacher. Support them with vocabulary of necessary  while reading the story or provide them with dictionaries.

Teacher observes learners when participating in discussion and during pair work and makes records to provide constructive feedback

Short physical exercises between the activities