Конспект уроку англійської мови в 11класі " English -speaking countries"

ONLINE-LESSON:  Year 11

TOPIC: ENGLISH-SPEAKING COUNTRIES.

OBJECTIVES: -to enlarge and systemize students’ knowledge on the topic;

• to inspire students to work in a team;
• to promote critical thinking and creative imagination;
• to develop listening and speaking skills;
• to focus on talking about the USA, Canada and Australia;
• to get a cultural improvement;
• to develop students’ communicative competence;
• to broaden students’ mind.

OUTCOMES: by the end of the lesson students will be able to use essential facts about three English-speaking countries: the USA, Canada and Australia.

MATERIALS AND EQUIPMENT: a laptop, an Evaluation Card.

REFERENCES AND  RESOURCES: a Power Point presentation, a learning platform “Quizizz”, Zoom- application, Classroom- application, a You-tube video https://app.fluentize.com/lesson/usa-canada

PROCEDURE

I. Introduction:

- Good morning, my dear students! I’m very glad to see you at our today’s lesson. How are you? Show me if you are fine using reactions on your screen.

Warming-up:

-Look at the map. What countries can you see? Do you recognize them? What are they? (the USA, Canada, Australia, the UK, New Zealand). SLIDE 1

- How do you think all of them are connected? ( The English language is spoken in all of them).

- So, the topic of our lesson is “English-speaking countries”. SLIDE 2

At our previous lessons we learned about three of these countries. What are they? (the USA, Canada and Australia). And today we’re going to enrich your knowledge about them and sum everything up you know about the USA, Canada and Australia through different kinds of activities such as listening, speaking, asking and answering questions, working in teams etc..

I think this experience will be useful  for your further education for geography and history lessons. And of course if you have an opportunity to travel to these countries the information will be useful to you.

While doing these activities I would like you to evaluate yourself using Evaluation Card I sent you before the lesson via Classroom application. SLIDE 3

Evaluation Card.

II. The main part of the lesson:

1. – Let’s revise the basic facts about the USA, Canada and Australia:

Do you remember their capitals? SLIDE 4

the USA – Washington, DC

Canada -  Ottawa

Australia – Canberra

-How about the flags? Take your virtual pens and match countries and flags. Be careful, there is one flag you do not need to use. SLIDE 5

 Population: SLIDE 6

-Take a look at these four abbreviations. Decide what they mean and find the odd one out: SLIDE 7

CAD        USD      AUD      UAH

2. Listening:

pre-listening activity: SLIDE 8

You can see two pictures. Take a look at picture 1 very attentively and try to remember every detail. You have 5 seconds. ( The pictures have disappeared ).

Now tell me what was depicted in picture 2. SLIDE 9

          while-listening activity:

The United States and Canada share the longest un-militarized border in the world. It’s over 8.800 km long. But what about the cultures of both countries? Are they the same or different? The answer is in the video you are going to watch. https://app.fluentize.com/lesson/usa-canada   SLIDE 10

(children make notes while watching the video) SLIDE 11

         after-listening activity:

-Hope you have managed to drop as many similarities and differences as possible. So, let’s check and discuss.

3. Teamwork.

- You have been divided into three groups. Each group has a name according to an English-speaking country (the USA, Canada and Australia). The task for each group was to create three questions about a proper country:

true/false question, multiple-choice question and a question with free answer.

( Students ask and answer the questions prepared beforehand).

4.Questions (Chatbox).

- Now I have three questions to you. Use the chatbox to give your answers.

1. The border between the USA and Canada is the longest in the world. True/False  (True) SLIDE 13
2. Australia is… 

a). the world’s largest country

     b). the world’s smallest continent  (b) SLIDE 14

     3. Who discovered Australia?

 a). James Cook      b). Marco Polo   c).Christopher Columbus (a) SLIDE 15

5. Game “Quizizz”. https://quizizz.com/admin

6. Homework: Imagine I am a tourist. Persuade me to visit one of the English-speaking country. SLIDE 16

Writing task: write a tourist leaflet ( of at least 100 words) about an English-speaking country. Include:

• a title to attract attention
• information about interesting things to see and places to visit
• information about what people can do there
• some interesting facts about this country

7. Summing up:

- Our lesson is coming to the end. Say one sentence what you have remembered from the lesson.