Lesson plan

Class: 5

Unit: Nature

Topic of the lesson: Nature and Weather

Aims:

• to introduce and activate some key vocabulary
• to practise students' reading and listening skills
• to practise speaking about seasons

Type of the lesson:  introductory lesson

The procedure of the lesson

I. Greeting. Organizing

II. Warmer up activity

Associations. Start by suggesting an evocative word: ‘storm’, for example. A student says what the word suggests to him or her – it might be ‘dark’. The next student suggests an association with the word ‘dark’, and so on round the class. Other words you might start with: sea, fire, tired, holiday, morning, English, family, home, angry. Or use an item of vocabulary the class has recently learnt.

III. Introducing the topic of the lesson

Today we are going to speak about weather

IV. Introducing and practising the new material

Task1 – Answer the questions.

How many seasons are there in a year?

There are 4 seasons in a year.

What are they?

They are winter, spring, summer and autumn.

What season is it now?

It is winter now.

Task2 – Ex. 1. p. 98

Listen and translate the given words into Hungarian

cloud/cloudy - felhő/felhős

cold – hideg

hot – forró

fog/foggy - köd/ködös

wind/windy - szél/szeles

rain/rainy - eső/esős

snow/snowy - eső/esős

storm – vihar

sun/sunny - nap/napos

warm - meleg

Task3 – Ex. 2. p. 99

Talk about the weather. Use the words from Ex. 1. p. 98

What is the weather like today?

It is cold and snowy.

Do you like it when it snows?

Yes, I like.

Task4 – Ex. 3. pp. 99-100

Read and match the postcards to the pictures

Key: 1- B, 2-A, 3-C

Task5 – Ex. 4. p. 100

Read and choose the correct items to complete the sentences

Key: 1- the Crimea, 2-cold, 3-can, 4-didn’t like, 5-is, 6-sometimes

Task6 – Ex. 5. p. 100 (in words)

Look at the pictures and say what the children can do on such a day. Use the given words

V. Evaluating the learners activity and knowledge of the lesson

VI. Summarizing the whole material of the lesson

VII. Homework giving

Ex. 6 p. 101

Write 7-8 sentences about different kinds of weather

VIII. End-of-lesson activity

Blackboard bingo. Write on the board 10 to 15 words which you would like to review. Tell the students to choose any five of them and write them down. Read out the words, one by one and in any order. If the students have written down one of the words you call out they cross it off. When they have crossed off all their five words they tell you, by shouting ‘Bingo’. Keep a record of what you say in order to be able to check that the students really have heard all their words.

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