Lesson plan

Class: 5

Unit: Nature

Topic of the lesson: Weather in Great Britain 

Aims:

• practising writing skill
• developing basic skills

Type of the lesson:  combined lesson

The procedure of the lesson

I. Greeting. Organizing

II. Warmer up activity

The teacher divides the class into two groups and offers the words "Season" for the first one and "Weather" for the second one to work with. The students in turn should say their associations to the given words in the following order: noun-adjective-adverb- verb repeating the sequence until the last student in the group says a word. Each correct word is given a point. The group, which gets more points, wins.

III. Homework checking/Review material of the previous lesson

IV. Introducing the topic of the lesson

Today we are going to speak about weather in our country and in Great Britain.

V. Introducing and practising the new material

Task1 – Ex. 1. p. 103

Match the sentences to the thermometers

Key: A-It’s cold, B-It’s freezing, C-It’s warm, D-It’s hot

Task2 – Ex. 2. p. 103

Talk about the pictures as in the example

A – It is autumn. It’s cool. It is freezing. The temperature is zero degrees.

B – It is summer. It’s hot. The sun is shining brightly. The temperature is 27 degrees.

C – It is winter. It’s cold. It is freezing. The temperature is -18 degrees.

D – It is spring. Snow melts. The temperature is 5 degrees.

Task3 – Ex. 3. pp. 103-104

Read the information about seasons in Britain

Task4 – Ex. 4. p. 104

Read and complete the sentences with the correct forms of the words in brackets

Key: 1-longer, shorter, 2-tastier, 3-the coldest, 4-warmer, sunnier, 5-hotter, drier, 6-driest, hottest, 7-windiest

Task5 – Ex. 5. pp. 104-105

Look at the weather map and talk about the weather in different places around Great Britain

- What is the weather like in London today?

- It’s warm. It’s 21 degrees above 0.

- What is the weather like in Cardiff today?

- It’s sunny. It is 22 degrees above 0.

VI. Evaluating the learners activity and knowledge of the lesson

VII. Summarizing the whole material of the lesson

VIII. Homework giving

Ex. 7. p. 105

Write a short paragraph about different seasons in Ukraine.

Ukraine’s territory lies in the temperate belt. In general the country’s climate is temperately continental, being subtropical only on the southern coast of the Crimea. The average yearly temperature in Ukraine varies between +5.5…+7 C in the north and +11…+13 C in the south. The coldest month of the year is January with a record low of –42 C. The warmest month is July with a record high of 40 C. Precipitation (rain, snow and other forms of moisture) ranges from about 76 cm a year in the north to about 23 cm in the south. The highest rainfall is in the Carpathian and Crimean Mountains. On the southern coast of the Crimea the climate is subtropical Mediterranean.

IX. End-of-lesson activity

„Seasons Wordsearch”