Topic «THE NATURE OF THE CONTINENTS» (Africa/ America/ Eurasia)

School summer English camp «Friends»

Date: 06.06.2019                                                                                 Anastasia Bilets`ka

Topic «THE NATURE OF THE CONTINENTS»

(Africa/ America/ Eurasia)

Lesson time: 35 minutes

1. Learning outcomes: learners will be able to name, identify and recognize continents of the Earth; to identify some kinds of landscapes, weather, plants and animals of each continent; to explain the causes of some natural phenomena; to identify the motherland of some animals.

2. The objectives: - to improve skills of using the vocabulary in speech;

    - to improve skills of using grammatical knowledge;

- to spread pupils’ knowledge on the topic;

- motivate pupils to study English;

- to develop skills of work in pairs, memory, skills of comparison;

- to bring up careful attitude to the nature.

3. Materials: multimedia system, flashcards, posters with continents, The World maps, pupil`s cards, scissors, glue, coloured pencils.

PROCEDURE:

I. INTRODUCTION.

1. Greeting.

VIDEO: Do you know the continents? [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9ayMXBDaMg]

2. Warming up.

Teacher: And now let`s remember the motto of our camp and our group!

Friends! What are we?

Come to us and you will see!

We are funny, we are great,

We are ready to create!

Happy, active, very smart,

Everybody wants to start!

African's motto

Africa is super, Africa is cool!

Africa is great!

In summer, at the school.

American’s motto

America is here,

America is there,

Funny children

Are everywhere!

Eurasian's motto

We are the best!

We᾽re feeling fine!

We᾽ll be your friends!

We᾽ll blow your mind!

II. THE MAIN PART.

3. Aim.

VIDEO: Beautiful nature. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxvnNVnSMj4]

Teacher: - What was this video about?

Children: - About the Nature.

Teacher: - Yes, you right! It was about the Nature. And today, we will study a topic «The nature of the continents» (I group - Nature of Africa; II group - Nature of America; III group - Nature of Eurasia)

So, let’s start our lesson!

The teacher shows the slides of the presentation and telling what categories the concept of «Nature» consists of (Landscape, Climate, Plants, Animals)

4. Practice.

 A Project 1.

 Children get pictures with weather phenomena. They stick pictures around the map of the continent in the area where such phenomena occur.

A Project 1.

Children get pictures of animals. They stick pictures around the map of the continent in the area where these animals live.

Physical activity Let’s do exercises: Stand up!

III. SUMMING UP.

- What topic did we study?

- What does nature depend on?

- Do you liked our lesson?

- What did you like best of all?

IV. REFLECTION

Teacher: - Dear pupils! Please, take your smiley and stick them at the poster of your mood.                      -    I like our lesson!

•         I don`t like our lesson!
•         I don’t care.

Teacher: - Goodbye. 

Children: - Goodbye.