Travelling. Great Britain. The Degrees of Comparison of Adjectives

FORM 5          

Topic:  Travelling. Great Britain. The Degrees of Comparison of Adjectives

Aim: educational: to learn new words on the topic “Great Britain”; to acquaint with the phrases  “Where would you like to travel? – I would like to travel to …”; to teach to describe the capitals of four countries of the UnitedKingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; to repeat degrees of comparison of adjectives;

developing aim: to develop listening and speaking skills.

Equipment: computer presentation, a book, a copy - book, vocabulary

INTRODUCTION

І. The first part of the lesson.Warming up.

GreetingTeacher greets with pupils

T: Good morning, dear pupils.

Ps: Good morning.

T: How are you?

Ps: Thank you, we are fine.

Aim                The teacher explains the aim of the lesson

T: Today we continue learning English. At our lesson we begin to learn new topic. We learn about a great land. We learn about Great Britain, the full name is The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Today we’ll get a lot of new information about this land. We’ll read the text, learn new words and do some tasks in written form. Let’s begin our lesson!

Warming up  Conversation

Teacher explains the rule.

      T: The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland consists of four countries. They are England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. They are very beautiful countries. Each of them has its own capital. The capital of England is London. Edinburgh is the capital of Scotland. Cardiff is the capital of  Wales and Belfast is the capital of Northern Ireland. Let’s see the map of the UK.

Pupils answer the questions

ІІ. The main part of the lesson

VocabularyTeacher explains new words

Revision T: Today we’ll speak about The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Repeat the words after me.

 (Pupils repeat the words after the teacher)

Pupils write down new words in vocabularies.

Speaking        Ex. 2(p.123)

Teacher explains the task.

T: Your task is to look at the pictures on page 123 and say as in the example.

Example:

Mary is from London. (Mary lives in London.) London is the capital of Great Britain.

Mark is from … . (He lives in … .) … is the capital of Northern Ireland.

Julia is from … . (She lives in … .) … is the capital of Scotland.

John is from … . (He lives in … .) … is the capital of Wales.

Pupils are doing the task and teacher helps them

Reading    Ex. 3 (p. 123)

Teacher explains the task

        T: Your task is to listen and read the text about Great Britain.

Pupils are reading the text and teacher helps them.

Listening

Comprehension Ex. 4 (p. 124)

Teacher explains the task

T: Your task is to work in pairs. Take turns to ask and answer the questions.

1. What is the official name of the country?

The official name of the country is The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

2. How many parts does Great Britain consists of? What are they?

Great Britain consists of four parts. They are England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

3. What are their capitals?

The capital of  England is London. Scotland’s capital is Edinburgh. Cardiff is the capital of Wales. The capital of Northern Ireland is Belfast.

4. How many people live in the UK?

About 56 million people live there.

5. What is the official language of the country?

English is the official language of the country.

Writing          Degrees of Comparison of Adjectives

Teacher explains the task

T: Now we repeat degrees of comparison  of adjectives.

Long – longer – the longest

hot – hotter – the hottest

funny – funnier – the funniest

wonderful – morewonderful – the mostwonderful

Task 1

T: Your task is to make the degrees of comparison of adjectives.

1. Famous - ________________ -______________
2. old - ___________ - _______________________
3. happy - ___________ - _____________________
4. big - _____________ - _____________________
5. beautiful - ____________ - _________________
6. wet - _______________ - __________________

KEYS

Famous – more famous – the most famous

old – older – theoldest

happy – happier – the happiest

big – bigger – the biggest

beautiful – more beautiful – the most beautiful

wet – wetter – the wettest

T: Now we are going to watch a short video about Great Britain. Watch and be attentive.

(Watching a video “Top 10 Facts about Great Britain”)

ІІІ. Final part of the lesson

Homework 1) to learn words  2) Ex. 3 (p. 125) переказ тексту

Summarizing