Урок:"Lets talk about the weather"

Subject: Let’s talk about the weather.

Objectives:

Practical: to practice active use of the new lexical units by pupils;

to develop speaking and listening skills;

to practice grammar Present Simple;

Educational: to get pupils involved in conversation about the weather;

to increase pupils’ active involvement in all areas of language practice;

to develop pupils’ outlook;

Developing: to enrich pupils’ knowledge on the topical issues;

to develop pupils’ creative imagination in communicative activity.

Equipment: cards with dialogues, cards with words, a tape recorder, a tape script of the text, cards, pictures

Procedure

1. Organizing a lesson. Greetings.

Teacher: Good morning, pupils. How are you?

           Pupils: We’re fine, thank you.

           Teacher: Where is …? What’s the matter with him/her?

           Pupils: She/he is ill.

2. Phonetic warm-up.

Teacher: Dear children, today I prepare for a proverb. Let’s read it and guess what it is about.

The pupils read the proverb and try to explain it.

3. Lexical warm-up

Teacher: So, as you’ve already guessed today we’ll speak about the wether. Look, what’s the weather like today? Do you like it? Why? What can you do when the weather is bad? What kind of weather do you like? Why?

4. Vocabulary revision

Teacher: And now you let’s revise what can you tell me when you hear the word “weather”.

The pupils say all the words that come to their mind connected with the weather.

                                       cold              winter                sunny      fine

                cool                                                                              thunder

                         bad       nasty                                     fog            snowfall

                                                         air          heat

5. Presenting vocabulary

Teacher: As you see, we know a lot of words that help us to describe the weather. But today I’d like to present you some more words and phrases that we can use in our speech.

The pupils repeat after the teacher these words, translate them and make up sentences with them.

6. Reading

Teacher: Now, my dear, I want you to read a short dialogue in pairs and fill in the gaps. So later on we can listen to you.

The pupils complete and read their dialogues. (Addition 1)

7. Physical warm-up

8. Speaking

Teacher: Now using the dialogues you read, please make up your own dialogues. For this you have cards with the words and phrases you can use. Imagine that you are in Britain. You meet each other and as we know Englishmen always talk about the weather. So, please talk with your friend about the weather.

9. Listening comprehencion

Teacher: I propose you to listen to the story about two gentlemen and then choose the right answer.

Tapescript: Two men were travelling in a very wild part of America. They didn’t see modern houses for many days. What they saw were only tents where Indians lived. One day they met an old Indian who was a hunter. He was very clever and knew everything about the forest and the animals living in it and many other things. He could also speak English quite well.

"Can you tell us what the weather will be like during the next few days?" one of the travellers asked him.

"Oh, yes," he answered. "Rain is coming, and wind. Then there will be snow for a day or two but then the sunshine will come again and the weather will be fine."

"These old Indians seem to know more about Nature than we with all our science," said the man to his friend. Then he turned to the old Indian.

"Tell me," he asked, "how do you know all that?"

The Indian answered: "I heard it over the radio."

10. Writing

The pupils have cards with questions and they have to answer them.

11. Setting home task

Teacher: Describe your favourite weather and what you like to do at that time.

12. Summary home task. Evaluation.

Addition 1