Урок "Travelling" 6 клас за підручником "Family and friends"

 

                                  Lesson “Travelling”

Date: 19.02.18

Form: 2(6) C

Topic: Travelling

Subtopic: Travelling to interesting places.

Objectives:

• to read proverbs about travelling;
• to discuss different places of interests and means of transport;
• to practice listening skills;
• to sing a song “Over the mountains”;
• to watch videos about places of interests and do the while-watching tasks;
• to read and discuss the text “Nazca lines”, do post reading activities;
• to write and role-play the dialogue about interesting places that you want to visit;
• to do a crossword “Means of transport”.

 

 

Material: SB “Family and Friends 6”, WB “Family and Friennds”, “Enterprise” Video-CD (“People and places”), a map with places of interests, photos of sightseeing, HO1, HO2.

Sites: British council (practice listening skills “At the train station”)

          and song “Over the mountains”.

          www.eslgamesplus.com>video> travelling

          www.eslgamesplus.com>;friendeglish.uk> enterprise.

 

 

                                              Procedure

Beginning of the lesson.

Greeting:

T. Good afternoon, children! I am glad to see you!

Ps: We are glad to see you too!

T: This lesson is unusual for you and me. You can see many guests. They are teachers. I hope that our co-operation will be successful. I want to ask you to be attentive and active. Don’t be afraid, don’t be silent. Speak and express your opinion. OK, look at each other, please. Smile! Look at me. Smile! So, let’s start our communication.

Aim.

T: The topic of our lesson today is “Travelling to interesting places”. Open your copybooks and write the day and date and the topic of the lesson.We have a map of our journey. It will help us to organise our tour and shows us the places that we are going to visit. During our journey you’ll do different tasks. We’ll discuss places of interests and different kinds of travelling, you’ll listen to the conversation at the

 

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railway station, you’ll watch videos about holidays and role-play dialogues about mysterious places.                                            

     To begin the lesson, I would like to ask you to read the motto of the lesson.                                                     

Look at the board. There is a sentence there. But all the words in it are written together. Try to divide these words and read the sentence.

 

Everyjourneygivesyouitsownfavour. – Every journey gives you its own favour.

 

Warm-up:

Pronunciation drill:

 

T: There are many English proverbs about travelling. Let’s read some of them.

• East or west – home is best.
• There is no place like home.
• A journey of thousand miles begins with a single step.
• He who travels far knows much.
• Every departure has an arrival.
• Poor man’s luggage is always light.
• Travel broadens the mind.
• The heaviest luggage for a traveller is an empty purse.
• The wise traveller lives his heart at home.

 

Brainstorming: Conversation: T-P1-P2-P3…

T: Modern life is impossible without travelling. Say me, please why do people travel? What makes them travel? Tell your suggestions.

P1: People travel because they want to visit new countries.

P2: They often travel on business.

P3: We travel to get new impressions.

P4: People travel to meet new friends.

P5: Some people travel to study at university.

P6: People travel to earn much money.

P7: We travel to visit our relatives.  

 

Main part

 Vocabulary practice:

T: So, let’s start our journey! First of all, people choose places they want to visit. Look at the board. There are pictures of famous places. Match the places with the countries they are come from.

 

            Great Britain                                The USA                                Egypt

 The Houses of Parliament              The Statue of Liberty                  The Pyramids

 The London Eye              Mount Rushmore National Memorial        The  Sphinx                                                                                  

 The Buckingham Palace     The Capitol Building          Holiday resort on the beach

 

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                                              Italy

                                     The Coliseum Theatre

                                   The Tower of Pisa

                                  Venice with gondolas

 

P1: The Houses of Parliament, The London Eye and The Buckingham Palace are situated in Great Britain.

P2: The Statue of Liberty, Mount Rushmore National Memorial and The Capitol Building are situated in The USA.

P3:The Pyramids, The Sphinx and a holiday resort on the beach are situated in Egypt.

P4: The Coliseum Theatre, The Tower of Pisa and Venice with gondolas are situated in Italy.

 

T: But our journey is impossible without kinds of transport. What kinds of transport do you know? Complete this spider gram. How can people travel?

 

                 car< ---------We can travel by------train

 

T: Tell me about your favourite kind of transport and explain your choice.

 

Speaking:

P1: I like travelling by plane, because it is the fastest way of travelling. You can get to many cities only in a few hours. During the trip you can sit comfortably in an armchair and read, eat or sleep.

P2: Hiking is interesting and good for health. You can stop where you wish. You can enjoy beautiful nature. You don’t need to think about tickets.

P3: I like travelling by train. It is rather fast and not so expensive. When you are going by plane you can sit in a carriage, eat and sleep. You can enjoy beautiful nature through the window.

P4: For me the best way of travelling is by car. You don’t need to buy tickets. You can stop where you wish. You can admire landscapes and watch the road, stop and have a picnic.

P5: I like travelling by ship.  It is called voyage. It’s very comfortable and relaxing. You don’t need to hurry. You can enjoy the beautiful view of the sea or ocean. You can sunbathe on a ship too.

 

T:  For the next task I want to divide you into two groups. Take pieces of paper from the box. Those pupils who took red pieces of paper form the group №1, those who took blue pieces of paper form the group № 2. Now listen to the task.  People need to pack their suitcases before travelling. The pupils from group № 1 will go to the Great Britain.

 

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So, from a list of things choose only those things that will be needed in Great Britain. The group №2 will go to Caribbean Island. So, from the list of things choose only things that will be needed in Caribbean Island. Write the names of the things to your copybooks.

 

Passport,  sunglasses, money, sun cream, umbrella, swimsuit, glasses, credit card, tickets, sandals, jacket, shorts, hat, evening dress, suit, camera, trainers, cap, mobile phone, toothbrush, hairbrush.

 

T: So, we’ll travel by train during our journey, because it’s comfortable and not so expensive.                                                 

 

Listening: T:  So, we need to go to the railway station to get into the train. Imagine that we are at the railway station. Listen to the 5 different conversations at the railway station and do the while-listening tasks. The group №1 do the task 2 and the group № 2 do the task 3.

 

(British council site: Listening level A2-“At the train station”).

 

Singing a song: We need a rest. We are in a train. So, let’s sing a song “Over the mountains” (British council site).

 

Watching a video: T: We have arrived to our first holiday destination Great Britain. Group № 1 Watch a video about Great Britain and do the task 4 on your sheets of paper. Group №2 has arrived to Caribbean Island. Watch the video about Caribbean Island and do the while listening task on your sheets of paper.

Video “Enterprise 3” (“People and places”1)[0:07:24-0:08:19], 2)[0:04:47-0:06:10].

 

Reading: T: We need to visit one more place. It’s the Nazca Valley in Peru, in South America. It’s a very mysterious place. Why? Let’s read a text about it.

Open your books at p.80 and find the text “The Nazca Lines”. Read it and answer the questions:

1. Who were the Nazca? (P1: The Nazca were an ancient people that lived in Peru in south America, about 2000 years ago).
2. What are the Nazca lines? (P2: They are giant sketches which the Nazca people drew in the desert in the Nazca Valley).
3. What did the Nazca draw pictures of? (P3: Nazca drew pictures of animals, birds and figures).
4. Do scientists know exactly why Nazca people made drawings? (P4: The scientists don’t know exactly why Nazca people made drawings).
5. When were the Nazca lines discovered? (P5: The drawings were first discovered in 1927, when the plane was flying across this part of the desert.)

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T: Read again and match the questions from ex. 3 at p.80 with the answers in the interview.

    Ex.3, p.80 SB.

Writing +

Speaking: T: The text “Nazca lines” was very interesting. Let’s discuss it. Write dialogues using prompts from Ex.4 at p.81 in your SB or your own answers.

(Pupils role-play dialogues).

Optional activity:

T: Lets revise means of transport. Do the crossword. Find means of transport.

 

T	J	B	C	S	H	I	P	T	C
R	E	U	A	R	A	F	T	R	A
A	T	S	R	T	A	X	I	A	M
M	B	I	K	E	F	R	B	I	P
A	I	R	P	L	A	N	E	N	E
F	E	R	R	Y	B	O	A	T	R
H	E	L	I	C	O	P	T	E	R

 

Optional activity: T: Let’s read more information about other mysterious places. and revise the using of Past Simple and Past Perfect. When do we use these tenses? How do we form them? Open your WB at p.73 and find the ex.2. Complete the sentences. Use the past simple or past perfect

 

Discover   leave    read    tell    not erupt    not finish

 

 

1. Ben_______about the pyramids many times before he visited Egypt.
2. When Oliver Deveau went to the Mary Celeste, he found that every _____.
3. I hadn’t heard about the Nazca lines before you_____me about them.
4. The archaeologists were disappointed when the site closed, because they______their work.
5. When smoke started pouring from the volcano, people were amazed. It_____for over 1,000 years.
6. No one had known about the incredible cave paintings until four children ______them in 1940.

 

Conclusion: T: We have done many tasks today. Read the sentences about our activity at the lesson. Change these sentences into passive voice.

1. We discussed the kinds of travelling.
2. We listened to the conversations at the railway station.
3. We sang a song about travelling.
4. We watched the videos about holidays.
5. We read the text about “Nasca Lines”.
6. We role-played dialogues about interesting places.

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Home task: T: Your home task for the next lesson is to prepare information about a mysterious place.

Summarizing: T: we have completed our journey. I hope it was interesting for you.  Thank you for your hard work at the lesson. I should say you worked well and were very active. Tell me please who was the most active today?

• What were we talking today at the lesson?
• What activities did we do?
• Did you like the lesson? Why?/Why not?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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