Love is in the air
(St. Valentine’s Day lesson)
made by:
Kateryna Myts, teacher of English
of Takhtaulove Educational Complex
named after Samiylo Velychko
Type: Project lesson with party elements for students of grades 5 and 7.
Aim: developing listening, speaking, thinking, reading and writing skills using vocabulary and clues of the lesson; to bring up kindness, love and respect to each other and Motherland.
Equipment and facilities: ppt presentation, desks are put for students to sit in four, colorful stickers, 3 paper sheets (A3 or bigger), scissors, glue and good mood.
PROCEDURE
Aim: to get students interested in the topic
T: What day is it today? What is in the air? (Slide1,2)
T: What can we love? (Ss brainstorm) (slide 3)
Now tell what things and people you love? Look at the clues.(slide 4)
Ss: speak and write on the stickers than glue them on the board.
(Upbringing):
Aim: to bring up Ss’ patriotic feelings
T: speaks about love to Motherland
All together sing a song “Ukraine is our Motheland” (slide 5,6)
Aim: to develop and elicit speaking, reading
T: Lets discuss some questions (slide7)
Ss present their ideas answering the questions.
Then younger Ss ( grade 5) do the tasks (slide 8,9,10)
Task1: Unscramble the secret message.
Task 2: Find a couple for cartoon characters.
Task 3: Put the words in order according to the color code.
(Relaxation)
Ss sing a song “Little valentine”(slide11)
Aim: to develop and elicit speaking, reading and writing skills
T: Now let’s do some project “Love is” To do it you should do some tasks. (slides13-15)
Task 1: Put the words into correct order and match to the pictures
Task 2: Match the phrases with the pictures
Task 3: Complete the phrases
Checking answers (in pairs with teacher’s coments)
Ss use stickers, write on them and glue to the boards.
Younger students (grade 5 ) do the crossword.
Sum up:
T: So, St. Valentine’s day is about love, care and kindness. Now, please make a kindness notes and glue them to the board.
(Relaxation)
Ss sing karaoke song “Don’t worry, be happy”