Урок "Weather forecast"

 

Form: 5

Lesson№: 1        Topic: Weather Forecast

 

Lesson goals:

Practical aims:

•          to present and practice basic topic vocabulary  
•          to motivate situational speaking activities
•          to practice answering questions
•          to practice scanning listening
•          to motivate communicative activities (dialogues)

Developmental aim:

•          to develop English learning motivation
•          to develop students’ speaking and listening skills

Educational aim:

•          to practice  students’ learning skills
•          to practice  students’ skills of becoming independent and active learners

Learning outcomes:

 by the end of the lesson learners will be able to:

•          to name 12 types of weather (sunny, cloudy, foggy, frosty, windy, rainy, snowy, stormy, wet, chilly, warm cold, hot)
•          recognize these words among others

Еquipment: pictures, photos, sound recording, presentation, filling cards,  projector, laptop, textbook for 5 form (O. Karpyuk).

 

LESSON PLAN

1. Beginning of the lesson:

        1)Greeting and Aim              

T:  Good morning, boys and girls. Nice to meet you at our lesson today. How are you?

Ps: We are fine. Thank you.                                                                                                                                                                                   T:That’s nice. You’re in a good mood and we can start our lesson. Today we are going to speak about the weather and seasons. And today you will travel to different parts of the world.

 

2) Brainstorming (2 min)

T: Let’s draw a “Mind-Map”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3.     Phonetic drills

T: Read the words and practice sounds:

[æ] bad, sad

[aı] dry, fine, surprise

 [ŋ] shining, smiling

 [ð] the, weather

T: And now read the poem.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2. Main part

1.     Introduction to a foreign language atmosphere

1. What is the day today?

2. What is the date today?

3. What is the season now?

4. What is month is it now?

 

2) Acquaintance with the rule of formation of adjectives from nouns - 

          Т: Open your book on p. 140.

            Example: sun- sunny

                           wind-windy

 

3) Introduction of new vocabulary - exercise. 1 p. 140

T: You can see words from the theme «Weather». Do you remember these words? (Teacher writes new words down on the blackboard, shows some pictures, name them and students repeat them after the teacher.

Cloud/cloudy, fog/foggy, frost/frosty, wind/windy, rain/rainy, snow/snowy, storm/stormy, sun/sunny, wet, chilly, warm cold, hot.

T: Today we’re going to learn new words. Listen attentively and repeat after me.

•          T: Cloud/cloudy
•          Ss: Cloud/cloudy

 

 

•          T: Rain/rainy    
•          Ss: Rain/rainy 

 

•          T: Snow/snowy     
•          Ss: Snow/snowy  

  

•          T: Sun/sunny    
•          Ss: Sun/sunny  

etc.

 

4) Vocabulary Practice       

a) T: Find the weather words:

Sunnydgwindytkrainyvfstormydcloudybnhotgwarmvcoldcfoggynsnowyjchillyaowet

 

5) Work in pairs. Ask and answer.  (Ex. 2., p. 140)

P1: What is the weather like in picture 1?   ... picture 2?

P2: It is chilly and foggy.

 

b) Speaking

T: Look at the picture and say what children can do on such a day using the word-combinations below the picture.

 Students speak one by one till everyone answers.

Example: When it is cold and snowy, we can play snowballs and make a snowman.

To play snowballs, to make a snowman, to skate, to ride a bike, sunbathe,

to go for a walk, to ski, to rollerblade, to catch butterflies, to play badminton,

to stay at home,  to play computer games, to watch TV,  to go fishing to swim,

 

6.     Physical training

 Stand up, clap-clap,

Hands up, clap-clap,

Stap - stap, hands down,

Clap-clap and sit down.

 

7.     Relaxation              

Т: Singing a song  “How’s the Weather?” [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8GeA3anPdo]

8) Development of reading skills

a) Pre-Listening Activity. New words to know

(Ex. 2 (b), p. 142)

T: We have some new words today. Let’s read and remember them:

• the North
• the West
• the South
• the East

• centigrade
• degree
• forecast
• to expect
• to report

 b) While-Listening Activity

T: Now you’ll travel around the world. Listen to the weather reports from different parts of the world. Complete the cards with the necessary information. At first let’s pronounce the proper names: London, Rome, Madrid, Oslo, Berlin.

(TS 54-Unit4-Lesson1-p142_task1b )

https://www.libra-terra.com.ua/na-dopomohu-vchyteliu/audiododatky/

	London	Rome	Madrid	Oslo	Berlin
Weather
Temperature

 

c) Post-Listening Activity

1) Pair Work

T: Ask and answer about the weather in different countries using your notes

- What is the weather like in London?    - It’s …

- What temperature is in London?   - The temperature is … degrees below/above zero.

 

2) Role Play

T: Speak with your abroad friend on the phone

Pupil 1. Hello ___. How are you?

Pupil 2. I’m fine, thank you.

Pupil 1. What is the weather like in Brazil?

Pupil 2. The weather is fine. It’s too hot and sunny.

Pupil 1. What temperature is it in Brazil now?

Pupil 2. It’s 28 degrees above zero.

Pupil 1. What are you doing?

Pupil 2. I am sunbathing and swimming in the ocean.

Pupil 1. Wow, lucky you.

Pupil 2. Yes, sure.

 

III. The final part of the lesson:

T: Dear friends! Our lesson is coming to an end. It’s time to say good-bye. We’ve done much at the lesson. We spoke, listened to the text, did exercises on the texts. You were great!  You all get good and excellent marks.

V._MARKS    

VI. HOME TASK :            

Т: Tell about what you can do in different weather (5 sentences orally). (Teacher's explanation of homework and writing it in diaries).

      

T: Our lesson is coming to the end. Thanks for your work and the atmosphere of cordiality and understanding.

 

Saying goodbye.

T: Stand up, children! The lesson is over. Goodbye!  

Аppendix

The cards

	London	Rome	Madrid	Oslo	Berlin
Weather
Temperature

 

Textbook pages