Урок "Your health is in your hands.The Past Perfect Tense"

Theme: “Your health is in your hands. The Past Perfect Tense.”

Aim (general): to create an opportunity:

-to practice reading and translating skills;

-to practice speaking skills;

-to practice grammar skills (Past Perfect);

- to practice listening skills;

- to learn new words;

- to use the new words in the speech;

- to review a grammar point;

- to enhance students’ knowledge;

- to show the attention to the topic.

Learning Out Comes: By the end of the lesson learners will be able to:

- name symptoms, Illness, parts of the body, health service;

- recognize these words among others;

- ask and answer about health;

- make up dialogues;

- practice Past Perfect in English;

Audio-visual aids: a Student’s book, a Dictionary, a Copybook, some handouts.

The Procedure of the Lesson:

1. Greeting:

-Good morning, pupils!

-How are you today? How is your mood today?

-Do you like today’s weather?

-What season of the year is it now?

-What month is it now?

-What day of the week is it today?

-Is it sunny today?

-Is it cloudy today?

-Is it frosty today?

2. Aim:

-Today we are going to create an opportunity to speak about health problems, visit to a doctor, some rules to be healthy. You will be able to learn some new words connected with this topic. You will be able to revise a grammar point (Irregular verbs). You will be able to express your opinion on the issue. You will be able to use Past Perfect with the verbs in English language.

3. Check on homework:

- Let’s check your home task. It was the text “Health Service” ( say if these 11 sentences are true or false according to the text). ( keys: 1,4,7,8,10-true sentences).

4. Phonetic Drills:

-Repeat after me:

HEALTH SERVICE, SYMPTOM, ILLNESS, DISEASE, MEDICINE, TO SNEEZE, A SORE THROAT, A TONGUE, A SURGEON, A NURSE, TREATMENT, A HEART, TO PRESCRIBE.

5. Warming -Up:

- Let’s do the Questionnaire. Choose your answers. Then count your points –( Yes=2 points, NO= 0 ).

1) You get up early.

2) You do morning exercises.

3) You don’t eat cakes and sweets for breakfast.

4) You don’t eat hamburgers.

5) You always eat soup for dinner.

6) You visit your dentist regularly.

7) You don’t play the computer more than one hour.

8) You clean your room every day.

9) You go for a walk every morning.

10) You don’t watch TV late at night.

11) You visit some sports club.

12) You don’t go to bed late.

-Let’s read about your results:

24-20 : Your life is perfect. You are a healthy and active person. You have a lot of friends. You can plan your day to do all the things well. You have a successful life.

18-14: You do your best to be active and cheerful. But sometimes you don’t plan your day well enough to do everything you need.

12-8: You are rather a lazy person. You don’t have enough time for your family and for doing homework. If you don’t change your way of life, you will have a lot of problems.

6-0: You will have a lot of problems with your friends because they don’t like boring people. You don’t often keep your word. You have some problem with your health. You must change your way of life.

6. Group up the words: a dentist, to sneeze, a sore throat, a tongue, to cough, lungs, a surgeon, a nurse, a disease, treatment, a heart, to prescribe : into 4 columns: symptom, illness, part of the body, health service.

7. Make up the dialogues and then act out: (Розділити учнів на три групи, роздати кожній групі в перемішку репліки на листках, а учні мають посортувати згідно відповідного порядку репліки діалогу і потім відтворити складений з реплік діалог).

1) Doctor: Hello, Jane. What’s the matter?

Jane: I’ve hurt my arm.

Doctor: Let me examine it. Yes ….You’ve got some cuts and bruises, but your arm isn’t broken. I’ll put a bandage on it.

Jane: Thank you, doctor.

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2) A: Good morning!

B: Good morning! What can I do for you?

A: I’ve got a terrible headache.

B: How long have you had it ?

A: For about 2 hours.

B: Try this medicine and visit me in 3 days.

A: Thank you, doctor!

B: Have a good day !

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3) –Good morning, doctor.

- Good morning. What’s the matter with you?

- Help me, doctor. I have got a bad cough.

-Well, let’s listen to your heart and lungs. You must take this medicine 3 times a day. You mustn’t go for a walk and you must drink hot tea with milk and honey.

- Thank you, doctor.

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8. Grammar:

The Past Perfect Tense

1. The Past Perfect Tense (минулий перфект ний час) означає дію, яка відбулась або відбувалась до певного моменту часу в минулому. Цей момент може бути позначений обставиною часу (як правило з прийменником by) або іншою минулою дією в Past Simple:

They had finished the project by the end of May. When I met him he had already lived here for 10 years.

2. На відміну від Present Perfect, Past Perfect може вживатися з обставиною, яка позначає конкретний момент або проміжок часу в минулому:

I knew that he had arrived on Monday.

3. Для дій, що відбувались послідовно або одночасно в минулому, вжи

вається час Past Simple. Порівняйте такі речення:

Не saw light in the window and understood that mother was at home.

He saw the dinner on the table and understood that mother had been at home.

9. Writing:

-Let’s do some trainings:

1. Use the verbs in brackets in Past Perfect:

1) Tom (to return) from the cinema by 5 o’clock.

2) I (to finish) my homework before my parents came home.

3) We (to translate) the text before the bell rang.

4) They (to have) dinner by 3 o’clock.

5) She (to do) her lessons by the evening.

6) You (to learn) the poem by the time you came.

7) He (to sweep) the floor before his mother came.

8) The pupils (to write) dictations before the teacher came in the classroom.

9) Children (to drink) milk by the time their parents arrived.

10) They (to sleep) by that time.

10. Reading:

Read the letter and say what once happened to Michael :

Hi, John,

I remember the time when I was out of school for a month. One Thursday I fell off my bike and broke it into pieces. And I broke my leg, too. I stayed at the hospital for three days. Then ambulance brought me home. But I couldn’t play football or go out with my friends. I was really bored at that time. I didn’t see my schoolmates till holidays. Mum bought me some comics, but I read them quickly. I had done 150 word puzzles and had seen 35 films on video before I recovered and came back to normal life. So, my advice to everybody: be careful when you ride your bike or do any other things. It’s not so good to be out of school for weeks!

Michael.

Answer the questions according to the text:

1. How long has Michael been off school?

2. How did he break his leg?

3. How long did he stay at the hospital?

4. Who brought him home?

5. How did he feel being at home?

6. How many word puzzles had he done?

7. What advice does Michael give us in his letter?

11. Physical Warming up:

-Are you tired?

-Let’s do some physical trainings!

Stand up, please! Hands up! Hands down! Hands on hips! Bend left! Bend right! 1,2,3, hop! 1,2,3 stop! Hands down! Sit down!

12. Listening Comprehension:

- You will be able to listen to the text “Some rules to be healthy”. Try to understand what you must do to be healthy.

“Some rules to be healthy.”

Nowadays it’s very important to be healthy. It means to be active, to study well, to look happy. If you want to stay healthy, you must follow some rules. First of all you must keep your body clean. You must clean your teeth and mustn’t eat food with dirty hands. It is also very important to eat healthy food. Fruit and vegetables are necessary for your active life, because there are a lot of vitamins in them. You mustn’t eat too many sweets and cakes. Your body needs fresh air, so you must go for a walk every day. You mustn’t stay in front of the TV or computer all day long. It’s very bad for your eyes. Sport is necessary for your health. You must go in for sport regularly. Exercises keep your body strong.

Choose what you must do to be healthy according to the text:

- keep your body clean, - keep your house clean, - wash hands before the -use vitamins, meals, -eat fruit and vegetables,

- go for a walk, -go to bed early,

- go in for sports, - clean your teeth, - visit your dentist regularly.

13. Speaking:

What people do if:

1) they have a headache-

2) they can’t sleep-

3) they have a toothache-

4) they have a pain in the heart-

5) they have a cold-

6) they have a stomachache-

to go to the dentist, to call a doctor, to go to bed, to take some medicine, to have a walk outdoors, to drink warm milk, to drink warm milk with honey or butter.

14. Setting the homework:

-OK, open your daybooks and write down your homework.

-Your homework will be to revise new words and do this task: match the column A with the column B to make correct sentences.

A 1. By the time the doctor came 2. Mary caught a cold because 3. Ann had taken her medicine 4. John had a bad stomach ache 5. The doctor prescribed some medicine for his patient

B a) she hadn’t checked her temperature. b) after he had eaten in the café. c) the man in green sweater had given first aid for poor Tom. d) after he had examined him. e) before she started her dinner.

15. Summarizing:

-Was the lesson interesting for you?

-The theme of our lesson was “Your health is in your hands. The Past Perfect Tense “.I hope you will go from the lesson with deep understanding. I think that our today’s lesson was both useful and interesting for you. Today we have learnt new words connected with health service .We learnt about Past Perfect Tense in English. We did some trainings with Past Perfect. We did listening task properly. We did the questionnaire ‘Do you live a healthy life?’, we made up and acted out the dialogues -“At the doctor’s”.

16. Assessment:

I am extremely pleased with the work of you! I think we have managed to improve some of your phonetic, grammar skills, reading and translating skills, listening, speaking skills. Everybody was excellent! I am very proud of you! The lesson is over. Good-bye! See you next week! Bye!

Текст, який був на домашнє завдання.

‘ HEALTH SERVICE’

People need to see doctors if they have a cough, a high temperature or some other symptoms of some diseases. If you are ill you should see your local doctor first. So you have to make an appointment. As a disease is usually characterized by a set of specific symptoms and signs, the doctor will ask you to describe the symptoms of your illness. Then he’ll take your pulse, look at your tongue, listen to your heart and check your temperature. He or she will give you some treatment or send you to a specialist. Specialists usually work in medical centers or in hospitals. A specialist will examine you and prescribe some treatment, pills or other medicine, which you can buy at the chemist’s. If you feel too ill to go to the doctor’s, you’ll stay in bed and send for a doctor. If you have an accident, you go to the Accident and Emergency department of the nearest hospital. Sometimes people need to stay at the hospital for several days or weeks. Surgeons make operations, nurses take care of patients. Doctors visit their patients regularly. There are many private hospitals today. So you can go to a private doctor or a dentist. You have to pay there, but it’s usually quick. Today many people can get private treatment. To be healthy a person needs to live a healthy lifestyle: do regular physical exercises, be outdoors every day, eat not only healthy food and get enough sleep. There are two other useful things for your health: take vitamins regularly and a have a complete physical once a year.

Say if these sentences are true or false.

1. If you have some symptoms of any disease you should make an appointment with a doctor.

2. If you are ill you should see a surgeon first.

3. Specialists usually work at the dental offices.

4. You should tell the doctor about the symptoms of your disease.

5. You can buy pills, tablets and other medicine at the hospital.

6. When somebody has an accident he goes to a specialist.

7. Surgeons make operations in hospitals.

8. Nurses take care of sick people.

9. You needn’t pay at the private dentist office.

10. A healthy lifestyle helps you keep fi t.

11. To have a healthy lifestyle means to take vitamins regularly.