Урок з англійської мови на тему "Back-to-school"

Grades 4-6

Topic: Back-to school.

Objectives: to get pupils know each other better, relieve stress; to review school items and talk about ones in pupils’ school bags, to practice saying classroom things definitions, create a positive and welcoming classroom environment.

Outcomes: by the end of the lesson pupils will be able to identify and name school objects, work together to create own riddles, chant together as a class, read, listen to  and watch for specific information.

Materials: handouts, screen, gadgets to play the game.

Lesson plan

Greetings and Wаrming up

Start the lesson with greeting. Then tell the students how (well) they look after summer holidays.

Express your hope that they had a good time.

Play the game “Raise your hand if you … in summer”

Options:

• swam in the river/ sea/ pool;
• ate strawberries/ melons/ watermelons/ ice-cream/ corn;
• drank juice/ milkshake/ lemonade/ mojito/ mineral water;
• rode a horse/ a bike/ a skateboard/ a scooter / rollerblades,
• visited relatives/ other town/ other country/ museums/ galleries/ other places of interest

Mаin part

To welcome newcomers and to get students know each other better, play the following games.

1.Bingo game Names

 Procedure: 1) Print out a Bingo Board with the names of the students for each student in the class (App.1)

 2) Write the names on small pieces of paper and put them in a bag or a hat.

3) Afterwards, play ‘bingo’ by calling out names randomly – students tick a name if they have it on their own grid.

4) For each name, have that person stand up so everyone can see them, say their name and some interesting fact about themselves:

 - My name is … and I like… / can…

 5) When someone completes their grid with nine ticks – they win. (But you could always play it again!)

2. Game Find someone who….

Each student gets a card with the task: Find someone who…. They should write down the names of students while moving  around the classroom searching.

Sample tasks: Find someone who…  (App.2)

When the teacher gives the signal, students stop and take their seats. Every student reports about the results of his/her search.

3.Game Lineup

Ask students to line up according to their first name. All the way on the left is A and all the way on the right will be Z.

Ask students to line up according to birthdates. Revise the names of months before completing this task (optional)

Ask students to line up according to height (optional)

Besides getting to know each other, this game is also great to see who is a leader, or who is active and who is passive in these situations.

4.Reading

Let students read the poem and answer the question What time is coming? (Draw their attention to the first letters of the first words in each line - School)

App.3

Summer is over,

Cool time is coming.

Here we are together again!

One is happy and smiling,

One is worried and shy.

Let`s start but not complain!

The suggested answer is School time is coming.

5. Revising vocabulary on the topic ‘School things’

Tell students to think over the items we use while studying. Listen to the chant and repeat the words together:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7kK989HiRQ&t=9s

6. Play the game School things on blooket.com or other sites.

https://dashboard.blooket.com/my-sets

7. Writing and Speaking

1.      Put students into groups to write their own riddles about school tings. If needed, provide them with hints: draw colorful pictures / write words/ put things into/  get information from … . In turns, students present and guess the  riddles in front of the class.
2.     What do you have in your schoolbag? Let students talk what school things they have in their schoolbags.

Assessment and evаluаtion

App.1

App.2

App.3

Summer is over,

Cool time is coming.

Here we are together again!

One is happy and smiling,

One is worried and shy.

Let`s start but not complain!