II семестр
UNIT 8. SAVE YOUR PLANET!
LESSON 79
MEETING SPRING
Цілі: вдосконалювати навички аудіювання й усного мовлення; удосконалювати навички монологічного висловлювання; розвивати культуру спілкування; виховувати доброзичливе ставлення до співрозмовника.
PROCEDURE
1. Warm-up
Brainstorm all words connected with the following key words: spring, summer, autumn, winter.
Answer the questions:
1) What month (season) is it now?
2) How many days are there in April?
3) How many months are there in a year?
4) What is the weather like today?
5) Do you like spring? Why?
2. Listening
Listen to the text and answer the questions.
A year has 365 days, but a leap year has 366 days. A
There are four seasons in a year. They are spring, summer, autumn and winter.
Spring is a wonderful season. The grass is green and there are new green leaves on the trees. The birds come back from the south and begin to build their nests. The sun shines brightly, the days are warm and everything begins to grow.
Then summer comes. The weather is usually fine in summer. There are beautiful flowers in the gardens and fields, in the meadows and woods. Everybody likes summer. A lot of people leave the towns and go to the country or to the seaside to spend their holidays. Summer is the best season for sports in the open air. Summer is harvest time in the south.
Autumn begins in September, but the weather is still warm in September. In October the sky is often grey and cloudy and the days are sometimes cold. It is cold in November.
In winter the days are short. Usually it is very cold. It often snows. Everything is white with snow. Winter is a good time for skating and skiing. Children like winter very much.
1) How many days are
2) How many seasons are there in a year?
3) When do people usually go to the country or to the seaside?
4) What do people do in harvest time?
5) When do the birds come back from the south?
6) What covers the ground in winter?
7) When can you see new green leaves?
8) What is the sky like in autumn?
3. Speaking
What season is it?
Learn the poem.
This is the season
When snowdrops bloom,
When nobody likes
To be in his room.
This is the season
When birds make their nests,
This is the season
We all like best.
4. Reading
Read the text in Ex. 1, p. 124 and give Ukrainian equivalents to the following words.
– to wake up
– an orchestra
– to look out
– a branch
– nature
– shade
– lovely
– though
Complete the sentences using some of these words.
1) ____ it isn’t very warm, I don’t want to stay indoors.
2) ____ of the window and watch these funny kittens.
3) In spring we can see new green leaves on the ____ of the trees.
4) What a ____ morning today.
5) Every year nature ____ and everything begins to grow.
5. Speaking
Answer the questions in Ex. 2, p. 124.
6. Writing
Do Ex. 3, p. 124.
7. Summary
The 12 months & 7 days of the week bingo
Give your students “bingo” cards with 4 columns and 5 rows. Ask them to write the 12 months & 7 days of the week, plus a free space however they wanted to organize it. Then you take a bag and put the 12 months & 7 days of the week into it, draw out the names individually and say: It’s the third day of the week. It’s the twelfth (last) month of the year. The pupils cross out the names they’ve just heard. The pupil who has crossed all the names in a line (vertical or horizontal) shouts: “Bingo!” and wins.
8. Homework
Write a short paragraph about your favourite season.
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