Открытый урок в 4 классе. People and animals are children of the world. Our health and body care.

Дзвоник Александр Сергеевич (04.09.1970)

адрес: г. Луганск кв. Левченко д.10, кв. 92

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Государственное Учреждение

«Луганский Учебно-воспитательный комплекс

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( Конспект открытого урока для 4-го класса)

Topic: People and animals are children of the world.

Our health and body care.

Type of the lesson: integrated

Objectives: to improve, revise and enrich students’ vocabulary and

grammar on the topic “Wild and domestic animals”, “Health and body care”, “The Present Simple/Continuous Tense”, “Comparisons”; to develop children’s abilities to transfer knowledge and skills in different situations and to interact with one another in groups, to develop pupils’ communicative and listening skills, to broaden students’ outlook, to breed respect and love for animals, to involve pupils in discussions on the topic of healthy way of life, to develop pupils’ interest to English.

Equipment : students book, tape-recorder, posters, pictures, hand-outs,

terrestial globe.

I. Introduction.

1) Warming-up.

Teacher: Hello, children! I’m glad to see you.

What day (date) is it today? Do you like today’s weather? Describe today’s weather in a few words, please. …

What country do you live in? What school do you study at?

Do you like your school? Remember, please what were you like when you were a baby? Do you like animals?

2) Phonetic practice.

Teacher: And now, children, let’s open our grammar files and work out:

(children recite the poem)

Work while you work,

Play while you play,

That is the way

To be happy and gay.

All that you do

Do with your might

Things done by halves

Are never done right.

Do your best your very best

And do it every day,

Boys and girls!

This is the wisest way.

No matter what you try to do:

At home or at your school

Always do your very best

There is no better rule.

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Teacher: So, thanks a lot, children. Let’s follow these rules and start working hard and be very attentive. You’ll have a good opportunity to demonstrate your knowledge of English.

II. The main part.

1. Teacher: The topic of our today’s lesson is:

“People and animals are the children of the world. Our health and body care.”

At this lesson we’ll try to revise everything we have learnt the previous weeks, refresh our memory, relax and have fun. So, be very attentive and enjoy your work.

Thank you very much. And now children, open your Pupil’s books at pages 50-51. (Practicing PB: Ex.1, 3, 4, 6 p.50-51).

1. Listening comprehension task.

Teacher: Let’s revise information about The Present Simple/Continuous Tense. You will hear people doing something. Please, tell what are they doing?

(usage of the tape recorder)

Suggested answers:

1. What is the man doing? (He’s walking quickly)

2. What are they doing? (They are talking quietly)

3. What are they doing? (They are laughing loudly)

3) Working with hand-outs.

Teacher: And now, let’s do some individual exercises. Please, work alone and don’t waste the time.

Card 1 1. Listen! The birds …………………………. (sing) in the garden! 2. I often ……………………………. (buy) fruit from the greengrocer’s. 3. That man ……………………………….. (laugh) at the moment. 4. We always………………….. (wear) warm clothes in winter.

Card 2 1. She ……………. milk every morning. A) drinks B) is drinking C) drink 2. We ………………. to the park now. A) goes B) are going C) go 3. She often ……………….. her red dress. A) wears B) is wearing C) wear 4. John ………………. to school now. A) walks B) is walking C) walk

(checking up pupils’ work)

4) A game. Children correct mistakes like teachers do.

Teacher: Correct me, please!

suggested answers:

1. Lions like eating bananas. (meat)

2. Monkeys like eating shellfish. (bananas)

3. Blue whales like eating jellyfish. (shellfish)

4. Horses like eating scorpions. (grass)

5. Crocodile likes flowers. (fish, small animals …)

5) Lexical (guessing) games.

Teacher: Guess what animal it is.

It’s a big bird. It lives in Antarctica. It can’t fly but it can swim. It eats fish. (pengiun)	It’s a big cat. It lives in the jungle in Asia. It eats small animals and it’s very dangerous. (tiger)	It’s a very clever animal. It lives in Africa. It sleeps in trees and it eats small animals and fruit. (chimpanzee, monkey)
This animal live in Australia and it carries its babies in a pouch. It can jump very high and it weighs about 60 kilos. (kangaroo)	This animal is very useful. People use it for making cheese, sour-cream, butter, milk and sausages. (cow)	It’s a real friend and guard for many people or children. (dog)

6) Teacher: And now, try to imagine, what would it be if we put two different animals together? Try to give the names to the mixed up animals.

(teacher shows pictures of mixed up animals to the children, they think of incredible animals and give them names)

(Pupils’ suggested answers: crocoparrot, elefrog, frogdog,…)

7) Working with projects.

Teacher: Well done, children! You’ve got good imagination. Now, we’re going to refer to enormous animals which are in the Guinness Book. Which animal is the largest, the fastest, the highest or the most beautiful.

Pupils’ suggested answers:

Guinness Book

The cat Magic is from the USA. It is the highest and the biggest

in the world. It is 1 meter and 97sm high.

This dog is called George – is the biggest dog in the world. It is 110sm high and it weighs over 111 kilos.

The frilled lizard (Chlamidosaurus) – плащеносна ящерка- lives in Australia and New Guinea[’gini]. It eats insects, spiders and worms. It runs very funny as if it rides a bike.

The cheetah is the fastest animal in the world. It can run over 110 km per hour.

The greatest animal in the world is the blue whale. It is over 33 m long and it weighs about 150 tones. It is the noisiest too, its sound can reach 188 decibel (dB). It sounds like a space rocket.

The howler monkey (мавпа ревун) lives in South and Central America. It can howl with 120 decibel.

The falcon Sapsan is famous for its high speed – about 300km per hour.

It’s the fastest falcon in the world.

This mollusk (riverine)(річкова чашечка) is the slowest – 0.001 km per hour.

The sloth (ленивец) is very slow.

The Kolibri is the smallest bird. Its wingspan is only 6 sm.

9) After that, the teacher asks some pupils to come up to the board in order to test their knowledge of Comparisons. They write on the board comparative and superlative forms of following adjectives: polite, good, funny, interesting.

8) Working in small groups.

Teacher: Do you know how animals usually speak? So, I’d like you to decipher an interesting quiz. Please, connect animals with their way of speaking.

(Teacher divides the class into two teams and they start working)

C A T	miao-miao
D O G	bow-wow
B I R D	tweat- tweat
D U C K	quack
C O W	moo-moo
P I G	oink - oink
SHEEP	baa-baa
LION	roar-roar
MONKEY	ooh-ooh
HORSE	neigh- neigh
MOUSE	squeak
FROG	croank
WOLF	howl

9) “Never Say “NO”- quiz” (Asking and answering the questions)

Teacher: In order to get more acquainted with everybody of you, I made up a “Never Say “NO”- quiz”. Our topic is “Animals” and “Health”, so all questions will be about you, your likes and your health. Be very attentive!

The rules are very simple. You must answer quickly and you mustn’t answer “YES” or “NO” to any of my questions.

(If someone says “YES” or “NO”, so s|he has

to sit down until the end of the quiz)

Teacher’s questions:

1. What’s your name?

2. What country do you live in?

3. Do you live in Ukraine? In Australia?

4. Do you like your school? Sorry, you don’t like your school?

5. Is panda a wild or domestic animal? A domestic animal?

6. What is your favourite domestic animal?

7. What’s your favourite wild animal?

8. Do you like spiders? You (don’t) like spiders, really?

9. Do you like hamburger with fried spiders? You really like it?

10. Who’s taller: a giraffe or a zebra? Sorry, a zebra is taller than giraffe?

11. Is it possible to have a crocodile at home?

12. Do you like animals?

1. What’s your name?

2. How are you?

3. I’ve got a headache. What should I do?

4. Should I play loud terrible music?

5. Should I play outside?

6. Should I stay in bed?

7. Should I take some medicine?

8. Do you really think so?

9. Does your tooth hurt?

10. You really don’t have a toothache?

11. What were you like when you were a baby?

12. Were you cute (naughty, dirty, quiet, noisy…)?

13. Was here a school 50 years ago?

14. Was there in Luhansk a circus 20 years ago?

15. Did Old MacDonald have a farm?

16. Did he have some cows (sheep, pigs, chickens, crocodiles, scorpions… )?

17. Do you like animals?

RELAXATION 1

10) Teacher: And now it’s high time to sing a well-known folk song.

(teacher and children play the guitar, flute and balalaika and everybody sings along)

Old MacDonald had a farm

Old MacDonald had a farm, E I E I O

And on that farm he had some sheep,E I E I O.

With a baa baa here, and a baa baa there,

Here a baa , there a baa, everywhere a baa baa.

Old MacDonald had a farm, E I E I O.

Additional verses:

cows (moo moo)

pigs (oink oink)

chickens (cluck cluck)

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11) Teacher: Do you think it’s healthy to communicate and be with animals? Why?

Suggested answers:

(Because we relax, we can run and have fun, be happy, because happiness – is HEALTH)

Teacher: Do you think animals are often ill? What animals are more often ill: wild or domestic ones? Do you know the doctor’s name, who liked animals and treated them, helped them in Africa?

Suggested answers: (wild animals,

doctor Dolittle)

Teacher: And what do you usually do when you are ill?

Suggested answers:

(We don’t usually go to school but we must stay in bed.

We should take an aspirin.

We should have some hot soup and put on warm pyjamas.

We must see a doctor. …)

12) Working with hand-outs.

Teacher: Let’s revise what problems with our health do we usually have?

Some of you get sheets of papers with illnesses written on them. Try to offer suitable advice, then, read it aloud. (children work by themselves)

toothache	cough	headache
sore throat	stomachache	cold

eat sweets	take an aspirin	eat too much
have some soup	take some medicine	stay in bed

(The other pupils in random make up short dialogues and mime it!)

RELAXATION 2

Let’s have our laugh time! These are some funny anecdotes.

(Children act out some short funny stories)

I. A: “Good morning, doctor. (silent pause) What’s up, doctor?

People are always ignoring me…”

(The doctor yawning calls another patient.)

B: “The NE-E-EXT !!!”

II. A: “Where can you always see a cow?”

B: “In the moo-ooseum!”

III. A: ”Mum, take a little of what the doctor

has given to you before you look at my marks.“

(The boy is holding mum’s mixture in

his right hand and a daybook in his left

hand hoping not to be punished)

IV. A: “Thank you, doctor, these glasses are

wonderful! I see much better now.

I definitely see like an eagle.”

B: (shocked, because he sees a patient shaking “hands” with

a raincoat nearby but not with an oculist).

13) Guessing the scanword.

Teacher: Shall we decipher the word DOCTOR (scanword)?

Questions:

1. When we’ve got some problems with our teeth we see a (DENTIST)

2. When we’ve got some problems with our eyes we see an (OCULIST)

3. When we’ve got a bad cold or catch a flue we always (COUGH)

4. I’m hot. I’m running a high (TEMPERATURE)

5. This vegetable is against 7 diseases (ONION)

6. It’s impossible sometimes to (RECOVER) without (DOCTOR)

Children, what do we usually do when we’ve got a cold and a cough?

Suggested answers:

(We should take an aspirin and put on warm pyjamas.

We usually stay in bed and eat some chicken soup… .)

Teacher: Just as like in our song. Let’s sing it along!

He eats chicken soup for lunch

Every day at noon.

He eats chicken soup for lunch

Every day at noon.

Chicken soup, chicken soup,

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday

Chicken soup, chicken soup,

Friday, Saturday, twice on Sunday.

He eats chicken soup for lunch

Every day at noon.

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III. Summary.

1. Summing up.

Teacher: Well done everybody. Your work at the lesson deserves much

praise. So, you’ve got following marks … And now, I want you to sum up the main points of our today’s work. What have we done at the lesson?

Have you learnt something new about animals? Was it interesting for you? What are we to do in order to be healthy, happy and gay?

(all the class try to make a mind-map)

And the next thing you are to write down is an English proverb:

An apple a day keeps the doctor away

Can you guess the meaning of this proverb? Try to do it!

1. Home assignment.

Teacher: The lesson is over. Your home task will be to write a short

story about the pet or a domestic animal you have or would like to have. Please, use the text given in your Pupil’s Book.