Cpuntable and uncountable nouns with modifiers

                                             Date: January 29, 2016                   Grade 9 a

Theme: Food. Countable and uncountable nouns with quantifiers

Aims: to teach the difference of countable and uncountable nouns with quantifiers;

           To enlarge students’ vocabulary and to improve their speaking and writing skills

Equipment: Student`s Book, Activity book, active board

Type of a lesson: A lesson of independent works of reproductive type with research elements. The system of methods is constructed on the basis of the principle of a goal-setting.
Lesson Plan: 
 

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Stage

Methods

Time

(min)

1

Organizational moment

Greeting, asking how the students are

3

2

Checking up the homework

Writing essay

10

3

Warm up

Quick movement activity

3

4

Checking of comprehensive knowledge

Talking on the subject

10

5

Assimilation of new knowledge

Having them speak about

12

6

Reflection

5

7

Summarizing the lesson. Giving marks. Homework. Instruction on its fulfillment.

Writing the homework on the board

2

The content of the lesson: 

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The teacher`s activity

The student`s activity

1

Teacher Hello my dear friends. How are you today? How are filling today?  Who is on duty today?  What date is it today? What day is it today?

Good morning, teacher! We are fine. And you?

2

Your homework was to write an essay about  food according to criteria. There are scores for each criteria. And after we will count scores to put marks.

Criteria for essay:

1. Form compliance.
2. Essence.
3. Volume of the essay.
4. Connectedness of speech
5. The presence of logic.

3

Now students, I am going to divide you   into two groups  by putting questions. Two students answer  to the first two  questions will be the leaders of teams. And the other students will answer and choose their leaders themselves.

1. Who is vegetarian?
2. What can we buy at the grocer?
3. What is the popular food for teenagers?
4. What do you know about fast food?
5. Where do we keep our food?
6. What do we put in the pan first when  we  are going to cook?
7. What meal is  important for people’s health during the day?
8. What are diary products?
9. Who sells meat and sausages?
10. How do we call a person who likes eating a lot of chocolates?

• Well done, take your seats please.

  Students answer the questions about previous lesson ( “ Food”).

4

1.-Students today we try to understand  differences between a few and few, a little and little

Countable and uncountable nouns with quantifiers.

"A few" means "some" or "a handful".

"Few" means "virtually none" or "almost zero".

"A few" connotes "not an overwhelmingly large number, but not an insignificantly small number either." 

"Few" without the preceding "a" connotes "an insignificantly small number"

A little is more than little.

We use a little and little + an uncountable noun.

A little is a positive idea. It means 'not much, but some'.

Little is a negative idea. It means 'nearly none, nearly nothing'. We can also use very little.

2. Individually work. Doing exercises

3. Pair work. I’ll give pictures to each pair. You should describe it using nouns with quantifiers and after read. Then I show you pictures and other pairs should find out which picture has been described

 1. - He speaks little English, so it’s difficult to talk to him.

He speaks a little English, so we are able to talk

2. Students find out the mistakes and correct the sentences.

3. Ss describe these pictures in pairs.

Then Ss in pairs give short exam-type talks about healthy food using the plan provided by the teacher. The teacher monitors the activity and then asks one or two students to present their talks to the class.

5

Good job! Now I would like to work you in groups. Imagine that you are in restaurant. First group is disappointing about the quality of the service The second group is for meal. You are going to write a letter of complaint to administrator according to criteria.

Criteria for letter of complaint:

1. Reason for writing
2. Give suggestions
3. Compensation
4. Start/ end letter in a formal way

6

 Reflection. How food is important for you? Let’s do activity “ Spider net”

- lift our spirits, make us feel happy and active, positive and energetic, boost our body energy/elevate your energy level, people tend to be less stressed and less depressed, people think quicker, fast food eaters are prone to panic attacks and bad behaviour, thus have problems,they are prone to obesity, often feel sad and anxious

7

So, you are excellent today! Your  marks  are …. Home task is to prepare mini project “ Hungry planet”