Flora of Kazakhstan

Theme : The flora of Kazakhstan: semi-deserts and mountains

Aims :  To enrich pupils knowledge, to develop pupils abilities in speaking; to enrich their vocabulary.

To bring up pupils to save the nature and to foster their love to animals and plants.

To develop pupils’ writing, listening skills and lexical habits.

Type : getting new information

Visual aids: Supplementary material , cards, pictures, computer

Methods : critical thinking, interactive method, answer the question.

The procedure of the lesson:

1. Organization moment

1. Greeting moment

2. Say the names of the month

1. Check.up the homework

• What was your home-task for today?

• Repeat

1. Presentation

The theme of our lesson today is the flora of Kazakhstan. Today at our lesson we will speak about Kazakhstan’s nature.

1. Warming-up activity:

1. Pronunciation

[ɑ:] – grass, large, parts, plants

[æ]- ash, aplle, maple, saffron, black

[i:] – cedar, needle, believe

[e] – desert, fescue, feather grass

1. True or false:

1. Kazakhstan steppes cover a great part of the country.

2. In the mid-summer the grass burns and becomes yellow because of the sun.

3. Oak trees do not grow in the area of the forest steppe.

4. In humid places near the rivers there are reeds and sedges.

1. The main part of the lesson:

1. New vocabulary: p. 127 ex. II

Edelweiss

Wormwood

Thickets f needle grass

Humid

Fescue grass

Feather grass

Cedar

Pine

Acacia

Ash

Spruce

Walnut

Peony

1. Read the text for information ex. II p. 127

2. Checking comprehension: answer the questions:

1. Where is semi-desert situated?

2. How many species of plants are there in Kazakhstan’s deserts?

3. What grows in the mountains? Name the flowers.

4. What flower is the symbol of mountains?

III. Grammar revising: Degrees of comparison p.129 ex.IV.

1. Writing: fill in the gaps with appropriate form of adjectives: ex. 1 p. 129

2. Speaking: read and remember how to use adjectives in the sentences. Ex. 2 p. 129

1. Homework

Your homework will be read the text on the p. 131 the flora of Kazakhstan and make a claster, learn new words

Conclusion: thank you for the lesson!