(Geography): The UK

Class: 5

Time-60 minutes

Topic: (Geography): The UK

Teaching aims:

-to identify parts of the UK;

-to locate every part of the UK on a map;

-to compare the parts of the UK;

-to make a presentation about the United Kingdom;

-to develop presentation skills;

-to develop research skill;

-to develop students’knowledgeof content-related lexis.

Outcomes:

. By the end of the lesson students will be able to:

- use set expressions and natural disaster vocabulary to speak about the nasty weather,

- ask questions about weather conditions using past tenses,

- make a poster about natural disasters in different regions,

- understand the recording about natural disasters and find the missing information

Content :

-basic information about the United Kingdom.

Cognition :

-identify countries of the UK;

-classify parts of the UK into sizes;

- make a presentation about their country;

-complete the map with the cities of the UK.

Communication :

-Present Simple;

- topic vocabulary;

-strategies for reading and understanding a text;

-strategies to improve classroom talk;

- strategies to make presentations

-describing parts of the UK.

- to help learners consolidate and develop their vocabulary by active using the words expressions given

Culture :

-to develop students`knowledge about countries of the UK, their capitals and other cities, famous landmarks;

Materials and resources:

video Interactive Whiteboard Software Right on 1, a projector, CLIL lesson worksheet: a text, vocabulary lists, a map of the UK (one for each student),Student’s book Right On1, Express Publishing.

Procedure

1. Lead-in

Predicting
content

(5minutes)

The teacher tells the students that they are going to read one small but an interesting poem.( Task 1on worksheet)

Students predict (travelling).

2. Task 1:
Speaking

(5minutes)

Theteacher elicits students’ knowledge about travelling as king questions. (Task 2on worksheet)

3. Task 3:

Speaking on the map

(5minutes)

The teacher tells the students that they are going to travel to an English-speaking country.He/she asks them to look at the map of the UK аnd tell what parts there are in the UK. (Task 3on worksheet)

4.Task 4:

Presentation of the new words

(5 minutes)

Students are given words and their definitions. The task is to match the words to their definitions.

Next students must find the right translation to following words and wordcombinations. (method"Confused logical chains").

(Task 4 on worksheet)

5. Task 5:

Read

and do – Map

completion

(10minutes)

Students must read the text in their textbooks p.22
Students are given an outline map of the United Kingdom)and are asked to complete the map with cities of the UK (Task 5 on worksheet)
Suggested words to use:

• Bangor

• Derry

• Edinburgh

• London

• Bath

• Cardiff

• Belfast

• Stirling

6. Task 6 :

A video about the UK (video has subtitles, so in a weaker group students can read and listen at the same time)

(10minutes)

Students watch the video and do multiple choice. (Task 6 on worksheet)

7.Task 8.

Speaking activities

(10 minutes)

• Students speak about their favourite country in the UK and explain why.

8.Assessment:Scaffolding

(5 minutes)

Ask students to copy and finish the sentence: "The most important thing I learned at this lesson was ...."

9.Homework

(5 minutes)

1. Соllect information about your country under the headings:Country?

Capital city?

Other cities?

Landmarks ?

2. Present your country to the class

landmark

a place for sportsmen

wall

something built over a river

island

one of the sides of a building or room

bridge

a large structure to remember an important person or event

stadium

a part of land surrounded by water

monument

a place of interest

official language

The language or one of the languages that is acceptedby a country's government, is taught in schools, etc.: