'Life in the capital. Comparatives'

The main stages of the lesson

Procedure

1. Organizational moment

1. Brainstorming

1. Checking the home work

1. Announcing the theme, aim and objectives of the lesson.

1. Presentation of new material

1. Presentation of new grammatical material

1. Practice

1. Home-task

1. Summing-up of the lesson

Greeting, checking the attendance.

Good morning, students! How are you? How did you spend your weekend? Who is absent today?

I’m glad to see you! Take your seats, please.

First of all, you should divide into several groups to have an interactive lesson. Each of you will choose a card with names of countries or cities.

So now according to your cards find your group and sit together. There will be 3 groups: Astana, London and Washington. Each group must choose their team leader. These leaders will control the process of work during the whole lesson.

Now, students let's check your home task. Workbook exercises 1 and 2. Who wants to read the answers? SS will read the answers and check.

Have you learned the word list of Unit 10 A? Very good, then let’s play a game ‘4 photos and 1 word’. The rule of this game is simple. These four photographs each have something in common. Below the pictures, you will see blank spaces indicating how many letters are in the answer. Below that, there will be a scrambled keyboard of possible letters you can select and guess for the answer. Choose the letters to spell out the word you believe to be the answer. Is it clear? Ok, let’s start.

Today’s lesson theme is ‘Life in the capital’. We are going to read and speak about capital cities and learn grammar on comparative adjectives. By the end of the lesson you should be able to talk about living in the capital cities, to form and use comparative adjectives.

At the end of the lesson you will complete the tables of peer and self evaluation. So be active and try to answer to the questions correctly.

Students, today we will test your knowledge of geography. Now I will read the countries and you should say the capital cities of them: Australia-Canberra, Belarus-Minsk, Brazil-Brasilia, Canada-Ottawa, China-Beijing, Denmark-Copenhagen, Egypt-Cairo, Finland-Helsinki, Germany-Berlin, Spain-Madrid. Very good, thank you!

Look at the board. Here given the new words and your task is to give their definitions using your dictionaries. But first, repeat these words after me.

New words:

cheap |tʃiːp| дешёвый; недорогой

coast |kəʊst| берег

entertainment |ɛntəˈteɪnm(ə)nt| развлечение

facility |fəˈsɪlɪti| способность;умение

noisy |ˈnɔɪzi| шумный

polluted  |pəˈluːtɪd| загрязненный

quiet  |ˈkwʌɪət| тихий

safe |seɪf| безопасный

ugly  |ˈʌɡli| неприятный.

Now open the SS book, p.104. Look at the Ex.1 Read the questionnaire. Answer to the questions.

Ex 2. Listen to Giovanni talk about life in Rome. Tick his answers in Ex 1.

Ex 3. Match the words in the box to their opposites in Ex 1.

Ex 4. Listen to the recording to check your answers. Say the words.

Jigsaw is a cooperative learning strategy that enables each student of a "home" group to specialize in one aspect of a topic. Students meet with members from other groups who are assigned the same aspect, and after mastering the material, return to the "home" group and teach the material to their group members. With this strategy, each student in the "home" group serves as a piece of the topic's puzzle and when they work together as a whole, they create the complete jigsaw puzzle.

SS will read the text about capital cities and work according to the Jigsaw puzzle strategy.

Then SS will answer to the questions about the text.

1. Why the capital of the USA is called Washington, D.C.?

2. Can you name any famous building in this city?

3. What is an important business in Washington?

4. What is the population of London?

5. How many parts of London do you know?

6. Where are the government buildings situated in London?

7. Where we can find museums, libraries and galleries in London?

8. What does the word ‘astana’ mean in Kazakh?

9. What is the city symbol?

10. When the city was renamed?

Say whether these sentences are true or false.

1) The main place of interest in Astana is Baiterek. (T) 
2) The most famous clock in Astana is Big Ben. (F) 
3) The history of Astana began in 1234 (F) 
4) London is about one hundred years. (F) 
5) London lies on the river Thames. (T) 
6) Astana lies on the river Tobol. (F) 
7) London consist of 4 parts. (T) 
8) London is the part of working class people. (F) 
9) The city of Washington, D.C. has wide streets, parks, and beautiful buildings. (T) 
10) President Washington lived 5 years in the Presidential Palace. (F) 

Now let’s watch a video about capital cities. Do you want to live there? Why\why not?

Comparative adjectives compare one person or thing with another and enable us to say whether a person or thing has more or less of a particular quality:

Josh is taller than his sister.

I’m more interested in music than sport.

With some 2-syllable adjectives, we can use "-er" OR "more":
quiet → quieter/more quiet
clever → cleverer/more clever
narrow → narrower/more narrow
simple → simpler/more simple

Exception: The following adjectives have irregular forms:
good → better
well (healthy) → better
bad → worse
far → farther/further

Ex 1. Make the comparative form of the adjectives: cold, bad, small, interesting, big, cosmopolitan, friendly, good, happy, dangerous, safe, polluted. SS will work individually and write their answers into the copybooks. Check the answers.

Ex 2. Write down 3 sentences connecting with text that you have read using the comparative adjectives.

Ex 3. Correct the sentences

1. Cats are popularer than snakes as pets.

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2. Pigs are more intelligent as other animals.

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3. Turtles are slow than crocodiles.

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4. Elephants are heavyer than pigs.

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5. Bears are more rare than snakes.

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Answers:

1. Cats are more popular than snakes as pets.

2. Pigs are more intelligent than other animals.

3. Turtles are slower than crocodiles.

4. Elephants are heavier than pigs.

5. Bears are rarer than snakes. 

Ex 4. Open the brackets using the comparative adjectives (answers).

1. I am taller than my sister.

2. My mum thinks that cats are better pets than dogs.

3. Cycling is one of the most dangerous sports.

4. A blue whale is heavier than twenty-five elephants.

5. You look thinner than last month. Have you lost weight?

6. Bicycles are slower than cars.

7. Computers are cheaper than mobile phones.

8. Is your brother taller than you?

9. I think Spanish is easier than Japanese.

10. Our dog is nicer than your dog.

Pronunciation: Ex 1. Listen to these words and count the syllables.

1. Friendly 2. Cold 3. Polluted. 4. Expensive 5. Noisy 6. Clean. 7. Beautiful. Say the words.

Speaking task. Ex 1. Work in groups. You have a new job. You can live in the capital city or a smaller town. Discuss your choice with other SS. Roleplay the situation. Choose which city you would like to live in.

Workbook unit 10B. Writing: a city guide.

SS will evaluate each other and themselves completing the tables.

Now in order to conclude our lesson you will write 3 sentences about today’s lesson. And two of them will be true and one is false. Others will find the fib.

Thank you for your hard work. Have a nice day! Good bye!