Module 4 “The largest lake in the world” (Extra reading) 1 lesson
Goals:
1. Educational – student should explore knowledge about the grammar theme: comparative and superlative degree of comparison;
2. Developing - student should improve develop reading subskills when reading the text;
3. Cultural - student should have instant interest to study English, to have certain image of the given theme and understand the importance of others’ views.
Objectives:
- have a lexical warm up;
- revise transcriptions symbols (phonetic drill);
- learn/drill new vocabulary to the text and grammar exceptions (good/bad);
- do procedures aimed at the comprehension and comprehension assess (PP; definitions-giving procedure);
- read the text and answer the questions (special and detailed) (SB p.87).
Equipment: board (BB), chalk, supplementary materials – Power Point Presentation (PP), OHP, handouts with the questions.
Assumptions: Improbable, but some of the S-s may already know the exceptions of comparative and superlative forms of “good” and “bad”.
Anticipated problem: 1. S-s may have difficulty with some word in the text.
2. S-s may have difficulty in reading for gist / specific information.
Possible solution: 1. Pre-teach the Vocabulary.
2. Monitor while S-s perform.
Stage
Teacher’s actions
Students’ actions
Interaction
(T –Teacher, S – student)
Time
Organizational stage (Greetings)
T says: Good morning!
T: How are you?
T: What was your H/W?
Students say: Morning!
S-s: We are good.
S-s: We were to do …
TSs
TSs
SsSs
1 min
The 1-st Stage – Phonetic drill
T offers to recycle the phonemic symbols in choral drill (Appendix)
S-s are to demonstrate
TSs
TSs
SsSs
2 min
The 2-nd Stage
Checking H/A
(Recycling the Comparatives and Superlatives)
T asks S-s to do the mingle activity (the comparative and superlative form of adjectives – good and bad are also given in response in order to provoke self-discovery – the a)
S-s are to mingle around the classroom in order to find the comparative and superlative form of the adjectives
TSs
TSs
SsSs
(whole class, i. e. mingle)
5 min
The 3-rd Stage
Pre-Discussion of the Text (Predicting)
T offers S-s to look at the OHP picture on the wall (S-s are to suggest their variant in key words)
S-s are to read and choose the best title to the text
TSs
TSs
SS
3 min
The 4-th Stage Pre teaching the Vocabulary to the text
T suggests S-s to look at the BB (board) and drill some new words (matching definitions with the names)
S-s are to scrutinize them with the help of T in order to do the reading and gist understanding easier
TSs
TSs
SS
7 min
The 5-th Stage
Gist Reading (Skimming) of the Text
T offers S-s to divide into 2 groups and read the text for the gist – 2 passages to each group (To build word associations in order to ice-break the text) ICQ – Teacher asks. In order to build up associations T shows and call the words (Appendix)
S-s are to get the main idea and build up association with the paragraph given to the group. After the T telling the words – S-s claim if is connected with their passage an take the word on group table.
! Opposites are to pay attention to the words mentioned
TSs
TSs
SsSs
(group work; whole class work)
5 min
The 6-st Stage
Scanning -
Reading for details
T suggests S-s to find the equivalents for the words in SB on p. 87 (Appendix)
S-s are to find the equivalents for the passages given to their group
TSs
TSs
SsSs
(group work)
3 min
The 7-th Stage
Deducing the meaning from the key words
T offers S-s to draw the key words (each group on separate sheet), after that the group that received the key-word list is to fill in the gaps (Appendix)
S-s are to make notes, and pass the “key words” another group so that the opposites could get the idea of another two passages, and be able to make gaps filling activity
TSs
TSs
SsSs
(group work)
The Final Stage
Home work
Asks s-s what they’ve learned today.
Gives H/A
Answer what they’ve learned
Write down H/A
TS
TS
3 min
Type of the Lesson: Complex – using new material, refreshing the past theme.
Skills work: Reading lesson – prediction, reading for gist, reading for specific info.
H/A: recycle the comparatives and WH-questions
Appendix
Video source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyvoAGdmmZs (good/better/the best); https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwrSgTCbg7Q; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzQT6TrYTVk (about dogs)
Words for phonetic drill Phonetic Drill
June [dʒuːn]; Jam [dʒæm]; Danger [ˈdeɪndʒər]; Fudge [fʌdʒ]; judge [dʒʌdʒ]
PP on Grammar (GOOD/BAD – comp.sup.forms)
1 slide. good – better – the best ; bad – worse – the worst.
PP on the Text
2 slide - Prediction
-Task for ice-breaking the gist of the text (will be mixed)
Group 1
Salty; Fish; water (2x); Kazakhstan (2x); lake; river; deep; eggs.
Cave; people; Stone age; Aktau; Atyrau; Eurasia; Canal; water; Kazakhstan.
-Task for checking the detailed comprehension (with answer keys)
Group 1
Group 2
A big fish
Sturgeon
A river
The Volga river
Something to eat
Caviar
Two cities on the Caspian Sea
Atyrau and Aktau
A lake with salty water
Caspian sea
A canal
Eurasia Canal
Gap filling activity
Group 1
Age stone _________ liven next to the Caspian Sea. Now there are two modern cities: __________and __________.
The President of _____________ offered to build the ____________.
Group 2
The water in the lake is _______. Also, there are a lot of _________ with _____________. The Caspian Sea is the _________ lake. _____________ is next to Caspian Sea.