Theme: “The world of hobbies” (The 6th form)

Theme: “The world of hobbies” The 6^th form

Aims: - to activate vocabulary on the theme and to present new words and phrases;

• to involve the pupils into discussion on the theme using topical vocabulary;

• to develop listening and speaking skills;

• to teach the pupils to make up dialogues about their hobbies using their own experience;

• to develop creativity, imagination, language intuition;

• to encourage the pupils to communication using group work and interactive methods of communication;

• to enlarge the pupils knowledge about hobbies and pastime;

• to form cognitive motivation improving knowledge.

Equipment and Materials: a book, cards, pupils work (presentation), mind – map, application.

The procedure of the lesson.

I.Beginning of the lesson.

Greetings

T. Good morning, friends. How are you today? Are you creative, determined, inspired and enthusiastic enough to start our lesson? I’m sure you are. Am I right?

P1. Sure. (Certainly) (Right you are)

T. Today I want to suggest you a very interesting topic for speaking. Look at the pictures on the screen. What can you see? Can you tell me what we are going to speak about? Slide1

Let’s talk about your hobbies, interests and pastime.

II. Main part

Introduction of the topic

T. “Tell me what your hobby is and I’ll tell you what kind of person you are.” This is probably just as fair as the well-known saying. “Tell me who your friend is and I’ll tell you what kind of person you are.” And it really is easy to get to know what a person is like if you know his hobby some people are fond of collecting different things, the others prefer painting, embroidering, sports, dancing etc. The world of hobbies has great opportunities for person’s creative potential, self-expression.

T. You are talented and creative personalities. You have a lot of hobbies. Name your hobbies.

Brainstorming. Slide 2

The world of hobbies in our class:

• collecting

• fashion

• knitting

• design

• coins

• badges

• embroidering

• sewing

• learning languages

• painting

• dancing

• travelling

Vocabulary work Slide 3

Talk about spare time and hobbies

T. Let’s repeat the topical words and learn some more new ones.

Here are some words which will be helpful to you when speaking about your hobbies.

~ To collect (coins, badges)

~ To go in for

~To be fond of

~ To be interested in

~ To enjoy doing smth

~ To be crazy about

~ To be useful, useless

~ To prefer doing smth

T. Repeat the structures after me.

Now, listen to my sentences and say that you do the same or you don’t do the same.

T. I’m fond of collecting coins.

P. I’m fond of collecting coins too.

T. Now, answer my questions.

1. You are fond of collecting coins, aren’t you?

2. You go in for tennis, don’t you?

3. Do you prefer painting or cooking?

4. Are you crazy about making crosswords?

5. You enjoy designing clothes, don’t you?

T. Use these phrases in sentences of your own. Ask each other about your hobbies and then tell us about your and your friends’ hobbies.

Work in groups.

Use two of us, three of us, etc.

The speaker of the groups tells about hobbies of the members of the groups.

Example:

We have 5 members in our group.

• Two of us are fond of _______ .

• Liz is interested in __________ .

• Mike enjoys ____________ .

Discussion (group-work) Slide 4

Let’s discuss some ideas on the theme of our lesson.

1. Is your hobby useful for you. Why?

2. Does your hobby influence your character, habits?

Use some important expression in the card. Slide 5

~ To develop a person’s creative potential, imagination.

~ To broaden a person’s outlook

~ To develop practical skill

~ To keep fit

~ To help to relax

~ To improve knowledge on different subjects

Physical Exercise. Listen to the story and act it out. Application 1

You have found yourself on an uninhabited island. You are walking along the beach. It’s hot, very-very hot. You are thirsty and tired. You take off your shoes and walk on the sand. It’s really hot. It hurts you to walk. You come up to the sea and start swimming. There is a shark not far from you. You swim back quickly. You come back to the shore, take some stones and throw them into the sea. One, two, three… Suddenly you see something in the distance. It’s very far. You look hard to see what it is. Oh, it’s a ship. You are happy and wave the ship. But the ship doesn’t see you and turns back. How unhappy you are! Suddenly you hear strange sounds. What’s that? You are scared and start trembling. You see a big elephant. You start running. You run, run and run and breathe hard. You sit down on the ground, shut your eyes and calm down. Some time later you open your eyes. Phew! It was only a dream.

Slide 6

It helps me to be (smart, disciplined, to plan working day) active, helpful, kind, intelligent, hard-working, persistent.

Speaking. Presentation of the dialogues. After discussion each group presents a dialogue. (Use: to my mind, in my opinion)

• What is your hobby?

• Is your hobby useful for you?

• Does your hobby influence your character, habits?

Example: My hobby is painting. It is very useful. In my opinion painting pictures develops my imagination, creative potential. It helps me to be attentive, and to be an interesting personality for everybody.

A fair of hobbies. Presentation

T. My friends! You are fond of many things, you are collecting different things.

So, today we have a hobby fair, an exhibition of your works. We’d like you to present your interesting hobbies.

P1. I’m fond of knitting. For my work I use a crochet hook size 5.00 crochet is really quite easy to learn. As in many handicrafts there are just a few simple rules to follow during practice I use instructions and pictures. If every picture is studied carefully, you will soon find that you can make all the things, for yourself or as presents for your family and friends.

P2. I enjoy cooking. I always try to invent new dishes. I can give you some recommendations of healthy food.

P3. I prefer intellectual activity I’m crazy about making crosswords and word squares.

P4. I prefer collecting stamps. I have a great collection of stamps from different countries. It is very interesting to know some fact about countries, people and traditions.

P5. Learning languages is a very important occupation. This occupation is for intelligent people. I enjoy learning English. I learn new words, new poems and songs with great pleasure. I know it is important for my future profession.

P6. I like embroidering very much. Look at this work. It’s my grandmother’s. She embroidered it many years ago when she was young. She taught me to embroider. It is very exciting! I have learned. Look here : it is my first work.

III. Summing Up.

T. Our lesson is coming to the end.

Did you like the lesson? What activities did you like most of all? Your marks for today are ….

Homework. Your homework for the next lesson is to write a short story about your hobbies and interests. The lesson is over.

All the best to you. Good-bye!

Slide 1

Slide 2

Slide 3

1. Is your hobby useful for you. Why?

2. Does your hobby influence your character, habits?

S lide 4

Slide 5

To be an interesting personality for everybody

M ake things

Language learning

Sewing

Travelling

Dancing

Drawing

E mbroidery

Sports

To be an

interesting

personality for

everybody