Topic: My Friends. Writing Letters

ЗАГАЛЬНООСВІТНЯ ШКОЛА I-IIIСТУПЕНІВ №17

План-конспект уроку

з англійської мови

з використанням активно -

ігрових форм у 5 класі

за темою

«Мої друзі. Листування»

Учитель

Голобородько Н.О.

Слов’янськ 2009

Form: 5

Date: 15.10

Lesson: 23

Topic: My Friends. Writing Letters

Practical Aims and Objections:

1. Organize lexical revision on the topic “My Friends” and “Appearance”
2. Organize Reading the text and discussion.
3. Organize Listening Comprehension and training activities; learn how to write letters.

Developing Aims:

develop memory (long and short), the ability to plan your speech act by your own;

improve pronunciation skills and abilities;

develop speech reaction;

develop imagination, the ability to express your thoughts consistently;

develop listening memory, hearing control.

Educational (Upbringing) Aims:

up – bring the sense of honour to your friends and classmates; to the children from other countries;

up – bring love, friendship, hard-working and responsible attitude to studying and learning.

to broaden pupils,outlook.

Equipment:

A tape recorder, a toy cube for the game “Snowball”, cards with tasks for the game “Draw a picture”, pictures on the topic “Appearance”, envelopes with the task “Complete the letter”, a list of new words on the board, a song “Friends” on the board.

The Procedure of the Lesson:

Greeting and Aims:Good morning, dear friends! I’m glad to see you! How are you? Is anybody absent? I see everybody is well. Let’s start our work! Today we have a lot of things to do. We’ll speak about our friends, describe their appearance and characters, read the text and discuss it, then your will listen to the text about two friends and learn how to write letters.

Warning up:Conversation with class:

Have you got any friends?

Who are they?

What is your friend’s name?

Is he (she) a pupil?

Is he (she) a good or a bad pupil (child)?

Is he (she) a good or a bad friend?

Have you got pen friends?

Do they live in our country or in other countries?

Do you write letters to them or do you phone them?

Maybe you send e-mails to your friends.

Phonetic Drill (Song). And now let’s train our tongue and our pronunciation and review such sounds as [e], [ ], [ ]. As the topic of our lesson “My Friends” let’s learn and sing a song “Friends”. The words of the song you can see on the blackboard.

“Friends”

We’re all friends together,

Together, together.

We’re all friends together!

Hip hip hip hooray!

And my friend is your friend.

And your friend is my friend.

We’re all friends together!

Hip hip hip hooray.

Part . Lexical Revision

Check on homework: And now boys and girls let’s check up your homework: write s composition about your friend.

A Game “Snowball”: Let’s play a game and review the topic “Appearance”.

Words & word-combinations:

Curly to look likea way of life

Wavyto be alikedark eyes (hair)

Tallskinbrown eyes

Slimfriendshipblue eyes

Straightspecialbrown/red/hair…

Part  Reading the Text and Discussion

And now let’s make one new friend. Her name is Amelia. She wrote a letter to us. But first of all let’s learn some new and difficult words from the letter. They are on the blackboard

Vocabulary:

Cage [k e i d ] Клітка

Seeds [s i: d z ] Зерно, насіння

Corn [k : n ] Кукурудза

The Pacific coast [p sifik ‘k ust ] Берег Тихого океану

(mouse) mice [‘ mais ] Миші

And now let’s read and discuss the text. While reading the text pay attention to the structure of the letter. It can be divided into three parts: introduction, the main part of the letter and the ending.

Reading: Ex.1, p.32

Post-Reading Activity: Ex.2, p.33. Say if it is true or false.

a)T.

b)– Her city is not far from Los Angeles

c)T

d)– Amelia hasn’t got curly hair. She’s got straight hair.

e)– There are three but not two children in the family.

f)T

g)– Her mice do not eat leaves and vegetables. They eat seeds and corn.

Task: Describe Amelia: Her name is Amelia Jones.

She is from San Diego, the USA.

She has got dark straight hair and brown eyes.

She is a tall and slim.

Her family is big. She has got two brothers.

Also she has got two pets. They are mice: Mickey and Mine. They are great.

A Game “Draw a Face”

Group No1Group No2

Task:

Describe a picture according to the plan:

Name

Age

Place where he/she lives

Looks like:

• Slim/tall
• Face
• Eyes
• Hair

Family

Pets

Character

Part  Listening and Comprehension

Pre-Listening Activity:

Now we are going to listen to the text. Open your books on page 34. Look at the picture and answer my questions:

T. – Whom can you see in the picture?

What are the boys doing?

P. – They are writing a letter.

T. – After listening to their letter you’ll answer to the questions. Look at the questions of exercise 1 now and prepare to listening comprehension.

While-Listening Activity: Listen to the text and be ready to answer the questions.

Post-Listening Activity:

Ex. 1, p. 34 Answer the questions:

1. Andrew is writing a letter.
2. They look much alike. They are tall and slim. They have got wavy brown hair and grey eyes.
3. Pete is very kind and friendly.
4. He has got a dog called Mozart
5. Andrew has got a new computer.
6. They would like to have e-mail friends.
7. They are waiting for e-mail letters.

Writing Letters.

T. And the last part of our lesson is writing letters. Let’s learn how to write letters. First of all you should fare in mind that the letter has a certain structure. You have already seen Amelia’s letter.

Every letter has an introduction of the beginning. Then it is the main part or the body of the letter. And the end or the conclusion.

And now let’s do the following task: make up the letter using the parts of it. They are in the envelope.

Home task:Your home task for the next lesson will be to write a letter. Put it down in your daybooks. It is Ex.4, p.33 (in a written form).

Summarizing:So, my dear friends let us sum up the results of our work.

What have we learned today?

Many of you worked hard, especially … Their marks are… And you,…, should read more at home…Your mark is…And you,…, should brush up your pronunciation.

The lesson is over. See you tomorrow. Thank you for the work.