My Favourite School Subjects

The Republic of Uzbekistan

Tashkent, Mirzo-Ulugbek region

School № 208

The block – scheme of the lesson:

The motto of the lesson: Never stop, learn , read and inspire yourself !

I. The procedure of the lesson:

1. Greetings

2. Organize psychological climate

3. Checking the previous lesson and homework

Previous lesson’s vocabulary: Recycling the vocabulary learnt in previous lessons and classes

T: Good morning dear boys and girls

P: Good morning teacher

T: What season is it now?

P: It‘s autumn

T: Excellent. What date is it today?

P: Today is the 18^th of November

Teacher: What is the weather like today? P: It’s shiny and warm

II. Pre-activity

III. Main Part:

Activity 2 Work in pairs. Point and say.
Objective: to revise the old vocabulary; to introduce the new vocabulary
STEP 1: First revise the subjects: English, mother tongue, maths, art, PE and music. Then introduce: mathematics and computers. I can also use the DVD for this purpose.
STEP 2: The pupils do a usual Point and Say activity. Pupil A points and says the number of a picture, Pupil B says the school subject as in the example. The pupils are expected to use: English, mother tongue, mathematics (maths), art, PE or PI, computers and music.
Language Notes
In modern English the school subjects:
a) are not written with capital letters when used in an ordinary sentence:
e.g. I like maths and botany.
b) are written with capital letters when used on timetables and as a name of a room: e.g. Monday: 9.15 Maths; 10.00 Botany; History Room
c) do not have capital letters when used as an adjective: e.g. The history lesson ends at 10.45. The art room is beautiful d) are always written with capital letters when they are languages: e.g.
Uzbek, English, Russian, French, Tajik, etc.
e) PE = Physical Education and PI = Physical Instructions are the same. So in the DVD, mostly PI is used.

Activity 3a Look and answer.
Objective: to consolidate the days of the week, preposition “on”, ordinal
numbers and school subjects
You can start this activity with the whole class and after several questions
and answers the pupils may continue working in pairs.
Activity 3b Work in pairs. Listen and guess the day. 8 min
Objective: to further consolidate days of the week, the ordinal numbers
and school subjects
The pupils work in pairs. They look at the timetable in Activity 3a. Pupil A chooses a day in the timetable and starts saying sentences as shown in the example. Pupil B guesses the day.
Activity 4a Look, read and match the words. Objective: to present adjectives to express opinion and conjunction “because” to provide a reason for something
STEP 1: Ask the pupils to match English words with their translations.
Answer key: 1 c; 2 e; 3 b; 4 a; 5 d
STEP 2: Ask the pupils to listen to you and repeat in chorus. Read the words in English and ask the pupils to repeat after you and point to the corresponding picture.
STEP 3: Ask the pupils to listen to your sentences and complete them with “because”. Possible sentences: 1) I like chess ... 2) I don’t like math ... etc.
NB: Ask the pupils to write two sentences with 1) I like X because ... 2) I
don’t like X because ...

IV. Post Activity

Activity 4b Work in pairs. Play “Do you like ...?”
Objective: to practice asking for and giving opinions about school subjects
The pupils work in pairs. As in the example/DVD, they ask each other and answer the questions about different subjects giving a reason for why they like/do not like these subjects.

I’ll put students into pairs, and put As together and Bs together, give them their text and encourage them to write the questions that they will need to ask to get their missing information. I’ll monitor and help with question formation

Giving homework: P. 101, lesson 5 exercise-homework , 2) to make a timetable in English

Evaluation