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Урок английского языка по теме "Breaking the Ice. Socializing" для учащихся 8-х классов, УМК Spotlight, Ю.Е.Ваулина, Д.Дули и др.
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Lesson Plan
Topic: Socializing: Breaking the Ice
Level: B1 (pre-intermediate)
Aims:
to discuss and deal with some psychological issues connected with starting conversation with strangers;
to teach some useful phrases for starting a conversation and leaving a conversation;
to provide practice and feedback of the situation of starting and leaving conversation with strangers.
Warm-up (5 min)
Teacher stimulates students to start discussion about given pictures using the tips: Describe the pictures. Follow the plan.
Picture description plan
1. What’s in the picture?
In the picture I can see…
There’s/There are…
There isn’t a …/There aren’t any…
2. What is happening (with Present Continuous)
The girl/boy is…ing
The women/ children are…ing
3. Where in the picture?
In the foreground/background you can see…
At the top/bottom there is/are…
In the middle/centre there is/are…
On the right/left there is/are …
Behind/ in front of…you can see…
Between …there is…
Next to …there is
Under… there is
4. What I think about the picture.
The lady seems to…
Maybe
I think
The atmosphere is peaceful/depressing…
I (don’t) like the picture because…
It makes me think of
If necessary the teacher asks the following questions:
1. How old do you think this girl is? What is she doing? Do teenagers have difficulties with socializing?Why? Is it difficult to meet new people and make friends as a teenager?
2. What is happening in this picture? What do you think these women are saying? When you meet people on the street what do you usually do and say? Are you friendly when you meet new people?
3. What are these children doing in the picture? Are they enjoying themselves? How do you think they feel? What things do youdo with your friends?
Lead-in (2 min)
Teacher asks students to answer the questionnaire: What do you think your answers say about your character/ a character of your classmates?
| Do you | YES | NO | SOMETIMES |
| like going to parties? |
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| enjoy meeting new people? |
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| prefer to socialize only with people you know? |
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| hate making small talks with strangers? |
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| prefer to listen to others than give your opinion? |
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Students (in pairs): As for me, I am a sociable/shy person.
I like/dislike being in the company of people whom I don’t know.
I feel comfortable/uncomfortable.
Teacher asks students to formulate the topic accordingly: What are we going to talk about today?
2. Introduction (3 min)
Teacher introduces the topic: For many people, the idea of walking into the room full of strangers and trying to socialize with them seems to be scary, especially if you have to use a foreign language.
Teacher asks students to read the title of the text (Spotlight 8, p.10), elicits the meaning of the phrase ‘tobreaktheice’: What does it mean?
Students read the definition given on dictionary.cambridge.org (BREAK THE ICE /informal/ to make people who have not met before feel more relaxed with each other) and discuss ‘break the ice’ in example sentences.
Someone suggested that we play a party game to break the ice.
I tried to break the ice by talking to the people next to me about the weather.
3. Reading – Breaking The Ice (20 min)
Students read the text (Spotlight 8, p.10) out loud (one by one), mark the statements as TRUE/FALSE/NOT STATED, correct the false sentences.
Teacher asks post-reading questions: Is making new contacts easy? Why yes/no?
Why is it important to smile when starting a conversation?
What do you prefer to listen or to speak? Why?
What is the best tip to break the ice?
Students explain the words in bold, choose some of them to complete the sentences (Spotlight 8, ex.4,p.11).
4. Useful language: Socializing (5 min)
Students work in groups to match the beginning with the endings to make phrases. The first group to finish is the winner.
Useful language Socializing (Spotlight 8, Ex.6 a, p.13)
| 1. Excuse me! | a) Indeed it is. |
| 2. Pleased to meet you. I’m John. | b) See you later! |
| 3. Is this seat taken? | c) Fine, thanks. |
| 4. What a nice day? | d) Well, thank you for inviting me. |
| 5. Good morning! | e) That’s very kind. |
| 6. How are you? | f) Yes, can I help you? |
| 7. I’m afraid I have to go now. | g) No, thanks, I’m fine. |
| 8. Make yourself at home. | h) Hello! |
| 9. Can I offer you something? | i) No, please sit down. |
| 10.Thanks for coming. | j) Pleased to meet you, too. |
Teacher: Which exchanges are about? (Spotlight 8, Ex.6 b, p.13)
1 starting a conversation
2 getting someone’s attention
3 greeting someone
4 introducing yourself
5 ending a conversation
6 welcoming visitors
7 saying goodbye
8 breaking the ice
5. Speaking – Socializing
Teacher asks students to complete the exchanges in Ex.7,p.13 using the previous task.
Teacher: Brainstorm things to say in each of the following situations.Role-play in pairs.
Students are given situations to role play:
1 Meeting by chance (art gallery)
2 Meeting for the first time (a new student in class)
3 Know nothing about each other (classmate’s party)
4 No previous contact with that person (school canteen)
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You are invited to your new classmate party. When you arrive, everyone is talking to each other in groups. There’s nobody you know. Go up to one of the groups, introduce yourself and ask if you can join them.
You are at the theatre. One minute left the performance to start but you can’t find your seat. Explain the situation to the box-keeper and ask him/her for help.
6. Self-Evaluation
Teacher gives students some tips for self- evaluation:
Read all the points
Put plus (+) if you are able to do them easily
Put minus (-) if you think it’s still difficult for you to do it
Say your opinion in reflection:
It have no difficulty with …
It was uneasy to …
Now I know …
Now I can …
Self-evaluation card
| Name: Date: |
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| I can describe the pictures using the plan. |
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| I can answer the questionnaire and decide how sociable I am. |
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| I can explain the words in bold and use them in the sentences. |
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| I can work in team: discuss and come to an agreement with other students. |
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| I can start up a conversation using ice-breakers. |
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| I can express my opinion on the topic. |
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Worksheet 1: Picture Description Plan
1. What’s in the picture?
In the picture I can see…
There’s/There are…
There isn’t a …/There aren’t any…
2. What is happening (with Present Continuous)
The girl/boy is…ing
The women/ children are…ing
3. Where in the picture?
In the foreground/background you can see…
At the top/bottom there is/are…
In the middle/centre there is/are…
On the right/left there is/are …
Behind/ in front of…you can see…
Between …there is…
Next to …there is
Under… there is
4. What I think about the picture
The lady seems to…
Maybe
I think
The atmosphere is peaceful/depressing…
I (don’t) like the picture because…
It makes me think of
Worksheet 2: Questionnaire
| Do you | YES | NO | SOMETIMES |
| like going to parties? |
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| enjoy meeting new people? |
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| prefer to socialize only with people you know? |
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| hate making small talks with strangers? |
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| prefer to listen to others than give your opinion? |
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Worksheet 3:Self-evaluation card
| Name: Date: |
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| I can describe the pictures using the plan. |
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| I can answer the questionary and decide how sociable I am. |
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| I can explain the words in bold and use them in the sentences. |
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| I can work in team: discuss and come to an agreement with other students. |
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| I can start up a conversation using ice-breakers. |
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| I can express my opinion on the topic. |
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