Урок на тему " A dolphin"

Date: 9.12

Form: 7 “b”

Theme: The Dolphin

Aims: to consolidate the grammar material on the

theme past continuous passive

to learn some words

-to develop pupils’ thinking, speaking,

reading, writing skills and habits; activities;

-to improve their English using various

-to bring up pupils to be friendly, to be kind, to be polite

Language focus Listening skills

New language The words of a poem

New words yawn (v.), mournful, prey (n.), spring (v.) shadow

Procedure of the lesson.

Greeting. Setting the aims.

Warm-up

• Tell a story to prepare the class for the song they are going to learn. First draw a picture of an ant and a rubber tree. Can the children say what they are? Write the names underneath .

• Tell a story; the children close their eyes and listen.

We are very, very small. We are ants. Let's march. 1, 2, 3, 4. We are marching. 5, 6, 7, 8. Now we are marching through trees. Look up. The trees are very, very tall. They are rubber trees. Lots and lots of rubber trees. We are still marching. Stop! What's that? It's an ant. What is it doing? It's trying to move that rubber tree. It can't move that tree. Anyone knows that. The rubber tree is too big. The ant is too little. Oh no! Look at that! I don't believe it. The tree is moving. It's falling. Crash! That little ant has moved that rubber tree! Hurrah!

• Tell the story again. Children listen and act it out, marching, looking, pointing, showing surprise, etc.

Pre-listening

• Ask children to look at the pictures and the title. Ask for suggestions for the meaning of roam: to go anywhere one chooses. Can they suggest what the poem is about? Note some of the ideas on the board.

Listening - speaking (1 Listen and say.)

• Read 'Free to roam'. Children just listen and follow in their books.

• Ask children to find words that show how the tiger is feeling. They should be able to pick out yawned, stared, mournfully. Ask them to explain the meanings of these words. If they do not already know mournfully, ask them to guess or use dictionaries.

• How would they describe the tiger's mood? Write their ideas on the board. Gather as many different words and phrases as the class can suggest.

• Ask why the tiger has these feelings. Note their ideas. Ask the class to compare their answers after hearing the poem with their suggestions before reading it. How similar are they? Praise the class, either for predicting well, or for having understood the meaning of the poem after reading it.

• Read the poem once more. If you wish to extend the discussion, ask children to suggest other zoo animals that might wish to roam - where they might go and what they might do.

Listening - speaking (2 Listen and say.)

• Tell the children they are going to be listening to sounds only and they have to decide what they are hearing. Play Tape 21; children listen with their eyes closed.

• Play the tape again. This time children look at the descriptions and make choices .

• Children ask and answer the questions.

Rhyming words (1 Join the pairs of rhyming words.) Children decide what the pictures are and draw lines between rhymes; they then write them on the lines below.

Answers: ram, dam; pies, eyes; tools, pools; chin, pin; nets, pets; door, floor; hole, bowl; cow, plough

Crossword (2 Write the words.)

Answers: (across) 4 shy, 5 medal, 7 poet, 8 fig, 9 kit, 10 dive, 11 is, 13 caretaker, 15 nervous

(down) 1 chase, 2 terrific, 3 ram, 6 bravery, 7 prize, 12 save, 14too

Giving the home task. Marking the pupils.

Saying good bye