Date:
11a – 12.12.2015 11g-10.12.2015
Geographical
situation of Australia and New Zealand
Lesson
objectives:
Students will
1. be
prepared for international travel
2.
be able to use different strategies in conversation with a
stranger
3.
be able to discuss their travel expressions
4.
be able to check their progress in reading, grammar, vocabulary
trough activities.
Educational
objective: pupils will learn interesting facts about places
of interest in Australia
Skills
development:
1. Reading
for specific information
2. Talking
in typical situations
3.
Negotiating a plan for a tour
4. Speaking
about places
Materials: a map
of Australia and New Zealand, pictures, posters.
Structures
1. Possessives
with superlatives
2. Superlatives
with ordinal numerals
3. Tag
questions(special cases)
4.
Students presenting reports on Australia and New Zealand.
LESSON
PLAN
Teacher: Hello
children! Nice to meet you. We are going to take trip to Australia and New
Zealand. Here three groups of experts and they can take you around
Australia and New Zealand.
Activity
1
Fill
in the fact –file in the chosen country and tell the most interesting about it
(work in groups).
country
|
population
|
languages
|
national
emblem
|
government
|
economy
|
Groups
present their projects. The class chooses the best speakers, the best
performers, who get special medals.
Teacher:
Your projects were very interesting. Now will see which group knows Australia
and New Zealand best.
Activity2
Brainstorming
quiz
Each
group is given 4 questions.
Group1.
1.
Who discovered Australia?(James Cook,
Christopher Columbus, Rudyard Kipling)
2.
Home to Australian government is (Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra).
3.
What is the biggest lake in Australia?(lake Eyre, lake Todd Loch
Ness)
4. What
is the capital of New Zealand? (Melbourne, Wellington,
Auckland.
Group2
1.
Whose statue you can see on the beach of Wellington? (dog’s
statue, dolphin’s statue, horse’s statue)
2.
What is the national game of New Zealand (football, rugby,
tennis)
3.
The national currency of Australia is…( the Australian franc ,Australian dollar,
Australian pound)
4.
What bird you can see in the national emblem of New Zealand?
(the parrot, the kiwi ,the raven )
Gruop3
1.
Who is the head of government in Australia ?( the Queen , the
king ,the Prime Minister)
2.
Australian’s national colours are :( black-red and gold ,white,
blue and red , gold, white and bright green )
3.
The oldest university of Australia is situated (in Sydney,
in Canberra, in Brisbane )
4.
There are (5 states 2 territories; 7 states 3 territories;
6 states 2 territories) in Australia.
Activity
3
Say try,
false or don’t know. If false, correct the
statement.
1.
Australia is situated in the Southern Hemisphere.
2. Tasmania
is an island state
3.
Australia is washed by the waters of three oceans.
4.
During the Christmas holidays people sunbath on the beach or
surf in the ocean.
5.
There are more than 30 different kinds of kangaroos in Australia.
6.
Koala spends most of its life in eucalyptus trees and eats only
the leaves of the tree.
7.
New Zealand has been called the sheep farm of Britain.
8.
Auckland is the largest city and leading port of New Zealand.
Activity
4
Every
group chooses places it’d like to visit in Australia and New Zealand.
Make up a plan of your trip.
Use these words:
1. First
we’ll go to…
2.
Then we’d like to visit…
3. After
that we…
4. Finally
we…
(After
3-5 minutes discussion each group tells a plan of the trip)
Activity
5
DOWN
UNDER (AUSTRALIA)
Complete
the text with these words:
population
|
harbour
|
reef
|
area
|
mysterious
|
capital
|
recent
|
huge
|
kangaroo
|
enjoy
|
cut
|
states
|
temperature
|
boring
|
duck
|
square
|
northern
|
famous
|
eggs
|
city
|
government
|
tourists
|
unique
|
source
|
Largest
|
climate
|
few
|
corner
|
uninhabited
|
people
|
most
|
|
continents
|
tropical
|
desert
|
|
Australia
is a……country. With an ….. of over 7,5 million…..kilometers, it is the
sixth…..country in the world. But ….of the land is ….., because about two
thirds of it is….. or semi-desert. Australia’s population …..is only16,5
million and most of these ….. live in the two …. of New South
Wales Victoria. The…..in this south- eastern…..is mild and ……. . But the
…..part of county has a …….climate. In……years, tourism has become an
important……of income. Most ……go to Australia’s largest ….. . Sydney . They
visit the….with its …...bridge and opera house. The……of Australia is Canberra,
but very ….. tourists go there. It’s full of ……buildings, but it’s rather
……city. Many people go to Queens- Land to ……the beautiful beaches and see the
Great Barrier …….
Australia was ……off from the other …….very early in the history of the world,
so some ……plants and animals have developed there. The
……has become the national symbol. There’s also the koala and the platypus,
mammals which lay…..and which have a beak like a …. .
Teacher:
Children! You know a lot of interesting information about these countries.
Maybe you dreams come true and you can visit them some day. Thank
you for lesson. Good luck!
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