A set of lessons for form 7 on the topic “Summer vacations”.
This set of lessons is an addition to the text-book by A. Nesvit
“We learn English 7”(2015)
Lesson 1
Summer vacations. Where to go and what to do.
Goals:
-to practice the vocabulary on the topic
-to organize listening comprehension exercises
-to encourage students’ speaking activity, to involve them in
making up mini-dialogues
-to brush up Past Simple and to practice it
-to develop communicative skills
Equipment: a laptop and a big TV set or a screen and a
projector.
Procedure
I. Preparation
1)Greeting. Introducing
the topic.
The lesson
starts with a piece of video(A song of Mary Poppins from the old English film.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zy7XEMeBROQ)
Then a
teacher comes into the classroom dressed up like Mary Poppins.
T:Hello,dear
friends! Today I’m not your teacher. I’m Mary Poppins. Do you remember me? I’m
the main character of the book by Pamela Lyndon Travers. And I’ve just come
back from my summer vacations. And I’ve got a compass. And what is it for?
(the pupils
give their ideas)
II. The main
part.
T:This
little box can take us round the world! Once we travelled with Mike and Jane…With
the help of it we’ll get to different places where you can go during your
summer holidays. Let’s turn it and count to five all together.(The pupils count
and he teacher switches on another video about seaside
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPNaAr2l7g0)
And it’s on
while the pupils are answering teacher’s questions and making the mind-map
T. Where are
we now? Right you are! At the seaside! And what can we do at the seaside?(The
pupils give their ideas and the teacher draws the mind-map on the blackboard)
-to swim in
the sea
-to sunbathe
-to go
diving
-to go
windsurfing
-to go
sailing
-to make
sand castles
-to go on
excursions
-to visit
the places of interest
-to walk
along the beach
-to feed the
seagulls etc.
T:O.K.Let’s
turn our compass and count to five.(Another episode is about mountains.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5IUmNVd2c4)
T:Where are
we now? Right, in the mountains. And what can we do there?
-climb the
mountains
-to enjoy
the views/nature
-to go
hiking
-to swim in
the mountain lake
-to go
rafting along the mountain river etc.
And in such
a way we turn our compass ,switch on the video and get to the village and
abroad or to a big city. When the mind map is ready the pupils in pairs ask and
answer the questions “Where did you go this summer? What did you see there? What
did you do there?Did you enjoy your summer holidays?”using Past Simple.
T:Well and
I’ve got a friend Bert, you saw him at the beginning of our lesson, we were
singing and dancing together. He has just come from his vacations too. Let’s
phone him in the Skype.(The sound of Skype ringing… and we listen to “Bert’s”
story about summer rest, whether downloaded from the Internet or read and
recorded by some senior pupil, who is good at reading)
T:Bert’s
story was very interesting and we want to find out more details about his rest,
don’t we? We’ve got a lot of questions, but Bert is a very busy person, you
know ,he draws pictures on the pavement. So, he’s always short of time. But we
can write our questions down and send them to him by e-mail. You’ll do it at
home. I think Bert will be glad to receive your letters. Here’s his e-mail(the
teacher gives his /her address and in such a way the home task will be done and
sent on her e-mail)
III. Evaluation
and giving home task.
Lesson 2
My summer holidays were great!
The form of
the lesson- a training
Goals:
-to practice
the vocabulary on the topic
-to learn a
new song about summer
-to improve
pupils’ reading, writing and listening skills
-to train
pupils in writing letters and telling about summer holidays
-to organize
grammar drills on Simple tenses.
Procedure
I.
Preparation.
1)Greeting
and warming-up.
T:Hello.How
are you today? By the way, what season is it now? What month is it now? And
what season is before autumn?Do you like summer?Do you feel like singing a
song?
And now
let’s sing a song about summer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfHWc6-xuE4
2)Introducing
the topic and the goals of the lesson.
T:Today you
are not sitting at your desks, you are sitting in a circle .And we are not
going to have an ordinary lesson. We’ll have a training. Trainings are very
popular nowadays ,in all possible areas .And today we are going to speak about
your summer vacations.
II.
Main part.
1)Starter:elicit and demonstrate.
At the previous lesson we spoke about summer holidays in
general.
We made up a
mind- map and it helped me to create a presentation. Let’s watch it and brush
up the vocabulary(the presentation is on my site or you may use a presentation
of your own)
2)Initiate
conversation
And now,
using this presentation, tell us in a chain where did you go and what did you
see or do on your summer vacations. So ,personally I went to the village and I
stayed at my parents’. We went to the lake every day, we swam and sunbathed. It
was fun. And you?
3)Direct
focus.
a)grammar
drills
Let’s do
some grammar drills on the basis of our presentation. One pupil says that
he/she goes somewhere or does something in summer, pupil 2-that he went there
or was there last summer and pupil 3 that he/she will do it next summer too.(you
may brush up the rules if necessary)
b)vocabulary
drill(worksheet. Addition 1)
c)Reading
comprehension
T. In our
text book there is a letter, which a boy wrote about his summer holidays. Let’s
read it aloud and translate .And now I’ll give you the sentences from the text
in Russian/Ukrainian and you are to translate them into English. Answer my
questions on this text. Read and complete the sentences(ex 3 p.8 in the text book
or you can prepare your own cards) etc.
d)Training
on writing letters .How to begin, organize and conclude the letter(Presentation
2)
3)Individual
work
a)pre-task
T:Well,you
know how to write letters in a proper way. And do you like to write letters? How
often do you use e-mail? What are the advantages of e-mail?
b)set up and
instructions.
And your
last task for today is to write a letter about your summer holidays to me. You
can write an ordinary paper letter or send it by e-mail.
4)Summing up,
evaluation.
Lesson 3
Summer, good-bye!
Goals:
-to involve
pupils in group work
-to use
grammar and vocabulary from the previous lessons in different communicative
tasks
-to create a
project on the topic
To organize
role-play on the basis of pattern-dialogues.
-to develop
communicative and cooperative skills.
Procedure
I.
Preparation
T:Hello!Today
we are having the last lesson on the topic “Summer holidays”. Before the lesson
you had to form four groups and choose the captain. So, our first team will
deal with the rest at the seaside, the second team-in the mountains, the third
one-in the village and the fourth team will go abroad. During the lesson you’ll
have to participate in the following activities and projects:
-to convince
other pupils that your rest is the best
-to try your
hand at writing poetry
-to
dramatize a talk about your kind of rest
-to do some
grammar and vocabulary tasks
-to make a
project about your summer rest.
II.Main
part.
1)Vocabulary
contest. The members of the team, one by one name the words which describe
their kind of rest(nouns, adjectives, verbs or word combinations)You can set up
time limit,1 min for example. The more words they name the more points they
get.
2)Drama
contest. Each team listens to their dialogue-pattern, makes up their own one
and dramatizes it.
3)The
contest of advertisement “Our rest is the best” .Imagine that you work for an
advertizing company and you’ve got a task from a tourist agency to popularize
the rest at some sea or mountain resort, in the country, the so-called
“eco-tourism “ or in a big city. Write a short advertisement for a magazine.
4)Poetry
contest. Try to compose a short rhyme about summer and your kind of rest. Then
the captain reads aloud what they’ve got.
5)Grammar
contest. Each team gets the worksheet with the tasks on Simple tenses.
III. Summing-up
and evaluation.
The home
task for each team is to prepare a presentation or a booklet about summer rest
of the members of their team with photos and comments.
Addition 1.
Task 1
Task 2.Make
up 10 sentences of your own ,using these words and Simple tenses.
Addition 2
Task
1.Choose the word and insert it into the blank in the appropriate
time(Present,Past or Future Simple)
Visit,breathe,go,watch,like,buy,put,see,be(2),stay,come,make,catch,
Take.
1)We_______to
the seaside last summer.
2)My
friends___________this museum tomorrow.
3)I______this
film when I_____on holiday.
4)My
sister______to ride on the roller coaster.
5)We______a
fire on the bank of the river last night.
6)My
grandpa_____me to the forest yesterday.
7)When we go
fishing we usually ______a lot of fish.
8)When
we_____to our picnic site we_____up a tent.
9)I’m going
to the village in a week.I____in the fresh air there.
10)On my
summer holidays I____in Greece and I________ a lot of ancient buildings.
11)We
usually____a lot of souvenirs for friends and relatives when on holidays.
12)We____at
a nice hotel as soon as we come to the seaside.
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