The Plan of the lesson:
1. Greeting: (The presentation Slide I)
2. The aims :
This lesson focuses on revising the key vocabulary of leisure and discussing various leisure activities. However, the most important objective is to practise writing a formal transactional letter.
3. Warm-up:
For a start say what we usually mean when we say ‘leisure’?
(The expected answer: leisure time and leisure activities) (Slide II)
What do you associate with leisure time?
(The expected answer: enjoyment, excitement, fun etc.) (Slide III)
4. Speaking:
There is a variety of leisure activities which can be done at home.
- Group work:
1) Arrange the activities you can see on the screen in order of their popularity with teenagers. Work in small groups. (Slide IV)
2) It’s time to compare your ideas. Read your list out. (Group I/Group II
) Have you noticed any similarities? What are the top three activities? Now
look at the screen again and analyse the information. (The expected answer:
according to statistics the activity gained in popularity is watching TV. It is
followed by playing computer games and listening to pop music.) Did you guess
correctly? What is your attitude to the data?
(Summing up: Student1, Student 2) (Slide V)
- My favourite leisure activity.
1) Describe your favourite leisure activity at home. I expect you to prove
that it is worth doing. Present clear arguments.
Student 1; Student 2; Student 3 (a two-minute talk)
2) Feedback: Whose way of spending leisure time do you find the most useful?
5. Writing:
As we can see listening to music is the third top leisure activity. That is why there are so many teenagers who enjoy going to music festivals. Imagine you attended one of the music festivals in the photos. What positive or negative things might you say about the experience?
Positive things: a variety of groups, a chance of seeing groups alive, latest music trends, meeting lots of people etc.
Negative things: very crowded, lack of facilities, you cannot hear the groups well, you cannot see them well etc.
(Slide VI)
(the end)
After attending the festival some people write letters in order to show their appreciation or to make some suggestions about possible improvements.
What do we call such letters? (The expected answer: formal transactional letters). Remember that a transactional letter always has a practical purpose.
Now read the advertisement for the festival and the notes you have made beside it (Laser FCE, Student’s Book – exercise A, page 69). What do you find particularly good? What aren’t you satisfied with?
Answer the questions from exercise B in your book.
What are the main stylistic features of a formal letter?
The expected answer:
formal language
no contractions
appropriate salutation and sign off
appropriate closing remarks
clear paragraph division
There is a very helpful exercise on our CD-ROM which focuses on using formal language. Start the programme and find the section ‘Writing’. (Laser FCE, CD-ROM: Unit 5, Activity 6). Make the letter complete and say what your score is. Why do you think you had to use so many expressions starting with ‘would’? (При отсутствии диска смотри задание в Приложении 2)
It is time to make a paragraph plan of your transactional letter (Exercise D, page 69).
Remember to take all the features of formal transactional letters into account when you start writing your letter.
6. Homework: Write a transactional letter to the organizer of the festival (Exercise E, page 69).
7. Talkback: What have you learnt during the lesson? Do you find it useful?