Grammar: Conditional 3.
Level of English: Intermediate- Higher Intermediate.
Language Skills:
- Reading.
- Listening Comprehension.
- Speaking.
Other Skills:
- Team work.
- Creativity.
Goals:
- Get to know new facts about water.
- To discuss problems connected with water.
- To revise Conditional 3.
- To make a project “Birthday card”.
- To improve language skills.
Materials and equipment:
- Video cassette “Cambridge 4” / VCR.
- Tape cassette “Cambridge 4” / tape recorder.
- Birthday hats.
- Plastic cups.
- Coloured pencils, glue, scissors, big paper sheets.
- Apple, toothpicks.
- Visual aids and cards.
Procedure of the lesson
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Warming up |
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– Hi, I haven’t seen you for ages. – Hello, I’m so happy to see you. |
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3 min. |
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Do you like visiting parties? Do you like presents? Do you put on smth special? |
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2 min. |
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Possible answers:
Yes, I do. You should look nice and marvelous. |
Answers are written on the blackboard or learned at the previous lessons or students give their own spontaneously. |
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Grammar 3rd conditional |
Structure is presented and discussed. |
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15 min. |
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T: What would have happened, if you had gone? Let’s see. Some grammar, words and imagination would help you.
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There is a collage “Party” made either of real pictures or magazine clips on the blackboard. |
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It’s unreal ( you didn’t go with me). |
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T to Cl:
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Teacher reads sentences of different types. |
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3 pupils put the words on cards in the right order to make 3rd conditional. |
Three students are chosen by the teacher beforehand and labels are stuck on the back of their chairs. |
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Pupils translate orally some sentences using a model on the blackboard. |
Complete the sentence and translate them
Key:
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Birthday party (vocabulary and speech practice activities). |
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Teacher invites everybody to the party together with her. But it’s necessary to identify a birthday person. Cl completes the idioms and give their translation (they were learnt beforehand). |
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10 min. |
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Cl watches video and complete Video Analysis Worksheet. |
Video |
10 min. |
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Class identify that a birthday person is water. |
Prompts around the classroom (T points to them):
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Cambridge 4. Set of pieces of papers for every pupil (1 true and 2 false facts. They are taken from Ex 2.1). |
10 min. |
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T: we are invited to the party and we’ve got a nice dish (apple from apple presentation), but we need a present. Why not create a postcard?
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10 min. |
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T: We are ready and let’s see some facts from the life of water and our planet.
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http://www.maine.gov/dep/blwq/student.htm 10 min. |
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Children come back from the computer lab and party starts:
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10 min. |