Aim: By the end of the session students will be able to solve the puzzle and do the questionnaire; to skim the text for specific information.
Procedure
The Star Splendid Banner is sung in the audience.
Teacher: You’ve heard about America everywhere from the Mass Media, from school, from the other sources of information. Today we are going to recollect your background knowledge or to learn new interesting and useful facts about America. During the session you are going to work in three groups. Each group will get a dollar for a correct answer. At the end we will count the score of each group and find out the winner of today’s lesson. The winner will get medals.
Step 1: the first task for you is to do the puzzle and answer the question who is it? (Students collect puzzles and look at the screen to see the correct picture)
Step 2:
Teacher: By the way he is our guest today. So Sir Christopher Columbus you are welcome (the student of the upper course appeared in the audience in the costume of explore) The great explore came to our session to tell you the story of his discovery, and you are to listen to him and answer his questions.
Step 3:
Teacher: We are moving further, the following task is a quiz and we are going to know do we have any experts on America here? So look at the screen, read and listen to the question and raise your hand if your group is ready to answer for correct answer you will get a dollar (20 questions)
Step 4:
Teacher: the next point in our session that we are going to cover is American symbols, so please look at the screen and match the pictures with their titles.
Step 5: Now let’s read small texts about each symbol and match the beginning of the sentence to its end. (Приложение 1)
Step 6: Another sort of info about America: “Amazing facts”. You are to read the text and to find the continuation (end) of each text, in another words fill in the gaps with the correct sentences. Than be ready to present the info to each other. (Приложение 2)
Step 7: now we will learn how to sing an American anthem, which is called “America the beautiful” (Приложение 3)
Teacher: it’s high time to count the score and the money. The winner is the group who has got the biggest sum of money, they get medals. Thank you for the lesson, you can be free.