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Lesson Plan

Teachers: Erzhebet Levdar

Class/group: 8 form                                           

Date __________

Topic: School Library

Microtopic: Books

Objectives:

At the end of the lesson students will be able to:

·        use new vocabulary, speak and write about different kinds of books;

·        listen and understand the text and the dialogue;

·        make up and role-play the dialogues, dealing with the subject discussed in the lesson;

·        express own opinions and views on the topic;

Vocabulary: fiction, non-fiction, science-fiction, thrillers, ghost stories, fairy tales.

Materials to be used: Student's book “Solutions” Tim Falla, Paul A Davies, handouts, whiteboard, Power Point presentation, laptop, CD.

Procedure

1.     Greeting: T. Good morning, children! Sit down, please. I’m glad to meet you at our lesson. I hope everything will be fine. Be more active and don’t be afraid of making mistakes.

2.     Warm up:

T. “Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! They teach us and open their hearts to us as brothers,” wrote Charles Kingsley, an English writer of the 19^th century. It is a friend and a teacher. We learn many things by reading books. It is impossible to become an educated person without books. They play an important role in our lives and give us a lot of useful information. (Slide 4).

Today we are beginning a new unit. It is about books and writers. At the end of the lesson you will be able to:

·        use new vocabulary, speak and write about different kinds of books;

·        listen and understand the text and the dialogue;

·        make up and role-play the dialogues, dealing with the subject discussed in the lesson;

·        express own opinions and views on the topic;

3.     Presentation of new material.

1.Presenting the new vocabulary

·        Teacher: I would like to present you the new vocabulary. Match the words with different types of books (Slide 5)

fiction - [mass noun] literature in the form of prose, especially novels, that describes imaginary events and people;

non-fiction – [mass noun] prose writing that is informative or factual rather than fictional;

science-fiction – [mass noun] fiction based on imagined future scientific or technological advances and major social or environmental changes, frequently portraying space or time travel and life on other planets;

thrillers -  novels with an exciting plot, typically involving crime;

ghost stories - stories about ghosts, intended to be frightening;

fairy tales -  fairy stories.

2.Practising the new vocabulary

Task 1.T: You should guess what kind of book I am speaking about (Handout 1)

Fantasy detective story horror story historical novel love story

·        a genre of imaginative fiction involving magic and adventure. ·        a story in which someone tries to find who is responsible for a crime, especially a murder ·        a story in which very frightening and unnatural things happen. ·        a book about people and events in the past ·        is a story of love, adventure and mystery.

Task 2. Can you match the words with their definitions?

1.a thriller 2.a fairytale 3.a biography 4.science-fiction 5.a textbook

·        a) a story told to children which involves magic, imaginary creatures, and a happy ending ·        b) a book about someone’s life, written by another person. ·        c) a book about killer or a crime ·        d) a book that gives information for the study of a subject. ·        e) books about imaginary events in the future.

Keys: 1-c, 2-a,3-b,4-e,5-d.

4.     Listening:

Pre-listening task:

Teacher: Do you like reading?

Why do you read?

Where do you read?

Where do you get books from?

What is your favourite book?      

While-listening:

1.     Ex. 7, p.94 (3.30) Listen to Matt and Rachel doing a questionnaire. Complete the sentences with Matt and Rachel. (Handout 2), (Slide 6)

1_______ reads a lot of comics

2________reads a lot of magazines

3________finds films more exciting than books

4________ thinks fame is more important than money

5_______has written a science-fiction short story

Keys:1. Matt, 2. Rachel,3. Matt,4. Rachel, 5. Matt: (Slide 7)

 Post-listening:

Ex. 8, p. 94 (3.30.) Listen again. Complete the questions. (Slide 8)

1_______books a year do you read?

2 Would you rather read a novel or ________ of that novel?

3 If you were an author, would you prefer to be _______ but famous, or ______but unknown?

4 Have you ever written a short story for _____?

Keys: 1. How many, 2. see a film,3. poor…rich,4. fun.(Slide 9)

5.     Speaking

Ex 9. p.94.  Work in pairs. Ask and answer the questions from exercise 8.  (Slide 10)

1.     How many books a year do you read?

2.     Would you rather read a novel or see a film of that novel?

3.     If you were an author, would you prefer to be poor but famous, or rich but unknown?

4.     Have you ever written a short story for fun?

6.     Listening

Teacher: What do you think about books?

 Now, let’s listen to a story (Audio)

While-listening:

(Handout 3)

LISTENING GAP FILL

Don’t you think books ______________________ thing in the world? I can’t remember a time in my life when I wasn’t reading a book. ______________________ memories of being in my school library when I was about five years old. I have been ______________________ bookworm since then. You’ll usually see me ______________________ buried in a book. I ______________________ of books. Novels are great ______________________ know other worlds and cultures. A good book is one where you never want the ______________________ . I also like autobiographies because I think it’s interesting ______________________ people’s lives. Encyclopedias are cool too – you can learn everything about everything in these. ______________________  books to the Internet. Books need to be in your hand and ______________________ .

Keys: are the best, I still have, a bit of a, with my head, I love all kinds, for getting to, story to end, to read about, I still prefer, made of paper.

Post-listening:

Do you agree /disagree?

Do you prefer books to the Internet?

7.     Reading

Teacher: There are four texts from four books. Match the text with the genre of the book. What is your favourite genre? (Handout 4)

a detective story     a biography     an adventure story      a horror story

1.     He was very frightened now. He got up and went to the bathroom to wash his face. He looked in the mirror and screamed. In front of him, in the mirror, there was the head of the dead man. There were no eyes, and no nose, just deep black holes. Then suddenly the head came alive, and it began to laugh.

2.     For the next thirty years the Duke and Duchess lived in Paris. They gave parties and travelled round the world, but they never went back to Buckingham Palace. When King George died in 1952 and Queen Mary died in 1961, Edward returned to Windsor for a few days. But Wallis stayed in France.

3.     That night we went back to the house. When we saw Helen Stonor’s lights, Holmes and I got in quietly through the window. Then we waited silently in the middle bedroom. We waited for three hours and did not move. Suddenly we saw a light and heard a sound …

4.     ‘Run!’ the man thought. ‘Move! Faster! I can’t stop now.’

Over the man’s head the night sky was black and cold, and in front of him were trees. Tall, dark trees … ‘I can hide here’, the man thought. He looked behind him. He could see the lights. There were five or six men. Then he heard the dogs …

Keys:  1.a horror story, 2. a biography, 3. detective story,4. an adventure story.

8.     Summing-up (Slide12)

Did you enjoy the lesson?

What part of the lesson was the most exciting?

What new information have you learnt?

9.     Home-assignment (Slide 11)

Write a few sentences about your favourite genres of literature.

10.  Evaluation of the students.

Well, I am satisfied with your active work. You have made a very good job. All of you worked hard. Your marks are … The teacher comments students’ marks.

The lesson is over.  Thank you and good-bye

  

Reserve activities (Handout 5)

Scrambled dialogues.

T. Let’s practice speaking. Work in pairs. Arrange the phrases in the correct order to make up a dialogue and act them out.

Dialogue1.

a) Of course, I am.

b) I like to read adventure books.

c) What kind of books do you like to read?

d) Are you fond of reading?

Dialogue 2.

a) I prefer to read adventure stories and novels.

b) Do you enjoy reading?

c) What kind of books do you like to read?

d) Of course, I do.

Dialogue 3.

a) When do you read?

b) What do you read?

c) I like reading true stories.

d) I read when I want to relax.

Dialogue 4.

a) When do you read books?

b) I read magazines, but I don’t read books.

c) What do you read?

d) I read when my teachers say I have to.