Activity Interaction Instructions Supplementary Time

(name+description) pattern materials

Introduction Whole group Hello, everybody! I’m really glad to see you all here! Today we are going to None 5
talk a lot. Please feel free to ask any question at any time, make yourself ONE RULE OR MAKE
comfortable. UP RULES
Please turn off your mobile phones and put them away so that we don’t get TOGETHER?
interrupted. And tell me, how do you think what is the only rule that we are
going to have today?
Come to conclusion that the only rule is to speak English
Get to know Changing Let’s imagine that we went to a café. And it’s like speed dating, where you Poster about info 10
groups of 3- have to change your companions. At first when we come in there are tables 1) Name
4-5 people for three people. So when I say Start I want you to unite into groups of 3 2) Hobby
and you will have about a minute and a half to learn each other’s names, to 3) Smth that all of
learn each other’s hobbies and find something that all three of you have in you have in
common. When I say Switch, it means that now you need to unite into common
groups of four, changing all of your partners. And again you will have about MUSIC
2 minutes to learn each other’s names, hobbies and find something in
common.
Then again into new groups of three or into groups of five.
Get to know Whole group Let’s stand in one circle. Okay. Now I want you to tell me the name of the A toy or a ball 5
person on your left, his/her hobby and something that you have in
common.
Introduction Whole group Great! Thank you everybody a lot! Now when we’ve got to know each other Printed 4pics1word 7
a bit let’s get straight to business! Let’s get to the topic of our today’s cards
meeting. Do you know a game, where you are shown four pictures and you
need to guess the word?
Show some examples. Let students guess.
Good! Now let’s try to guess today’s topic. River, golden domes, traffic jam,
Dolgoruky monument or picture – Moscow.
So today we are going to discuss Moscow’s most beautiful places, problems Agenda list
that we have in our city and develop some ideas about what to improve and
implement, ….. (put the agenda list on the board, read directly from it)
Lead-in Whole group Now I want to show you some pictures that describe city life. Tell me what City life pictures 5
factors of city life do these pics represent.
 Teacher puts up a picture, elicits a corresponding words from students,
writes the word on the board under the picture. Afterwards we can divide
them into pros and cons together with the students and discuss it a bit.
2 groups. Good! Let’s discuss some points that make a city a comfortable place to live Write key topics: 5min
Each group in. What should we have in Moscow so that it’s comfortable, beautiful, Comfortable explanation+10mins
sits in a attractive for tourists? – write these three words on the board and make Beautiful activity
circle and students brainstorm quickly, let them shout out their answers. Attractive for tourists
shares ideas
on the topics Now let’s divide into 2 groups and focus more on advantages!
suggested
How to divide into 2 groups: cards with Moscow sights and sights from
other places around the world. Those who get cards with Moscow sights Cards for grouping
unite in one group. Other cities’ sights – 2 nd group.

Now let’s imagine that we are two groups of designers and architects who
have been invited to Moscow to improve it, to provide new concepts. Countries’ attributes
One group comes from Great Britain (provide students with GB flag and
maybe some other GB attributes) and another comes from France (the
same).
On screen:
In your groups now you need to come up with 3 ideas/projects that can be *3 ideas
implemented in Moscow. You will discuss it in your groups with a teacher. *what will make our
You need to write down your ideas on the paper that I’ll give you. You will city
have 10 minutes to do that task. -comfortable
-beautiful
One teacher per one group to guide and monitor the discussion. Questions -attractive for tourists
suggested to stimulate the topic: +timer
 How often do we use internet nowdays? Do we have enough wifi
access points? Should there be more? Where should they be?
Should they be free?
 Is our city clean? What can be done to make it cleaner? Do we A3 papers and markers
recycle in Moscow? Should we stimulate, encourage recycling? to write down ideas in
What good does it bring? Where should be recycling bins put? How groups
should they look in order to attract attention? How should we
 advertise recycling? How to implement recycling systems into
houses, not only on the streets?
 Is Moscow a green city? What makes a city green? What are the
most beautiful parks in Moscow? What types of parks do you
know? What types of parks should be where and why in Moscow?
What programs, campaigns can we introduce in order to make the Maybe: pictures of
city greener? subway stations,
 What about cultural life in Moscow? Do we have enough museums to encourage
celebrations, concerts, fairs and so on? Should we advertise them the conversation
more? How should we advertise them, through what channels?
What annual or monthly or quarterly events in Moscow would you
implement? What museums would you like to have in our city?
What funny/interesting museums do you know in Moscow/have
visited/want to visit?
 How should a city look at night? How does Moscow look at night?
Should there be more lighting?
 Are you satisfied with public transport in Moscow? How should it
work? Should we have more ground transport? If yes, then what
types of transport are the best – buses, trolleys, marshrutkas,
trams? How can we improve our subway? What do you think of
stations in modern style? What do you think of old stations like
Ploschad revolyutsii, Mayakovskay? New stations – in what style
should we build them? Or, maybe, we shouldn’t care about design
and spend no money on eat on order to save it for something more
important?
While discussing the topic, the groups need to keep track of their ideas and
write them down
Feedback Whole group Now you are going to present your ideas. Cards with vocab 2 min
explanation+5 min
Two teachers - are the Moscow government (provide some attributes as preparation+15 min
well) and they are going to decide whose project to implement. Students presentations+5
need to compete and advertise their ideas in the best way. mins feedback

Each idea should be presented by two speakers. Right now you have 5
minutes to decide who is going to present which idea and you also can write
down key points of your speech. You will have 2 minutes to present each
idea.

These cards (teachers provide every student with a card) have some
vocabulary that will help you to deliver your idea. If you use these words in
your presentations, you will get extra points. Slide with criteria:
We will judge your projects by the following criteria: refer students to the -Usage of the linking
slide. words and expressions
(one expression=1
Students prepare their speeches. point)
At the same time teachers arrange the classroom so that there is their -Creativity
Judges desk, space for presenters and room for audience. When 5 mins are -Usability
up students come up front in turns and present ideas (1 st team couple – 2nd (практичность,
team couple – 1st team couple – 2nd....) реальность
применения на
Maybe: before speaking each group is given extra challenge. For example, практике)
use this or that word during your presentations, make some gesture with -Timing (not less than
your hands so that it fits your speech, etc. 1.5 minutes but not
more than 2 mins)
Judges do the scoring while teams deliver speeches. -extra challenge (+5
After everyone is done, groups post their A3s with ideas on the board. points)
Then when all points are counted and while announcing the results, -….
teachers give feedback on each idea and besides writing the scores next to
ideas, they also give badges and glue them to the A3s:
The most unusual idea
The most practical idea
The best presentation

ANY OTHER REWARDS - ?

At the end we as well can provide students with web-links to Moscow

government site, where they can suggest their ideas by themselves in their
free time.
 Now, dear designers, we can have a tea break and rest a little bit before
moving on to the next part of our very important discussion today!
BREAK BREAK TOTAL FIRST PART TIME: 1 hour 15 minutes Turn the music on 5

Let’s enjoy some tea and sweets

Whole group OK, the second part is going to be devoted to the problems that our city 10
has. What is problem number one in Moscow? Put idea on the board.
Discuss it. Break each problem into 3-4 clear points.
What is second largest problem?
Moscow problems:
1) Traffic/bad roads/parking
2) Old damaging houses, expensive real estate
3) Environmental problems
4) Immigrants
5) High prices
6) Homeless and panhandlers
Let’s choose three problems that are the most interesting for you by voting.
Now let’s divide into three even groups. How to divide into 3 groups: cards
of three colours – yellow, red and green.
Each group needs to pick one problem (cards).

You are political parties running for an election campaign now. In order to
be chosen by voters, you need to make your advertising campaign video.
Let’s watch one of the examples of such videos. While watching I want you
to focus on the structure of the video. Tell me, what parts does this video
consist of?
Whole group Let’s discuss now, what should a good advertising campaign video have? Vocab lists 5

You should come up with a plan more or less like that:

1) State and illustrate the problem
2) Say that we (as a party) can deal with it because we are:…….
3) How we will deal with it
4) A call to action and party’s motto
 Give and discuss briefly some motto examples. Hand out vocabulary lists
with words useful for their video. Tell them that they have 20 mins to plan
and film their video. Teachers are ready to help them at any stage.
Set the timer for 20 mins.
Problem solving 3 groups Students make their videos, teachers monitor and help out Cameras/iPads/iPhones 20
BREAK BREAK 10
TOTAL TWO PARTS: 1 hour 55 minutes

BREAK. Students chatting, teachers downloading videos to the computer,

preparing the election process
Presentation of the 3 groups Now we are going to watch each of your videos. Please be attentive. After 5+5+5
video the video each group is allowed to ask one question about the video, party
or campaign.

Teachers may provide short feedback on each video at the end

Election 3 groups Each student now needs to vote for one of the parties. They cannot vote for Poll box 3-5
their own party. They vote by writing the number of the party on their
colour cards and putting them into the poll
Yellow – party 1
Red – party 2
Green – party 3
After lesson individually While one teacher is figuring out who won the election, second teacher asks Feedback list 5
questionnaire students to fill in the feedback list (about the meeting in general).

E.g. 1-2 topics that he/she would like to discuss next time
What could have been done better at this meeting
Evaluate the meeting judging by: fun (1-5 points), interesting (1-5),
comfortable atmosphere (1-5), how useful were the materials provided
beforehand (1-5), etc.
Lesson summing up Whole class Check points on the Agenda list as done. Give each student to pick a card Question cards 5-10
with a summing up question (most interesting activity, new word, some
question on the topic, etc.)
TOTAL TIME: 2 hours 35-40 minutes