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Short Term Plan

Long-term plan unit: School: NIS Aktau

Unit 12. City Life (Content with
Language)
Date: April 17-21, 2023 Teacher name:

Grade: 10 Number present: absent:

The topic of the lesson: Urban decay, suburban hell

Learning objectives(s) that this 10.L8 recognize inconsistencies in argument in an extended

lesson is contributing to
talk on a range of general and curricular subjects
10.L5  recognise the attitude or opinion of the speaker(s) in
an unsupported extended talk on a wide range of general and
curricular topics, including talk on a limited range of
unfamiliar topics

Lesson objectives Learners will be able to:

● Develop speaking skills by answering the questions
about the audio
● Identify the specific information, details and
speaker’s opinion while doing listening tasks on the
topic
Assessment criteria 10.L8. Learners can recognize whether the sentences are true
or false while listening to the speaker..
10.L5  Learners can identify the speaker’s attitude or opinion
Value links Learners develop:
● Lifelong learning through continuous study
● Respect for peers by listening to each other’s
opinions and ideas
● Academic honesty when doing the exercises
Cross curricular links Geography
ICT skills No ICT skills are developed during the lesson.

Link with SDGs Not applicable for this lesson

Previous learning Learners have some knowledge about the topic of “City
Life” from the previous lesson.
Plan
Planned Planned activities Resources
lesson
stages
The first The teacher asks learners to look at the collocations and add these
stage of the nouns to their partner nouns. TP PPT
lesson Answers:
4 min Buildings: property value, construction work
Leisure facilities: art gallery, shopping mall, community center I
shopping center.
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Services: rubbish collection, road maintenance, street lighting

Transport: traffic jam, congestion charge, residents parking
The teacher introduces the topic and lesson objectives.
The middle Pre-listening
of the lesson Next, students work in pairs and compare and contrast two photos, and
TP PPT
6 min talk about the advantages and disadvantages of living in each
neighborhood. The audio
The photos show (1) a street in Greenwich Village, New York, and (2) and tasks
a suburb in Melbourne, Australia. were taken
from:
FCE,
While- listening
Objective,
Ss listen to the introduction to the talk to decide what a profession is.
fourth edition
Answer:
The expert is an architect - the profession is architecture.

Then, the teacher asks learners to read the sentences below to predict
12 min what they might hear. Then listen and complete the sentences with
words or short phrases. Learners compare their answers with another
student and check that their spelling is accurate.
Answers
1 government 2 planning 3 tower block PPT
4 material(s) s heating 6 suburb(s) 7 out-of-town
8 skyscraper(s) 9 jazz clubs 10 (heavy) traffic

Post listening
Learners are provided with sentences and they should say whether
these sentences about the recording are true or false, explaining why.
a T She says: It seems that Jack of consultation over new PPT
buildings is rarely an issue with the public nowadays.
b T She says: For six years of my childhood, I was in a tower
block in quite a run-down part of Bristol, so I do know
what it's like. That's largely what drove me to become an
architect, actually.
c T She says: City expansion isn 't very good news for the
countryside either.
5 min d F She says: What I believe in - and what many architects.
are trying to work towards - is the regeneration of our city
centers
e T She says: In a recent radio phone-in, 67% of callers
thought that the car should be banned altogether from
central London. I truly think people are ready for this.
3 min
Afterward, learners are given words with up all occurred in the PPT
recording. Ss match them to meanings.

Finally, Ss practice turn-taking skills in speaking They get into groups

of four to discuss the given statements. For each statement, one person
in the group should stay silent and time how long each of the others PPT
speaks for.
aThere are both good and bad examples of modern architecture.
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10 min b Living conditions in our cities have got worse.

c City centers should be traffic-free.
d Urban sprawl is a serious threat to nature

Lesson 2
In the 2nd part of the lesson, learners do the listening practice.
Task 2.
Ss will hear six people talking about living in the city and in the
countryside. For each of Speakers 1 to 6, they choose from the list, A
to G, which opinion each speaker expresses. They can use each letter https://
only once. There is one extra letter which they do not need to use www.eslesc
Answers: hool.com/
Speaker 1 G city-or-
7 min Speaker 2 F countryside/
Speaker 3 C
Speaker 4 E
Speaker 5 A
Speaker 6 B
Task 3. Learners listen to the audio and choose the correct letter A, B,
C or D.

Answers:
https://mini-
1. B
ielts.com/
8 min 2. D 1151/
3. C listening/
4. A urbanization-
5. D and-the-
future-of-
Task 4. Learners listen to the audio and mark if the sentences are true cities
or false.
Answers:
7 min 1. T 2. T 3. F 4. T https://
5. F 6. F 7. F 8. T english-
exercises.net
/practice-
Task 5 Ss listen and watch the video and write MORE THAN ONE english-
WORD OR A NUMBER  for each answer. listening-b2-
exercises-
10 min Answers: city-living/
1 irrigation 2 trees 3 purify 4 cholera 5   2/two  6 Singapore.

7.b 8a 9 c 10 c 11 a https://
www.ieltsja
cky.com/
ielts-
listening-
online-
sample-
19.html
The end of Reflection
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the lesson The teacher comes back to the lesson objectives and learners tell what TP PPT
2 min they have learned based on the lesson objectives.
Differentiation – how do you plan to Assessment – how are you planning to Health and
give more support? How do you plan check learners’ learning? safety check
to challenge the more able learners? ICT links
Less able learners get support from the Teacher’s feedback is given throughout Learners sit
teacher at different stages of the lesson. the lesson. far from the
Peer learning takes place through Peer check and whole class check of the interactive
pair/group work. answers to the exercises. board, the
Delayed error correction feedback is given blinds in the
to students where appropriate. classroom
are open so
that enough
sunlight gets
into the
room.
Reflection Use the space below to reflect on your lesson. Answer
Were the lesson objectives/learning the most relevant questions from the box on the left
objectives realistic? Did all learners about your lesson.
achieve the LO?
If not, why?
Did my planned differentiation work
well?
Did I stick to timings?
What changes did I make from my plan
and why?

Summary evaluation
What two things went really well (consider both teaching and learning)?
1:
2:

What two things would have improved the lesson (consider both teaching and learning)?
1:
2:

What have I learned from this lesson about the class or individuals that will inform my next lesson?

The aim of professional development: