Teacher: Alesya Scutelnic

Date:
Form: VIII th
Topic: “The News You Care About” / Unit 6 / Lesson 1
Level: average
Type of the lesson: Teaching and Learning
Time: 45 minutes

Specific Competences and Sub-competences:

• Listening
- Identifying the main ideas of a message related to a current situation. The message is presented clearly.
- Identifying the logical order of passages in an oral message.

• Spoken Interaction
- Describing personal experience, school experiences, events, undertaken activities, intentions and projects.

- Describing personal objects, people from the students’ immediate environment, life conditions, familiar
places, using a set of familiar phrases and expressions.
• Reading
- Defining the form and the logical organization of a non-literary text.

• Written Interaction
- Editing simple description of events, undertaken activities and personal experiences.

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Operational Objectives

- Students will be able:

 to hold a free conversation on the topic of the lesson: news;
 to drill the media picture and sources of information the most reliable ;
 to decode the English Definition of news;
 to form positive attitudes toward sources of information.

Communicative Area:
- Talking about how to be informed
Vocabulary :
technology [tek’nOlqGI] технология

magazine [mqegq’zJn] журнал

advertisement [qd’vE:tIsmqnt] развлекательный

broadcast /brO:dkRst/ трансляция

charity [CqerItI] благотворительность

Didactic Strategies:

1. Methods:
 Communicative Approach, Total Physical Response, Community Language Learning.
 Techniques:
 Brainstorming, exercises, think-pair-share, T-Chart, Q-A.
2. Forms of activities:
 Group work, individual work, pair work, whole class work.

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Resources:

 Pupil’s textbooks, copybooks, worksheets , pictures.

Stages of the Teachers’ Activity Pupil’s Activity Resources & Didactic Time
Lesson Materials Strategies
1. Greeting.
Evocation - Teacher enters the classroom, greets 5
the pupils, asks how are they and who is Students answer the T’’s questions min
missing. Whole class
Warm up. Textbooks work
- Teacher encourages the pupils to answer Students work in random sharing the
the following questions (Discussion answers with their classmates.
Points,ex.1,p.84); Q-A

Realization 20
of meaning - T reads the dialogue (p.139) referred to Whole class min
the subject of the lesson and pupils listen Students try to predict the topic of the Information work
with their books closed. Then the T asks lesson
the class to predict the topic of the lesson
on the basis of the dialog.

- T announces the topic of the lesson Pupils open their notebooks and write down Blackboard Oral
(written on the board) and its objectives. the date and the title of the lesson. Brainstorming
Copybooks

- Then T directs the class to ex.2, p. 84, Students choose 1 quotation as a motto of
asks them to listen and tick the kinds of the lesson and write it in their notebooks. Think-Pair-
news stories they hear . Share

Vocabulary
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 work T introduces the new words using Pupils listen, repeat, read and write the Vocabulary
translation through new words in their vocabularies. Blackboard Whole class
demonstration/definition, flashcards or Flash cards work
real objects/examples and jesting.

T asks pupils to write them up in their After that they make up some sentences
vocabularies, repeat the words chorally with the new words and the best
and individually and to form own sentences sentences are written on the board and in Notebooks Individual work
using the new words. their copybooks.
The best sentences are written on the
board
and in the pupil’s notebooks.

- T directs the students to ex.3, p.84 and

asks them to decide what the text will be
about. They are advised to make their own Textbooks Pair Work
Reading forecasts (without skimming the text).
activity True/False
- After the task is completed , students Exercise
are asked to read the text (silent reading)
and check their answers . Students read the statements and correct
the false ones. Text Silent reading
Whole class
- T asks the class to find and read the work
sentences from the text containing new Pupils find and read the sentences.
learnt items. Textbooks Selective
Reading
- T divides the class into 2 groups and asks
it to find in the text the synonyms and the
antonyms for the following words: Students work in groups, , marking the
answers from the task in their notebooks. Group Work
Group 1 : put the paragraphs in right When the time is up, students read their
order and tick the jobs Opra has had in answers.
journalism.

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 Group 2 :mark the sentences with T for Copybooks
true, F for false and E for extra
information.

Reflection. Teacher proposes the ex. 4, p.85. Pupils find media words in the wordsearch, Textbooks Group Work 15
using some prompts : Pictures min
Feed-back a. broadcast
b. reporter Board
c. host Copybooks T-Chart
d. website
e. mass media
f. news
g. audience
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Extension. - Teacher and the students evaluate the Students evaluate the lesson activity. Copybooks Whole class min
lesson, check if all the objectives of the Record books work
Assigning lesson were performed, revise the
homework. material of the lesson.
Pupils write their homework in their
- Finally, T writes on the blackboard the copybooks and record books.
pupils’ homework and gives explanations
about it:
1) P.85”Do it at home” – design the
front page of your personal
magazine.
2) New Word Bank – memorize and
make up word combinations
Ex. Choice – a wide choice
Charming – a charming smile, etc.

Evaluation. Evaluates the pupils, puts them marks and Pupils listen to the teacher, get their Register
comments on them. marks and evaluation. Record books

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