"Benefits of reading"

Module 5: Reading for pleasure

Theme: Benefits of reading

School: 21

Date: 29.01.2020

Teacher’s name: Yelena Seredenko

Class: 8A

Number of present:

Absent:

Learning objective(s) that this lesson is contributing to:

8.1.8.1 intercultural awareness through reading and discussion

8.2.1.1. understand with little support or no support the main points in extended talk on a wide range of general and curricular topics

8.2.6.1 –deduce meaning from context with little or no support in extended talk on a growing range of general and curricular topics

Lesson objectives:

All learners will be able to:

Know and understand the vocabulary, listen and read for gist, read for specific information

Most learners will be able to:

Listen and read for gist, read for specific information, discuss information about stories with little support

Some learners will be able to:

Listen and read for gist, read for specific information, present the benefits of reading without support

Assessment criteria

Understand given information.

Present the information about read stories in the Unit 5.

Cross-curricular links

Self-knowledge, History, Literature

Previous learning

Lesson: The Mausoleum of Aisha-Bibi

Plan

Planned timing

Planned activities

Start

(Beginning of the lesson)

3 min.

1 min.

2 min.

2 min.

2 min.

1 min

Organizational moment

Greetings. Good afternoon, girls! Sit down, please!

How are you today?

First of all I want you to go to the blackboard and make a circle. We start our lesson with a training task “I wish”. You may say in three languages: Kazakh, Russian and English

I will start, Polina, мен саған котерінкі көңіл тілеймін and I wish you good marks at the lesson.

Dividing into groups.

Today you will work in groups and

Group 1 –

Group 2 -

Let’s begin our work with revising the rules to work in groups.

Lead-in: Look at the pictures and try to answer the question what can you see on these pictures?

Who are the main characters of these stories?

How do you think what is the theme of our lesson?

The topic of our lesson is “Benefits of reading”, open your copybooks, write down the date. What date is it today?

The objectives, assessment criteria of the lesson

Epigraph of the lesson.

At today’s lesson the epigraph is the words of our first President N. Nazarbayev

Liza, can you read the statement?

And now we have to do a task with this statement.

In groups, you should find the words of the next definitions: (you have 30 seconds to think)

Middle of the lesson

4 min.

8 min.

7 min.

1 min.

4 min.

1 min.

Vocabulary (eBook)

And now we are ready to start to revise all the read stories from the unit 5 and define some benefits of reading. We will compare two famous stories Romeo and Juliet and Kyz-Zhybek.

We will start our work with vocabulary task.

You should work with the vocabulary, do the domino task and read in turns in your group, You should assess the pronunciation of another group according to the criteria.

Assessment criteria: pronounce the new words correctly, define the right translation Formative assessment:

Vocabulary (DOMINO)

Assessment criteria: pronounce the words correctly, define the right translation and meaning

Formative assessment of pronunciation

Not very good – group has more than 6 mistakes

Good – group has 4-5 mistakes

Very good – group has 2-3 mistakes

Excellent – group has 0-1 mistakes

Reading task/ project

Look at the pictures. There are some pictures from the stories. You should read the summary of these stories again and put the events in order they happened. Every picture has the description.

Descriptor: read the summary, work in groups, find the picture and its description

Assessment criteria: put the events in order they happened

Formative assessment

Not very good – group has more than 6 mistakes

Good – group has 4-5 mistakes

Very good – group has 2-3 mistakes

Excellent – group has 0-1 mistakes

Post-reading

You have a great job, now you should make 4 questions about the story.

Assessment criteria: give right answers to the questions

Formative assessment

Not very good – a pupil gives the wrong answer

Good – a pupil gives a correct answer, but doesn’t have a full explanation

Excellent – a people gives a full explanation of the answer

Relaxation minute (close your eyes, let’s have a sleep for 1 minute)

Pair work

Ok, continue our work. You should find a couple from another group and make words’ expressions. Then you should make sentences with your words according to the story.

Homework

For all pupils: p. 26 ex. 1 WB (complete the missing words in the sentences)

Extra-task for Kovaleva Y. (prepare a short text about favorite story/book for English magazine)

End of the lesson

3 min.

1 min

Reflection. Method “Ladder of success ”.

Pupils assess their own progress and give some comments about it.

Teacher gives comment about pupils’ progress

The lesson is over. Good bye

Additional information:

Differentiation - how do you plan to give more support? How do you plan to challenge the more able learners?

Less able student: support by positive feedback, mimics.

More able student: support by card, hands

Less able student: give key words for supporting them

More able student: guess by meaning the words and put on the place

Assessment - how are you planning to check learners’ learning?

Method “Ladder of success”

Cross – curricular links

History

Literature

Kazakh language

Reflection

Were the lesson objectives / learning objectives realistic?

What did the learners learn today?

What was the learning atmosphere like?

Did my planned differentiation work well?

Did I stick to timings? What changes did I make from my plan and why?