Festivals around the world

Module 3: Entertainment and media

Lesson 7: Festivals around the world

School: 21

Date:

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

8.4.1.1 –understand the main points in texts on a growing range of unfamiliar general and curricular topics, including some extended texts

8.3.1.1 – use formal and informal registers in their talk on a growing range of general and curricular topics

8.1.10.1 – use talk or writing as a means of reflecting on and exploring a range of perspectives on the world

8.5.6.1 – link, independently, sentences into coherent paragraphs using a variety of basic connectors on a range of familiar general topics and some curricular topics

Lesson objectives:

All learners will be able to:

Know the new 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, present festivals using new vocabulary with little support in speaking and writing

Some learners will be able to:

Listen and read for gist, read for specific information, present festivals using new vocabulary without support in speaking and writing

Assessment criteria

Understand given information.

Present the information about festivals around the world

Value links

A patriotic duty of each citizen of the Republic of Kazakhstan is to keep, to increase and to hand down traditions of friendship and consent of the people of Kazakhstan from generation to generation.

Cross-curricular links

Self-knowledge, History, Literature

Previous learning

Lesson: daily routines and free time activities

Plan

Planned timing

Planned activities

Start

(Beginning of the lesson)

2 min.

1 min.

1 min.

2 min.

2 min.

Organizational moment

Greetings. Good afternoon, boys! 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, Timur, мен саған котерінкі көңіл тілеймін and I wish you good marks at the lesson.

Dividing into groups.

Today at the lesson I have two people – our speakers Timur and Diyar,

Timur’s group – 1

Diyar’s group – 2

There are all your names on the blacboard, find your name and number of your group and sit down, please.

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?

Giving some background information about these pictures.

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

The topic of our lesson is “Festivals around the world”, 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 President N. Nazarbayev

Danil, can you read the statement?

And now we have a task about it.

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

“Kazakh people” (nation)

“Past events” (history)

“All the people born and living at the same time” (generation)

Middle of the lesson

4 min.

4 min.

1 min.

6 min.

7 min.

3min

1 min.

New vocabulary (eBook)

And now we can learn some new words about our topic. You should read in turns, then listen and repeat altogether. You should assess the pronunciation of another group according to the criteria.

Assessment criteria: pronounce the new words correctly

Formative assessment of pronunciation

Not very good – group has more than 9 mistakes

Good – group has 4-8 mistakes

Excellent – group has 0-3 mistakes

Pre-listening task. (eBook)

Look at the picture. Do you know about the New Year in Kazakhstan in spring? When do we celebrate it?

Now you have blue cards with a pre-listening task. You should work individually and complete the sentences with the words.

Fill in the missing words.

The Nauryz Festival takes 1)________________ on 22^nd March in towns and 2)________________ across the country. There 3) ____________ polo matches, folk 4)________________ and music 5) ____________________. It is a celebration of the new year and people 6) __________________ and eat lamb.

Descriptor: listen to the text, work individually, complete the text with the missing words

Assessment criteria: fill in the words according to the text

Formative assessment

Not very good – you have more than 4 mistakes

Good – you have 2-3 mistakes

Excellent – you have 0-1 mistake

Exchange your cards and check the progress. Assess your partner with red, yellow or green cards.

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

Pair work.

Now look at the picture again and answer my question.

Do you know this person?

What is he famous for?

Now I suggest you to work in pairs. You should watch a video and find the right answer (true/false) about this information.

Descriptor: listen to the video for gist, work in pairs, answer the questions according to this video

Assessment criteria: give a right answer about true/false statements, prove your answer

Formative assessment

Not very good – a pair gives the wrong answer

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

Excellent – a pair gives a full explanation of the answer

Watching a video. (eBook)

William Shakespeare died on 23^rd April, 1564. (False)

Shakespeare wrote his plays with an old feather pen. (True)

There is a two-day event to celebrate Shakespeare’s birthday in the town he was from (True)

During the celebration, two people dress up as Shakespeare and his wife (True)

For many people, the highlight of the event is visiting the house where Shakespeare was born. (False)

Now let’s check your answers and assess your answers. Show me the cards.

Project-work (group work)

Ok, continue our work. Do you know about the Festivals in our country? Look at the pictures, this is the festival about Shakespeare’s birthday and this is a festival of nomadic civilization!

Now you should work in groups and make a project about these festivals. Open your students books at p. 37 ex. 1

Group 1 - Shakespeare’s birthday

Group 2 - festival of nomadic civilization

Read the text and make a poster.

Assessment criteria (presentation)

You have 6 minutes.

Descriptor: read the text for gist, work in a group, make a project about festivals according to the text

Assessment criteria: present project using new vocabulary (3-4 sentences)

Formative assessment

Not very good – a group present a project with many grammar and vocabulary mistakes

Good – a group presents a project, has a little mistakes in speaking and in content

Excellent – a group present a project without mistakes in speaking and in content

Presentation of the projects.

Pupil’s assess each other’s projects

Homework

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

Extra-task for Ganayev T., Polyanichko N., Khoroshilov R., Sertayev D. p. 37 ex. 4 SB. (prepare a short text about festivals around the world for English magazine)

End of the lesson

4 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?