UNUSUAL FESTIVALS

26.06.2023
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UNUSUAL FESTIVALS Равшан Селеева,

Балыкчы шаарындагы Ж.Бөкөнбаев №2 мектебинин

англис тили мугалими

Time: 45 minutes

Class: 5^th

Level: Elementary/Pre-intermediate/

Topic: Unusual festivals (reading lesson)

Objectives:

By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:

Improve reading and speaking skills
Make predictions from the objects and pictures, title of the lesson
Learn new festival vocabulary
Read the texts and get the main idea
Read the texts and complete the chart
Play a Casino game
Create and make a presentation of their own festival

Target language: Vocabulary: hot air balloon, rise, film, take pictures, highlight, to poke fun at, cardboard, to burn

Materials: pictures of American dollars for Casino game, pictures of unusual festivals, printed pictures of air balloons, tomatoes and statues for the assessment, the National English Textbooks for 5^th grade.

Equipment: a laptop, white screen with the projector

Warm up: Students hug each other: “Hugging helps to lower the stress throughout the day”

Pre-reading

Making Predictions from the objects, title and pictures.

The teacher shows students 3 pictures or objects (tomatoes, small statues) which are connected to the reading.

The teacher asks how those pictures and objects are connected.

Finally, students read the text and check if they were right or wrong about the story connections they made.

Introducing Vocabulary:

Teacher introduce new vocabulary with a help of Power Point

Hot air balloon
Rise
Film
Take pictures
Highlight
To poke fun at
Cardboard
To burn

Students repeat all together and randomly.

Students show new words with a help of gestures, mimics or actions. Other students should guess this word.

While-Reading Activities: Teacher divides the class into 3 groups: 1^st group-La Tomatina, 2^nd group- Lass Fallas, 3^rd group- Hot air balloon.

Skimming: Answer the questions Teacher: What is your text is about? What is the main idea?

Scanning: Students read the texts again and find specific information. Complete this chart:

	La Tomatina	Lass Fallas	Hot air balloon
WHEN	On Last Wednesday of August	On March 19	Each October
WHERE	Bucol, Spain	Valencia, Spain	New Mexico, the USA
HOW	Tomato fight. People throw tomatoes at each other.	People create statues to poke fun at others.	People have picnics, film the balloons, take pictures

True or false (Casino game)

Techer gives sentences to students. They should decide if these sentences are true or false. The students place their bets. The team with the most money wins.