Grammar Revision

Aims and objectives: to revise and practise the use of "the" with geographi­cal names; to revise and practise the use of the vocabulary; to revise and practise students' writing skills; to summarize the topic material.*i ——SEQUENCE -«««.:

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Warm up

The teacher's greeting. Good morning, students! I’m glad to see you. I low are you?

Phonetic exercise

Students revise sounds [0] and [6]. They listen to the twister and repeat it. The twister is on the blackboard (or in the handouts):

• The thirty-three thieves thought that they thrilled the throne

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Game

Students in turn name the places and geographical names and ex­plain the use of “the”.

Introducing the topic

Teacher presents students aims of the lesson. Teacher gives instruc­tions of all the parts of the work and order of the work to the students. Students mustn’t use text-books for advice. Teacher can take gram­mar revision work from the text-book, or may choose his/her own variant.

Writing

Students do ex. 1, p. 135 to revise the three forms of the verbs.

Answers:

• Be — was / were — been

• Arrive — arrived — arrived

• Hear — heard — heard

• Have — had — had

a Play — played — played

• See — saw — seen

• Read — read — read

Then students have to complete the sentences with these verbs in the Present Perfect Tense, and choose “have” or “has”.

Answers: 1 has; 2 Has; 3 have; 4 have; 5 have; have; 6 has.

Relaxation

The teacher makes movements with the students. Teacher uses any rhyme for physical exercises. For example:

Nick and Andy Sugar and candy,

I say stand up!

Nick and AndySugar and candy, Your hands up! Nick and Andy, Sugar and candy, Let stoop!

Nick and Andy Sugar and candy, I say jump!

Nick and Andy Sugar and candy, I say enough!

Writing. Grammar

Students put the verbs in the correct tense form (ex. 3, p. 135). Answers: 1 is sitting; 2 found; 3 are; 4 Have ... been; 5 Does ... like; 6 live.

Students look at the pictures (ex. 4, p. 136) and write what countries the people have never been to as in the example.

Answers:

1. Mike has never been to Egypt.

2. Alex has never been to Australia.

3. Dan has never been to Canada.

4. Ann and Dan have never been to Moldova.

Speaking. Dialogues

Work in pairs. The teacher gives students the cards (in variants), and they have to make a short dialogue (in pairs) and write them.

Homework

Ex. 6, p. 136.

Summary and feedback

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he teacher summarizes the work by asking for students’ feedback.

Reading. "Up the Mountain"

Aims and objectives: to revise students' speaking skills; to develop students reading skills; to practise scanning of the text for specific information.Warm up

The teacher's greeting. Good morning, students! I’m glad to see you. How are you?

Phonetic exercise

Students revise sounds [se] and [i:]. The twister is on the black­board (or in the handouts):

□ How can a clam cram in a clean cream can?

Checking on homework

Students read their response, and the teacher displays the best works.