Lesson script 2nd educational stage, English Content area:

Lesson script

2nd educational stage, English

Content area:

Detailed requirements:

Topic

Duration

Detailed goals regarding the range of information

Student:

 Knows the names of some water animals;

 Knows their specific habitats;

 Knows the vocabulary to describe these animals.

Detailed goals regarding the range of skills

Student:

 Can answer true/false questions using information from a film;

 Can choose the right word depending on the context;

 Can match audio prompts with their visual representation.

Detailed goals regarding attitudes

Student:

 Becomes aware of the richness of water wildlife;

 Develops curiosity about the natural world;

 Learns to respect the environment.

Methods

Elicitation; presentation; conducting experiments; multiple matching; gap-fill; matching quiz;

word search; crossword; whole class; individual work.

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Forms and venue

Forms: individual, whole class.

Classes are to be held in the classroom.

Materials and teaching aids

Educational video; worksheets for all students (for stages 2.2. and 2.3.); quiz; computer and multimedia projector; board.

Multimedia resources

 Film: Water animals

 Interactive quiz

 Online dictionary

Lesson plan/procedure

1 Warm-up

Interaction forms: whole class Duration: 4 minutes

Teacher asks students to brainstorm for any water animals they know. Where do they live?

Teacher elicits different water habitats, e.g. lake, river, stream. Did students see any animals in these reservoirs (e.g. while on holiday)?

2 Main stage

2.1. Introduction of the target language – film (lexical input) Interaction forms: whole class

Duration: 8 minutes

Teacher tells students that they will watch a short film about water animals. He/She plays the video, pausing occasionally to explain more difficult words, e.g. trout, manta, feed,

invertebrates, etc. The target vocabulary should be put on the board.

2.2. Introduction of the target language – film (true/false) Interaction forms: individual, whole class

Duration: 10 minutes

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Teacher distributes a true/false task (below). He/She asks students to read the sentences given and see if they can answer any of them.

The film is played a second time. Students work individually to complete the task. Then the answers are checked with the whole class.

Decide if the following sentences are true or false, and tick the appropriate column.

True False 1. Trout is a tropical animal.

2. Mantas feed on small fish.

3. Catfish live all over the world, even in Antarctica.

4. There are about 500 species of sharks.

5. Some sharks live in rivers.

6. Dolphins and mantas are mammals.

7. Trouts, sharks and dolphins are carnivorous.

8. Blue whale is the biggest water animal, but dinosaurs were bigger.

Answers: 1 false (lives in cold streams), 2 false (on zooplankton), 3 false (except Antarctica), 4 true, 5 true, 6 false (dolphins and whales are), 7 true, 8 false (it is the biggest ever)

2.3. Consolidation of the target language – worksheet Interaction forms: individual, whole class

Duration: 10 minutes

Teacher distributes worksheets to all students (see below). He/She explains that there are two options in each sentence and students will have to decide which one is correct.

Students work individually, then the answers are elicited in open class.

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Circle the correct option.

1. Rivers are home to many different habitats/species.

2. Large predators are at the top/bottom of the food chain.

3. This fish lives in cold/warm subtropical waters.

4. Manta feeds/swallows zooplankton with its open mouth.

5. Dolphins usually inhabit/live shallow seas.

6. Mammals and fish are vertebrates/invertebrates .

7. Catfish lives in running/still water, that is streams and rivers.

Answers: 1 species, 2 top, 3 warm, 4 swallows, 5 inhabit, 6 vertebrates, 7 running

2.4. Consolidation of the target language – quiz Interaction forms: individual

Duration: 10 minutes

Students do the quiz: they have to match the pictures with the words – the names of water animals. The words tested are: trout, manta ray, catfish, shark, dolphin, whale, squid, seal.

3 Closing stage

Interaction forms: whole class Duration: 3 minutes

Teacher concludes the lesson by eliciting from students the names of the water animals they met in the lesson. Where do they live? How do they feed?

Additional information

Teacher advises students that the www.scholaris.pl website offers a computer application in the form of a multimedia dictionary presenting correct pronunciation together with

translations of words and phrases learned during the lesson.

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