Lesson Plan Date: School: Teacher: Gyngyi Cseh Class: 10 C Level: Beginner Age: 15-16 Topic: Unit 12.

See New Places, Meet New Faces Towns and cities Aims: to enrich vocabulary, to describe cities, to compare towns and cities Assumed knowledge: certain adjectives, word order in sentences, there is/ there are, can, certain words Anticipated problems: misunderstanding of the comparative structure and expressions, difficulty of the text Aids: book, workbook, exercise book, PowerPoint presentations, laptop and photocopied handouts

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Activity 1) Numbering the pictures of cities

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Time

Interaction

Aids

Procedure I give the students handouts.

T-S Warm-up To motivate students

3 S

T-S T-S Presentation of description 1) Lead-in activity 1 pp 82, exercise 1. To describe towns and cities To develop Ss vocabulary 2

T: Lets see the first exercise in your handout. There are names Photocopied of cities. You are going to see pictures of these cities and you have to number them in the order you see them. handout PowerPoint (pictures of The students work alone. cities) Checking of the exercise. Feedback: Who has the right order? T: Open your book on page 83 and lets see exercise 1. You can see pictures of a town and a city. Which are these? S: Stratford-upon-Avon and Los Angeles T: In this chart you can see adjectives in two columns. Which adjectives are true for Stratford? Which adjectives are true for Los Angeles? S: the first Stratford, the second Los Angeles T: Work in pairs and your task is to describe Los Angeles and Stratford with these adjectives and nouns. We have to compare the place, the streets, the buildings and houses and so on. Lets see the example. Stratford is a quiet place, while LA is a noisy place. What is the next sentence? The streets in Stratford are cleaner, while the streets in LA are dirty / polluted. Students work in pairs.

T-S book p 82, ex. 1. Exercise book T-S

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Practice of description

To practice description of cities and towns

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T: Who would like to read out the description? S: A student read out put his/her description. Feedback: Who has no mistakes?

Presentation of comparison

2) Lead-in activity 2 pp.82, exercise 2.

To present the comparison towns and cities

T-S

Board Book p.82, ex. 2.

T: Lets see the next exercise. You have to compare the two places, Stratford and Los Angeles with these adjectives. Lets see the example Sentences are written on the board in two columns)
LA is noisier than Stratford. LA is more expensive than Stratford. T: Which city is noisier? Stratford or LA? S: LA. T: Which city is more expensive? Stratford or LA? S: LA. T: Lets see the other cleaner. Which place is cleaner? Stratford or LA? Stratford is cleaner than LA.

Which place is more modern? Stratford or LA?

LA is more modern than Stratford.

Practice of comparison

3) Lead-in activity 3 pp. 82, exercise 3

To practice comparison of towns and cities

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T: Work in pairs and write sentences with the other adjectives. Checking of the exercise. Students write the sentences on the board. Feedback: Who has no mistakes?

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Practice of adjectives

4) Match the words and the definitions

To get familiar with the adjectives

T-S

CD player, book

T: In the next task, there is a description of LA. Try to guess the missing adjectives. The first letters can help you. You have 2 minutes. The students work. T: Lets listen these sentences and correct your words. Feedback: Who has no mistakes? T: Which places would you like to visit? Stratford or LA? Who would like to visit Stratford? Please, put up your hands. Who would like to visit LA? Please, put up your hands.

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Presentation of expressions

5.) Reading: Los Angeles The City of Angeles

To enrich vocabulary

handout

T: In your handout, lets see the second exercise. You have to match the words and the definitions. The students work. T: What do these words mean?
Feedback: Who has no mistakes?

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Practice of expressions

To practice the use of new expressions

Book pp 83.ex. 4a

T: On the other page you can see pictures from A to G. In the

exercise 4a, you can see expressions. Please match the pictures and the expressions. The students work. Feedback: Who has no mistakes? T: Do you understand the meanings of these words?

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Book pp.83.ex.4b

T: Now you have to read this article and you have to answer the questions in exercise 4b. At first, please, read through the questions. The students work. Feedback: Who has no mistakes? T: Which places can you see in these two pictures? S: Budapest and Eger T: Lets see the adjectives and nouns in your handout, in exercise 3. S: The students tell the sentences: Budapest is noisier than Eger.

1) Comparison of two places

To practice the comparison of two places

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PowerPoint presentation Handout

Production & Cool-down

Homework 1 T Book Handout T: Your homework is in the workbook, page 83. exercise 4c, in the handout exercise 4. T: Thank you for your work.