Holidays in our country

Stage

1.

Warm-up

The teacher introduces a game called Broken Telephone, explaining the rules of the game.

The teacher first must think of a sentence or phrase and whisper it to the pupil in front of her desk. That pupil will then whisper what s/he heard to the next pupil. Each pupil can only say, "Can you please repeat that?" one time. When the message reaches the end of the chain that pupil must speak out loud.

To activate students and focus their attention.

T-S S-T 5 minutes

Time

Activity/Aids

Procedure

Tasks

Interaction

Aims

2.

Linguistic introduction

The teacher will ask questions about their favorite holidays and encouraging the pupils to practice vocabulary and make comparisons about the differences in celebrating a holiday in their and in a foreign country.

The pupils will be asked individually: - Do you like holidays? Why? - What is your favorite holiday? - What do you do on that holiday? - Do you know any other holiday? If yes, which one? - Is there any holiday that you do not like? If yes, which one a why? - If you could celebrate any foreign holiday in your country which one would it be and why? - What are the differences in celebrating mutual holidays in your country and in the foreign ones.

The pupils will learn the differences and be able to distinguish them between their and a foreign culture.

T-S

5-10 minutes

S-T

3.

Presentation

T-S

4.

Practice

The teacher will introduce the instructions for a miming game, after completing the miming game, the teacher will introduce a fill-inthe-blanks activity with word that were previously listed on the blackboard.

To make the students practice the new words.

T-S S-T 10 minutes 15 minutes To induce students to use the newly acquired vocabulary items actively in speech.

5.

Production

The pupils will be divided into 4 groups of 6. The teacher will distribute slips of paper with vocabulary items written on them, one medium piece of paper, collage papers of different colors, scissors and color pens.

T-S S-T S-S

5 minutes

The teacher will introduce new vocabulary used in the lesson and write unfamiliar words on the blackboard.

The pupils will be introduced with the new vocabulary items from the lesson: Resurrection, a basket, a bow, to dye eggs, eggcracking game, decoration, a New Years Tree, ornaments, a tinsel, lights, a sleigh, a reindeer, a chimney, wrapped presents. In the miming game, the teacher will whisper a word or an item to the pupil, while he/she has to explain by miming and the rest of the class need to guess which word or item it is. The pupils are distributed handouts with the missing items in the fill-inthe-blanks activity for which the goal is to put the proper item in a proper blank. The pupils must show their group skills by working together in drawing the items on a piece of paper. The items must be connected to each other in the picture. After the pupils finish drawing the items, one representative of the group will be called upon to present the groups picture and giving the description of it.

To present the new words in a clear way, so that everybody can understand them.

6.

Checking And closing

T-S S-T

Homework

The students will be given a task to write about their favorite holiday for homework.

5 minutes

Revising, repeating and clarifying (if necessary) the lesson that the teacher presented the pupils.

To get feedback from the students.

To make sure that the students have learned the new words.