План урока на тему Sending messages (8 класс)

Teacher Aigul ShalovaForm 8 Lesson theme Sending messages
Aims The students will learn the ways of writing formal and informal messages through reading three short stories
Learning outcomes By the end of the lesson
all of the students will have learned how to write formal and informal messages most of the students will have differentiated between formal and informal messages some of the students will have learned the ways of formal messages
Visual aids & equipment CD, interactive board, papers
Stages of the lesson
Lesson procedure
The teacher’s activities The students’ activities
I Organizational moment
Greeting the class.
Talk to the duty.
Marking absentees. Greeting.
II Home assignment.
Check-up Tell the class that they are going to play Jeopardy to revise grammar and vocabulary Jeopardy
III Evocation
What associations come to your mind when you hear the word message?
How do you send messages to your friends and family?
How did people use to send messages before we had telephones and computers?
Strategy: inside and outside circles They answer
Discuss the questions with the class, making notes as the students suggest ideas.
IV Realization of meaning
Emphasise that in this reading activity there are three different stories. The stories have got one thing in common. What is it?
Ask them to complete story 1, and then work out the sequence of the other two stories.
Strategy: finding the stories
Play the recording. Checking their vocabulary Students have to work out which paragraph belongs to which story, to make three separate narratives.
They work in pairs, compare and discuss their answers with a partner.
Read and answer the questions.
Answers 1Joanna Tate and Willem Roemer. 2 Miguel de Santo and his brother’s (or Miguel’s and his brother’s). 3Robert Sellers. 4 On a ferry in the English Channel. 5 Two children in Colombia. 6 He probably wanted to get/ receive another payment.
V Reflection
Ask them to differentiate between formal and informal messages
Writing guide
Decide what sort of message they want to write
Greet the person
Write a short message
Finish
Example answers Dear President (name) I’m writing because I’m very upset about the war that’s happening in (country). Thousands of people have died and many more are living in terrible conditions, without enough food and water. Please take your soldiers out of the country immediately. Yours sincerely Jennifer Tong Dear Miss Tong Thank you for your messages. Most people in (country) support our brave soldiers and we will win the war soon. Best wishes President (name) Work in groups:
differentiate between formal and informal messages
Think of a person that they’d like to send a message to.
Then take someone else’s message
Write a reply
VI Feed back Write down your opinion about today`s lesson Likes / dislikes / questions
VII Home assignment
Write an essay about messages. They put down their homework
VIII Evaluation
Give evaluation lists Evaluation lists