MINISTRY OF EDUCATION OF REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA

DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE, YOUTH AND SPORT OF DROKIA

GYMNASIUM PERVOMAISCOE

Didactic Project
Topic: “The Kangaroo”
The 5th Form

Prepared by:
Olesya Scutelnic,
English Teacher

2016, January, the 22nd

 Didactic Project
Date:the 22nd of January

Teacher:Olesya Scutelnic

Institution:Gymnasium Pervomaiscoe

Form:5th

Topic:“The Kangaroo”

Unit:3/ Lesson:5

Communicative Area: Describing animals and discussing attitudes to animals.

Vocabulary: habitat(n), survive (v), weigh (v), thump (v).

Type of Lesson: Teaching - Learning

Allowed Time: 45 minutes

o Specific Competence Indicators:Spoken Interaction, Listening, Reading, Written Interaction

o Sub – Competences:
- Eliiciting specific information from a short oral message.
- Asking for an using information about animals and the students’ attitudes towards animals.
- Selecting ideas from a text and arranging them into an appropriate scheme.
- Asking for an information and giving personal ideas.
 o Operational Objectives:

Students will be able:

- to brainstorm about animals: describing and discussing attitudes to them;

- to practice asking and answering questions about World Animal Day;
- to learn and use the new fundamental vocabulary on given topic;
- to put in correct order the sentences summarizing the text;
- to practice reading of a text with appropriate stress and intonation;
- to form positive attitudes toward productive communication at the lesson.

o Methods and Techniques:

- Brainstorm, conversation, description, summarizing, quiz, whole class work, individual work, the
spidergram, the starbursting, crossword, miming actions.

o Materials:
- Blackboard, chalk, laptop, pupils’ textbooks, copybooks, pens, crayons, handouts, worksheets, printouts,
pictures, images, flashcards.

o Bibliography:
- Iulia IGNATIUC, Lara ALADIN, Ludmila FOCA, Dina PUIU, Ana MUNTEAN. “English For You. Pupil’s
Book”. Editura PRUT INTERNATIONAL, Chișinău. 2015.
 Strategies
Stages of the Lesson Resources (methods, Evaluation Time Notes
(Learning Activities) (materials) techniques, forms
Teacher’s Activity Students’ Activity of activity)
1. Evocation
 Warm Up Activity
-Greeting. Students greet the
teacher:
Teacher greets the students, asks to English is fun! Attention
smile to each other, checks the English is good! Discussion
presence and creates the I speak English
atmosphere asking: And so do you!
Conversation
*How are you today? Students greet and the 1’
guests:
*Are you ready to work? Good morning, good
morning
So, let’s start our lesson. Good morning to you
Good morning, good
morning
We are glad to see
you.
 Introducing the new topic.
I have a magic box here. There are
some riddles in it. You should pull out
one riddle, read it, answer it and
write the answer in this crossword Students read and Discussion
2’
(Appendix 1). . guess the riddles Riddles
*Who has the number 1? Read, (Appendix 2).
please the riddle and answer it? Problematization
* Who has the number 2? Read, The ability to
answer the
please the riddle and answer it? And riddles.
so on.
*Now read the word from Up to
- KANGAROO.
Down. What word had we received?

So, I expect that our lesson will be

very interesting and very exciting,
Students listen, open
because we will speak about this Crossword Conversation The ability to
the copybooks and write
animal. The title of our lesson is: understand the
the date and the title of
“The Kangaroo”. topic of the
the new lesson.
Open your copybooks and write the lesson
date and the title of the new lesson.
 Checking the homework.
At the previous lesson we travelled
in the animal world and your
One student go to the
homework for today was to match
blackboard and match
the young animals to their parents
the images with the
and to make up 3 sentences with Images with The ability to
name of their parents. 2’
some of them. young Matching match the
So, have a look at the blackboard. animals young animals
We have the images of the young with their
Two students read their
animals and the name of their parents.
own sentences.
parents (Appendix 3).Let’s check on
the blackboard that you had done at
home. Then, we’ll listen the
sentences that you make up.
Teacher listen and if it is need
corrects the mistakes.
 Announcement of the
objectives of the lesson.
Teacher announces the objectives of
Students listen very
the lesson. In the middle it is a
attentively what they
kangaroo which holds the worksheet: will do during the lesson. 1’
TODAY, AT THE LESSON, and the Rare animals
objectives come one by one with with the Whole class work
some rare animals. objectives
 Motivation for the new lesson of the lesson
We have 2 groups. Each group The ability to
chooses its captain. The 1 group think and
st
describe a wild
3’
The 1st task: each group should describe a wild animal or domestic
think of an animal and describe it: its The 2nd group think and Group work animal
size, special parts of the body, its describe a domestic Sheets of
color, the food it eats, where it lives. animal. paper and
Another group will guess what animal markers
is described.
2. Realization of meaning
 Work with Vocabulary.
Today we’ll read a text - Students write
about kangaroos, but first of all let’s the new words in Explanation
make acquaintance with the new their
words: habitat, survive, weigh, thump vocabularies, Images
9’
(Appendix 4) . make up
Students practice their sentences, read Pictures Translation The ability to
pronunciation chorally and them and the understand the
individually, make up own sentences best sentences meaning of the
with new learnt items. Read them. write in their Information vocabulary.
The best sentences are written on copybooks. Whole Class Work
the board.
Game: I think to a word. What word Play the game. Game
is it? That who guessed, think
himself\ herself and so on.
 Work with the New
Text.
Teacher directs the class to - Students follow
the text (ex. 3, p. 50). Teacher in their Textbooks
reads the text as a pattern with the textbooks. The ability to
task - question. Students follow in develop reading
their textbooks. - Answer the Whole Class Work skills.
Questions for each group: questions.
1.What can kangaroos do very well? Questions
2.What cannot kangaroos do very
well? Read only the sentences
After that T reads once again the which contain the new
text with another questions for the words. Reading
groups: The ability to
1.Where do the kangaroos live? develop
15’
2.What does the kangaroo do when Printout listening and
feels danger? reading skills.
The 3rd reading – first Read the text.
pupil read one sentence, name
another one and so on.
Selective reading –
students read only the sentences
which contain the new words.
Tasks on the text: The ability to
1.Have a look at the blackboard, give
please. I have the main character of Answering the appropriate
- Listen the task
our lesson – a kangaroo. We must Spidergram questions responses to
and try to do it.
choose some information from the the questions
text to complete the spidergram to complete the
(Appendix 5) . spidergram.
2.Each group will receive some
sentences. You must put them in - The groups put in Worksheets Work in groups The ability to
correct order to summarize the correct order make the
text. Each group read the summaries the sentences summary of the
and write them in the copybooks. and write the text.
 summaries.
3. Reflection.
I will read some sentences. If - Students listen
they are TRUE, we must clap the statements & Printouts Whole Class Work The ability to
your hands, if they are clap the hands or understand
FALSE – raise up the hands raise up the TRUE/FALSE
(Appendix 6).
hands. statements.

Each group will receive an

information about World 6’
Animal Day. Read very The ability to
attentively this information
- Students ask and
Printouts ask and answer
answer questions
and ask and answer questions Star bursting questions.
using the given
using the star.
information.

 Kangarro Quiz
(Appendix 7) The ability to
Pupils are asked to work work
individually. They are asked to read - Pupils read and Worksheets Individual Work individually.
each sentence very attentively and underline the
underline the right order. right word.
4. Extension.
 Feed back.
Students are divided into 2 Printouts
groups of four. T encourages the 1st - Students do the Work in groups The ability to
group to write the words instead of tasks and then Markers mime actions.
pictures. and the 2nd group – present it to the
class. 3’
complete the sentences with the Sheets of
verbs and try to mime the actions paper
from the sentences (Appendix 8).
Application of
 Evaluation. what was
 Teacher concludes the learnt.
lesson by generalizing the
information and asking the students: - Students get 1’
*What were your favorite activities grades and Information
during the lesson? evaluation.
Teacher grades the pupils and
comment upon the results.

 Homework.
Teacher gives the homework,
explaining the tasks: - Pupils write their
1. Ex. 3, p. 50 – control reading 2’
homework in
of the text; Explanation
copybooks and
2. Word Bank – learnt by heart; listen the
3. To ask 5 questions based on explanations.
the text (Who, What, Where,
When, How).
 Warm down.
Our lesson is over.
Thank you for your active work.

See you next lesson.

Goodbye!

Have a Nice Winter Day!!!