This document provides information about an upcoming 45-minute English language class for third year, seventh grade students. The topic will be festivals across cultures, focusing on descriptions of festivals in Canada and Belgium. Students will read texts about a giant pumpkin regatta held in Windsor, Canada in October, and a bathtub rowing boat race in Belgium in August. While reading, they will practice vocabulary words and fill in blanks. The goals are for students to improve reading comprehension, learn new words, and answer questions about the texts. A pre-reading discussion of festivals in Albania will be followed by the reading activities. Students will be evaluated on their performance and assigned homework to describe a festival in their country.
This document provides information about an upcoming 45-minute English language class for third year, seventh grade students. The topic will be festivals across cultures, focusing on descriptions of festivals in Canada and Belgium. Students will read texts about a giant pumpkin regatta held in Windsor, Canada in October, and a bathtub rowing boat race in Belgium in August. While reading, they will practice vocabulary words and fill in blanks. The goals are for students to improve reading comprehension, learn new words, and answer questions about the texts. A pre-reading discussion of festivals in Albania will be followed by the reading activities. Students will be evaluated on their performance and assigned homework to describe a festival in their country.
This document provides information about an upcoming 45-minute English language class for third year, seventh grade students. The topic will be festivals across cultures, focusing on descriptions of festivals in Canada and Belgium. Students will read texts about a giant pumpkin regatta held in Windsor, Canada in October, and a bathtub rowing boat race in Belgium in August. While reading, they will practice vocabulary words and fill in blanks. The goals are for students to improve reading comprehension, learn new words, and answer questions about the texts. A pre-reading discussion of festivals in Albania will be followed by the reading activities. Students will be evaluated on their performance and assigned homework to describe a festival in their country.
Languages and English III VII 45 minutes communication Topic: Across Culture: Wet Learning situations: Festivals Description of a festival Learning outcomes related to the topic Key words: The student: Take place, bathtub, banks of the river, prize, -To read of cohesion and coherence. winner, bucket, organize, wet, regatta, giant, -Read the text carefully and complete it with competitor, decoration etc some of the words missing. -Get the meaning of some of the new words in the text. -Answer some of the questions about the text. Resources and aids Cross curricular link: Text book HISTORY
Methodologies, techniques and student’s activities
Asking and answering / Co-operative reading & learning Communicative language teaching / Pair work Warm up (5 min) Greet the pupils, take the absences. Ask pupils How are you? Brainstorming: (10 min) What are some of the most well known festivals in Albania. Can you mention and describe some of those festivals? Give reasons why or why not you like these festivals. After this students are going to read two text which are related to a festival in Canada and Belgium. The first festival is held every October in Windsor, Canada and people organise a giant pumpkin regatta. Competitors cut the inside of the pumpkin and some of those people even paint those pumpkins, While in Belgium every August there is a very funny race competitions. The idea is to make a rowing boat from a bathtub. While reading the text I am going to explain the new words like: winner, competitor, prize etc. While reading students are also going to complete those texts using some of the words missing.
Now I can (5 min):
-To read of cohesion and coherence. -Read the text carefully and complete it with some of the words missing. -Get the meaning of some of the new words in the text. -Answer some of the questions about the text. Evaluation: I will evaluate students based on their performance Homework: Describe a festival in your country.