My motherland – Kazakhstan

Work-out

Theme: My motherland – Kazakhstan.

Lexics: Words and word combinations of the theme

Grammar: “This, that, these, those.

Aims:

Didactic aim: to form the following components of competence in students:  

• educational (cognative) component:

• to form students’ knowledge on using  This, that, these, those.
• to develop students’ habits on enlarging lexical minimum

• practical component (operational component):

-  to form students’ skills on listening (auding), reading the text with a help and without help of dictionary.

-  to form students’ skills on extracting necessary information from the text, summarizing and rendering it for using in the process of educational-professional communication

• self studying component:

• to form student’s habits on  working with professional medicinal supplementary literature in informative means of communication.

• Tasks of teaching:

• to teach students to differentiate the  This, that, these, those.
• to teach to review the text, lexico-grammar material

• Issues to be studied:

• new lexics on the theme
• This, that, these, those.
• Text  “My motherland – Kazakhstan”

Methods of teaching: associograms, game, verbal-graphical method, method of  level teaching, creative tasks

Literature:

1. New English file pre-intermediate” students book Oxford University Press 2005.
2. “Grammar in use” for intermediate students R. Murfhy, Cambridge University Press, 1994.
3. “Vocabulary in use”, Intermediate, Stuart Redman. Cambridge University Press, 2001.
4. “Test your Professional English”, Alison Pohl, Series editor: Nick Brieder, 2003

Tasks:

b) to find “This, that, these, those” in the text

c) to develop students’ skills on monological speech on the given theme for making up a dialogue-conversation by using new lexics and grammar

d) to teach students to read the text with commenting and giving their opinion

Issues to be studied:

a) Lexical mining of the theme “My motherland – Kazakhstan”

Presentation of grammar

The structure of the This, that, these, those is:

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1. Insert the correct word.

1. This homework is easy.          a) questions b) homework
2. These woman are my neighbors.          a) women b) man
3. What are you doing this afternoon?        a) that b) this
4. Who's this speaking?      a) this b) it
5. These are my glasses and those are hers.      a) those b) that
6. We are going to the seaside this summer.       a) that b) this
7. That man over there is a famous politician.      a) That  b) These

2.Fill in the gaps with this, that, these, those.

1. Those people over there are waiting for the bus
2. The day I first came to London was wonderful. I will remember that day for ever.
3. This summer I'm pretty busy.
4. I'm working as a receptionist these days.
5. Those were the days!
6. Do you remember that winter when we all went to Egypt?
7. Hello!_this is Alan. Can I speak to Harry, please?
8. This is a new cathedral and that one over there was built 900 years ago.
9. Will you come over at five o'clock? I'll be at home at that  time.
10. The summer of 1999 I spent in the country. I remember we had a lot of rain that year.
11. These are my sisters. They have just arrived from London.
12. Who was that girl I saw you with last night?
13. Do you want to sit on this chair here or on that one over there?
14. Those sweets you gave me last night were very nice.
15. Look at those colourful air balloons in the sky!
16. Clyde and Nancy have decided to buy a house this year.
17. Those  trees over there were planted by the pupils of our school
18. These  buildings just in front of you were erected in the 18th century.
19. Hello, Mrs Swift._this  is Mr Willis from Globe &Co speaking
20. I wish I would have bought that  woolen sweater last Sunday.
21. You'd better take theseThe others we saw don't match your dress.
22. I couldn't forget that beautiful girl I had met in the park.
23. Do you know this little boy? He says he has been lost in the shop
24. Can you reach those old books on the top shelf?

3. Insert this, that, these, those.

1. None of those  present expressed any surprise on hearing that.
2. Try one of these.
3. This  is a computer
4. Those are the TV sets of the latest type.
5. Suddenly I felt something soft and warm on my knees. that was a cat.
6. Whom were you talking with? That was a friend of mine.

Pre-reading

Presentation of lexics

Vocabulary

City                                                  

Capital                                            

Country                                            

River