Lexical exercise

Speaking

Listening comprehension

Weather Forecast

Transcript

LISTENING

The lesson plan

Lesson 2

Work in groups

Homework

Online/Offline activity

Divide students into two groups and ask them to do the following task:

The first group: to find the information on the Internet:

a) about the son – Sergey Petrovich Kapitsa, his life, family and his contribution into Russian science, his activity on TV, etc.

The second group:

b) about the farther – Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa: how and when he won the Nobel Prize, using active vocabulary.

Both groups are given the same websites, but they should find different information and then prepare short reports.

1. Introduction (1 min)
2. Listening (20 min)
3. Lexical exercises (10 min)
4. Active vocabulary (10 min)
5. Reading (25 min)
6. On/offline activity. Speaking practice. Work in groups (25 min)
7. Homework

Before listening to the text ask students if they know the meaning of the word forecast (прогноз погоды).

Two men were travelling in a very wild part of America. They did not see any houses but only tents where Indians lived. One day the men met an old Indian who was sitting near his tent. He was smoking. The Indian was a hunter and knew everything about the forest and the animals living in it and many other things. He could also speak English rather well.

"Can you tell us what the weather will be like during the next few days?" one of the two travellers asked him.

"Oh, yes," he answered. "Rain is coming, and wind. There will be snow for one or two days, but then the sunshine will come again and the weather will be fine.»

"These old Indians know more about the world than we with all our knowledge of physics, maths and other sciences."

"Tell me," he asked, "how do you know all that?'

The Indian answered: "I heard it over the radio."

T. Polyakova, E. Sinyavskaya, Moscow, 2007

1. They traveled in a wild part of America.
2. They met an old Indian.
3. The old Indian was sitting near his tent and smoking.
4. The men asked the Indian about the weather during the following few days.
5. The old Indian knows everything because he listens to the radio.

6. The weather forecast are made up now with the help of satellites.

b) to retell the story:

c) to reproduce the situation in a dialogue:”You are the Indian. Tell your friends about the incident, using active vocabulary.” (students like to do this task, to dramatize the dialogue in parts, imaging that they are sitting near the fire, so encourage them to create the situation).

We advise to refresh new words from the previous lesson, doing this exercise: ask students to match the words and their suitable definitions given below; if they have some difficulties, ask them to translate from English into Russian to check their knowledge of the words:

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