Three festivals: Overview
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Description
Students talk about their favourite festivals and
explain what they like about them. They then
match words associated with Lunar New Year with
an appropriate heading. Students use some of this
information to help them reorder a description of
Lunar New Year and add adjectives to make the
text more interesting and informative. Finally,
students design and write a short description of
their own festival.
Objectives
1.
To revise and extend students' vocabulary related to festivals.
2.
To give students practice in using the vocabulary in
sentences.
3.
To give students guided writing practice.
4.
To give students practice in editing a text.
Language focus
Vocabulary:
Festivals
Grammar: Using modals to express possibility
Using present simple to express thoughts
and opinions
Text
types:
Descriptions
Learning targets
Students will be developing language skills that
are needed to:
Knowledge dimension:
Find out information
Recognise and solve a simple problem
Interpersonal dimension:
Exchange information with others on
familiar topics
Express an opinion
Activities
1.
Presenting and eliciting vocabulary - Whole-class work
2.
Playing a guessing game - Whole-class and group work
3.
Reading and correcting texts - Pair work
4.
Writing a short description - Individual work
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My new festival
My new festival: Overview
Description
Students talk about their favourite festivals and explain
what they like about them. They then match words
associated with Lunar New Year with an appropriate
heading. Students use some of this information to help
them reorder a description of Lunar New Year and add
adjectives to make the text more interesting and informative.
Finally, students design and write a short description of their
own festival.
Objectives
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
To build on and consolidate vocabulary related to festivals.
To give practice in using the present simple to describe
customs.
To raise students' awareness of collocation.
To give practice in using adjectives to add information and
interest to a text.
To give students controlled to free practice in writing a
general description of customs and events associated with
festivals.
Language focus
Vocabulary:
Grammar:
Text types:
Festivals
Food
Hobbies
Using adjectives to describe events
Using the present simple to describe
habitual actions
General descriptions
Learning targets
Students will develop language skills that are
needed to:
Knowledge
dimension:
Interpersonal
dimension:
Experience
dimension:
Organise and present
information
Participate in decisions
Express imaginative ideas
Activities
1.
Brainstorming - Whole-class work
2.
Matching words and headings - Pair work
3.
Organising and improving a text - Individual work
4.
Designing a festival - Group work
5.
Writing a festival guide - Group work
My New Festival