Методическая разработка по теме: "Halloween"
методическая разработка по английскому языку на тему

Lesson Plan: Halloween

Level A2.

A goal: to acquaint students with the holiday Halloween and the vocabulary related to this theme.

This lesson has some fun activities and language learning tasks based around the theme of Halloween. The activities include singing a song and making Halloween decorations.

Aims

• To integrate cultural awareness into the course
• To introduce / practise Halloween related vocabulary – cat, hat, bat, witch, ghost, pumpkin, black…
• To work on pronunciation and rhyming sounds
• To get children used to following simple instructions to make easy craft objects
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Materials

• Pre-made bingo cards
• Picture cards
• Orange paper
• Scissors
• Stapler

Activity 1. (Warm-up)

 Show the students a picture of a Halloween symbol (ex. A pumpkin or a witch). Elicit from the children what is special about today or what is going to be celebrated very soon, depending on what day you teach them. Ask them to tell you about how they celebrate Halloween. This can be done in their own language if they are very young. 

Activity 2. Vocabulary.

Explain the students you will revise words related to this topic. Children get shits of paper with words, definitions and pictures related to the topic. Then a teacher can train the pronunciation of the words chorally and individually. You can ask the students to find more words related to this holiday using http://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/. This may be a part of their hometask.

Activity 3. Play Bingo

Students play in pairs. Each student gets a different card with pictures. Each person names a word related to the topic of the lesson. If  a partner has this picture, he\she crosses it out and takes his\her turn. The winner is a person who crosses out all of the pictures. Explain the students that not all of the pictures are the same and they must not look in the partner’s shit of paper.

Activity 4. Sing a song

You may sing with your pupils a song that is very easy to learn and this may bring a natural atmosphere and motivate students.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sbCjq3csWc

Activity 5. Make a lantern

You should practise making this before class and have one to demonstrate each step.

• Give each child a sheet of A4 orange paper or card. Show them how to fold it down the middle lengthwise.
• Then with the paper still folded they should cut about 7 straight lines every 2 cms along the paper, starting from the fold and leaving about 2 cms before the edge.
• Then open out the paper and fold it round into a lantern shape.
• You should attach the top and bottom together with a stapler of they can do this themselves with sellotape.
• Give each child another strip of paper to make a handle ad attach it to the top of the lantern.
• They can then decorate their lanterns.

Revision.

Students may draw a smile-symbol: happy- if they liked the activity, sad-if not. The last picture expresses their attitude to the lesson.

Internet-resources:

http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/halloween-1