At the end of the previous lesson the teacher speaks about the upcoming topic: how we celebrate Christmas in Hungary, and asks the students to collect information in their families and surroundings.
Before the class the teacher searches for suitable videos that contain the required vocabulary and present simple tense.
The teacher shares the video links with the students and asks them to watch the videos before the class. She asks them to identify the English words and expressions still unknown and look for their translations in an online English dictionary.
- Organization – 2 min. – checking the presence list
- Motivation – 3 min. – talking
Have they all watched the videos?
Do you know what we celebrate in Christmas?
Have you seen similar habits in the video to yours?
- Preparation – 4 min. – dialogue, instructions
What new words and expression have you heard in the video?
Have you understood each of them?
- Processing new knowledge – 30 min. – dialogues, pair work
Christmas is coming....what preparations are you doing in this period of time?
Christmas shopping
Gifts shopping
Christmas cooking, recipes
Christmas and religion
Christmas events in the school
- Consolidation of the new knowledge – 5 min. – instructions, dialogue
Group of students summarize their topics (e.g. Christmas meals, school events)
What habits have they found that are not in the videos?
- Assessment – 1 min. – announcement, dialogue
Assessment of class work and group work
Evaluation of the videos
One represantative of each group summarizes the group's opinion and comments on the jobs done by the other groups. Each group will be evaluated by the other groups reagerding the aspects that have been set before the evaluation phase (What was good; what went wrong).
The groups are formed regarding the level of the knowledge of the students: they will be mixed. each group has one "speaker" who has nice verbal skills and one who is a bit better in English than the majority of the group.
Think about what traditions they want to keep when they grow up.