Nationalities and describing your town lesson plan
“Where we live”
Lesson 6 Level 4 Age 9-12
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Lesson 6
Nationalities and describing your town
In this lesson students identify and discuss national flags and countries, say facilities in a town and say where things are in a town. The also write about their hometown.
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Age: 9-12 years
Time: 1 hour – 1 hour 30 mins
Objectives: Identifying and discussing national flags and countries, saying facilities in a town, saying where things are in a town, writing about your hometown.
Structures: “What’s your nationality / country?”, “What can we see in the town?”, There’s a (bank) / There isn’t a ([hide_on_uk]movie theater[/hide_on_uk][hide_on_us]cinema[/hide_on_us]).”, “There’s a [hide_on_uk]parking lot[/hide_on_uk][hide_on_us]car park[/hide_on_us] at the supermarket”, “My home is (London)”.
Key vocabulary: different countries and nationalities, town, bank, school, library, church, bus stop, restaurant, sports area, park, hotel, supermarket, hospital, [hide_on_uk]movie theater[/hide_on_uk][hide_on_us]cinema[/hide_on_us], train station, museum, [hide_on_uk]shopping mall[/hide_on_uk][hide_on_us]shopping centre[/hide_on_us], airport, [hide_on_uk]parking lot[/hide_on_uk][hide_on_us]car park[/hide_on_us].
Grammar focus:
– Adjectives for nationalities
– Present simple positive and negative “to be” (There’s a / There isn’t a)
– Present simple “to be” questions (Is there a/an, Are there any?”)
– Prepositions of location: in, at, on
Your students will need:
- a pen
- a pencil
- a notebook
- [hide_on_uk]colored[/hide_on_uk][hide_on_us]coloured[/hide_on_us] pencils
For this level 4 course, use either the PDF mini-textbooks – print out copies for each student, or if you have a projector or large screen you can use PowerPoint lessons. In both cases, follow the lesson through as it appears in the materials. The lesson is self-explanatory, and there are additional teaching notes below.
Lesson procedure:
Lesson objectives
Talk about national flags and nationalities
Say the names of places in a town
Say what there is in your town
Write about your hometown
1. Review rooms of a house
Students label rooms and ask each other questions to identify the rooms.
2. Flags and countries
Students learn different county names and their flags.
1a: See if you can elicit any countries based on the flags. Then have students match the flags to the country names and say the adjectives. Pay particular attention to the pronunciation of the countries / adjectives.
1b: Using the model, students write a text describing each flag. Then have students read out their sentences. End the page with the discussion questions, first in pairs, then as a class.
3. Saying places in a town
2a: Chorus the places shown on the town map. Have students practice saying these places by asking each other the questions. End by eliciting other places in a town.
2b: Chorus the places and have students match to the pictures. Students then discuss if their town has those places.
2c: Elicit the places in the photos and write the words on the board. Then read through the sentences with prepositions in (B). Have students practice by writing sentences including the prepositions and vocabulary from today’s lesson.
4. Speaking and writing about your hometown
2d: Run through the vocabulary by chorusing each item. Read though the model conversation. Then have pairs practice the conversations using the model and the vocabulary.
2e: Give your students 5 minutes to write about their hometown. As they are writing circulate and make sure everyone is using the structures “These is …”, “There are …” and prepositions.
When finished, have students read their texts to the class.
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