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Welcome to Russia and Tatarstan

Communication objective

Pp will be able

1. to talk about their country and their area

2. to talk about celebrations and traditions in Russia and in their home town

Educational objective

Pp will

• feel proud of their country

• learn about traditional and new festivals in different parts of Russia

Skills development

Pp will practise

• Reading for detail

• Listening for detail

• Deducting the meaning of new words from the context

• Talking about their country or area

• Speaking about favourite festivals

Vocabulary

New

Chance, horse racing, pot breaking, sack races, , tug-of-war competition, ploughing, wrestling

Revision

Diverse, ethnic group, impressive, magnificent, own, scenery, temperate, time zone, vast,

birch, bear, monsoon, steppes, , desert, subtropical, tundra, the flag, the anthem, the national emblem

1.Warm-up

The teacher offers the children to guess the subject of the lesson for today looking at the blackboard. There are some pictures on the blackboard with the sights of Moscow, Kazan.

The teacher tells that lots of people abroad are interested in our country and would like to visit Russia, see its beauties and get acquainted with its traditions and people. Of course it would be interesting for them to visit Tatarstan, too.

Revision of the vocabulary.

1.Pps repeat the words after the teacher.

Diverse, ethnic group, impressive, magnificent, own, scenery, temperate, time zone, vast,

birch, bear, monsoon, steppes, , desert, subtropical, tundra

2.Revision of the vocabulary using the structure INSIDE/OUTSIDE CIRCLE

With the whole class, brainstorm ideas of what Pp can tell or write about Russia to foreign visitors. Draw a mind-map on the shifts of paper to collect Pp’s ideas.

The Volga

Moscow

The bear

Birch tree

The Red Square

Gagarin St. Petersburg

.The Pps work using the structure SIMULTANEOUS ROUND TABLE. Task 1.

DEVELOPING THE READING AND SPEAKING SKILLS

1.READING AND TRANSLATING SLIDES ‘OUR RUSSIA’ using the structure RALLY ROBIN.

2. 2.REVISION OF THE TOPIC THE SENTENCES using the structure TAKE OFF-TOUCH DOWN.

3.SPEAKING ABOUT RUSSIA in a situation: your English pen-pal is interested in your country. What would you tell him about Russia?

4.USING THE SAME SLIDES TO TALK ABOUT TATARSTAN.

5. READING THE TEXT ‘Geography of Tatarstan’and COMPLETING THE CHART before/after using the structure AR GUIDE. Task 3.

6.Talking about the own country or area using the structure CLOCK BUDDIES.

Questions for example:

1. Where do you live?

2. What is the capital of Russia?

3. What is the population of Russia?

4. What nationalities live in Russia?

5. What is the climate like?

6. How many people live in your area?

7. Are there any rivers or lakes in your area?

8. What is the capital of your republic?

9. How many time zones are there in Russia?

10. What nationalities live in Tatarstan?

11. What is the flag of Russia like?

12. What do the colors of the Russian flag symbolize?

13. What is your native town like?

14. What do the colors of the Tatar flag symbolize?

7.NEW VOCABULARY

Chance, horse racing, pot breaking, sack races, , tug-of-war competition, wrestling, ploughing,

8.READING SLIDES WITH THE VOCABULARY

9.READING THE TEXT ‘SABANTUI’ page 134, ex. 2

10.READING THE TEXT ABOUT THE CONCRET HOLIDAY AND FILLING IN THE TABLE. STRUCTURE ‘CORNERS’ Task 4.

1.What festival is it?

2. How old is the tradition?

3.When it is held?

4.Who takes part in it?

5.What are the main events?

6.How does the festival end?

11. REFLECTION OF THE LESSON.

12.HOMEWORK. Write a leaflet with a programme for your local festival.