Unit 1 All about me

Unit 10 Months.

Theme: Unit 10 Months. Date: Grade: 2 Hour: 1
Theme: Lesson 1 January, February …

Aims	Learning outcomes	Vocabulary and structure	Required equipment
Educational: – to learn the months of the year Developing: – to enable pupils to say the months in order; – to enable pupils to use the calendar; – to enable pupils to understand and use the short forms of the months. Socio-cultural: – to raise awareness of the similarities and differences of the months in English and the mother tongue; – to raise awareness of the use of short forms of the months.	By the end of the lesson, pupils will be able to: – say the months of the year in order; – arrange the months in alphabetical order; – guess the months from their short forms.	month, January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December	Pupil’s Book, Workbook, the DVD of the book

Warm up
Play the DVD. The pupils listen and repeat the poem.
DVD:
Thirty days have September, April, June and November.
All the rest have thirty-one, except February alone, which has twenty-eight days clear, and twenty-nine in each leap year.
Activity 1a Look and say in your mother tongue.
Objective: to raise awareness of the similarity of months in English and the mother tongue
STEP 1: Ask the pupils to look at the word “months” and the balloons. Give them one or two minutes to try to read the months on the balloons silently for themselves.
STEP 2: Explain the word “months” in the mother tongue. Then say that the words on the balloons are the months of the year. Then ask the pupils if they could notice any similarities between the months in English and the months in their mother tongue. Elicit some answers.
STEP 3: Summarise that all the months in English are similar to those in the mother tongue except some differences in spelling and pronunciation. Explain that it is very easy to learn and memorise them if they compare the months in English and the mother tongue. Write the months on the blackboard in the order they are presented on the balloons (not like the order in the calendar!) and their equivalents in the mother tongue. For example, in Uzbek it would be as follows:
April — aprel; June — iyun; August — avgust; May — may; February — fevral; September — sentabr; January —
yanvar; December — dekabr; March — mart; November — noyabr;July — iyul; October — oktabr.
Language Note: Here, explain that in English the months are written with capital letters everywhere in the sentence: at the beginning, in the middle and at the end. However, in the mother tongue they are written with small letters in the middle and at the end but with capital letters at the beginning of the sentence.
STEP 4: Read aloud what you have written on the blackboard one after another and have the pupils see how much similar and different they are.